So I'm new to this and made my first 4 tanks. I know they re meh. (Tiger has recommended paints from Italeri but somehow colors looks wrong)

Anyway ,I had this idea to make 4 spaces for 4 different countries. Quite happy with the result.

This is the F/A-18E from Topgun Maverick , or supposed to be. I have absolutely no idea how to apply the decals and I don’t have paint. And it looks kinda sloppy lol

My 4th Model

Hi all. I finally finished the model. Plenty of room for improvement as I run into many many problems. But all in all an enjoyable build.

Trabant601 sluxe 1/24

Done on the brand new limited edition boxing of the PR Spitty by Kotare. It’s my first kit from them, first time at 1/32 as well (I can tell you already, it takes so much space, probably won’t do many at all).

I loved the experience of building the kit, the manual alone is probably the single best I’ve ever seen. I really enjoyed the parts breakdown, tolerances were extremely tight, but nothing a sanding stick and some filler to correct the user error later can’t fix. I’m not a 100% happy with it, as I feel I let down the kit a bit. But hey, I’m thrilled to have had the chance to build it, and paint it in my new favorite RAF colour, PRU blue.
What a magnificent kit, I can’t praise it enough!

Sup fellow modellers, this is an first post from me. The 1/350 super Yamato kit, that I’ve personally dubbed ‘Yashima’, that I’ve been working on for about 2/3 weeks now and it’s been something. PE hell, seriously, if you don’t like PE parts, run. Far. I definitely did, as you can see by my neglecting of 90% of railings. But the plastic parts are amazing, blows Revell, Heller (sorry France) and about most brands out of the water for fitment out the box. Anyways 9.5/10 from me, and a couple firsts for me too. If anyone’s got any tips for making the moss and salt streaking look better, I’m all ears. Anyways, see y’all, thanks for reading and any tips in advance!

First paint job ever. I want it to look textured and “not new” but I feel like I’m going in circles. Also would love guidance on weathering so the seams between panels standout. Is there a good tutorial on how to do this properly?

Hello everyone,

I'm not a model builder myself but I do go to model fairs and shows as I think they're cool and my father and brothers build them. So while I have the enthusiasm, my knowledge is sadly lacking.

I bought a 1/48 Tamiya F-14A Tomcat kit for a friend's birthday, to surprise him. I wanted it to be a really cool build so I researched it and saw that Red Fox Studio does 3D decals for the cockpit.

They were unfortunately out of stock on their site and I looked for stockists and they seemed to be out of stock too.

I took a chance and went online to Amazon (foolish I know, I just really wanted to get it before my friend's birthday).

I bought some there and I got them and they are loose in the pack and don't look like the pictures. There's minimal colour, texture, they're missing details.

Can someone with experience with these decals please give me their opinion?

Thanks guys

Really loving this hobby, and I think I am getting better at brush painting. For these three, everything, from primer, to basecoat, to topcoat, was bushed on with Vallejo acrylics.

Any tips from fellow brush painters? I recently started thinning my topcoats with thinner medium, and that helped a lot!

Man, I love the T-72

Ready for a base and final weathering

First German panther and first time doing shading any suggestions are welcome

I have been building models since i was a kid in the early 90s. In the Netherlands and Germany Revell was (and still seems to be) by far the most available brand.

I made many of their kits as they were a lot better than Italeri and other brands Back in the day.

More recently i built more Tamiya kits and they really are as good as they say, but the Revell stuff held up pretty good in my opinion. Not the most premium ultra detailed stuff ever designed, but solid quality with an affordable price (for a kid)
I also appreciated their customer service. Once i botched a few essential cockpit parts in a helicopter build as a kid. Wrote them a letter and they sent me a replacement sprue free of charge.
That was nice.

Ever since the rise of social media, i heard a lot of people complaining on Revells quality and that puzzled me. I have built shitty kits, Chech stuff from the 90s, i can’t stand the horroble fit of many Italery kits. But Revell never seemed to belong in that category.

So i just want to ask you people, what is up with the Revell hate? Is it a US vs. Europe market thing?
They aren’t the pinnacle of model building, but i just don’t understand their bad reputation.

TLDR:
What is up with the Revell hate? I built many revell kits and they have always had a really good price/quality ratio…
Is Revell in Europe different from Revell USA?

Can you guys give me some tips before building this? Because it's my first time building a model kit. Thank you!!

Since this is fantasy I used as many decals as I could and still be semi-realistic.

Spread over the course of a month, 212 hours were spent in creating this beautiful aircraft. The Hawaii (II As the first was destroyed) Mars was and still is the most awe worthy piece of engineering. I wanted to convey this in my own ways as well as giving my original Martin mars being the Philippine Mars a sister.

The Martin JRM Mars was a massive, four-engined cargo transport and firefighting flying boat built by the Glenn L. Martin Company during World War II. Only seven units were ever completed, making it one of the largest and rarest Allied flying boats ever operated.

In 1959, the surviving aircraft were slated for demolition, but a consortium of British Columbia timber companies called Forest Industries Flying Tankers (FIFT) bought them.

Forest industries was later bought by Coulson aviation and the Hawaii was refitted with cutting edge avionics flying until 2016 and once more in 2024.

This plane is personally my greatest ever creation and hits home as well having seen it once in action on the field.

So enough of that here’s some stats if anyone is crazy enough to make a 3.5 foot wide plane.

Wood used for the main aircraft: pine so shaping would be easy.

Wing: oak

Tail was cedar and MDF

Floats are oak

Stand is black walnut.

The cost was about 250$ total (not bad!)

And the time spent was summed up by around 100 hours of shaping and sanding and 60 putting it together. The rest was on finishing which took several all nighters.

I hope looking at her brings the same weird feeling of looking at a hunk of wood in the shape of one of the most gorgeous flying boats ever built.

Cheers guys.

It’s time to wrap up before my retirement from making planes.

Your flying boat maker maker,
-nasty

Absolutely great kit, decent part count and very well moulded 0 flash and everything fit perfectly

A squad of Handschar W-SS division cautiously advances over rugged terrain

This is a neat vignette-in-a-box kit that you can easily build without anything else and it tells a story. Figures are classical late 1990s Dragon. Some flash, somewhat problematic arm-torso fits, but overall nothing a bit of work can’t fix. The biggest issue is assembly of the mortar. Vague and unclear instructions that require some research on how it should look like. Luckily it’s a weapon that was widely used so reference pictures are easy to find.

Smocks are typical W-SS ones so you have a several options for pattern, I opted for spring Oak Leaf one, it’s the one I can do best. And other than headgear these are standard W-SS figures, so nothing special there.

For ground I decided on rockier terrain, more typical of Balkan regions. Box Art gives an good idea for placement and I pretty much followed it.

Overall pretty happy with end result.

Wow, it has been a while since I worked on this one as I was mostly focused on the YO barge. I plan to get her finished and ready to paint so I can paint both her and the YO barge. I had some time to attach the sidelights and place the last fairleads (I had to replace them as lost the originals to the carpet monster). The next step is the small crane and getting the rest of the PE figured out.

I think this is my fifth finished kit overall and by far the worst fitting. good decals though! i hate clear parts but i love painting figures- calling it done for now but I might eventually add a few passengers on the benches- it’s just been a source of frustration long enough that I want to move on!!