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Paint, and more paint and some brass…….

Finally am painting the COD, the thing is huge! Not too much smaller than a 1/48 B-17, bigger than a 1/48 B-25 for sure! The last picture is how I handled the heat shields on the inboard flaps. Kinetic has some raised texture I sanded [...]

Technikmuseum Speyer

In Speyer, not far from Mannheim and Heidelberg in the south western part of Germany, there is a great museum of technology, that I was unaware of until just recently. (link) I got the tip from my German ship modeling pals and we took the [...]

C-2 in action

Just liked to share a few photos with you all. I took these shots of the C-2 from Vultures row on board the USS Kennedy back in 1988 during a work up cruise , I was part of a reserve unit then. The C-1 was way back in the before time on [...]

Where it begins-The man hut

What is the perfect workshop that is away from the house. Assembling and painting takes place here in my little shop. Some of the stash is here as well. Only drawback is that there are no comms in the shed. Something I will plan to add [...]

Thank you iModeler

My daughter came by and told me that I had a package. Even though she lives about two miles south of me and since I am house bound most of the time she does that as a service to my wife and I, after all we were the ones that taught her how [...]

Men, What we need here is a WAR WINNEBAGO!!!!

Why do I do these things? I have a nice selection of regular models. Sometimes I just go off on a idea and see if I can make it happen. Except for the wheels and fixtures and crew, completely scratch built. And of course I had to add LED [...]

iModeler January Awards

Once again it's time for our monthly retrospective - the iModeler Awards. As usual, we are awarding the iModeler Best in Show title to the entry that wins this month's prize, but also list runner-ups as Honorable Mentions. We think that [...]

My old eyes

I shared with you guys about my eyes being really hosed up and this past Friday I had strabismus surgery on my right eye. I cant see how little kids can get this surgery and bounce right back. This involves cutting some muscle tissue on [...]

Video: iModeler Yearbook 2015

iModeler is a new kind of online hobby community. Here is a short rewind of the year 2015.

Thank You from January Random Winner

Thank you Martin for the great prize. I don't have a good track record of winning random drawings. So, this was a special surprise and a really beautiful kit. Haven't built a plane bigger than 72 scale for a long while. But I have [...]