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After being away from the modellers scene for more than 35 years, I restarted this hobby in 2018.
A gift from a friend made me enthiousiastic again.
It really surprised me about the improvements that have been made in all these years regarding the quality of the kits and the techniques and materials available to create realistic looking models.
Mainly into building 1/48 WWII planes.
Even though it took a longer time than expected, I finally finished my contribution to honor Jim Sullivan.
Jim has been a very important person for all aviation enthusiasts and therefore it is an honor to be able to remember Jim by [...]
On December 9th I payed a visit to the National Military Museum at Soesterberg in the Netherlands, this museum is located on the former airbase which was founded in 1913, due to money cuts the airfield was closed in 2008. Besides being [...]
Hi all,
Already four months ago I received this wonderful gift from my great friend Spiros @fiveten
It was the Tamiya 1:48 kit of the Brewster B-339 Buffalo "Pacific Theatre". Since it had the option to build it for the [...]
Good day all,
During our family holiday trip to London, I was able to spent half a day at the RAF museum. Personally, I could have spent multiple days at the museum, unfortunately my family was not into that. It was therefore a relatively [...]
Although I knew about the existance of those egg shaped models, I never took the opportunity to work on one.
This changed when I received this Dassault Mirage 2000 from AFV club as a Father's day gift from my daughter.
It was an enjoyable [...]
Herewith my finished Lavochkin La11 Fang from ARK models. This build is part of the “Korea : The Forgotten War“ group build. It is a fairly easy kit which was already mentioned in the review of Tom Cleaver @tcinla here on iModeler in [...]
Received this amazing kit as a Christmas present from my good friend Spiros @fiveten. Together we started a groupbuild of a P51 and A36 which ended up in a group with lots of enthusiastic members taking part as well. A lot of techniques [...]
A bit about the aircraft:
The Grumman FM-2 Wildcat is an improved version of the F4F-4 variant. The most noticeable difference is the larger tail fin, furthermore an improved powerplant was installed and the ammunition capacity was [...]
When George @chinesegeorge posted several of his beautiful bikes and Spiros @fiveten created a special bike group, I could simply not resist to enter with a kit myself. Although no experience at all with building motorcycles, I definitely [...]
This DC6B Super Cloudmaster was build as part of the SAS 75th anniversary group created by Erik @airbum. First I would like to thank Erik @airbum to invite me to this group and to make it possible to be able to join it. Erik was too kind [...]
