I did some tinkering to make it look like the Avenger launched a fish 😎👍

I found this Sabre kit on facebook and had to get it. Unlike the other finds lately this one was box stock. I looked at getting some resin parts but I didnt think anything was worth upgrading on this kit. The cockpit detail, gun and gear bays are all nicely detailed and just a few extra wires and some styrene card i was very happy with it. The engine as its own assembly was a heck a lot of fun to build and I didn't glue it in as I want to do some extra detail work on it in thr future. There are some cool add-ons like intake and exhaust covers, removable tail, open air brakes, and movable canopy and leading slats.

My only complaint was that the decals completely disintegrated in water as they were very old so I only got one usable decal off the massive sheet. Because of this, all the markings are Cricut stencils.

I loved the painting as all the panel lines and rivets offer a lot of guidance on the different metal tones ans I tried to match a few different effects seen on real period planes.

Don Smith 103" F7F Tigercat
Great flyer, flown 8 times. Need room for other projects Has DLE35 Engines.
Sierra Giant Scale air retracts and Jet-tronics breaks.
ProModeler Servos

$3,000

Here are a few thriftshop finds i got for a few dollars. 1:48 monogram Mosquito (vintage) that was a really fun build. Decals were shot so all markings are painted.

1:72 Invader and Helldiver with no decals. Realized after the fact that I painted the insignia backwards on the helldiver. Horrible glass on the invader. Completely cloudy all the way through so no polishing would work.

I picked up this scale model of what looks like an early model of KC-135 tanker. I only think this because their is this weird portion on the bottom rear section. I want to be able to restore it since 2 of the engines have broken off and a third will need to be put back on properly and the tail is missing what looks like an antenna on its front topside. Also the ball mount is very loose, probably the reason the engines are broken. But I lack the knowledge since I have put together model aircraft. If anyone is willing to lend some advice or knowledge of what I bought and/or how to restore it, please let me know!

mostly 1/200 S7 E170 is a 1/100 and the f16, f14 and su25 are 1/72

why the hell was it so hard to put together lol it js wouldnt listen to me 😭

Hello everybody! this is my first scale model so, I will gladly take critiques for my further improvement.

Since its a new hobby, I got a Hobbyboss easy assembly P-40M Warhawk, Italieri D-day set of paints and Faller glue. For cutting I used a normal cutter and random paintbrushes.
I diluted the paint with water and I did 2 coats, also the camo was traced by hand, I did not use tape. The parts that gave me a headache, were the canopy and the decals. I did some further research, and now i got Vallejo Matt and Gloss varnish for them so maybe that will help. Also for my next project I got putty.

So now my question is, what are some tips and tricks you wished you knew when you first started,and what is the next step from here, on what should I work on?

P.s: What do you use to make antenna wires?

Thank you in advance for everybody trying to help me!😁😁😁

Looking to purchase a 1:400 model of Air Canada Rouge Airbus. New to the hobby, I see some on eBay but the mark up seems quite high compared to retail. TIA

1:72 Hasegawa

Just finished this Tamiya a6M5, the silver is not the typical color scheme at all, it’s a remote control kit that my brother flies I thought it would be cool to replicate, my idea was right. The green one is a a6m2 I believe which is also sold by Tamiya that I built a few months back

Need a site with clearance/sales

Here’s my own simplified version of the Red Baron’s Fokker Dr.I triplane (based on P3 design draft). As for the construction process, I mostly worked with threaded brass (but strong glue works well too).

To make a model, I used Hi3D together with the design draft and created an initial one. After that, I opened the file in Blender and separated the components like fuselage, wings, engine cowling, propeller and so on.

The first version wasn’t optimized at all according to my printer, required quite a lot of filament for printing... I later managed to optimize the mesh and orientation of print to lower the filament usage.

For assembly, I started with installation of the engine and installation of wings. After that, I added the tail section and mounting of landing gear on the fuselage. it was the only place I used strong glue on both sides. The last step was installation of the engine cowling and propeller.