Scratch built small arm.
This is a scratch built model of a WW 1Lee Enfield Mk 3 rifle.It’s 18 inches long and made from oak.The bayanet is removable and the bolt works too.
Saturn V Mobile Launcher – hard stand support pedestals
Most Saturn V mobile launcher/LUT models use the LUT to show off the crawler/transporter that transported the complete stack from the VAB to Pad 39, as shown above. As handsome as this, I decided to show my LUT on the pad instead for two [...]
Happy New Year!
To all our readers, members, builders, posters, commenters, friends or just visitors - thank you for your continuing support, for staying around and for supplying iModeler with all the wonderful content that we're all enjoying on these [...]
My 2018
Only 2 completions for the year, Monogram TBD Devastator and my recently completed Academy F-4B. Of course most of the year was dominated by the damnable RFM Panther G. I guess I will try again on that thing late this year...
2019 – I hope it will be a happy new year for all modelers, my models completed in 2018.
All 1/72 aircraft, the Year of the Cat GB - Academy / Red Roo PB2B Catalina, Hobby Boss HAS3 Lynx, Sword EE F1 Lightning, Italeri Mil Mi 24D, Italeri S70B2 Sea Hawk, Italeri BAe Hawk 127, -- RAF 100 GB - Airfix BAC Jet Provost T4, Revell / [...]
'Play magic fingers, Happy New year to all !!'
Just a random shot that I had taken around the holidays on board Nimitz,'76/'77, in Naples harbor. I want to wish you all a Happy and Healthy New Year ! Love this site, it's like therapy for me.
Adolph Galland’s final ride – Monograms 1/48 ME-262
I thought I'd share another completion from last year. Monograms 1/48 262 done up as Galland's aircraft from JV 44
Rescribed as required (real aircraft had panel lines, joints, rivets filled and sanded smooth)
Open engine panels and [...]
Video: Round Part Clean-Up with a Miniature Lathe
This video is a brief follow-on to the Tasca Sherman suspension video. It adds an additional explanation of how I use the lathe to clean-up the wheels.
Tamiya 1/48 F-84G Thunderbird “Four Queens”
Taegu AFB South Korea 1952
the little round hole was an access cover so ground crew could get to the electronics below the canopy
pilot is Col. Joe Davis Jr.
58th Bomb Wing
the white canopy frames were not individual windows...the [...]
Classic Airframes 1/48 Do17Z-2
With ICM's Dornier 17z having been out for a while, I thought I'd revisit Classic Airframes 1/48 Do17Z-2.
It’s completed as a machine belonging to 9/KG 76, Corneilles-en-Vexin, France, July 1940 using Techmod sheet 48009 (great decals!). [...]
