Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
This is the second or third Academy kit I've built, and I have to say, I really like the detail and engraved panel lines on them. I did no scratch building on this - the only add was the resin tropical filter. I did drill out the gun [...]
To start off you can check the wip here: (link)
So this is my latest build Hasegawa's old spitfire mk.vb in Turkish Air Force markings.
Kit is pretty much oob. except the pe belts and markings which are masked and painted on.
As always [...]
When I was ordered to build the IL-28 for a customer, I was expecting a more or less good model, but what I truly received was the old trumpeter H-5. Basically, it's the Chinese copy of the soviet frontline bomber.
Well, when you read [...]
Mentioned in my Mosquito build the other day that a Kittyhawk build was following-on, and here t'is !
The 1:48 AMT /Ertl kit came out around twenty years ago and was 'top of the tree' for a couple of years before Hasegawa came along and [...]
This is my first completed build of 2018, and my first submission to iModeler. It’s also the first 1/72 scale model I’ve tackled since I was 14 yrs old. And tackle it I did with Special Hobby’s Fw 187, released in 2003.
I built it [...]
Exactly one year after my last model, Cessna O-2A Oscar Deuce in 1:48 scale, I’m here again with its older cousin Cessna O-1E Bird Dog in the same scale.
Coming from Hasegawa (ModelUsa), it requested a lot of improvements summarized as [...]
I grew up near a large Naval Air Station, Quonset Point NAS in Kingstown, RI. Prior to its shut-down in late 1975 I would get to enjoy the many Naval aircraft, which where stationed their, fly over my house. Some of you may have read my [...]
Hello gentlemen, I'm sorry that I've not contributed to iModeler recently. This is a Tamiya Spitfire I made a while back. Apart from the rigging (for which I used knitting elastane), It was made straight from the box. I finished the [...]
JG 27 In The North African Campaign:
JG 27 was formed on October 1, 1939. The insignia of I/JG 27, the lion over the map of Africa, memorialized the birth of the Gruppenkommandeur, Hauptmann Helmut Riegel, in German Southwest Africa. [...]
