SPA Modeler

This is Jiro Horikoshi's first design, the first prototype for the A5M Claude, as it turned out. A second prototype was built without the gull wing, and that wing made its way to the Claude. What a shame, the gull wing is so graceful. I've really enjoyed these newer Fine Molds kits, and I have anoth...

Well done! Unfortunately, I have the other KP kit.

Great job on the Viggens! Neat airplanes and superb modeling.

Stikpusher wrote:Looks good! Now you need a T-6 and the old Hawk/Testors PT-20 trainers.

Starting on the T-6 now, making masks for the canopy. I have a Lone Star cockpit set for the PT-20/22 interior and have ordered Mike's PT-22 conversion, Carlos.

You got the setup, TJ!

Between the dust and the cats my models have been behind glass for a long time. They were demanding hazardous duty pay!

This is a pretty good resin kit, built to give my Revell Stearman some company. The cockpit interior was added to with some ALPS printed decal faces courtesy of my computer system and its peripherals, and a store of images I keep adding to from the interweb. This, like many resin models has fewer pa...

Well done, John. But that thing about wings clapping, that's just a bad thought. Most any R/C flyer will know what I mean...

Thanks, everyone. I suspect you are all too kind.

Jiro Horikoshi's first design that went into production. I did some research on the A5M4 whose markings I chose, and am quite sure but not positive that it was on the Zuiho, a light carrier in the 3rd carrier division during the battle of Midway, where it played only a peripheral role, and then was ...

I do not even aspire to work that detailed in 1/72. My hands sometimes shake at higher amplitude the that Zero's wing chord!