AeroplaneDriver

I’ve been searching eBay for months with no luck. Wow. THANKS! They are ordered.

I've tried a lot of Googling, but can't find any source of 1/48 NC Air Guard F-86D/L decals. Anyone aware of any available?

Another vote for Sprue Brothers. Always good service and occasionally some good deals. Squadron is good too but lately their selection seems pretty poor. I have recently had a NEGATIVE experience with Internet Hobbies. Ordered three kits, only two arrived. Invoice and all notifications indicated all had shipped. Took two emails and over a week to get a response. All the response said was "it will ship next week". No thanks, no sorry, nothing. "next week" was last week and I have yet to receive any kind of shipping confirmation or tracking info so as they say, caveat empto

1/48 F-101, Buccaneer, and SEPECAT Jaguar

In the early 90s I was part of a group that almost bought the SV-4 from the movie. It was in parts in a barn in western North Carolina. The deal never went through as the owner wanted a bit much for what amounted to a barn full of parts but I always thought it would have been great to own that airplane (or at least 1/3 of it). Loved the film.

Latest COVID Build (number 9 so far). Tamiya's wonderful 1/48 F-14A. For such a complex aircraft this model was a gem to build. Really well engineered and no filler anywhere. It was nice that it fit so well that I could do much of the painting in sub assemblies then just do a little touchup after final assembly. Kit is OOB except for a little Tamiya tape to make the canvas shroud over the RIO instruments and an Eduard ejection seat detail set. Painted with Vallejo Insignia White and Black and Hataka Light Gull Gray through Iwata NEO. Exhausts/engines are Vallejo metallics and the brighte

My first ever real foray into figure modeling and I have admit it was a nice break from aircraft. It'll be nice to get back to the Tomcat on the bench tomorrow but I thoroughly enjoyed this little build. This is Bandai's 1/12 Imperial Stormtrooper. It went together out of the box in about an hour and looked nice enough. But on close inspection it shows it's simple construction and movable limb with lots of ball joints where human joints should be. I decided to make this trooper a post-Return Of the Jedi era trooper now just trying to make his way in the galaxy. This would be

Yeah, I have a friend who works in their marketing department. They are trying to get the land where the old original Morris Field hangar is to build a new museum that will include ht original hangar. I hate it closed....grat way to kill some time at the airport, but I guess Honeywell bought the hangar for their flight department when they moved company HQ to Charlotte.

Great pic! Thanks. The lettering will be no problem with generic US letters/numbers decals. The state marking should be easy if I can find out the color. There is an aviation archive attached to the museum at CLT...maybe I'll check there. Thanks for posting the pic!

Quick question...I've looked high and low but can't find 1/48 NC Air National Guard decals for the F-86D. The 156th Fighter Squadron operated them out of Charlotte in 59-60 before becoming an airlift unit. I work at CLT and would love to build a CLT F-86D but can't find much info on them and definitely no decals. Anyone know of anything?

Hello all...been a while since I posted here. I was building quite a lot up until about 13 months ago, and then life, work, travel, and other hobbies took me away from the bench. I've been itching to get back to building for a few months now, so what better excuse than being stuck at home for the forseeable future?? Here are my builds over the past 4 weeks. I like building in the "What If?" genre, and over the past 10 years that has been most of my building, but in the past couple of years it's been a bit more balanced, as these four builds show...50/50 split. Paint is mostly V

I grew up up in western NC and remember that aisle of models at our Roses well. Loved a trip there!

One look at this diorama takes me back to listening to Nena. If you don't get that reference, you don't get the diorama.

Gorgeous!! Where in the Carolinas did you grow up to have bought Monogram kits at Roses??

Royal Guard TIE Interceptor. Bandai 1/72

I'm glad I stumbles across this GB! I got back into the hobby a little over a year ago after a break of about 7 years. Previously I was almost exclusively building What If? models, and I still enjoy them with 6 of the 18 builds I've completed since getting back into modeling being speculative. My last What If is a Tamiya Meteor F.3 built as a 1946 USAAF P-74. That one was a two-week build that I finished on March2nd, so it's not eligible here, but I did immediately begin a nice easy build of a Bandai 1/72 TIE Interceptor. I guess this one counts as both Sci-Fi an

All in 1/48... Harrier GR.1/GR.3/AV-8A/AV-8C Avro Vulcan BAe Jetstream 31 Accurate F-111 family 1/48 Blackburn Buccanneer

I agree Skyhawk! I love the gun bay, but also think the open bay ruins the lines of the jet. The bay cover is just presses into place. I was lucky that mine fit nicely and looks OK just pressed in. I'm a big "What If" modeler, so my next one of these might very well be early fifties Raf Germany or late fifties FauxAF. It really is a great little kit!

This is a kit I've wanted to build for a long time. Fit is close to perfect. A nice easy build. It's my first time tackling NMF since getting back into building. I haven't ventured into the world of Alclad yet, so this one is pretty basic...Testors Metallizer Aluminum Plate out of a rattle can. I may get more adventurous for the next try at NMF.

Very nice. Love the Panther. I think one will be on my list soon.

Hello all! Making a return to the hobby after about a 7-year absence. When I quit I was mostly building "What-Ifs" a few of which I posted here. I got back into it over the winter and I've been mixing up real work builds with a couple of What-Ifs. Sorry for the pic quality...I'm still getting back used to it. Here is my progress since February to share... Tamiya 1/48 F4U-1D. OOB Next effort was a Tamiya 1/48 F-16CJ, again OOB One of my favorites of all time in one of my favorite paint schemes of all time was next. Hase 1/4

Here is a great Lightning reference. Also True Details do a cockpit set that is available from Squadron for under $8. I have one and it looks fairly good for the price, thought I havent opened it and I dont have much resin experience to compare it to.

Blows my theory out of the water then!! <_< It's just a different subtype of the same basic model of the Mk7 thought, isnt it? Or am I way off? edit-After looking on the MB website they list the UK Phantom seats as the 7A and H7AF, and the US Phantom seats as the H7 and H7AF. Is the H7AF a common Naval variant of the seat that is underwater capable maybe??? MB Site

I seem to remember that they are the same Mk7 seats, with the exception of some differences on the personal equipment connector, that would be invisible on a model anyway.

Beautiful build! Is there a more quintisential 'jet fighter' shape than the F-106?