Around a metre long this impressive kit takes some building but truly does justice to a stunning concept plane that sadly never made it past 2 prototypes - one of which was tragically lost in a mid-air collision with a Starfighter.
The kit is definitely worth the effort, but the fit can only be described as atrocious, with raised panel lines and pretty muffled detail. It take a lot of sanding and filling but I've done several of these with the wheels down - so it was nice...
I couldn’t believe my luck when a customer in America asked me not only to build the Enola Gay B-29 for him – but to build it in 1/48th scale!
I always looked at the old 1/72 scale Airfix kit as a kid and wanted to build it – but the bare metal finish and greenhouse cockpit made it an ambitious build and a step too far for me then.
When I started building models again as a (more or less) adult, the kit was high on my list...
This is a lovely Tamiya kit of the popular Mustang in 1/48th scale. It’s one of a number of Mustangs that Tamiya do (like the Spitfire, the Mustang is heavily represented by all the manufacturers) – so you have plenty of choice if you want to make one.
The Kit
The Tamiya kit is really solid and well thought-out – but somehow they manage to put all that ‘solidness’ inside the model – so when you look at it from the outside it just looks beautifully to scale and...
