Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Grand nephew Nathan Elster, who really likes Planes of Fame Air Museum,spent his 8th birthday watching Steve Hinton fly the museum's P-38, and then he got to meet Steve. He also liked the new P-40M/Kittyhawk III restoration
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Can't help but marvel at Tom Grigat's stop-motion modeling videos at Youtube. This time he goes really tiny with 1:72 Polikarpov I-3, a fine resin kit from Small Stuff. Enjoy.
The same kit has been built recently by Pavel [...]
Got this online awhile back, I think its been in my current stash the longest. Always liked the aircraft, built it wheels up because some of the gear pieces were broken , replaced missing wing tip missile rails ,loaded out for air to air, [...]
Most of us who build World War II aircraft, started out being interested in the ace's. Therefore most of us have cranked out a Don Gentile "Shangri-La" P-51B.
As the story goes, Don Gentile slammed his beloved aircraft into the [...]
Just finished! Very quick build for a collector friend of mine.
Short Wip here: (link)
Thanks for watching
This is another re-shoot of an earlier project, originally built and photographed in Aug. 2000. I included one of the old pictures that shows some of the internal detail. For the new set up I replaced the old nylon thread antenna wires [...]
Tamiya 1/48 again. Hard to beat for sheer enjoyment & my first build for 2017. In the course of building my previous model (Beaufighter TF X) I came across more history about the RAF Strike Wing stationed at Banff; this time about [...]
1/72 Revell, almost OOB, I replaced ejection handles with copper wire, removed molded instrument detail, added intake covers and have canopy open as it doesn't fit properly closed, finished in Humbrol and MM enamels with Future and Xtra [...]
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Ta 152H-1, “Green 3” of JG301
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I started this model (and about 10 others) about 2 years ago and finally got it finished. Finding time to build the past 2 years has been difficult to come by and thankfully my bench [...]
During the four years of the iModeler monthly contest, we have happily managed to deliver around 100 kit prizes to modelers in all corners of the globe. When Stellan Schroeder Englund was elected the winner of our December award, I [...]
