Junkers Ju 88 as a Night Fighter
I decided, it is high time to tackle a bit bigger bird this time. As it happens I have two such kits in my stash already, just waiting to...
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Lukasz Gmerek
- May 10
- 10 min
Tempest Weathering & Final Assembly
Weathering wise I decided to go rather easy on this particular model as it depicts aircraft after VE-day (thus we have red spinner, unit...
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Lukasz Gmerek
- May 2
- 10 min
Tempest Main Subassemblies
With model painted and decals applied another important stage of model building has been achieved. Now it is time to start weathering...
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Lukasz Gmerek
- Apr 7
- 7 min
Tempest Painting & Decaling
Painting wise it is a 3-colour camouflage pattern with RAF Medium Sea Grey (RC289) on the belly and RAF Ocean Grey (RC288) and RAF Dark...
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Lukasz Gmerek
- Mar 6
- 8 min
Tempest Flaps and Fuselage Assembly
While working on the Sabre engine I was moving forward with fuselage assembly as well. Application of putty requires it to dry before...
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Lukasz Gmerek
- Mar 1
- 7 min
Sabre II Engine for Tempest
This is my second approach to recreation of fully visible inline engine for the aircraft. First engine I did was Jumo 211 for Ju-87 Stuka...
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Lukasz Gmerek
- Jan 16
- 9 min
Hawker Tempest Cockpit
First let me say say, that making this cockpit by using original, very detailed and crisp Eduard plastic parts straight from the box will...
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Lukasz Gmerek
- Jan 6
- 5 min
Tempest Main Landing Gear & Gun bays
Building aircrafts mostly starts with the cockpit and according to the instruction booklet of Eduard 1:48 Hawker Tempest Mk V series 2 it...
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Lukasz Gmerek
- Dec 19, 2021
- 4 min
RAF's Last Piston-engine Fighter
I always try to select interesting aircraft types as my modeling subjects and in my opinion Hawker Tempest is one of them. It is know for...
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Lukasz Gmerek
- Dec 13, 2021
- 16 min
Miss Virginia Weathering and Final Assembly
Finally, this is the 8th and the last entry on building P-38G in 1:48 scale from Tamiya. Including 7 months of pause from modelling it...
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Lukasz Gmerek
- Nov 14, 2021
- 8 min
P-38G Canopy, External Tanks and Propellers
Finished with the painting process, I entered weathering stage of model building. It is advancing really well, but as it requires a lot...
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Lukasz Gmerek
- Oct 20, 2021
- 8 min
Base Painting of P-38G
I must say that painting this model was hell of a ride for me. Definitely the most complex paint job I have done so far! Camouflage...
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Lukasz Gmerek
- Oct 5, 2021
- 8 min
Miss Virginia Landing Gear
As soon as I had main fuselage assembled and primed I started to plan how to tackle camouflage painting as this is definitely the most...
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Lukasz Gmerek
- Sep 20, 2021
- 6 min
P-38G Booms & Fuselage Assembly
If not counting 2 weeks in between I had almost half a year brake from modeling! That was definitely too long, but fortunately all the...
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Lukasz Gmerek
- Apr 26, 2021
- 3 min
Prep-work for aftermarket extras
It has been a while since my last blog entry and this is because of other activities happening in my life recently which are taking up...
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Lukasz Gmerek
- Jan 23, 2021
- 5 min
Miss Virginia is coming!
The Lockheed P-38 Lightning was designed and produced by the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation in response to the 1937 X-608 Specification...
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Lukasz Gmerek
- Jan 17, 2021
- 8 min
Painting, Weathering and final touches
Painting wise it is three-colour scheme which was adopted during 1938. This comprises RLM 70 Schwarzgrun (Black Green) and RLM 71...
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Lukasz Gmerek
- Jan 15, 2021
- 7 min
Landing Gear, Propeller and Canopy
While the fuselage was being assembled and prepared for the painting stage I took care of all other smaller elements. I like to have it...
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Lukasz Gmerek
- Dec 24, 2020
- 3 min
Ju-87 B-2 Fuselage Preparation & Assembly
As shortly described in one of the previous blog entries, the mouldings of this model are very nice and we can find the riveting to be...
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Lukasz Gmerek
- Nov 25, 2020
- 3 min
Jumo 211engine for Ju-87 Stuka
The Junkers Jumo 211 was a German inverted V-12 aircraft engine primarily used in bombers like Ju-87 Stuka which I am currently building....
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