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1/48 Academy P-38L “Pathfinder”

by Tom Bebout on February 26, 2019 · in Aviation · 20 ≡

I have a tendency to build kits during the winter months as it's tough to get the model mojo working when the weather is nice outside. This Academy kit is the latest off my bench, and one of the P-38 variances you don't see that often. [...]

Review: Valom 1/48 BN-2A Islander review

by iModeler Youtube Picks on February 26, 2019 · in Aviation, Reviews

T-55 in Nagyatád 69. Regiment

by Attila Fekete on February 26, 2019 · in Armor · 3 ≡

1:32 Trumpeter P-47D “Wicked Wabbit” – Nose Art Group Build

by Matt Minnichsoffer on February 26, 2019 · in Aviation · 16 ≡

This will be my final addition to the Nose Art Group build. Thanks again to Jaime Carreon @jetmex for heading up this GB and extending the deadline. I hadn’t planned on building my “Jug” as part of this build, but things just worked [...]

1/48 Special Hobby CA-12 Boomerang

by dale travis on February 26, 2019 · in Aviation · 20 ≡

RAAF No.4 Squadron, New Guinea, 1943. This kit in my opinion has the best OOB cockpit of any Special Hobby I ever built. I still did a little more detail in the way of wiring and a throttle quadrant I fabricated. I also added more detail [...]

Review: A&A models 172 Mirage IV A review II

by iModeler Youtube Picks on February 25, 2019 · in Aviation, Reviews

On This Day...February 25th

by david leigh-smith on February 25, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 24 ≡

US. Ensign Ardon Rector Ives personifies grace under pressure as he appears calm and focused unbuckling himself from an inferno engulfing his (appropriatey enough) Hellcat. of VF-9 fighter carrier group. Ardon Ives was KIA in a dogfight [...]

Helo Finished – Finally

by Gary Wiley on February 25, 2019 · in Aviation · 12 ≡

This is Hasegawa’s SH-3H, converted to a -3G from HC-1 Westpac cruise in 1977, aboard my old ship the USS Coral Sea. Reference photo from that cruise. I used Belcher’s Bits resin sponsons, shortened the horizontal tailplane, covered [...]

Snake!

by Rob Anderson on February 24, 2019 · in Uncategorized · 11 ≡

Well this has to be a record for me, at least in the last couple of decades, 3 models since Christmas and ready to start another. So MPCs Don "Snake" Prudhomes' Yellow Feather 1972 Top Fuel dragster. The kit itself was, as is [...]

Me 109G-6 of Swiss AF (Zvezda 1/48)

by Dmitry Stropalov on February 24, 2019 · in Aviation · 27 ≡

Me 109G-6, Interlaken, Switzerland, May 1944. J-701 was one of the Me 109's bought from Germany by Swiss AF. These were produced by Mtt in Regensburg, with a lot of issues and defects due to the acts of sabotage performed at the assembly [...]