Toniosky's Cool Stuff Vault

Hi, Here's my last build (Special Hobby, 1/48), the Douglas D-558-1, kind of the US Navy equivalent to the Bell X-1. As you can see I wanted to make something a bit different... Inspiration for the left side came from pics I found of the aircraft "stored" in Quantico Aviation Museum before restoration. The right side is supposed to be the same A/C restored, in an indoor museum. Picture taken from Airliners.net The purpose of this build was not to make the "ruined" scheme identical to the real thing, but do something in the same spirit. Anyway, scheme included, a lot of details are not identical between the actual A/C and the model (serial number, longer nozzle,  nose probe, etc.). My goal here was "pure fun" and to try new painting techniques, such as the hairspray technique, and I really enjoyed it :) The WIP is here (in French, sorry) Note that if you are interested in building this model, be sure to set the main landing gear the ...

Note that these pictures do not belong to me; all commercial use must be done with the permission of the following museums: Grumman Memorial Park Calverton ( Long Island, New York, USA) and The Cradle of Aviation Museum (Garden City, Long Island, USA) . Development Close-up of the mockup Another closeup of the mockup F4F mockup XF4F-1 XF4F-1 instrument panel XF4F-1 cockpit XF4F-1 XF-1F upside down First flight Production F4F and G-21 on the assembly lines Being crated Last F4F-3 produced In service F4F of the VF-6 F4F-3 with floats Gun testing. Note the roundels applied during Operation Torch F4F inside USS Charger Awaiting delivery F4F on USS Enterprise. Note the size of the "meatball" roundel USS Enterprise 1942 USS Ranger F4F-3 Instrument panel

A few pics of my last project, the MiG-15 piloted by Russian ace Arkady Boitsov. I didnt really building this model and I found it boring. Also, I had zillion problems with the paint job and with the decals (15 yo Aeromaster decals). So, looking forward to starting a new project !! Hope you like it. Colors Used: Blue H-67 Green XF-59 Sand H-27

Hi there, My last project, a Royal Australian Air Force Beaufighter Mk21. It is the 1/72 scale kit from Hasegawa, built out-of-the-box. Just some painting/weathering laboratory to me. I did try a lot of new techniques: post-shading, pastels, inks, etc. The trick here was to make a plain colored AC look interesting - that's far from perfect but I like what I did. Thx for reading. Antoine