About me

Name:: Hugo Oliveira
Nickname:: tito78
Country:: Portugal
Town:: Lisboa
Member since:: April 9, 2014
Communities:: scalemates.com (Scale modeling)
papermates.net (Paper modeling)
gundammates.com (Gundam modeling)
railwaymates.com (Train modeling)
diecastmates.com (Diecast models)
rcmates.net (RC modeling)

I build models since I was 11 years old. During these years I built a bit of everything, from cars (competition and normal ones) to airplanes (civil and military), tanks and boats (military and civil).
Lately my focus has been in fighters (WWII Japanese), Formula 1 cars from the 70´s and 80´s, rally cars and battleships from 2nd WW.

Altough I have been building for 31 years, I did spend some years without building at all, and most of my models were built without any research on the topic and using only brushes (the days of no internet nor ecommerce). Only in recent years I started to do research and to use air brush, pe sets and oils, so I still have a lot to learn, and that´s why I am in Scalemates, to learn.

Nowadays, since the info data is so abundant, I do a considerable amount of research on my models, so I try to make them as accurate as my limited skills permit, so I usually take a considerable amount of time building them.

My actual projects are on the list bellow:

1) On finish stage:
- Two Nakajima B5N1 Kate and a B5N2 at 1/72 from Airfix.BMW 2002 Tii 1/24 Hasegawa
2) Build:
- the two battleships of the Fuso class at 1/700, Yamashiro from Fujimi and Fuso from Aoshima;
- The heavy cruiser Chokai at 1/700, from Fujimi;
- Two Nakajima B5N1 Kate and a B5N2 at 1/72 from Airfix.

3) On hold:
- Ferrari 126 C2 Turbo at 1/20 from Fujimi, portrating the Gilles Villeneuve at Imola GP in 1982;
- Tyrrell P34 at 1/20 from Tamiya, portrating the 1976 Swedish GP winner car;
- A Mini Morris MKII Super de Luxe Saloon of 1969.
- Mig 23 MLD at 1/72 of KP, the "Afghan warrior" at 1988;