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Big Thanks: iModeler March Award

by George R Blair Jr on April 18, 2019 · in News · 18 ≡

I want to thank Martin & the iModeler team for selecting me to receive the March iModeler award. I know this is a "picked out of a hat" award, but I literally have never won anything in the last 68 years of my life (if you [...]

1/35th USMC M1A1 Norway 2016

by Jason Vukovich on April 18, 2019 · in Armor · 8 ≡

Another Abrams, this time I built Tamiya's 1/35th M1A2 Operation Iraqi Freedom kit into a USMC M1A1 in Norway for Exercise Reindeer II in 2016. Tamiya includes the Marine M1A1 as an option in this boxing. I added a bustle rack extension [...]

Aurora 1/8 “Fraankensteen”…monogram illuminators re-pop-

by bob mack on April 18, 2019 · in Figures · 14 ≡

More than a hundred years ago, in a mountain village in Switzerland, lived a man who's strange experiments with the dead have since become legend.,the legend is still told the world over, the legend of Fraankensteen ahhgh,pig snort, [...]

1/48 Dragon Ju 188E Racher

by John Martincevic on April 17, 2019 · in Aviation · 17 ≡

Here is my latest build, Dragon 1/48 Ju 188E Racher Kit #5518. First released in 1994 and maybe 2 other times since, it is a rare kit to find and not too common to see built up. Dragon got a lot of mileage of their Ju 88 series of kits, [...]

GAZ-67B Russian Jeep

by Marcus Vinicius Teixeira Borges on April 17, 2019 · in Armor · 5 ≡

Tamiya 1/35 kit,a real gem to build...hope you like it!

J35 Draken 1/144 (F-Toys + Shelf Oddity)

by Leszek Golubinski on April 17, 2019 · in Aviation · 7 ≡

This is F-Toys gashapon kit, stripped of the paint and repainted using Vallejo and Hataka Blue Line paints. It also served as test article for prototyping the PE set (see Shelf Oddity stuff). F-Toys kits are absolute gems. I've seen many [...]

1/48 Zvezda Lavockin La-5

by dale travis on April 17, 2019 · in Aviation · 20 ≡

Eskadrilya Valeriy Chklov of 11 GIAP, winter 1942/43. Cockpit enhanced with Eduard photo etch parts. Akan paints used over all surfaces including cockpit. White distemper paint was sprayed using the "salt" technique. Aerial [...]

Scratch built US M101 field howitzer

by Derek Matile on April 17, 2019 · in Armor · 9 ≡

This is a scratch built model of a US M101 field howitzer.I made a smaller one a few years ago. I really like the look of this gun so I Desided to make a slightly larger one with more detail.The gun was copied from pictures so not sure of [...]

On This Day…April 17th

by david leigh-smith on April 17, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 7 ≡

B-25G Mitchell bomber of the AAF TAC Center, Orlando, Florida, United States, 17th April, 1944 AAF Tactical Air Command. Lovely photo of the USS North Carolina (BB-55) fitting out at New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, United [...]