Masking and Painting the Harrier ll

Since I was doing some work on my F-11 Tiger I decided to take out the assembled Harrier II kit and work on that as well. The Harrier looks much more difficult to paint than the Tiger, as it has three different shades of grey. The darkest grey (on top) was the most difficult [...]

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Masking and Airbrushing My F-11 Tiger

I now have more model kits that I can handle, including the P-51D Mustang, Black Hawk, F-9 Cougar, F-4 Phantom, F-14 Tomcat, Harrier II and a few others on the way. So I thought I’d better get on with it and really learn how to use my Aztek A470 airbrush and Revell compressor.
The F-11F [...]

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My 1/72 Scale P-51D Mustang by Italeri

I usually buy only Hasegawa model kits, but the good thing about buying from LuckyModel.com is that for every purchase you also earn points, which you can redeem before checkout. In this case, I redeemed an Italeri 1:72 scale P-51D Mustang. So it cost me about $3 to get this kit.

I have never tried an [...]

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Promodellers Weathering Wash

One of the biggest challenges in building scale model aircrafts is making your models look weathered and real. From my research and from watching YouTube videos, it seems like the easiest way to weather your models is by using ProModeller’s Weathering Wash.
This is a clay-based solution and comes in a few colors – Light Dirt, [...]

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My New Hasegawa 1/72 Scale F-14 Tomcat

This is like my second chance of building a F-14 Tomcat, after wrecking my last one. I tried to get the exact model kit, but the closest I could come up with is this 1/2 F-14B Tomcat Jolly Rogers by Hasegawa. This is a much more detailed kit, and of course it costs much more [...]

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Online Model Stores Suck

E-commerce survived the dot-com crash, and is now a part of our lives. Therefore, should we not have the right to demand for improvement and better service?
Unfortunately, most online hobby model stores I’ve come across so far suck big time.
Stores like RedfrogHobbies look like they were built by a six year old. It has [...]

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1/72 Scale F11F-1 Tiger Preshading

After some preshading work on my F8F-9 Cougar, I decided to also preshade my F-11F1 Tiger since I already did the cockpit work earlier. I know, there’s a big non-shaded spot on the plane, that’s because after preshading I had to sand off seam lines at the top and bottom.
 
You can see the [...]

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Preshading and Painting the F9F-8 Cougar

This is one of the first models I’m trying to build, the Hasegawa F9F-8 Cougar. After fixing the model – which was easy – I had to try airbrushing it for the first time using my Aztek A470 airbrush. I did one layer of “preshading” which was easy, then went on to apply the first [...]

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Hasegawa 1/72 Scale Black Hawk

The Hasegawa 1/72 scale UH-60A Black Hawk model kit that I purchased last month. I actually built the exact model more than 10 years ago as a teenager, and although I didn’t have the correct modelling tools I managed to build it decently. That model is long gone now, but I always like the Hasegawa [...]

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Tamiya Masking Tape for Modellers

Back when I first stumbled upon scale modelling, I painted my few models with no masking tape. What a disaster that was, although technically speaking it does force you to exert more skill.
Every scale modeller needs a masking tape for airbrushing isolated parts of your models, and also when painting using brushes. Tamiya masking [...]

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