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Chino’s Seversky

by Tom Cleaver on December 2, 2012 · in Uncategorized · 3 ≡

Like I said before, yesterday was far from perfect photography weather at Chino, but when there's something interesting on the ramp, haul out the camera and shoot. I haven't seen the Seversky outside in years. This is the 2-seat version [...]

Skyraider walkaround

by Tom Cleaver on December 2, 2012 · in Uncategorized · 2 ≡

Was just going through my photo files and ran across these shots taken out at Chino in November 2004 (the Convair 240 in the background dates it for me). This is an A-1J Skyraider, not one of the ex-French AD-4Ns. As you can see from [...]

Blairmonster from John Carpenter's "The Thing"

by George Tufnail on December 1, 2012 · in Uncategorized · 2 ≡

Okay kiddies. How's this for a nightmare inducer. I had more fun painting this darn thing. I had to do a little surgery to it to make it PG13 rated, but that's not really a big "Thing". This huge lump of resin is over 22 [...]

The first P40C restored to flight

by Tom Cleaver on December 1, 2012 · in Uncategorized · 4 ≡

These are from April 1998, when the first restored P-40C took flight, flown by Steve Hinton. Pix taken from the open tail of "Photo Fanny" out at Planes of Fame. This is the airplane pulled out of the forest south of Archangel [...]

November contest results

by Editor on December 1, 2012 · in Uncategorized · 15 ≡

The November contest is closed and we are proud to announce the winner of iModeler's first online competition. The 3-week long submission period brought a whopping 180 models to our pages, many more than we ever dared to hope for. With so [...]

A Sewart Seacraft 50′ Crewboat

by Bill Bailey on November 30, 2012 · in Uncategorized · 9 ≡

Back in the last century I worked on boats exactly like this in the Gulf of Mexico. For years I've wanted to convert the Monogram Swift Boat back into what it came from - a Sewart Seacraft 50' crewboat, I finally did. The conversion [...]

Accurate Miniatures F3F-1

by John Healy on November 29, 2012 · in Uncategorized · 4 ≡

This is my favorite kit of all time. 1/48 scale. I painted this entirely with Tamiya spray cans, except for the red cowl ring. The cowl ring was painted with a Testors lacquer spray can red that was an exact match for the Yellow Wings [...]

Revell Starfury

by Brett Peacock on November 28, 2012 · in Uncategorized · 2 ≡

Babylon 5 kind of grew on me slowly. I was not really impressed by the First season (the lead was and is a Charisma free Zone) but when they "brought in the Bruce" the show really took off. This is the Revell Starfury (HORRIBLE [...]

And now for something…Completely Different

by Brett Peacock on November 28, 2012 · in Uncategorized · 3 ≡

This is a 1/9 scale figure in Vinyl by Sol of Korea called Verona. She was primed with Auto lacquer primer in pale grey then airbrushed with Model master enamels, and finally the small details painted by hand with the trusty Hairy [...]

Civil War Horseman

by Jack Mugan on November 25, 2012 · in Uncategorized · 6 ≡

This was my first attempt at a large scale figure (and horse). I wanted to build this for my son-in-law who is a big fan of the Civil War history living a short distance from Gettysburg. This is a resin model so the parts were glued with [...]