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Video: How to Fabricate a Blade Antenna

by iModeler Youtube Picks on November 10, 2018 · in Aviation

This brief video demonstrates an easy way to fabricate a blade antenna that can be accurately located and securely placed. Note: this is the very first video that I created for my previous “Scale Modeling Outside the Box” channel, so [...]

Review: Airfix new-tool 1/48 Supermarine Spitfire FR Mk. XIV – Visual review

by Editor on November 10, 2018 · in Reviews · 17 ≡

Here is the kit many have been waiting for - the brand-new Airfix 1/48 Spitfire FR. Mk XIV. This is the pictorial tour of the pre-preduction kit sprues as presented at the 2018 Scale Modelworld show in Telford. The product itself is [...]

Review: Wingnut Wings 1/32 Avro Lancaster – Visual test shots review

by Editor on November 10, 2018 · in Reviews · 11 ≡

Reporting live from Telford, one of the undisputed head-turners of this show is this, the forthcoming Wingnut Wings 1/32 Avro Lancaster Mk. I. Also covered on video here: (link) Let's have a closer look. This is a partially built model [...]

Telford kit news: Airfix 1/48 new releases – Blenheim Mk. I, Hawker Hunter

by Editor on November 10, 2018 · in News · 5 ≡

Reporting live from Telford: In 1/48 scale, Airfix has been presenting a new 1/48 scale Hawker Hunter F.6 and the long-awaited 1/48 Bristol Blenheim Mk. I. Both kits are completely ready and scheduled for release already this month.

Telford kit news: Airfix announces a 1/24 scale Grumman F6F Hellcat

by Editor on November 10, 2018 · in News · 6 ≡

Reporting live from IPMS Scale Modelworld in Telford, here is the newest announcement from Airfix, fresh from the show floor. We have been expecting something big and impressive, and the choice of 1/24 scale does not disappoint 🙂 [...]

On This Day…November 10th.

by david leigh-smith on November 10, 2018 · in News · 14 ≡

In memory of those who never came home. On November 10, 1951, while on a combat mission, First Lieutenant Mike Rebo was part of flight of 12 F-84Es attacked by 24 to 30 MIG-15s 30 miles southwest of Pyongyang, North Korea. The last radio [...]

Review: Tamiya 1/48 7ton Armoured Car

by Aaron Newlands on November 10, 2018 · in Reviews · 3 ≡

9 year old Mini-Modeller takes a look at the excellent and cheap 1/48 Armour Car kit from Tamiya. Both of us are big fans of these 48 vehicles. (link)

IPMS UK Telford Scale Modelworld Special at iModeler

by Editor on November 9, 2018 · in News · 9 ≡

The IPMS UK Scale Modelworld 2018 in Telford is on during the weekend. Stay tuned for the comprehensive coverage sent live from the event, commencing on Saturday 10am GMT. We have also set up a dedicated Scale Modelworld Channel to let you [...]

Revell 1/48 Bristol Beaufighter – under US$40.00, free shipping from UK, arrived in a week

by Tom Cleaver on November 9, 2018 · in Aviation · 14 ≡

For fellow Americans who have been tearing their hair trying to track down the new Revell Beaufighter, there are several sellers on eBay with prices under US$40.00 (got this one for $37.50) including FREE SHIPPING from the UK! This one [...]

RAF100: Airfix 1/72 Handley-Page Victor B. Mk. 2

by Tom Cleaver on November 9, 2018 · in Aviation · 11 ≡

Following the success of the wartime Halifax, Handley Page began looking at jet power for bombers; a tail-less swept wing design became their pet project, which got the interest of the Air Ministry and in early 1947 an official [...]