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iModeler May Awards

by Editor on June 14, 2014 · in Uncategorized · 16 ≡

All the extra activity surrounding the 70th Anniversary of D-Day made us quite late with the announcement of May iModeler winners. Finally, here they are, selected among the 78 new contributions during the month that prompted no fewer than [...]

Making “The Battle of Britain”

by Tom Cleaver on June 12, 2014 · in Uncategorized · 16 ≡

1967 promotional film narrated by Michael Caine about the making of the movie. Pretty cool to see the "real people" on the sets and locations (particularly the real Londoners for the bombing scene). (link)

“THE YANKEE GUERRILLA” B-26C 1:72 Hasegawa kit [D-Day Group build]

by Jan Baranec on June 6, 2014 · in Uncategorized · 22 ≡

The original flight crew of , "THE YANKEE GUERRILLA" 134946 YA-L was headed by Lieutenant Homer Wentz. They flew the ship from the U.S. to Goose Bay, Labrador to Bluie West 1, Greenland to Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick, Scotland [...]

Verlinden 120mm Waffen S.S… Hitlerjugend… [D Day group build]

by bob mack on June 6, 2014 · in Uncategorized · 19 ≡

12th ss panzer was formed in January 1943 when the commandant of the of the Hitler youth approached Himmler with the idea of a combat division made up of primarily 18 year olds formed from the ranks of the Hitler youth or had been a [...]

D-Day

by Tom Cleaver on June 6, 2014 · in Uncategorized · 8 ≡

No words necessary

D-Day group build, Airspeed Horsa assault glider

by neil foster on June 5, 2014 · in Uncategorized · 29 ≡

June 6th 1944 - D-Day. What many of us , me included, may not of known was that the allied airbourne assault force in the form of 6, 28 man Horsa gliders took of from their base in the south of England at 22:56 hrs on the 5th June, the [...]

Selling out to sell books :-)

by Tom Cleaver on June 5, 2014 · in Uncategorized · 6 ≡

Jon Parshall, Barrett Tillman and Yours Truly were on Duke Brooks' show tonight to discuss the Battle of Midway. Catch the podcast. (link)

And now for something completely different! Scale 1/43

by Steve Naylor on May 25, 2014 · in Uncategorized · 17 ≡

Hi folks, just thought I'd show you what I've been working on recently, these are 1/43 scale coaches built from Ian Kirk Plastic kits. Most railway coaches are made up in sections and the real things were built in the same way, the [...]

Me I'm going with this one!

by Rob Anderson on May 24, 2014 · in Uncategorized · 11 ≡

I still love this box top, and built it still looks "good enough". I built one about 43 years ago,and loved it! Accurate, nope, fun...yep! That and the Tamiya 1/25 Tiger I, because sometimes you need to stop being so darned [...]

Awesome April award has just arrived!

by Martin Dytrych on May 24, 2014 · in Uncategorized · 11 ≡

I chose this "classic" kit and legendary aircraft, because I wanted it for long long time. Of course I'd liked to start it immediately, but in last year i got some other awesome kits which I promised to finish this year. However, [...]