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Hurry up! the enemy is coming.

by Robert Collins on December 13, 2017 · in Diorama · 9 ≡

Did this a few years ago and was my first attempt at a diorama. The theme was my own idea and made up as I went along. The tank and truck are Tamiya models and the figures are a maintenance crew also Tamiya. The wall was made out of [...]

Fairey Rotodyne, XE521, Fairey Aviation Company Limited, White Waltham Airfield England 1959.

by Allan J Withers on December 13, 2017 · in Aviation · 38 ≡

1/72 Airfix, I modified a few things, rotor and prop' shafts, control surfaces, doors etc, finished in MM and Humbrol enamels with Future over kit decals, built 2005 to 2006.

THE FRYING PAN CHALLENGE. Part 2. Cockpit and engines.

by Ulf Lundberg on December 12, 2017 · in Aviation · 27 ≡

With the FRYING PAN hanging above my tender neck, like the sword of Damocles, I've been working away on the Wellington. The interior of the aircraft has been build and finished. Trumpeter has added quite a bit of interior to the kit. Much [...]

Video: Imitation of fabric on wings – The Great War

by iModeler Youtube Picks on December 12, 2017 · in Uncategorized

1/32 Turkish F-16

by Lloyd King on December 12, 2017 · in Aviation · 6 ≡

Calling this one done. Tamiya 1/32 F-16 painted with Bombshell Brew paint and decals are from Zotz

One off Tuesday Bulletin

by George Williams on December 11, 2017 · in Photo Collections · 14 ≡

Hi everybody, I’ve come across these pictures recently and wanted to share them with you as I know iModelers like looking at photographs, purely for research reasons of course. My nephew is currently at military college here and says he [...]

Revell 1:48 F-8E MiG Killer

by George Henderson on December 11, 2017 · in Aviation · 20 ≡

Known as the Fighting Checkmates and as the MiG Killers, with seven confirmed kills and one probable, including both the first and the last F-8 kill. VF-211 was second in MiG kills only to VF-96's F-4 Phantoms. Not a bad kit over all. I [...]

1/32 Revell (Hasegawa) Spitfire Mk.1A K9962

by Tolga ULGUR on December 11, 2017 · in Aviation · 19 ≡

Here is my 1/32 Revell-Hasegawa Spitfire Mk.1a finished with the markings of Farquhar's Mk.1a K9962. In fact this is re–issue of old Hasegawa’s hybrid release (ST14 in 2001) with Revell brand years ago. In this kit, Hasegawa produced [...]

Tamiya 1/16 WWII German Machine Gunner.

by Robert Collins on December 11, 2017 · in Figures · 12 ≡

These Tamiya 1/16 plastic figures are really well made with good definition and assembly and all at a good price. All my figures up to now have been brush painted with Tamiya acrylics because theyre my paint of choice for the airbrush, but [...]

Charles M. McCorkindale’s P-51B

by Tom Cleaver on December 10, 2017 · in Aviation · 13 ≡

Tamiya P-51B to do the P-51B "Betty Jane" flown by Charles M. McCorkindale, CO of the 31st Fighter Group in Italy, around June 1944 at the end of the Battle of Ploesti. McCorkindale joined the USAAC in 1936 and flew P-26s with [...]