Area 52 Models

I spent this weekend painting examples of a couple new kits for Area 52 models. The first model uses the resin interior and landing arms from Area 52 updating the Pegasus U.F.O.





The second is a Recce Pod for the Krieger 1/20 Falke, not installed on the kit.





I also did work on the masters for these kits.

Canadian War Museum Panther

This is the Panther A currently on display in Ottawa, at the Canadian war museum.

There are often questions about the original paint scheme and origin of the vehicle. Hopefully this vintage photo of the vehicle will help provide some insight:

Spitfire cockpit painting

My 1/32 Spitfire is moving along slowly with the latest progress of painting the cockpit.

Storm Miniature 1/35 Zu-23-2

I recently received from Andy Bass Storm Miniatures new 1/35 Zu-23-2 kit.

This is a pre-production sample, and did not include instructions. I was hoping to get this painted for his box-art, I just finished building the kit this morning.

The kit is excellent quality with many fine details. The kit consists of finely cast resin, wheels designed by Hussar, and 2 brass 3 piece barrels from Czech Master. Cleaning up the resin parts was simple, and only required a sharp #11 blade, after that the kit assembled really fast. Easily a weekend build.






This kit will be extremely popular for those who build modern dioramas and anti-aircraft guns. There are many possibilities for this kit with the widespread use of the gun worldwide.

*2015 update:  Sorry, I never did finish painting this kit!  It's a nice one though, highly recommended.