Mare Power Day9: At the tail end of the build: Signal white and medium green. #HeaviesGB #histscalemodels

Mare Power Day8: AK Xtreme Metal is doing its best to rescue the mare. #HeaviesGB #histscalemodels

Mare Power Day7: US interior green for the landing gear bays, bomb bay will stay shut to block the view on the shoddy fuselage interior. I kept my option open, but it really looks crap inside. #HeaviesGB #histscalemodels

Mare Power Day6: Primertime #HeaviesGB #histscalemodels

Mare Power Day5: Time to close her up. #HeaviesGB #histscalemodels

Mare Power Day4: Let's get the qualifier shot out of the way. #HeaviesGB #histscalemodels

Almost looks like an aeroplane. 😅 Wings for effect. #HeaviesGB #histscalemodels moving along...

Mare Power Day3: That's the best I do for the interior. US based (but china producing) manufacturer Minicraft defaulted for a good reason, don't visit the URL, it was hijacked by an online casino. Figures.... #HeaviesGB #histscalemodels

Mare Power Day2: I painted up the bombs, although they'd better serve on an external cart. Bow turret came without the holes for the twin 0.50 cal. #HeaviesGB #histscalemodels

Wartime entertainment was just some toothy bloke with a ukulele. Hold my beer! Excited to be presenting a topic close to my heart on @ww2tv.bsky.social in early December! #histbookchat

B-24J 'Hare Power' Day1, given the quality of these parts from now on called Mare Power. Hard thick plastic with tons of flash, poor fitting and extremely basic details. Bomb bay closed it shall be. #HeaviesGB #histscalemodels

Sitrep #HeaviesGB for the second month: 38 announced 📢 28 started 🛩️ 12 completed ✅ The most popular subject was the Liberator, so with one month still to go, I'll jump on that train as well 😄 #histscalemodels

1/72 Heinkel He 111 Z-2, version is 4./KG53, Eastern Front winter '42/43. My second entry for #HeaviesGB in #histscalemodels

Soviet SU-18 self propelled gun. It never went into production, top heavy, narrow gauge and only held 4 shells. Prototype roll out day, 10th October 1930, the ever-present commisars are not happy. Kit by HobbyBoss 1/35. Loved making this little one. #histscalemodels

Officially putting my hat into the ring for #HeaviesGB with Airfix's B-24D Liberator...

Zwilling Day16: De-masking took a good while, then propellers, gear and SCs went on. #HeaviesGB #histscalemodels

Zwilling Day15: Last masking and RLM70 splinter is on. #HeaviesGB #histscalemodels

Finally finished my Dixie Clipper. It's my second 1/144 four-engine aircraft, and shows the seaplane as it appeared when it transported President Roosevelt to the Casablanca Conference 1943. It's my third and last entry in #HeaviesGB ! putteringinthestudy.com/2025/10/27/b... #histscalemodels

Zwilling Day14: RLM71 is on. #HeaviesGB #histscalemodels

As already posted, this week in #histbookchat I will stay in the Pacific with a very new book praised by Marshall and O'Hara.

Soon I’ll be picking up where Fortress Rabaul leaves off with ‘Target: Rabaul - The Allied Siege of Japan’s Most Infamous Stronghold, March 1943-August 1945’ by Bruce Gamble. It is also my humble #photofriday #histbookchat offering this week.

Zwilling Day13: RLM65 still got its use, on the SC1000s. All six of them. #HeaviesGB #histscalemodels

Very nearly there with the Shackleton. About a week's work left to complete. 👍👍 #histscalemodels #HeaviesGB

Zwilling Day12: Matt black instead of RLM65, yes, this will become a KG 53 night intruder. #HeaviesGB #histscalemodels

Zwilling Day11: RLM02 for the four landing gear bays. #HeaviesGB #histscalemodels

Now that Airfix have provided me with the correct propellers & Im on holiday, I’m calling this done. Far from perfect but with each model I learn new things … a v good kit. #HeaviesGB #HistScaleModels

Zwilling Day10: Making use of the last rays of autumn sun 🌞 #HeaviesGB #histscalemodels

Zwilling Day9: The big jig* allows me now to finish the assembly. *I bought it finally secondhand. #HeaviesGB #histscalemodels

That’s it for the bear, Paddingtonski is now done. #histscalemodels #heaviesGB

This week's #histbookchat finds me back in the PTO with 3 bombardment groups (and one RAAF) operating the A-20 as strafers.

