Airfix 1/72 Bristol Blenheim Mk I
Though I definitely made some mistakes with it — and made a camouflage choice some may find questionable — I really enjoyed building this Airfix kit.
Category Archives: Aircraft
1/72 Kawasaki Ki-61-Id Hien 飛燕 (Tony)
As I’ve written several times on this blog, I am a big fan of Tamiya’s 1/72 Scale War Bird Collection. I really appreciate the fact that these kits achieve what […]
1/72 Eduard F6f-5 Hellcat
This beautiful Hellcat kit was a pleasure through and through.
Hasegawa 1/72 Nakajima Ki-44-II Shōki 鍾馗 (Tojo)
I discovered that the name “Shōki” perfectly reflects this aircraft’s mission, which was to intercept attacking bombers at high altitude, because Shōki was a protective deity of Chinese origin known as “the Demon (or Plague) Queller.”
1/72 Fw190 A-3: Tamiya War Bird #66
I built this one concurrently with the Bf109G-6 I recently posted, and my experience was similar: I love these Tamiya War Bird Collection kits — and here, as with the […]
1/72 Bf109 G-6: Tamiya War Bird #90
A really nice model — like any of the Tamiya War Bird Collection that I have built — can create an interesting psychological challenge for me.
Airfix 1/72 Fw190-A8
Second of two recent Airfix Luftwaffe kits.
Airfix 1/72 Bf109G-6
This kit is another that falls into the category of “didn’t have high hopes as I was building it but love it now that it’s done.”
Hasegawa 1/72 F/A-18F Super Hornet
Although I stick these days almost exclusively to World War Two subjects, I do have a small collection of later jet aircraft, and they can make a nice change of […]
Eduard 1/72 Spitfire Mk IXe ProfiPack
For me, this kit was a perseverance project. I actually considered throwing it away without finishing it when I was about midway through. This is my story.
Schopenhauer's Workshop 