#histscalemodels #scalemodels #F4F-3 Building the pre war Yellow Wing USN types. My Grumman F3F done I'm on to the Eduard F4F-3 Wildcat. First a quick plug for an awesome reference source: The First Team! Supurb story of the early war USN fighter force. The -3 shown is the Naval Air museum example.

After Gazala, I'll stay (mostly) on the African continent this week, offering this for #histbookchat

Next up for #histbookchat : Gazala. Yes, there was quite a good Black Friday offer last year on Ospreys 😁

1/72 Mitsubishi Type Zero observation seaplane, allied code name 'Pete', version is Ōtsu IJN base, October '44. #histscalemodels

Pete Day5: IJN D2 is on. #histscalemodels

Pete Day4: The combination of biplane and floatplane means that Hairyokushoko needs to go on before the complete assembly. #histscalemodels

Pete Day3: Some biplane related drilling necessary #histscalemodels

Pete Day2: 14-cylinder radial by Mitsubishi #histscalemodels

Pete Day1: Interior shows the kits' age, but still I am happy with it. #histscalemodels

Time I do something over here this year #histscalemodels

Next up for #histbookchat I'll be leaving Sicily and heading over to another island.

Very pleased to announce that the cover design for my first book has been finalised. Co-authored with Professor Adam Fairclough, Madam V: Virginia Vernon's War will be published by The History Press in August. The story of this fearless woman needs to be told! #histbookchat #booksky

First build of 2026 complete, Tamiya 1,24 Mazda RX7, nice kit for an oldie, enjoyed trying something different, not perfect by any means a few lessons learned well here it is. #HistScaleModels #ScaleModels #Tamiya

Okay, Bluesky crashed when I tried to do this with a huge thread, so the following link is to a Google drive folder with all the photos I took at the NAACC open house. I'll post a couple here and there but the folder has ~300 pics. drive.google.com/drive/folder... #histscalemodels #tanks

Won Best WWII Allied Vehicle. 😎🤘 #histscalemodels

Latest off the bench: 1/72 Kriegsfischkutter, a small patrol and minesweeper ship. A staggering 612 units of these saw operational use, from northern Norway down to the Peloponnese. The last one retired in the 70ies as a fishing boat in Poland. #histscalemodels #navalhistory

After the short Osprey interlude on the Balkans, Sicily and the Italian mainland is calling 🤙 #histbookchat 🇮🇹

My collection of finished 1/35 ww2 tanks (with a few "finer" 1/72's and a really tiny tiger). Need new display boxes like these badly, dont want the M5 or 7TP to get all dusty. 7TP holds extra sentimental value. Got it from my daughter (then at 6 yrs old) as an x-mas gift in 2024. #histscalemodels

First for 26. Tamiya's 1/48 F-15J. 60th Anniversary of Chitose Airbase, as flown by 201 Squadron JASDF. Unsure if this variant is correct, but just look at those tails. Kept her clean. 2 tone grey may be too subtle. #histscalemodels #buildthestash

After fighting the 1970s Airfix tank transporter I'm going to have a go at this, ESCI's German Opel Truck. Another vintage kit 😬... #buildthestash #histscalemodels #scalemodels #gluttonforpunishment

This week in #histbookchat I say goodbye to frozen Finland and head for the Balkans.

And still, a little little dirt must flow…Slogging through the weathering on this B-25D Mitchell #ModelAircraft #HistScaleModels

When I first got on the sky I found some great model builders, followed the Tony builds and was getting the itch again. Then @jaaaagirr.bsky.social 🤟 got the heavies going and I was in. Six months later, after 30 years, varing degrees of completion. Cheers to ALL for the inspiration! Happy New Year

My builds of 25. Been a good year, trying new things and not getting too booged down with the minute details. A fun modelling year. #histscalemodels #scalemodels

So the Defense and Fall of Singapore turned out to be 880 pages (yes, that level of detail for a 2month campaign), funny how one tends to underestimate Kindle editions. Next up, given there is some nice snow and ice outside, something seasonal for #histbookchat

Merry Christmas to the #histbookchat and #histscalemodels community. May 2026 be full of books* and kits* for you all 🎄 * Worked over here, there seems to be a theme set by my lovely wife, but I can't quite lay my finger on it 😁

Please give my 2025 review a read, and share if you like #histscalemodels shedofbeerandplastic.blog/2025/12/23/2...

