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25 years airline and Instructor Pilot in real life 👨✈️ Modelmaker. Erstwhile writer of paranormal action and suspense thrillers. Not here for your politics or religious views, thanks.
1/32 F-104G Starfighter, Royal Netherlands Air Force. Italeri kit and Dutch Decals used. Built for a former KL Starfighter pilot and commissioned by his son (also a pilot), my work colleague and friend 😊 #histscalemodels #scalemodels
December 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM
1/32 F-104G Starfighter, Royal Netherlands Air Force. Italeri kit and Dutch Decals used. Built for a former KL Starfighter pilot and commissioned by his son (also a pilot), my work colleague and friend 😊 #histscalemodels #scalemodels
1/72 B737 progress continues... trying to get it finished by Christmas. Primer is on, using Halfords automotive filler primer to cover all the many sanding abrasion marks, there was a LOT of sanding involved! #histscalemodels #scalemodels
December 8, 2025 at 8:52 AM
1/72 B737 progress continues... trying to get it finished by Christmas. Primer is on, using Halfords automotive filler primer to cover all the many sanding abrasion marks, there was a LOT of sanding involved! #histscalemodels #scalemodels
B737 progress continues in 1/72...wings, flaps and slats attached. This is a big ol' beast! #histscalemodels #scalemodel
December 7, 2025 at 6:58 AM
B737 progress continues in 1/72...wings, flaps and slats attached. This is a big ol' beast! #histscalemodels #scalemodel
1/72 B737 progress: I'm using the aftermarket 3D-printed flaps set from LACI. They are a bit warped as produced but should fit ok. Cutting the flaps out of the kit wings was nerve-wracking but I had to do it differently to the instructions to ensure the wings didn't warp. #histscalemodels
December 2, 2025 at 8:16 AM
1/72 B737 progress: I'm using the aftermarket 3D-printed flaps set from LACI. They are a bit warped as produced but should fit ok. Cutting the flaps out of the kit wings was nerve-wracking but I had to do it differently to the instructions to ensure the wings didn't warp. #histscalemodels
B737 build is cracking along... wheelwell interior and fuselage completed. This really is a limited run kit! Fit is generally okay but parts need a lot of preparation and the windows are terrible. Much putty will be required 🫤 #histscalemodels #scalemodels
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 AM
B737 build is cracking along... wheelwell interior and fuselage completed. This really is a limited run kit! Fit is generally okay but parts need a lot of preparation and the windows are terrible. Much putty will be required 🫤 #histscalemodels #scalemodels
#histscalemodels Time for one more build this year I think! BPK 🇺🇦 1/72 Boeing 737-800. It's a big, short-run injection kit, should be a lot of work but an interesting build
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
#histscalemodels Time for one more build this year I think! BPK 🇺🇦 1/72 Boeing 737-800. It's a big, short-run injection kit, should be a lot of work but an interesting build
Two finished in a month! This is some kind of record for me 😊
Lockheed F-5E Lightning (Italeri 1/48) and Virgin Galactic VSS Unity space vehicle and VMS Eve carrier ship (Revell 1/144)
#histscalemodels #scalemodels
Lockheed F-5E Lightning (Italeri 1/48) and Virgin Galactic VSS Unity space vehicle and VMS Eve carrier ship (Revell 1/144)
#histscalemodels #scalemodels
November 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Two finished in a month! This is some kind of record for me 😊
Lockheed F-5E Lightning (Italeri 1/48) and Virgin Galactic VSS Unity space vehicle and VMS Eve carrier ship (Revell 1/144)
#histscalemodels #scalemodels
Lockheed F-5E Lightning (Italeri 1/48) and Virgin Galactic VSS Unity space vehicle and VMS Eve carrier ship (Revell 1/144)
#histscalemodels #scalemodels
Looks like Darth Vader without a helmet 😅
October 10, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Looks like Darth Vader without a helmet 😅
#HeaviesGB B-24 interior almost done, added crew figures from the kit.
October 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
#HeaviesGB B-24 interior almost done, added crew figures from the kit.
1/48 Monogram B-25J Mitchell updated to represent US Navy PBJ-1J "Devil Dog" from the Commemorative Air Force, 2015. Top turret deleted and airframe and radio fitted to modern standards with VHF aerial, landing lights and red beacon. #histscalemodels #scalemodels
October 4, 2025 at 6:40 AM
1/48 Monogram B-25J Mitchell updated to represent US Navy PBJ-1J "Devil Dog" from the Commemorative Air Force, 2015. Top turret deleted and airframe and radio fitted to modern standards with VHF aerial, landing lights and red beacon. #histscalemodels #scalemodels
#HeaviesGB #histscalemodels PB4Y-1 Liberator is plodding along. Built up the waist gunner interior using Metallic Details photo etch and Browning 50 cal guns. Also showing my take on the interior colours: Dull Dark Green, Interior Green, and Zinc Chromate sidewalls which will get aluminium bracing.
