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Lockheed AP-3C(EW) Orion, 10 Squadron RAAF

by Ray Seppala on April 20, 2024 · in Aviation · 7 ≡

I completed this one some months ago, it is the Hasegawa P-3C kit converted to an RAAF ISR/EW aircraft. The base kit was updated with a Hamilton Hobbies EW conversion set as well as additional scratch building of fittings and antennas not [...]

Lockheed LC-130F Hercules

by Ray Seppala on April 20, 2024 · in Aviation · 6 ≡

This is the 1/72 Italeri C-130 kit (Testors boxing) built as an LC-130F of the United States Navy. It represents LC-130F 148321 of VXE-6 which crashed in 1971 at an ice runway 860 miles (1,380 km) from McMurdo Station as a result of two [...]

Lockheed HC-130N Hercules

by Ray Seppala on April 19, 2024 · in Aviation · 6 ≡

This is the original tooling of the Airfix C-130 kit. I have built it as a USAF HC-130N CSAR aircraft or as the USAF puts it "the only dedicated fixed-wing Personnel Recovery platform in the Air Force inventory". To build the [...]

I was wary of Secret Santa, but I stand corrected

by Kyle Koppos on April 19, 2024 · in Aviation · 6 ≡

Coworkers can turn out to be pretty cool. This (last?) year my coworkers invited me to participate in the Secret Santa game, or the anonymous gift exchange. I was doubtful, as who could really get another random person, someone we know [...]

Phantom 1/48 F-4G "Wild Weasel"

by Rafi Ben-Shahar on April 19, 2024 · in Aviation · 21 ≡

The Phabolous Phantom as a Wild Weasel both by Hasegawa and Meng. Hasegawa's Phantom is presented it the first three photographs and the Meng Phantom follows. The Meng kit is much better engineered and more detailed. It also includes more [...]

Review: Dspiae Edge Scraper AT-TSA / AT-TSB

by iModeler Youtube Picks on April 19, 2024 · in Reviews

Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bessieres

by Aramis Sebastian on April 19, 2024 · in Figures · 5 ≡

Hong Kong Models 1/48 Mitchell B-25J "Glazed Nose"

by Alistair Gauld on April 19, 2024 · in Aviation · 26 ≡

My first HKM kit and I was really chuffed with the fit of the kit. It is beautifully engineered and fits together nicely except for the top of the fuselage which gave me some issues. I believe this is a known issue. I got the seam sorted [...]

PAINT MULE: The Modellers Unsung Hero

by George Henderson on April 19, 2024 · in How-to · 10 ≡

We probably all have one and I constantly use mine to try improve myself with things such as mottling and free hand camouflage with left-over paint in the airbrush cup. It's now been eight years since I start using an airbrush and I'm [...]

Review: ICM B-26B Marauder

by Chuck A. Villanueva on April 19, 2024 · in Reviews · 16 ≡

It has been almost 46 years since Monogram gave us the B-26B/C Marauder. Amt also produced a short wing variant as well. 1978 (the year I graduated from California High in Whittier) is when AMT and Monogram first gave us a Marauder in [...]