1952

Arrivals For the Week Ending November 8,  2025 –

November 12, 2025

Tony

by Scott Scalfani

This is a Hasegawa’s 1/48 scale Kawasaki Ki61  Hien (Tony). To get the authentic looking Japanese camouflage, I first sprayed the entire model with Alclad Silver.

After letting it dry for 3 days, I over-sprayed it with Japanese Army Green using the Paasche airbrush with an H-1 tip. This was followed by a thinned Japanese Green with a little white mixed in. The aircraft was than washed with artist oil paint to bring out the panel lines and to blend it together.

For reference material, I used a photo of 244 Sendai found on Okinawa. This unit had red tails, except for this one. For some reason it was overpainted, but I left some patches with the red showing through.

The kit comes with a one piece windscreen. I slit it with an Xacto #11 to open it up. Contrary to what some think, the yellow ID line on the leading edge did not have hard edges, so I feathered it.

October 27, 2025

Moebius Grim Reaper

By Shane Trosclair 

I painted the Moebius Grim Reaper with Model Master Flat Black. The tree and the base were sprayed with Tamiya Dark Earth. I then hand painted the grassy area with Model Master Interior Green.

I used the Testor gloss Black paint marker on the sickle, painting its blade with Tamiya Silver Leaf. The gravestones were painted with Tamiya Light Gray.

Rosebud

Hub Hobby’s original building on Broad St in New Orleans has been demolished. Word of it being torn down spread like wildfire.

One of our customers, Jim Letten, was emailed by his friend Martin about the demolition of their childhood hang-out.

The subject line was: ROSEBUD

“Rosebud” was the dying word spoken by Orson Welles in the movie Citizen Kane: a reference to his childhood sled – the symbol of memories of youthful innocence.

Read it here