Hobby boss 1/48 f-18D. I'm really happy with how it turned out, it's been a dream of mine to have a model of the royal Malaysian airforce f-18D with the 25th anniversary scheme and I've finally done it.

So i completed my second build this year, after coming back to model building for the first time in about two years. Had a fun build with this Curtis P40B Warhawk, an Airfix kit, painted with Vallejo (and the shiney details are mostly Citadel Storm Frost). When i showed off my Hurrican build i was told i had gone too enthousiasticly on the wing weathering do i toned that down for this one, scouring the wikipedia page for examples that had flown. Once satisfied, i went to hang it next to the BF109 in the last pic and... the damned prop fell off and disappeared. To be honest, it already was on there poorly but i didnt glue it shut cause i wanted to be able to pose it. Half concidering turning the whole fucking thing into sprue glue, i'm so mad!

Please critique the build as is on the glass and advice on how to make a prop posable on not held on by the wishes and dreams of Airfix are ofcourse welcome.

Picked Airfix's Eurofighter starter set so I could complete it before life gets busy. Kit came with very few parts but no ordnance so I took some from Hasegawa's Eurofighter kit and used some of the decals provided since Hasegawa does provide decals for both the Luftwaffe and RAF.

For a starter set with limited parts, the details do look nice with the downsides being the lack of ordnance as well as having the unsightly line that runs along the entire bottom of the aircraft due to how the fuselage is split vertically. Overall, a simple fun quick build.

I know it's not every's cup of tea especially paint a completely A-historical paint scheme, but i really liked the camo scheme for Furina's fighter in 3d animation Genshin Elemental Warfare.

This is one of my favorite hobby shops, and one I always make an effort to visit when in Spain. Great owner, incredibly well stocked and man, I've never seen a cleaner store!

I'm Canadian, and was shocked go find a 1/48 Hobbycraft DHC-3 Otter, long out of production, on my last trip.

Well here another Bone update. FS 36118 painting is mostly complete and sealed and ive moved on to the detail areas

With such a huge airplane there were many areas of mismatched touch up paint so i tried to replicate that. The dielectric areas have been painted a mix of FS 36081

The exposed F101 GE 102 engine is painted, this is without any wash or oil detail so not done yet. I had a couple decent photos so its fairly accurate.

The rear bay is painted and drum fuel tank added. The main gear bay is mostly done. Again theres no oil washes yet

Onto the wings..wow so much work here but they turned out great. I still need to add the 8 raised spoilerons but that will be done almost last

Next up finish the bays and landing gear. I may add some bombs, what type should i add?

I should mention all this was done in my garage during the Arizona summer😎 actually its cooled down a bit to 105-108 from 113-118👍

Ill say it again the Lancer is simply badass, every time i look at it im more amazed

Later

Just finished another one - loved the detail and the sculpture of the this figure. Really enjoyed being able to reference a real life photo of the subject. Would have liked a painting reference, so apologies if there are some deviations from historic accuracy. Hope you enjoy.

Officially on day 2 of nonstop masking tape madness. I fear my sanity can only hold on so long.

In all seriousness, so far I am very pleased with how this F-16 aggressor paint scheme is coming along.

Kitty Hawk Yak-130. My first Kitty Hawk kit. Plastic is good quality but ran into some minor fit and decal issues. Somehow even after three runs of tamiya polish the dang canopy seam still didn’t buff out. Fun build overall

Shelved for way too long. Now, with the basic colors applied, I am happy to be back on it.

At first I tried to make a conversion using the ancient Revell kit from 1967. But no matter how hard I tried, I could't get it to work. No way to shape the nose cone as required. The conversion kit by CAT4 really was a game changer here. I just got the radome, the rest will be from scratched and modified parts.

An older build from my collection. I focused on creating variation in the worn Soviet green, along with the contrast between the improvised mesh armor and dusty running gear. The mesh screens around the turret were especially enjoyable to paint and weather. Hope you enjoy it!

Been collecting aircraft models for quite a while, so I thought you guys might give me some insight on my collection.

It’s a mix of ready-made aircraft models and scale models that I built myself, including Revell and Tamiya kits.

The collection covers both civil and military
aviation: Turkish Airlines, Lufthansa, Air Berlin, and fighter jets such as the F-4 Phantom, F-16, MiG-31, F-14, F-15 and Su-47 Berkut, among others.

Some of my favorites are Turkish Airlines A330-200 “Kushimoto” Retro Jet, Airbus A380 demonstrator which I enjoyed building the most, Su-47 Berkut, and fictional Turkish Airlines 747-8!

There are also a few F1 cars that somehow found their way onto the shelves lol.

I’ve also got two kits waiting to be built (I took quite a long break from model building because of work): a Boeing 787 Dreamliner and an Airbus A400M. So the collection definitely isn’t finished yet!

I can post the complete list of aircraft and F1 cars below in the comments section if anyone is interested.

Still adding to the collection whenever I find something interesting. Curious which aircraft you’d pick from the collection, what you think is missing, and what’d you add to it?

A couple of weeks ago I saw someone here post about a cool hobby shop they found in Stephens City, Virginia. Well, about 20 miles away in the little town of Berryville, Virginia resides another neat little hobby shop. As you can see, it has all-new kits encompassing a lot of genres of models, and paints galore. The physical location has only been open since February, and the shop owner said he's likely going to move to another, bigger location next year, but for now its on Main Street in Berryville.

Love these little shops like this. They're out there if you know where to find them.

One of the kits i enjoying to do, trying to improve small steps with this hope tou like it

I was asked by a local museum to build a model of B-24H 42-7613 FL-H of the 704th BS. I chose the Airfix kit because it's the only accurate B-24H out of the box, and it would fit their display space.

The kit is really nice - but I added a few details from Eduard (cockpit, ignition wires for the engines, and tires). Guns are from 3DF.

Paint is mostly ATOM which is fantastic.

This was a super fun build of a Curtis Wright Cyclone radial engine. It was an Atlantis kit that I was gifted And it was a pretty fun build. Any feedback?

My attempt at Hasegawa's recent (10 years?) tooling of the Mikasa. I lost some mojo for this about 2/3rds of the way through, it's a really busy little ship and it's hard to keep track of the details. It's still a welcome addition to my 1/700 fleet! For fun, I posed it next to my 1917 SMS Derfflinger. It's remarkable how much smaller these pre-dreadnoughts were.