Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
I think most people on iModeler will know of the story of Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler. On the return journey home from a bombing raid on Germany in December 1943, 20 year old pilot Charlie Brown nursed his critically injured B-17 [...]
1/72 Tamiya, converted from a G to an E model by extending the tail, changing the speed brake and filling the auxiliary intakes and refueling port, I extended some of the gun barrels and modified the hatch attachment, finished in MM [...]
I have not posted for some time and I just wanted to get back into the groove with this add to the “Midway Group Build”. Midway was such an important battle in WWII that I just had to add this as my homage to all those that lost their [...]
New tool 12550 1/72 Academy USAF F-15E Strike Eagle „333rd Fighter Squadron“ box.
Quick build oob. Very good kit, easy to build.
SPARMAX Airbrush used in this video:
Sparmax SP-35c and SPARMAX SP-20X.
with Silver Bullet Plus [...]
The P-47D “Hun Hunter XIV” is well-known, having appeared in the documentary “Thunderbolt” made by William Wyler and John Sturges during World War II.
Not much has been written about the 57th Fighter Group, the first USAAF unit to [...]
I built this as a tribute to a fellow modeller who passed away last December, one day short of his 26th birthday. He wanted to build this aircraft as it had an interesting history: serving with the French Aeronavale, one of the aircraft in [...]
Thought I might put up some aircraft I built a while back they are all 1/72 the zero is Academy and the other 2 are Hasegawa, both with name tags so you can see each model type, the build and fit all went together well,the only problem I [...]
Here's one of the Luftwaffe planes I removed from the display case a few days ago,then took a series of pictures.
I removed 4 Luftwaffe subjects to take pictures of in all. (I'll post the others here in a few more days).
This one is [...]
Hey Folks!
Over the last couple weeks, I have been pretty busy building...actually got a few finished in time for the IPMS/USA Region One Show and Contest.
I found that, overall, this was a decent little model kit. It went together [...]
Yep this is the very Airfix 1:48 Spitfire Vb that I won here at iM around two years ago, and only just got around to putting-together...
...now I cannot say I enjoyed the build, and I know that sounds ungrateful but before you head down [...]
