Gallery: Airfix 1:72 Supermarine Spitfire Mk. IA

Brand: Airfix

Scale: 1/72

Kit No: A010718

Tooling Date: 1999

Completed: 2023

Engraved Panel Lines: Yes

Available For Purchase: Sold

Another Father's Day gift from my "babies" (not so baby anymore). Another great kit. A lot of fun to build. Not too long on fine detail but for the scale pretty impressive. Decided to not do any additional riveting detail on this: just wanted to cut some time off the build. I am posting the build log of this model. You can read about it here ... Airfix 1:72 Supermarine Spitfire Mk. IA (Pt.1)

Gallery: Airfix 1:72 F4F-4 Wildcat "Guadalcanal"

Brand: Airfix

Scale: 1/72

Kit No: A02070A

Tooling Date: 2015

Completed: 2023

Engraved Panel Lines: Yes

Available For Purchase: Sold

This was a really nice kit. Love what Airfix is doing with their 1/72 scale kits these days. The kit came with some nicely engraved panel lines and the major rivets were provided, however I added additional riveting for the extra detail. I would be curious to see it without them though. Was pretty happy with the weathering and the decals went down like butter!

Gallery: Academy 1:72 USAF F-16A

Brand: Academy

Scale: 1/72

Kit No: 12444

Tooling Date: 1976

Completed: 2023

Engraved Panel Lines: Yes

Available For Purchase: Sold 

 

Gallery: Airfix 1:72 F4F-4 Wildcat "Operation Torch"

Brand: Airfix

Scale: 1/72

Kit No: A02070A

Tooling Date: 2015

Completed: 2023

Engraved Panel Lines: Yes

Available For Purchase: Yes - Etsy 

This was a really nice kit. Love what Airfix is doing with their 1/72 scale kits these days. The kit came with some nicely engraved panel lines and the major rivets were provided, however I added additional riveting for the extra detail. I would be curious to see it without them though. Was pretty happy with the weathering and the decals went down like butter!

Gallery: Academy 1:72 scale P-51B Mustang

Brand: Academy

Scale: 1/72

Kit No: 1667 / FA168

Tooling Date: 1999

Completed: 2019

Engraved Panel Lines: Yes

Available For Purchase: Not at this time.

I built this for a group build on the Flory Models, modeling community forum. Turned out to be a great little kit. The only modifications I made were to swap out the kit canopy for an after-market vacuum formed canopy, and instead of using the provided invasion stripe decals, painted my own. Otherwise, as with most of my builds it was pretty much straight out of the box. In my opinion this is still one of the best builds I have ever completed. 

Gallery: Airfix Mitsubishi A6M2b Zero

Brand: Airfix

Scale: 1/72

Kit No: A01005A

Tooling Date: 2011

Completed: 2018

Engraved Panel Lines: Yes

As part of my WWII binge I found the iconic Airfix Mitsubishi A6M2b Zero. A beautiful and effective long range fighter in the employ of the Japanese Navy. Gorgeous!!

I chose the Airfix kit because it was basic and had recessed panel lines. I actually picked up two of them as well as a Tamiya version. Those remain in my stash for later ...

Gallery: Academy Spitfire Mk.XIVc

If I actually had anyone following this blog I'd apologize for long delay between posts ... but I don't so no one will have noticed. Whew ...

After my experience with the Academy 1:72 FW 190A I had a taste for WWII and was pumped to work on some more Academy kits. So I did ... A Stuka, Spitfire, Zero and a Warhawk.