Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Hi iModelers:
I built a lot of models up to my teens, then abandoned the hobby for years. With my recent retirement, I've built a couple and hope to build a lot more. This is my first one (after a special car model I built as a present [...]
Tamiya kit, Steel Beach conversion, Fightertown decals.
Rosie is my entrance into the Teeth and Fangs GB here on iModeler. This A/C flew with the 49th Fighter Group, 7th Fighter squadron, and that's all the information I could find concerning this P-40. I did locate a single B/W photo of the [...]
That is my latest build, a I-153 in Kuomintang markings from 1940, made out of the ICM kit in scale 1:32.
Quite a pleasure to build, even when not being a rigging expert, as is the case with me.
By the way, for the wires I used etched [...]
Hi Builders,
I finished this one a few weeks ago for a 4th Generation Fighters GB. It's Monogram's MiG-29 that I acquired from a friend clearing out his stash. It's a pretty old model and the decals were fairly yellowed and I wanted to [...]
This video presents a method for creating a Supermarine Spitfire Mk XIVc. The basis for the project is the Eduard Spitfire Mk VIII kit with the necessary parts taken from the Airfix Spitfire FR MK XIV kit. Spitfire Mk XIV conversion web [...]
Supermarine Spitfire FR XIVe TZ138 was delivered at Aldermaston on February 23, 1945 and sent to Rolls Royce at Hucknall for modification for cold weather testing. Prepared in June 1945 by No. 47 Maintenance Unit at Sealand, it was shipped [...]
Nearing the end of my Battle of Britain fighters collection in 1/48, I picked up Airfix's new tool Hurricane but could only get hold of the Tropical version. The kit allows you to build a Mk.1 but needed custom decals so bought an [...]
Obviously a popular subject, judging by earlier postings. I had earmarked the two Xtradecals offerings some time before the kit's release, hoping that a pleasant surprise was not too far away. Maybe it is not too much to hope that Airfix [...]
By the early 1930s, it was apparent to any aircraft designer that the day of the biplane was over: the inherent drag of the layout could not be overcome by any increase in performance, and the layout prevented the airplane from carrying a [...]
