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Sweet 1/144 Type 96 Carrier Fighter (A5M4)

by James Kelley on February 28, 2021 · in Aviation · 7 ≡

I started this project yesterday, and finished it up this afternoon. As with all of Sweets' kits, I loved it. A relaxing (mostly), easy build and 4 really cool livery. The model was airbrushed with Alclad II White Aluminum, and [...]

Classic Airframes Curtiss SBC-4 Helldiver, Samoa, 1942

by Spiros Pendedekas on February 28, 2021 · in Aviation · 42 ≡

Hi everyone! This is my Classic Airframes 1/48 Curtiss SBC-4 Helldiver, VMO-151, as it stood in Samoa island, 1942. The Curtiss SBC Helldiver was a two-seat scout bomber and dive bomber built by the Curtiss-Wright Corporation. It was [...]

TF-51 Mustangs in 1/72

by Jim Harley on February 28, 2021 · in Aviation · 13 ≡

Going small 🙂 This is the first time I've built a 1/72nd scale fighter(s). Tiny! The Little Witch was converted from the Tamiya kit, and Miss Velma is the AIrfix kit. I love them both, they both build up in to fine models. The AIrfix [...]

Every landing is a crash landing! Airspeed Horsa Mk.I, Operation Tonga, 6. June 1944

by Roland Sachsenhofer on February 28, 2021 · in Aviation · 14 ≡

Although the Airspeed Horsa is a well-known aircraft and can also claim to be one of the icons of the Allied landings in Normandy on 6 June 1944, I did not realise until this project what a gripping story(s) and most remarkable technology [...]

Night Haunter…1/48 Boulton Paul Defiant Mk.I, RAF

by Reinhard Spreitzhofer on February 28, 2021 · in Aviation · 7 ≡

Built in 2015. Initially my dad wanted to build a Defiant Mk.II nightfighter with the Classic Airframes kit with the fancy red codes but he didn´t get along with the itsy bitsy tiny PE parts for the antennas, so he decided to build a Mk.I [...]

Carrier Force Three

by Brian Hathaway on February 27, 2021 · in Ships · 5 ≡

Recently completed carrier force. Being a Naval Veteran I'm partial to, yeah you guessed it, naval ships. Pictured here are the following. The U.S.S. Nimitz CVN-68 in its 2005 appearance, the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt CVN-71 in its 2006 [...]

Revell 1/48 Bristol Beaufighter TF.X

by Matt Buxton on February 27, 2021 · in Aviation · 10 ≡

For Revell there's a fair amount of detail here but the fit is a bit iffy to say the least. I saw on here that somebody else had had issues with the fit of the engines and main undercarriage. They were not wrong. Still, with a bit of [...]

1:24 scratch built South African Air Force Dassault Mirage F1 AZ No 217 – Part 1

by Adrian Starling on February 27, 2021 · in Aviation · 24 ≡

This build was started 3 years ago as an experiment for me as I had built a number of civil aircraft in 1:24 scale and decided the time had come to stretch my scratch building knowledge by building a military fighter and what a journey it [...]

When old modeler's retire

by Carl Christensen on February 27, 2021 · in Photo Collections · 27 ≡

These are photos of my fathers collection in his 'man cave' out the back of his garage. He has been modeling since he was young and would have made his first kit back in the 1950s. He has finally decided that its time for his collection to [...]

Video: Full video build Academy 1/48 SBD-5 Dauntless

by iModeler Youtube Picks on February 26, 2021 · in Aviation

Academy 1/48 SBD-5 Dauntless No.12329 Very nice kit, ex Accurate Miniatures tooling from 1997! DISCLAIMER: I am NOT! being paid to promote this kit, paints, tools and to make this video! Thanks! Music info: Best licensed [...]