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1/69 V-2 Missile with Meillerwagen Transporter

by Michael Smith on May 4, 2024 · in Aviation · 4 ≡

I picked up a 1972 boxing of the classic Revell kit several years ago, and finally got around to building it. The "box scale" kit, which at 1/69 is close enough to 1/72 to pass muster, contains a German V-2 Missile with detailed [...]

1/72 GMC 2 1/2 Ton Cargo Truck

by Michael Smith on May 4, 2024 · in Automotive · 3 ≡

Several years ago I started a collection of significant 1/72 WW II military equipment which not necessarily involved actual ordnance. Of course the new Airfix Higgins boat was the first finished, with the next being the iconic German 88mm [...]

U.S. Navy Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer in the Pacific Theater During World War II

by Stephen Young on May 4, 2024 · in Aviation · 12 ≡

Kit: Monogram 1/48 B-24D and Koster Aero Enterprises PB4Y-2 vacuform conversion kit #14. Price: Monogram B-24D, kit #85-5604, $38.95 last retail. Koster conversion #14, $38.95 in 1995, long out of production. Decals: Microscale set # 48-46 [...]

Guillow's P-47D kit 1001

by kevin scott on May 4, 2024 · in Aviation · 11 ≡

just completed as P-47D-40-RA Hun Hunter 30" wingspan at 1/16 scale - scratch built R2800 engine, the model has retractable LG, poseable flaps sliding canopy and a fully built up cockpit

Video: Tamiya F-14A Tomcat VF-2 "Bounty Hunters" Scale Model Aircraft Build

by iModeler Youtube Picks on May 4, 2024 · in Aviation

Tamiya 1/48 P-47D-16-RE

by Damian Andrus on May 4, 2024 · in Aviation · 41 ≡

"My San Antonio Rose" P-47D-16-RE Serial Number 42-75955 310th FS, 58th FG Capt. LeeRoy M. Chadwell Flight Leader, Yellow Flight SWPA, 1944

Dark Horse(s): The F-82F Twin Mustang in 1/48 by Modelsvit

by Juan Benitez on May 3, 2024 · in Aviation · 8 ≡

The North American F-82 series was a development of the P/F-51H lightweight Mustang and was originally intended as a long-range fighter escort to the USAAF's heavy bombers. Although you can see the lineage of the P-51 in the F-82's clean [...]

Italian Semovente 75/18 Assault Gun

by Guy Wilde on May 3, 2024 · in Armor · 7 ≡

When I was a kid Italeri was one of my favorite model companies. I built one of these when I was 12 or 13 years old. I wanted to revisit this topic so I went out and purchased another one last summer. This is what I ended up with. I found [...]

The pilot and the little prince

by Gábor Szabó on May 3, 2024 · in Diorama · 16 ≡

My most recent - bucket listed - brain crash is here, the wreckage of Exupery Caudron's 630 in the Libyan desert (in 1:48 scale). I took this to the MosonShow at Mosonmagyarovár this year ((link)). The idea of such a diorama has been [...]