1/72 Lockheed F-94c Starfire, version is the company's demonstrator aircraft, August '51. #histscalemodels

Let's celebrate a short (just 1 min 20sec but in 4HD this time) review of our #HeaviesGB this autumn in the #histscalemodels community. I am very happy how this little group came together once again, thank you all so much for participating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=awLX...

Starfire Day6: So shiny that we do need some olive anti glare panel sections. #histscalemodels

Finished the Italeri 1:24 Willy's Jeep. Decided to do it a bit different and finished it a follow me vehicle. Basic kit with a pait job and some different decals. The follow me board is a piece of old bank card And mounted on 1mm brass rod. Enjoy #histscalemodels #scalemodels

Starfire Day5: Shiny Ness 💯 #histscalemodels

Starfire Day4: fine looking bird in fine grey. #histscalemodels

Starfire Day3: Progress hampered by extensive filler time and somebody requesting backside numbers on his two Subbuteo squads. #histscalemodels

Starfire Day2: Imprint on the port wing dates this kit back to 1993, making it an early kit of EMHAR. Scalemates say they went out of business in 2017. #histscalemodels

Starfire Day1: Not a lot happening on the inside. #histscalemodels

Inspired by @richardjdeacon.bsky.social to try an EMHAR model kit and being quite taken by the AK xTreme Metal effect on the Liberator ( #HeaviesGB video is in the making process), this is next on the bench: #histscalemodels

I finished my desert ambulance (Tamiya 1/48 Austin K2). A very enjoyable build. #HistScaleModels

So also YT is now doing these yearly Spotify recaps, so here's in plain and open who I am listening 🎧 to whilst working on #histscalemodels

#histscalemodels group build concluded. Have a great holidays season, we will do something similar again in 2026 to make the coummunity come together.

Here's the final sitrep for our #HeaviesGB: We have a fantastic turnout of 17 builds completed, really amazing ideas turned into reality. Congrats to all of you, including those additional 20 aircraft which didn't get airborne the past 3 months. Thank you all so much, video to come this month.

Formal photos of the completed model. Thanks to @jaaaagirr.bsky.social for leading the project, and all the other contributions to see - good luck to everyone else racing to the finish line of #HeaviesGB in #histscalemodels ! If there's interest I can share some build photos and saga, say the word!

Did you miss me? Current status. It was a silver monster, then a lumpy blue monster (masking tape) now a shiny black lumpy monster, but I'm surprisingly pleased to be here - nearing the end of the build and (fingers crossed) the end of #HeaviesGB in #histscalemodels, thanks, @jaaaagirr.bsky.social!

In continuation of the #HeaviesGB 1/72 KC-135A build, which I will able to finish only through divine intervention, which is nice, here's the process of restoring the rear fuselage re-enforcement ribs which were sacrificed earlier in order to remove the top fuselage seam line. #histscalemodels

Yibbida Yibbida, That's All Folks! (As Rex Hunt would say 😅) 1:72 Consolidated B-24H Liberator. Corky Pig ready to take to the skis(I mean skies! Don't believe him!) Some gaps, some wrong colours, some bung decals.....still, pretty happy with my 1st effort in 27 years. 🤣 #HeaviesGB #histscalemodels

1/72 B-24J Liberator, version is 852nd BS, 491st BG, England, Autumn '44. My 3rd and last entry for #HeaviesGB within the #histscalemodels community.

Next up in #histbookchat in a kindle edition of the Defence and Fall of Singapore. First chapter in this is very promising, as it sets the scene with the inherent flaw of setting up a far eastern naval base in the treaty period, with Japan being still an ally.

#heaviesgb #histscalemodels I'll stop with the old Hasegawa B-17G as I've reached the tipping point where anything else is likely to make it worse. Maybe a little too tan for my liking, but a fun kit to build. Wrong rear turret, likely didn't have the red flashes, but it looks decent to civilians 😜

Right, that is me done with the Airfix Shackleton. A very good kit, great decals and in the end a good looking plane. A few mistakes and a few things I will do differently next time but overall happy with how it's turned out. #histscalemodels #HeaviesGB