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September 2016

hms victory ship

Ship model of HMS Victory

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Manufacturer of the kit: Lee (Heller) Ship type: Military Engine type: Sailing and rowing Country of origin: United Kingdom Model scale: 1:100 The ship model of HMS Victory in the scale of 1:100 from the kit of the company Lee (Heller) was assembled in 1997. Assembling took me 9 months. The task was to assemble a model for a show-case with minimal modifications. That’s why bad threads are present in…

amt plastic models

AMT plastic model kit by Dragon Half-Track

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Kit manufacturer: Dragon Armored vehicle type: Armoured personnel carriers Model of WWII era: 1939-1945 Country of origin: United States Model scale: 1:35 The plastic model car kit of this WWII era personnel carrier is manufactured by Dragon. This model was assembled about a year ago, and painted after the master classes of MIG in Moscow, so it has already participated in a couple of exhibitions, but I haven’t posted it…

model airplanes kits

F-22 RAPTOR airplane model

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Kit manufacturer: Hasegawa Vehicle type: Military Engine Type: Jet Country of origin: United States Model scale: 1:48 Good time of the day, colleagues! Let me introduce you a model of US aircraft of 5th generation F-22 by “Hasegawa” made in scale 1/48. What can I say… Assemblability was on top, I needed putty only once to remove traces of pushers, that was on the inner surface (you may have noticed,…

old plastic model kits

Plastic airplane model F4U-4 Corsair “Guys, look what I can do!”

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Manufacturer of the kit: Hasegawa Vehicle type: Military Engine type: Reciprocating Model of WWII era: 1939-1945 Country of origin: United States Model scale: 1:48 Hello colleagues! Let me present you my F4U-4 Corsair plastic airplane model assembled for the tournament “Screws on the Deck” on ScaleModels. In my opinion, this old plastic model very accurately corresponds to the name of the tournament)) I entitled the composition “Guys, look what I…

tank models kits

Plastic tank model of Chaffee tank

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Kit manufacturer: Hasegawa Armored vehicle type: Tanks Year of issue: before 1960 Country of origin: United States Model scale: 1:72 If you mess up the model at an early stage, it’s possible to try to make a lot of interesting things with it. So this vehicle was born. I don’t know why I pasted the decals by which it was immediately clear that they were all bad, and why at…

plastic model airplanes

Plastic model airplane Airacobra P-39Q

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Kit manufacturer: Hasegawa Vehicle type: Military Engine type: Reciprocating Model of WWII era: 1939-1945 Country of origin: United States Model scale: 1:48 Hello everyone! I present for general overview a plastic airplane model by Hasegawa -Airacobra P-39N. The prototype of the plastic airplane model is captain Clubov’s plane 45 (16 GvIAP). For the moment of construction I had the following equipment: the model Airacobra P-39Q (N) itself interior and exterior photoetching…

car model kit

Car model kit Austin Mini from Heller

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Manufacturer of the kit: Heller Purpose: Cars Year of issue: before 1960 Country of origin: United Kingdom Model scale: 1:43 Welcome, dear colleagues! Although I am a modeler – “Aviator”, the emergence of commercially available models in the series “Autolegends of the USSR” breathed new life into my long-standing, childhood’s hobby of cars. But as buying ready-made models and putting them on the shelf seemed a bit boring for me,…

plane models

Plane model A-7D Corsair II

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Kit manufacturer: Trumpeter Vehicle type: Military Engine type: Jet Year of issue: before 1960 Country of origin: United States Model scale: 1:32 Assembling was conducted practically “out of the box” with minor modifications. By itself, the model kit has quite good assemblability, molds and connectivity are at the stable normal level. As for the improvements, I performed a partial addition of highways hydraulics in the niches of the chassis, because…

model ships

Model battleship Retvizan (Kombrig Kit)

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Kit manufacturer: Kombrig Ship Type: Military Engine type: Coal-steam Country of origin: Russia Model scale: 1:350 As part of the 1st Pacific squadron of Russian Imperial Navy it took part in July 1904 in the battle in the Yellow Sea. As a result, it returned with the remains of the squadron to Port Arthur. The ship was sunk before Port Arthur’s surrender to the Japanese in December 1904. In Japan…

model planes

Plane model of A-37B Dragonfly

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Manufacturer of the kit: Akademy Vehicle type: Military Engine type: Jet Year of issue: after 1960 Country of origin: United States Model scale: 1:72 Greetings to everyone! I would like to make my debut on your site with the model that is quite rare. Well, for some reason our brother modeler doesn’t like this plane. And for nothing. For the first time the author learned about the existence of this…