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P-38 Night Fighter and Pontiac Firebird

by Jonathan Zwierko on April 5, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 2 ≡

Hi all, just thought I'd show off these two beauties. The P-38M won 3rd place in the airplane category at the local hobby shop competition...Not bad! The Pontiac Firebird came from a revell "Smokey and the Bandit" kit that I [...]

HP Victor B.2 1/144 (GWH+Shelf Oddity)

by Leszek Golubinski on April 5, 2019 · in Aviation · 11 ≡

GWH kit with Shelf Oddity details and refueling probe & pitots from Master. This is XL164 B.2, Blue Steel aircraft. Modelled without Blue Steel. With no evidence to the contrary I assumed that when no missile was carried, the bomb bay [...]

Swedish Ship-of-the-line “Svärdet” (The Sword) – Wrecked

by Jonas Dahlberg on April 5, 2019 · in Diorama · 15 ≡

Svärdet (The Sword) was a Swedish Ship of the line armed with 86 cannons. The ship was Claas Ugglas admiralsship in 1676. It was set on fire by a Dutch ship during the battle off the Southern tip of Öland then 1st of July 1676. 600 men [...]

Jindřichohradecká růže 2019

by Roman Fittl on April 5, 2019 · in Show Reports · 8 ≡

Greetings, fellow modelers. I would like to present some pictures from the competition organized by our club KPM Jindrichuv Hradec (Czech Republic) on 30.3. 2019. You can find out more about our competition here: (link) Roman Czech [...]

EME 2019 in Lingen

by Aleksandar Sekularac on April 5, 2019 · in Show Reports · 7 ≡

Euro Model Expo (EME) is the biggest plastic modeling gig in Germany that traditionally occupies last weekend in March. This year, in its 11th manifestation, it occurred on 30th -31st of March in town of Lingen. Your humble narrator made [...]

A Big Thank You For My Random Prize

by Ian Foulkes on April 5, 2019 · in News · 9 ≡

Thanks everyone for my random prize, for which I chose the Airfix He 111 H6. I'm going to do it as the torpedo bomber variant. I'll build it alongside the Italeri Zwilling, it should make an interesting comparison! I'll post images. Again, [...]

1/48 Hobby Boss FW190D-11

by Dan Lee on April 5, 2019 · in Aviation · 8 ≡

This was a rather quick build. It is the easiest FW-190D series model I've built. Not mistake filled like the Tamiya D-9 which requires a lot of aftermarket or mods or a complicated headache to build like the Eduard D series. Definitely [...]

On This Day…April 5th.

by david leigh-smith on April 5, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 7 ≡

A burned out M4A3 ‘Easy Eight’ of the 31st Tank Battalion (7th Armoured Division) that was knocked out during the battle around Oberkirchen, in the North Rhine-Westphalia region. April 5th, 1945. Grumman Hellcat MkII (Royal Navy [...]

Republic Thunderbolt P-47D – 1/72 Revell

by Roberto Lúcio - Bob on April 5, 2019 · in Aviation · 10 ≡

Kit: P-47D – Revell 1/72 scale Model finished: February 2019 Modeler: Roberto Lúcio / [email protected] Club: GPP-JG400 – Grupo de Plastimodelismo e Pesquisa JG-400 / Natal – RN – Brasil Model built into the GB about Brazil [...]