Greenshirt Modeler

Models & Musings

  • Another High Flyer

    Spitfire HF VII, MD114/DUoG, No 312 (Czechoslovak) Squadron, RAF, Skeabrae, 1943. I hadn’t yet built a Hasegawa Spitfire, and since I didn’t yet have a Mk VII on my shelf decided I’d do this one. The Subject I’ve come to understand that frontline squadrons would rotate on occasion to airfields in the North and East,…

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  • Pearl Harbor Attacker

    A6M2 Zero, Lt Sumio Nono, Hiryu air wing, 7th December 1941 I finally built this newly tooled A6M from Airfix and used many of Nick Millman’s recommendations for colors just to see how it would look. The Subject Lt Nono led the second wave of 9 A6M2 Zero fighter escorts from Hiryu, escorting 18 B5N2…

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  • Uschi flexible line

    This is one of those products that has changed my modeling; therefore I’d like to share why. Uschi rigging thread is a flexible thread that is also round.  So when it is applied to a model, it does not have the “flat” or square effect that some flexibly threads may show, especially noticeable if the…

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