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As promised…Winter dio with my clients tanks & stuff.

My client is my brother n law. I also included all of the dioramas I have built for him. Along with some photos of his WW II collection of German uniforms and helmets and things. Note the tan jacket is made out of tent material. His [...]

What has Steve gone and done now? Sikorsky Sea Hook…………..

I have been working on this concept for a year or two. What to do with all of those retired Sea King Helicopters. Fit the front cockpit to a new air frame and wire her up.. You wouldn't need to retrain most of the pilots to a new [...]

Shagbat MK I. 1:72 – Matchbox – Part 3. – making a diorama

The plan - building a Walrus in 1:72 - based on a photo I found in an article and I fell in love with the theme, an elephant tows a Walrus somewhere in Burma (well this is my third plane towing diorama so may something wrong with me 🙂 [...]

My winter diorama is finished!

This has been a long journey. I usually don't post my projects from start to finish, but you can go to the diorama section and see where I started. This has been a challenge, but very rewarding. This is built for my brother n laws King [...]

Classic Airframes 1/48 Westland Whirlwind Mk. I

This is my Classic Airframes Whirlwind I, from the 2003 re-release of the Classic Airframes kit. The Westland Whirlwind was, at the time of its initial appearance, one of the most advanced fighter aircraft ever built. Unfortunately, it [...]

1/48 P-51B Fighter Ace Capt. Edwin L. Heller "Hell -Er Bust "

Well pretty happy with my second diorama. P-51B is from tamiya and Figure from the Hasegawa WWII pilot set. All painted with tamiya paints. Cheers Brian

iModeler April Awards

Time to announce a new round of iModeler Awards. Familiar to all our registered members, the ongoing iModeler contest is designed to promote great content and modeling stories on the web. To that end, all Headline entries at this site are [...]

1/48 Spitfire Mk IIa

I just competed this one today. This is the Tamiya Spitfire Mk I kit. I used the Ultracast Rotol spinner and prop and Ultracast Exhausts. PE was used for the seat armor. I used Uschi rigging thread for the first time for the IFF antenna [...]

Body parts….errrr…donations????

Ok Y'all are gonna shoot me soon for my bad puns 🙂 Just wanted to do quick update on my AFV Club Tiger. For those that do not know my tale of modeling woe, I retired from the US Navy about 3 years ago. The good news? The [...]

Accurate Miniaturs B-25C/RAF Mitchell II

The North American B-25 Mitchell is one of the legendary aircraft of the Second World War. If the airplane had done nothing else but fly off the U.S.S. "Hornet" with Doolittle's Raiders to strike the Japanese homeland four and a [...]