I want to share some images of my 1:72 Academy P-51C in the colours of Tuskegee Airmen.
The model was build pretty much straight from the box, I only added an Eduard Zoom set to the cockpit and cut out and dropped the flaps.
The decals [...]
The USS Indianapolis (SSN-697) was a U.S. Navy Los Angeles class fast attack submarine. She was commissioned in 1980 and was assigned to the Pacific Fleet, homeported in Pearl Harbor. She was decommissioned halfway through her service [...]
It's time for our look back at some of the excellent work posted on iModeler during April. 219 new articles prompted 2,371 comments and 66,300 individual article reads, making it an impressive month indeed.
According to our long-standing [...]
On May 20th, 1927, Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field in New York, bound for Paris and a place in the history books. The flight and the man are the stuff of legend, his deeds famous and infamous in equal proportion.
On the [...]
Greetings, fellow iModelers! I was watching a short 1952 movie entitled "Okinawa." In it were some great shots of Japanese pilots (actually filmed by Japanese photographers) manning their planes (dive & torpedo bombers) [...]
Chuck has an excellent review of this kit today, and I can tell you it builds like a dream. One area it needs attention from though is the seats. I bought Eduard Brassin seats, modified the cushions to the non-ribbed type, added a few [...]
Hi everybody, After a long abstinence I am back today with the type model, which I think I know best. I have dedicated myself to the "weekend kit" of the FW-190 A5 from Eduard in 1/72 and added a set of etched parts to it.
I have [...]
The iconic F-14 has been retired since 2006 from USN service. 13 years ago, doesn't feel that way. Iran still flies the few they have left. And here is the "new " Tamiya F-14A kit, and yet it has been out into our hot little [...]
Hi all!
To go along (abord 🙂 ) my recently finished Horsa glider (posted last month), I've been painting some airborne troops.
Not much to say about it, they are not very good, but there are not much on the market... And the 'artist'... [...]
Here is my 1/72 Airfix Ju 87B-1, kit #A03087, my first model completed this year.
Eduard PE Interior, 73-543; Canopy mask CX 436.
Rear gunner’s MG 15 is a resin and brass Eduard “Brassin” item.
Kit pilot’s canopy was separated from [...]