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Wingnut Wings Albatros D.V

by gary sausmikat on April 10, 2018 · in Diorama · 23 ≡

My first post, I hope you like my work: The Albatros, my first Wingnut Wings kit, was built straight from the box but includes some additional cockpit wiring, fish line wing rigging with scratch-built turnbuckles and two laminated wood [...]

IL-28 Beagle – Trumpeter 1/72

by Claudio Corral del Castillo on April 10, 2018 · in Aviation · 14 ≡

When I was ordered to build the IL-28 for a customer, I was expecting a more or less good model, but what I truly received was the old trumpeter H-5. Basically, it's the Chinese copy of the soviet frontline bomber. Well, when you read [...]

Kiwi Kittyhawk

by IAN JACKSON on April 9, 2018 · in Aviation · 17 ≡

Mentioned in my Mosquito build the other day that a Kittyhawk build was following-on, and here t'is ! The 1:48 AMT /Ertl kit came out around twenty years ago and was 'top of the tree' for a couple of years before Hasegawa came along and [...]

1/72 Special Hobby Fw 187A-0

by Eric Berg on April 9, 2018 · in Aviation · 16 ≡

This is my first completed build of 2018, and my first submission to iModeler. It’s also the first 1/72 scale model I’ve tackled since I was 14 yrs old. And tackle it I did with Special Hobby’s Fw 187, released in 2003. I built it [...]

Cessna O-1E Bird Dog – Hasegawa 1:48

by Alessandro Parmigiani on April 9, 2018 · in Aviation · 15 ≡

Exactly one year after my last model, Cessna O-2A Oscar Deuce in 1:48 scale, I’m here again with its older cousin Cessna O-1E Bird Dog in the same scale. Coming from Hasegawa (ModelUsa), it requested a lot of improvements summarized as [...]

RAAF Spitfire “Down in the Trees”

by Paul Mahoney on April 8, 2018 · in Diorama · 14 ≡

After a bit of a hiatus from posting, here is my latest. I tried to depict a scene somewhere in the SW Pacific, late in the War, with Aussie Spitfires constantly on patrol conducting low-level strafing and bombing sorties. Here a Spit has [...]

1/72 Tracker with Major Modifications and add-ons.

by paul teixeira on April 8, 2018 · in Aviation · 7 ≡

I grew up near a large Naval Air Station, Quonset Point NAS in Kingstown, RI. Prior to its shut-down in late 1975 I would get to enjoy the many Naval aircraft, which where stationed their, fly over my house. Some of you may have read my [...]

Another Great Show

by Rob Pollock on April 8, 2018 · in Show Reports · 5 ≡

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ModelExpo 08 Open 2018

by Stellan Schroeder Englund on April 8, 2018 · in Show Reports · 27 ≡

Today I spent a few hours at the local IPMS Stockholm show, ModelExpo 08 Open. Lots of wonderful models, some very unique others not so very but still very skillfully made. For various reasons I chose not to participate with any models [...]

2018 WrightCon Model Show

by Tom Bebout on April 8, 2018 · in Show Reports · 16 ≡

Traveled up the road to Dayton, Ohio, for the Wright Field Scale Modelers annual show held at the Hope Hotel and Convention Center. A total of 375 models were on display and presented here are a few pics of some of the models that caught [...]