All right #heaviesgb & #histscalemodels, I've fixed the cockpit paint issue so I'm calling Corky done. For my first group build, it's been fun to do something different to my normal scales and types and great seeing all the other amazing modellers out there doing similar types!

Zwilling Day8: The regular jig only takes me this far, need to borrow the big one again. #HeaviesGB #histscalemodels

Zwilling Day7: Engines are attached to the three wing sections. #HeaviesGB #histscalemodels

Zwilling Day6: Time for, what has come to be known, the qualifier shot. While the engines are of course identical, their wing mounts are all different, hence the numbers. #HeaviesGB #histscalemodels

Next project - “Dixie Clipper” as it appeared in wartime camo when transporting FDR to Casablanca in 1943. Found a set of painting instructions from when Minicraft boxed the ‘67 Airfix kit as part of a set. 3 main colors on - next is adding the four intermediate colors. #HistScaleModels #HeaviesGB

Zwilling Day5: Ma(s)king the most out of it. #HeaviesGB #histscalemodels

Zwilling Day4: Sir, you have placed two masking sets in your cart, still want to proceed to checkout? YES. #HeaviesGB #histscalemodels

Finally finished my Nine-O-Nine B-17G for another installment in #HeaviesGB. putteringinthestudy.com/2025/10/14/1... #HistScaleModels

Zwilling Day3: Inevitably, as with every 111, some major clear parts masking. This is where the two fuselages start to divert from each other, so I need to label them. #HeaviesGB #Histscalemodels

Zwilling Day2: Dunkelgrau with aluminum highlights for the interiors. Both of them. #HeaviesGB #histscalemodels

Currently reading @matteatonmedia.bsky.social recommendation, the counterfactual 'The Armchair General' in the Kindle Edition, handy for jumping back and forth through the pages. As it doesn't make for great colorful pics, let's have a shelfie instead. #histbookchat

I managed to finish this up with my left hand (kinda ambidextrous). Not my magnum opus perhaps but I like the variation in the OD. So that's the #HeaviesGB finished for me.

Revell 1/72 Hurricane Mk.IIc of 28 squadron of RAF SEAC Dalbumghar North East India 1944. Not a bad kit, not a brilliant kit, but it very much looks like a Hurricane. #Histscalemodels #Scalemodels #Revell

Zwilling Day1: Having sorted out the sprues I made a start with the cockpits. #HeaviesGB #histscalemodels

Continuing this month with #HeaviesGB I find myself in front of a veritable heap of plastic. That might take a while to get sorted.. #histscalemodels

Something a bit different this week for #histbookchat, not the story of a campaign or a division, but rather one single man - Lauri Allan Törni: A soldier who served in three armies and earned the Cross of Mannerheim, an Iron Cross, a Bronze Star, a Purple Heart and One Distinguished Flying Cross.

Sitrep for #HeaviesGB for the end of September: 25 four-engined took off, 5 of which have already landed. ⭐👏 As the group build goes another two months, let's add the 26th as an odd engined one, shall we?🙂 #histscalemodels

#histscalemodels #scalemodels #heaviesgb #B-58 1/2 My effort for HeaviesGB group build the 1/72 Italeri B-58 Hustler. Depicted as an unconfirmed SEA camo 4 Project Bullseye 1968. The project tested B57 as a Pathfinder, locating & coordinating drops on targets@ night by accompanying F105 & F4s.

Having now read through this most excellent researched history of Jagdverband 44, I discovered that their main headquarters is still there to this very day. #histbookchat A short 25min trip per car, and here's my then and now:

It's been a while. Just not feeling it at the moment. B5N2 Kate aboard Zuikaku, May 1942. The Battle of the Coral Sea is imminent. ##histscalemodels