October 4, 2025 at 6:06 AM
#HeaviesGB #histscalemodels PB4Y-1 Liberator is plodding along. Built up the waist gunner interior using Metallic Details photo etch and Browning 50 cal guns. Also showing my take on the interior colours: Dull Dark Green, Interior Green, and Zinc Chromate sidewalls which will get aluminium bracing.
Belated start to my #HeaviesGB entry but we're off at last!
New nose section has been un-warped in boiling water, and almost fits the fuselage 💪
Old supercharger sections have been cut out of the engine nacelles and new ones prepared
Gear legs have been installed in 'up' position with hinges.
New nose section has been un-warped in boiling water, and almost fits the fuselage 💪
Old supercharger sections have been cut out of the engine nacelles and new ones prepared
Gear legs have been installed in 'up' position with hinges.
September 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Belated start to my #HeaviesGB entry but we're off at last!
New nose section has been un-warped in boiling water, and almost fits the fuselage 💪
Old supercharger sections have been cut out of the engine nacelles and new ones prepared
Gear legs have been installed in 'up' position with hinges.
New nose section has been un-warped in boiling water, and almost fits the fuselage 💪
Old supercharger sections have been cut out of the engine nacelles and new ones prepared
Gear legs have been installed in 'up' position with hinges.
Spitfire XVIe is finished! 1/24 Airfix kit with Buchon Models resin conversion for E-wing and low-back/bubble canopy. Decals for 349 (Belgian) Sqn RAF, Fassburg, Germany in Spring 1945. One of the best kits I've ever built, luckily I've a few more in the stash 😉 #histscalemodels #scalemodels
September 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Spitfire XVIe is finished! 1/24 Airfix kit with Buchon Models resin conversion for E-wing and low-back/bubble canopy. Decals for 349 (Belgian) Sqn RAF, Fassburg, Germany in Spring 1945. One of the best kits I've ever built, luckily I've a few more in the stash 😉 #histscalemodels #scalemodels
Weathering complete, just the details to go. Spitfire XVIe, Airfix 1/24 Mk IXc converted to XVIe low-back version. #histscalemodels #scalemodels
September 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Weathering complete, just the details to go. Spitfire XVIe, Airfix 1/24 Mk IXc converted to XVIe low-back version. #histscalemodels #scalemodels
1/24 Spitfire XVIe conversion is nearing the finish line now... painting and decals complete, just weathering and finishing to go 👍 #histscalemodels #scalemodels
September 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
1/24 Spitfire XVIe conversion is nearing the finish line now... painting and decals complete, just weathering and finishing to go 👍 #histscalemodels #scalemodels
Thanks Ian, I used blu-tac sausages with cling film to mask it.
September 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Thanks Ian, I used blu-tac sausages with cling film to mask it.
1/32 Revell (Italeri) Mirage IIIE, French Air Force Escadrille de Chase 3/3 50th Anniversary commemoration, Nancy-Ochey 1993 #histscalemodels #scalemodels
September 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
1/32 Revell (Italeri) Mirage IIIE, French Air Force Escadrille de Chase 3/3 50th Anniversary commemoration, Nancy-Ochey 1993 #histscalemodels #scalemodels
1/24 Airfix Spitfire XVIe conversion getting towards the decals stage: paintwork complete and gloss coat on #histscalemodels #scalemodels
September 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
1/24 Airfix Spitfire XVIe conversion getting towards the decals stage: paintwork complete and gloss coat on #histscalemodels #scalemodels
Thanks 👍 I used white tac and cling film (excuse the photo, I masked the wrong colour before I took it! 🤣)
September 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Thanks 👍 I used white tac and cling film (excuse the photo, I masked the wrong colour before I took it! 🤣)
Still building the Airfix 1/24 Spitfire XVIe conversion of the IXc kit for a worthy groupbuild over on the other place. Paint on, just the leading edges left to do. #histscalemodels
September 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Still building the Airfix 1/24 Spitfire XVIe conversion of the IXc kit for a worthy groupbuild over on the other place. Paint on, just the leading edges left to do. #histscalemodels
Hey where's my #HeaviesGB people at? Just got the kit down from the stash, 1/48 Monogram B-24J to be built as a US Navy PB4Y-1 based at RAF Dunkeswell, 1943.
September 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Hey where's my #HeaviesGB people at? Just got the kit down from the stash, 1/48 Monogram B-24J to be built as a US Navy PB4Y-1 based at RAF Dunkeswell, 1943.
Alien Earth is soooo cool. Loving this series! Especially good to see Tyres from Spaced as Engineer on the doomed ship 🤩
September 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Alien Earth is soooo cool. Loving this series! Especially good to see Tyres from Spaced as Engineer on the doomed ship 🤩
I know it says Facebook, but X/Twitter has definitely caught up now 😒
September 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I know it says Facebook, but X/Twitter has definitely caught up now 😒
This appears when I try to access messages!
August 28, 2025 at 7:18 AM
This appears when I try to access messages!