Megablitz and more

 * also featuring Tim's terrible triplanes and mangled Morane monoplanes. John B very kindly passed me this box of veterans at COW a few...

With the basic build complete I slapped on a black undercoat.  During this process a surprisingly small number of parts fell off.  Then it w...

If building dodgy old plastic kits is ever recognised as a sport by the International Olympic Committee I think readers of this blog could p...

For a game I have in mind I need a French two-seater.  There being none available in 1/72 - at least none I could find - I decided to bodge ...

 Here is the finished item, resplendent in Spanish Nationalist markings. And here it is flying over some boxes of toys being readied for las...

The dodgy Thunderbolts are finished and I offer as evidence these terrible photos.   20 Escadre de Chasse is ready for action - I expect the...

In need of some close air support from the French in Algeria c1960, a bit of research led me to remember I had some 1/72 Thunderbolts which ...

  I’ve had this ancient kit for a while and dug it out to build a few weeks ago. It’s moment finally arrived yesterday.   Being a kit of a c...

Here are the completed AH-1 Cobras resplendent in (ancient and slightly flaky) Israeli decals. Not the greatest kits but I did mention the...

I picked up these ‘Mistercraft’ kits a while back. I remember being surprised at how cheap they were but having built them I understand wh...

The next bit of pointy plastic to be rescued is this F-104 Lawn Dart.  Like the F-100 is is in the rather low key livery of the Turkish ...

The ancient F-100 is now complete and sports Turkish markings over some rather 'pre-owned' paintwork.  Why Turkish?  Well let'...

It will come as no surprise to learn that I have a box of broken bits of 1/72 aircraft models. Ten weeks of lockdown finally forced me int...

I picked up this set a few months ago as I had a (vague and as yet unrealised) idea for a game. As the photos suggest, the box contains th...

Well it was to me. Having commenced the build of this ancient Revell Hurricane with no particular plan in mind I eventually decided to foll...

This was part of a batch of stuff I picked up a couple of years ago and was described by its vendor as incomplete - part of the canopy bei...