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Ham-Fisting Your Models: Join the Discussion

by George R Blair Jr on July 31, 2019 · in Uncategorized · 29 ≡

I was reading some of the comments in an article on iModeler and the discussion of mistakes and ham-fisting during a build came up. We have all made errors during a build, some more obvious than others. I suspect that mistakes that I [...]

A day late.. on July 29,1967 USS Forrestal Tonkin Gulf

by Robert Royes on July 31, 2019 · in Uncategorized · 10 ≡

On that day 134 sailor were killed on board Forrestal in a fire caused by a miss fired zuni rocket and aggravated by ancient ordinance cooking off in the resulting fire and explosions. The bronze plaque with the names of the dead once hung [...]

Twin 40mm Bofors

by Derek Matile on July 27, 2019 · in Uncategorized · 15 ≡

This is a scratch built model of twin 40mm Bofors I made a couple of years ago.I’v done a little bit of work on them recently by taking off 10mm off each barrel and giving it a new paint job after seeing a picture of this paint scheme [...]

A pair of German WW2 guns.

by Derek Matile on July 22, 2019 · in Uncategorized · 7 ≡

A pair of scratch built German field howitzers.Not sure of the scale,they were copied from pictures.I would say about 1/18 scale.Both are made from wood.

50 years ago

by Tom Cleaver on July 20, 2019 · in Uncategorized · 11 ≡

I wasn't a kid when Apollo landed on the moon. I was 25 years old. When I was a kid, I used to spend summers in Albuquerque with my aunt and uncle David and Marge Carrick (they weren't "blood" aunt and uncle, my parents didn't [...]

Video: Apollo 11 50th anniversary – 1/72 Nasa Model Diorama

by iModeler Youtube Picks on July 19, 2019 · in Uncategorized

Scratch built machine gun.

by Derek Matile on July 16, 2019 · in Uncategorized · 10 ≡

This is a scratch built model of a Lanchester machine gun issued to the Royal Navy during WW2 because the army didn’t want it. It was made from quality materials and proved better than the Bren gun.It’s eleven inches long and made from [...]

Two scratch built guns from two world wars.

by Derek Matile on July 14, 2019 · in Uncategorized · 13 ≡

Two scratch built British guns from two world wars.An 18 pounder from WW1,and a 25 pounder from WW2.Both are made from wood to a scale of 1/15.Took the dimensions from 1/76 kits times 5 and added a lot more detail.

April 2019 random draw winner

by dale travis on July 14, 2019 · in Uncategorized · 15 ≡

I've just returned from my vacation celebrating my 70th birthday and my 30th wedding anniversary, yes I actually got married 30 years ago on my birthday, and a wonderful surprise of the 1/48 Airfix Spitfire MK XIV was waiting for me. [...]

The Spit-Racer

by Paulo Castro on July 12, 2019 · in Uncategorized · 22 ≡

I had this half built Otaki 1/48th scale Spitfire stashed in my shelf of doom, until I saw on the internet a guy from Melbourne who scratch built some 1/32 aircraft (Spitfire, Messerschmitt and MiG 15) into some sort of race cars. I liked [...]