S K Loh

Hi Greg, Thank you for the nice comments. Glad that you like the finish. Best regards. S K Loh

Thank you Steve and Dutch. Best regards S K

This is an Academy 1/144 F-4E Phantom kit. I was browsing for info as to which F-4E variant to build from the kit that I read about the retirement of ROKAF F-4E fleet on 07 June 2024 at Suwon AB. 153 SQN 10FW was the last Squadron that flew the F-4E Phantoms. The Phantoms served with ROKAF for 55 years. I decided to do a rendition of F-4E #80-743, one of the four F-4Es that flew the final flight on that day over Suwon AB. The special "Spook" and inscription on the aircraft was what prompted me. I had it modified to a ROKAF F-4E Phantom II with slatted wings and rear view mirrors f

Hi DET1460. Thank you. Yes the weathering can be quite trying to make it still look reasonable. Regards. S K Loh

Hi Dutch. The display bases are off the shelf mini collection boxes bought from the local store. I then search and printed the insignia and vignette and printed them as per normal using water slide decal paper. Then I apply them onto the base and followed by several coats of Mr Softener. I then airbrushed Future or similar gloss coats. This is followed by fine sanding down and airbrushing the gloss coat. When I am pretty satisfied I will buff the surface with Pledge polish. S K Loh

Hi Dutch. Thanks for liking it. Best regards. S K Loh

Hi STORM. Thanks

Thanks Barf. Hunters were one of my favourite since young. Cheers

The orignal Revell kit comes with the markings for a RAF 54 SQN based in UK. I decided to have it built as a RAF 20 SQN Hunter FGA9 XF473/V stationed in RAF Tengah Singapore in the 1960s. I had built a Mark I models Hawker Hunter FR 10/FR 71A/FGA 73A into a RSAF Hawker Hunter FR74A earlier (shown in pic 10). FGA 9 XF473/V returned to UK in 1969 and was sold to Hawker Siddeley Aviation in 1970 to be re-furbished as FR74A for the then SADC ( prior to renamed RSAF) in 1972. This Revell kit is essentially the similar to the Mark I models kit and so the built and details were the same.

Hi Greg, Thanks.

Hi phantom, Thanks. I am honored. Most of you old hands could have done the same too. Anyway glad that like it. S K Loh

I print my own decals

Hi Steve Thanks for liking the finished kit. What I used is mainly Evergreen plastics strips of various sizes and thickness to do the conversion. Of course a lot of sanding and scribing to create some simple panel lines to enhance it's look. I would say the most trying effort is the radome which needs eyeballing to get it into a reasonable looking shape. The finishing on the exhaust area will lend further to it's look. I am very happy that there's still 1/144 scale kits to enable me to keep my hobby. Age is catching up on me and I hope to do as many as I can. Best regar

This is the Academy 1/144 Boeing AH64D/DJ Apache kit. Molding is good with crisp panel lines. You have the option of building with closed windows or have one window opened for the Co-pilot and gunner. Decal options provided were for two AH64Ds that participated in the IRF 2003 whereas another option is for AH64DJ JGSDF Air Training School 2010. I decided on the AH64D with C-1-3 Attack Helicopter Battalion "Vipers". I realised that kit was short of essential features like the VHF/FM whip antenna on the fin tip and the HF "Towel bar " antenna . Scratch-built the two missing items. From pic

This is a F-Toys 1/144 kit from the Wing Kit Collection Vs Series 17. I got myself the mystery kit -a TBD-1 Devastator. From the kit decals the markings suggested that it was sometime in 1943 as the roundel had the red outline. Did my search and found that the decal marking belong to one TBD that flew with CASU-25, Corpus Christi Tx in 1943. I decided that I wanted to build one with the markings of VT-6 in the Battle of Midway having watched the movie and read-up about the dismal performance of the aircraft and the bravery and sacrifice made by the men who flew them on that mission. So I