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Wheels and Wings Hobbies - Scale Model Build Feature Kyle Builds the Hasegawa 1/32 Kawasaki Ki-61 Tony Hasegawa 1/32 - Aircraft - Full Build Feature ✈ 1/32 Aircraft Hey Tony. Hasegawa's 1/32 Kawasaki Ki-61 finished in the markings of the 56th Sentai based near Osaka, mid-1945. Kyle considers this his best model. The engineering reminded him of a 1/48 Tamiya kit - enjoyable to build without the high parts count that usually comes with bigger scales. Built in one month. Ready for paint in abou …

Wheels and Wings Hobbies - Miniature Paint Guide Kyle's Grimdark Space Wolves Paint Guide Warhammer 40,000 - Space Wolves - Paint Guide ⚔ Space Wolves One of the most popular Space Marine chapters - their heavy Viking-inspired aesthetic gives the painter a lot of room to work with. Kyle painted his Space Wolves in their standard colours, but with no chapter decals on hand, all shoulder iconography was freehanded using straight-line Viking inspired designs. The result is more characterful tha …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Miniature Paint Guide Kyle's Horus Heresy Iron Hands — Paint Guide Warhammer: The Horus Heresy · Iron Hands · Paint Guide Iron Hands A less popular chapter with a simple, polarising paint scheme - and one that gets less credit than it deserves. The Iron Hands are black on black, with their distinctive iron hands of course, and that is harder to depict than it sounds. Highlighting black requires working from as dark as possible with very …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Scale Model Build Feature Kyle Builds the 1/48 Hasegawa F-16 Hasegawa 1/48 F-16 · Aircraft · Full Build Feature ✈ 1/48 Aircraft Inspiration source: Kyle saw a photo on Instagram and thought "oh that looks cool." The result is this beautifully finished 1/48 Hasegawa F-16 in Pakistan Air Force markings - a two-tone USAF grey scheme built from reference photos, with scratch-built IFF antennas, Kaleido metallic engines, hand-cut masking for the w …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Scale Model Build Feature Kyle Builds the Monogram F-105G Wild Weasel: You Gotta Be $hittin' Me! Monogram 1/48 F-105G Thunderchief · MON5806 · Full Build Feature ✈ Wild Weasel As the story goes, "You Gotta Be $hittin' Me" were the words uttered by a member of the first group of Wild Weasels when told what their new role would entail. They were also Kyle's words when he found the single photograph that inspired this entire build. Kyle found …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Miniature Paint Guide Vlad's Kravek Morne Full Paint Guide · Warhammer 40,000 · May 2026 ⚙ Warhammer 40,000 Vlad's full recipe for Kravek Morne, dark aluminium armour with elaborate bronze chain and trim, black panels with a cold blue highlight ramp, hazard stripe yellow panels, and a muddy industrial base. A striking scheme built around metallic contrasts and sharp edge highlighting. All products below are in stock at Wheels & Win …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Scale Model Build Feature Kyle Builds the Tamiya F-14D Tomcat: A Top Gun Day Tribute Tamiya 1/72 Grumman F-14D Tomcat · TAM60795 · Full Build Feature · Top Gun Day 2026 ✈ Top Gun Day 2026 To mark Top Gun Day, we're featuring this excellent build from Kyle Hood — Tamiya's 1/72 Grumman F-14D Tomcat, built straight from the box with a comprehensive paint and weathering treatment that brings out all the character of the real a …