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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 and Wings Hobbies - Miniature Paint Guide Kyle's Custom Chapter: The Decimators Warhammer 40,000 - Custom Chapter - Paint Guide ⚔ The Decimators Kyle's homebrew chapter - a lost Blood Angels successor with their own identity, scheme, and lore. The inspiration was simple: wanting to paint red without painting Blood Angels. A slightly shifted scheme and a custom chapter badge change everything. The Decimators chapter badge combines a standard white skull decal with a Roman numeral "X" p …

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 · Miniature Paint Guide Kyle's Dark Angels Veteran — Kitbash Build Feature Warhammer 40,000 · Dark Angels · Paint Guide ⚔ Dark Angels This is the quintessential Dark Angel - the one you picture when the chapter comes to mind. Deep black-green armour, red accents, purity seals, and the kind of weathered gravitas that the chapter demands. Kyle built this as a kitbash from three kits to get exactly the right silhouette and stance. Kit source …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Scale Model Build Feature Building the Tamiya Renault R35 with AK Interactive 3rd Gen Acrylics Tamiya 1/35 · Armour · Full Build Feature 1/35 Armour The Tamiya Renault R35 is a beautifully engineered little kit - a four-colour French camouflage scheme, clever tapered axle engineering on the running gear, and link-and-length tracks that represent the best compromise between detail and sanity. Finished here as a vehicle of the 23rd Combat Tank …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Scale Model Build Feature Kyle Builds the 1/48 Airfix Seafire F.XVII Airfix A06102A · 1/48 Aircraft · Full Build Feature ✈ 1/48 Aircraft The Seafire F.XVII in the Temperate Sea Scheme - the classic Fleet Air Arm and RAF camouflage for aircraft operating over water. Dark Slate Grey, Extra Dark Sea Grey, and Sky. Kyle's opinion: the Seafires are the nicest looking Spitfires, and he will die on that hill. The Mark XVII didn't enter service until …

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 · Miniature Paint Guide Kyle's Captain in Terminator Armour — Armageddon Pre-Order Launch Warhammer 40,000 · Ultramarines · Paint Guide ⚔ Ultramarines To commemorate the pre-order launch of Warhammer 40,000 11th Edition Armageddon, we're showcasing one of the launch miniatures from the Leviathan 10th Edition box - the Ultramarine Captain in Terminator Armour. A model that rewards careful painting, from the crux terminatus on the shoulde …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Miniature Paint Guide Night Before Armageddon — Kyle's Horus Heresy Salamanders Warhammer: The Horus Heresy · Salamanders · Paint Guide Salamanders To get everyone fired up for launch night, we're covering a Salamanders scheme from Kyle - one of the chapters deeply involved in the Armageddon conflict. There's no better way to count down to a launch than painting the warriors who'll be on the table. This is a Mark VI Horus Heresy Space …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Miniature Paint Guide Kyle's Crimson Fists — Ready for Armageddon Warhammer 40,000 · Crimson Fists · Paint Guide ⚔ Crimson Fists To prepare you for Warhammer 40,000 11th Edition, we're covering one of the chapters that doesn't get nearly enough attention - the Crimson Fists. With a confirmed role in the Armageddon conflict and their own decal sheet included in the upcoming Armageddon launch box, now is the perfect time to get them on …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Miniature Paint Guide Kyle's Classic Ultramarine — A Blast from the Past Warhammer 40,000 · Ultramarines · Paint Guide ⚔ Ultramarines A blast from the past. Kyle's classic Ultramarine is painted in the style of the 1990s and early 2000s - that iconic blue, yellow, and red combination that greeted a generation of hobbyists walking into a Games Workshop for the first time. Just seeing this scheme brings it all back. This is a push-fit A …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Scale Model Build Feature Kyle Builds the 1/35 StuG III Figure — Living the StuG Life Dragon/Cyber Hobby 9119 · 1/35 Figure · Winter Scheme ⚙ 1/35 Figure The companion figure to Kyle's StuG III Ausf.C build — a 1/35 crewman from the same Dragon/Cyber Hobby kit 9119, painted in a matching winter scheme. The base uses the same Russian mud, splash mud, and snow products as the tank itself, tying the two pieces together without comm …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Scale Model Build Feature Kyle Builds the 1/35 StuG III Ausf.C — Winter Scheme Dragon/Cyber Hobby 9119 · 1/35 Armour · Full Build Feature ⚙ 1/35 Armour Kyle's Dragon/Cyber Hobby StuG III Ausf.C in a hand-applied winter whitewash scheme. The base Dunkelgrau is airbrushed first, then heavily thinned Off White is streaked over it by brush in successive passes - wet, crude, deliberate - to simulate the look of field-applied whitewash wear …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Miniature Paint Guide Kyle's Grim Dark Blood Angels Heavy Intercessor Warhammer 40,000 · Blood Angels · Paint Guide ⚔ Blood Angels Kyle's goal for this build was a maximum grim dark look — little to no highlighting, no wash, and a deliberately hand-crafted transition from dark to light across each armour panel. Rather than relying on washes to do the work, the depth here comes from concentrating lighter colour toward the panel centres …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Miniature Paint Guide Kyle's Lemon Imperial Fists — Heavy Intercessors Paint Guide Warhammer 40,000 · Imperial Fists · Full Paint Guide ⚔ Imperial Fists Kyle's take on the Imperial Fists in a clean, saturated yellow - Moon Yellow over white primer, desaturated with a Corax White mix on the edge highlights, and washed down with Tamiya black enamel panel liner. Red trim, freehand chapter symbol on the backpack, and Horus Heresy decals s …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Miniature Paint Guide Kyle Builds a Space Marine 2 Heavy Las Intercessor Conversion Warhammer 40,000 · Custom Conversion · Full Build & Paint Guide ⚔ Custom Conversion Space Marine 2 was the inspiration for this one-off custom Heavy Las Intercessor. The las-gun is sourced from the Eliminators kit and heavily modified away from its sniper configuration - Kyle wanted the shorter, heavier rifle look from the game rather than a sniper barre …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Miniature Paint Guide Kyle Builds the Necropolis Hawks Heavy Intercessors Warhammer 40,000 · Space Marines · Full Paint Guide ⚔ Space Marines Heretical, Kyle knows - but sometimes the same blue Space Marines can get a little boring. He grabbed some of his favourite Heavy Intercessors and finished them in the very striking colours of the Necropolis Hawks, gene-successors to the Raven Guard. The minis were sprayed white first, with the rest …

Wheels & Wings Hobbies · Miniature Paint Guide Kyle Builds the Tyranid Prime: The Velobsteraptor Warhammer 40,000 · Tyranid Prime with Lash Whip · Full Paint Guide Tyranids Once, when Kyle was trying to describe Tyranids to a non-Warhammer person, he compared them to an unholy amalgamation of a lobster and a velociraptor. Thus was born the Velobsteraptor. Wanting to do something other than the usual Tyranid colour schemes, Kyle ran with the lobster theme and built …

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 …