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2017 - a Happy new year I hope for every modeler, things I finished in 2016.

Some of these were also started in 2015 - 2016 - Tamiya RC211V, Fujimi F 4J, Tamiya F 84E, Trumpeter K8, while others have been several years in the making.

2016, some thoughts

I was contemplating reviewing my builds I've shared with you this past year but I've realized between the old builds, rebuilds and strictly new builds that I've posted a lot, maybe to much, and I've only been on the site for one year. Any [...]

Well 2016 is almost gone so....the 2016 output.

Wait a minute! 2016 just freakin got here! It's gone already? Sheesh. I hear that the explanation is at 10 years old, a year is only 1/10 of your life BUT at 61 a year is only a lousy 1/61th of it, therefore they Whoosh by. I do buy that [...]

November Imodeler "random award"

I want to thank the staff of Imodeler. I was chosen as the lucky winner for the month of November for the random award. I had joined Imodeler earlier that month. Since then I have received a very warm welcome. I appreciate the [...]

Santas' Little Helper and a Flying Sub

It's amazing what a good Imperial Stout will do for you when building something! I figured I had better take some pictures of the interior before I closed it all up. I did do the option where I can pull off the top docking ring and look [...]

1/48 Airfix Spitfire II

The first upgrade of the Spitfire was the Spitfire II, developed to take advantage of a more powerful version of the Marlin engine. Spitfire Mk.I K9788 was fitted with a Merlin XII in the summer of 1939. Tests demonstrated improved [...]

The rest of the 2016 builds

Not in any order: Roden 1/48 He-51 Eduard (new) 1/48 Bf-109G-6 Eduard 1/48 Bf-109F-4 Academy 1/48 F-86F-25 Arma Hobby 1/48 Grumman F2F-1 (resin) Tamiya 1/48 P-51D-25 Tamiya 1/48 Corsair IV Hobbycrfaft 1/48 F- 94B Zvezda [...]

Hellcats, Hellcats nothing but Hellcats

Hi there, a few days ago it seemed as if all Hell had broken loose, nothing but Hellcats were seen right here. So I thought let's wait a little while until hey all think there are safe again and then... BANG! here they are back again, [...]

Merry Christmas! My year in review and SCi Fi Shenanigans!

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and all that to my model building friends! I actually completed 4 models this year, well in fairness I built most of the C-2 in 2015 and just finished it this year. Then there is my current build the [...]

iModeler November Awards

It's time for the year's final Awards announcement. As our regular readers would know, our way of celebrating the authors at iModeler is awarding monthly kit prizes among the contributions of the month. November was a very prolific [...]