iModeler Photo Collections

New and historic photograph collections

NASM at Dulles

While sitting here watching the Stanley Cup playoffs I'd thought I'd share some pics from my February trip to the NASM, Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. Always something new to see. For this trip it was the JRS-1 from Pearl [...]

More from the Museum of American Armor, Old Bethpage L.I. N.Y.

This is for all the armour guys. A nice museum. I think most of the equipment runs, They're having a WWII reenactment I beleave the weekend of May 19th.

TAVAS – The Australian Vintage Aviator Society – Great War Flying Display 2018

I haven't had a chance to do much modelling this year, work has been stupidly busy - we just had the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast and trains were running 24/7 during the period (I work for Queensland Rail as traincrew), also [...]

My builds for 2017

Here is my nine builds for 2017. all 1/48 kits and allot more to come in 2018 🙂 25994908_10213628810007441_7771720508216428877_n by b007scott, on Flickr 25659902_10213628810807461_4874212588855280808_n by b007scott, on [...]

Year in Review – 2017

Two very long and involved builds with HMS Victory and the subsequent addition of long boats, and the large scale Sopwith Camel, then a figure revamp and a Review piece, a flying bus, and a floaty thing in sea spray... hmmm... reads not so [...]

One off Tuesday Bulletin

Hi everybody, I’ve come across these pictures recently and wanted to share them with you as I know iModelers like looking at photographs, purely for research reasons of course. My nephew is currently at military college here and says he [...]

Once upon a time, there was a Hungarian Air Force…

After (the so-called) communism ended, so many things changed here, in East/Central Europe...for example the various national armies and forces' attitudes towards a possible war and in addition with that change there happened a re-thinking [...]

Let’s Talk About Weathering.

Last weekend I had the chance to take a closer look at the preparations for a military parade. My hometown is the location of world’s oldest military academy, and every year in September a new batch of officers gets commissioned into the [...]

Dorset Tank Museum, UK. Part One -Tiger Porn!

Really, who doesn't feel something visceral and intimidating at the sight of a Tiger tank. There's something about this vehicle that symbolises everything about the Wehrmacht. Her lines just radiate menace, poise, and brutality in a way [...]

A-1H Details: ‘Lieutenant America’

I shot these pics of a restored A-1H, "Lieutenant America", at Lonesome Pine Regional Airport in Wise County, Va., back in 2011.For a restoration, this Skyraider compares well to photos from Wayne Mutza's book on A-1's in [...]