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by Amari Luu on December 5, 2020 · in Aviation · 17 ≡

Hello everyone, This time I wanted to build a slightly larger aircraft. I chose the Mustang and since I had another speech and debate I finished it during the competition wait time. The annoying thing about these competitions is that the [...]

Flight 19 Lost Squadron 75th Anniversary Tribute AM 1/48 TBF-1C Avenger

by Tom Bebout on December 5, 2020 · in Aviation · 13 ≡

As noted with Chuck Villanueva's post the lost of Flight 19 to this day remains a mystery. The Men: Cpt George W. Stivers Jr. was born in Piedmont , Missouri in 1920 and was a graduate of the US Navel Academy. He would serve with the 1st [...]

Flight 19 Lost Squadron 75th Anniversary Tribute AM 1/48 TBF-1C Avenger

by Tom Bebout on December 5, 2020 · in Aviation · 10 ≡

The History: As related by Chuck Villanueva this marks the 75th Anniversary of the mysterious lost of Flight 19. This event has sparked many theories as to what really happened on this rather routine flight and has inspired tales of [...]

“FLIGHT 19, LOST SQUADRON, 75TH ANNIVERSARY TRIBUTE” Mariner BuNo. 59225

by gary sausmikat on December 5, 2020 · in Aviation · 14 ≡

“FLIGHT 19, LOST SQUADRON, 75TH ANNIVERSARY TRIBUTE” 75 years ago: Dec 5th, 1945, two Martin PBM-5 Mariners, took off from Naval Air Station Banana River, Florida at 19:27 to search for five lost Avengers, of training Flight 19, over [...]

“Flight 19 Lost Squadron 75th Anniversary Tribute” Accurate Miniatures TBM-1C Avenger as FT-81

by Louis Gardner on December 5, 2020 · in Aviation · 17 ≡

First off, I want to thank all of you who held off posting your articles so we could keep our Flight 19 builds together. That was very kind of you and considerate... Flight 19 ... The "Lost Squadron" was previously introduced [...]

Flight 19 The Lost Squadron 75th Anniversary Tribute: Avenger TBM-1C 1/48, Italeri (Accurate Miniatures)

by Paul Barber on December 5, 2020 · in Aviation · 21 ≡

As has been well reported for many years, the Accurate Miniatures sprues reboxed by Italeri make up into a sometimes complex, but brilliantly engineered kit of the TBM-1C Avenger in 1/48. During this build I used Eduard canopy masks, [...]

ON THIS DAY: 5 December 1945, 75 year Anniversary of The Mystery of Flight 19

by Chuck A. Villanueva on December 5, 2020 · in Aviation · 34 ≡

It is a beautiful warm fall bright shiny day. A fine Navy day for flying. Lt Charles C Taylor was tasked as the training flight instructor for Flight 19. At 28 years old, 2 tours of combat in the Pacific, Lt Taylor had 2500 hours [...]

Ma.K. FRIEDRICH Panzer Kampf Anzug F, Wave 1/20

by jorge rivas krause on December 5, 2020 · in Sci-fi · 6 ≡

I'm not much into SciFi but as soon as I learned a bit about Maschinen Krieger I was absolutely captivated by the looks and aesthetic of the whole thing. To me is the perfect blend of SciFi and military history…a perfect “what if” [...]

Eduard 1/48 Fokker D.VII

by Paul van Acker on December 4, 2020 · in Aviation · 10 ≡

My first WW1 completed. Ernst Udet's Fokker DVII (OAW) Jasta 4 Beugneux-Cramoisselles airfield, France, June 1918. There are so many different opinions on the colours, some say there was a black nose, the stripes were top of the upper wing [...]

Video: Paint for Building Scale Model

by iModeler Youtube Picks on December 4, 2020 · in How-to

This short video is a discussion of the various types of paints used for painting scale models. It also explains the difference between paints and traditional airbrush materials Web page on Paint: (link)