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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, [...]

Today I received my gift

by Zoran Sivcev on May 21, 2014 · in Uncategorized · 14 ≡

Today I received my gift, I was pleasantly surprised. Probably I will make a scale model of the Spitfire Mk IXC (MH 838/GO Z) flown by Capt.Zivota Boskovic (from Yugoslav Royal Air Force) in 94.squadron, RAF. Many thanks to iModeler

iModeler April Awards

by Editor on May 8, 2014 · in Uncategorized · 23 ≡

It's time again to award a selection of last month's contributions here at iModeler. In terms of numbers, April was a very good month, bringing a total of 125 new articles and 1331 readers' comments. As usual, we're awarding the iModeler [...]

1/72 Tamiya A6M3 Hamp.

by Geoffrey Abreu on May 5, 2014 · in Uncategorized · 21 ≡

I have just completed this today. This is my 1/72 Tamiya A6M3 Hamp. A very nice kit in 1/72 one of the best I have built to date. As you can see I wanted to paint it in the same markings as the 1/48th one that I built years ago. Painted [...]

European Tram – Warsaw Ghetto 1940

by Rob Pollock on May 5, 2014 · in Uncategorized · 12 ≡

This is MiniArt's 1/35 model of a European Tram (38001), converted to a vehicle in the Warsaw Ghetto circa 1940. For specific details of the kit and the build, there's a WIP thread under the Groups tab, at (link). German influences can [...]

AA Models

by George Williams on April 15, 2014 · in Uncategorized · 6 ≡

Following from my good friend Joe Caputo's recent posting of an AA models 1/48 Chinese fighter, here are some (not very good) pictures of the AA kits I've found currently advertised on the Chinese website Tabao.com. I think it's fair to [...]