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Thank you all for the kind words.

Greetings, I recently completed Hobby Boss's KJ-500. The kit went together very well. There were two problems that I discovered during the build: The left and right side each had one too many circular windows that needed to be filled The instructions have you putting the radome on with the wrong orientation (look at the photo on the box for the correct way 😉)

Greetings! Just completed the Armory Pantsir model. I read thru a very handy breakdown of building of the kit here: https://www.onthewaymodels.com/reviews/Armory/FGiova-SA22review.htm Loads of good tips in that review. Also I found this walk around helpful: https://www.dishmodels.ru/wshow.htm?p=3776 On to the pictures. This step required a lot of patience... To get to this point: I did repurpose some license plate decals from the Zvezda S-400 kit:

Greetings! Just completed a couple examples of Trumpter's very nice SA-4 model. I only made one slight modification to have the model in launching mode vs travel mode. Everything went together really well. Here are some pictures: Some comparisons to Trumpeter's SA-6 model: And comparison to Zvezda's S-400:

Greetings! Here is an example of Hobby Boss' SA-2 (S-75) missile released earlier this year. I have wanted to do a recreation of this abandoned SA-2 site in Libya for a number of years now: Building up the barriers around the missile would have made the base a little too big, so I have the missile with some random goats around it:

Thanks for the compliments! The model is now complete with wheel chocks from North Star Models (https://northstarmodels.com).

Greetings! I just wrapped up this nice 1/144 kit from Trumpeter. Mostly OOB, but with some modifications called out below. Box art: The aircraft like it was on the box art (much different background of course 😉). Base was from from Coastal Kits (https://www.coastalkits.co.uk/newstore/) Ladder was scratch-built from styrene strips: Engine covers were drawn in PowerPoint, printed on photo paper, cut out, and placed inside the engine nacelles: Wires were a

Greetings, Here's a nice kit from Zvezda that I recently completed and made a simple diorama to display it. I had plans to add cabling and other equipment, but it was causing too much frustration...;) Figure is one of those 3D printed ones from Reedoak (http://reedoak.com). Here are some pictures:

Thanx! Yes Okhotnik is a big boy:

Thanks Ryan & Berkut! It would seem I used the Arma Models mask: https://arma-models.ru/catalog/bumazhnye_maski/am72135_maska_okrasochnaya_dlya_novogo_su_57_7319_dlya_sozdaniya_kamuflyazha_okhotnik_1_72/ The mask material is quite a bit thicker than say Tamiya tape, but still very flexible. Overall I was very pleased with the mask. There were times the pieces did not line up exactly and I had to cut some tape to bridge the gap, but that was easy enough to handle. And yes that is the Arma S-70 resin kit. As far as building a serial frame, I'm w

Greetings! I have recently completed Zvezda's Su-57 model in 1/72 scale. I chose Bort 053 for it's different digital camo pattern: https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/9443536 I used a camo mask from eBay, the ResKit engines (https://reskit.com.ua/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=676), some Eduard cockpit details, numerous decals (Zvezda, Begemot, and Wolfpak), and added a couple antennas that seem particular to this jet. Paints were mostly Model Master with the light blue being a custom mix attempting to match pictures. Here are some p

Thanx Ken! I got this set of pens (0.2mm) from amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DS6SRZ2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I only used the blue, brown, and black pens (and the black was just to go over the brown while it was still wet to darken it a bit). Oh, and I also applied lots of Tamiya weather pigments before and after.

Thank you all for the kind words!

Greetings! After a long break from building, I was inspired last year by Haneto's 1/48 PLAAF Su-35 build: So, I dug out my Hasegawa 1/72 version and dove back in. And naturally as I was nearing completion of the model I learned of the upcoming 1/72 GWH version. 🤦‍♂️ Paints were a custom mix, decals from Begemot, the spares box, and a couple were printed at home. Here are the final results: I used Haneto's method for the engines using the Pigma markers (definitely better results than my previous

Homemade using a silhouette Portrait cutter. Very useful tool. More info here: http://www.arcforums.com/forums/air/index.php?/topic/275658-mask-making-with-silhouette-portrait/& Just plain grey 78271. I had wanted to do the splinter camo, but I also wanted serial numbers and when I painted the tails, there were only pics of 78271... I may build 78273 or 78274 in the future.