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Announcing our December winner

by Editor on January 4, 2013 · in Uncategorized · 10 ≡

The December contest has come to a successful end; it is my pleasure today to announce our new monthly winner. This time, a total of 229 modeling articles were uploaded to the headlines, bringing over 1100 user comments. Great modeling has [...]

Christmas wishes

by Editor on December 25, 2012 · in Uncategorized · 8 ≡

To all members and visitors of iModeler, I'd like to take this opportunity to wish you a wonderful festive break and a Happy New Year. Launched in the fall of 2012, iModeler is already a hive of activity, thanks to the fantastic level of [...]

P-51D Mustang 1/32 Tamiya – November's win

by Josef Blažek on December 17, 2012 · in Uncategorized · 7 ≡

Hi guys, after agreement with the sponsor of the competition I would like to share with you my feelings of this kit :). It is simply gorgeous ! All parts are made absolutely great without burrs. Rivets are very accurate like other details [...]

1/32 F-86 Sabre

by Tom Cleaver on December 7, 2012 · in Uncategorized · 5 ≡

Kinetic F-86 Sabre with AMS Resins cockpit. Kit decals to do Joe McConnell's final F-86F-25. Best compliment I ever got on this model was an e-mail from former RAF Squadron Leader Roy French, who as Flt Lt Roy French, RAF exchange pilot [...]

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 [...]