Greenshirt Modeler

Models & Musings

  • Batch Build = New Techniques 1

    Fillers I decided that I’d use this batch build of 5 Heller Spitfire XVI kits to test a few new (to me) techniques. First up is fillers. I have my tried and true 3M Bondo red filler in a squeeze tube however it’s smelly and while I still have half a tube remaining, I’ve read…

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  • Another Batch Build in the works

    Spitfires, what else? My queue is sitting pretty big right now. Before the batch build I’ve got 3 Spitfires, a Swordfish, Wildcat, Walrus, Fortress, Tomahawk and a Saturn V in the works. I’ve agreed to build out of scale and make the Monogram He-111 for a local museum as part of a “Bomber Bash” challenge…

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  • Bertold’s Fokker

    Rudolf Berthold, JG2, 1918 This was another of my “shelf of doom” models that I’d started at least 15 years ago. What stopped me then was a lack of lozenge decals and my inability to paint them. The Subject If you know very little about World War I aircraft, you probably know about the Fokker…

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