Monday, April 25, 2011

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.

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

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I also did work on the masters for these kits.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Canadian War Museum Panther

This is the Panther A currently on display in Ottawa, at the Canadian war museum.
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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:
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Spitfire cockpit painting

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

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

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.

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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.