One of my stranger habits is to bring back a kit from every city trip I undertake. I usually do some looking around on the web to see if there is a proper hobby shop in the city I am about to visit, trying to sneak a visit into the [...]
Into the final stages of the build now, but first I wanted to revisit a comment I made in Part 2 about the side vents at the base of the rotor mast. There have been one or two comments about this and I wanted to clarify an issue.
Step 11 [...]
Had to take a hiatus to sell our house and move into an apartment until the new house is finished.
Got back to models with this great little gem. Haven't set up an airbrush station yet so did all the painting by brush. Used AK [...]
Both are TAMIYA 1/48 scale kits.
The P-47D "Pride O' Dogpatch" is actually the P-47M kit as it has the fin-fillet. Decals by AeroMaster.
The P-51D "Madam Wham-Dam" is a VLR Mustang based at Iwo Jima. The a/c was [...]
I don’t do a lot of commission builds so this is more of an exception. A flight-simming friend did me a lot of favors in the last few months for which I am very grateful. And he’s a big MiG-21 fan so one thing led to another and I [...]
Hi all, this is my first post but not my first model! I typically build Australian Flying Corps subjects and so the Snipe was a long awaited addition to my collection.
I always like a challenge at the Snipe really asked the question,'Why [...]
With 119 new articles and a record-breaking 2065 comments, August was a sweet month here at iModeler with an abundance of great modeling to behold. Continuing our tradition, here is our selection of models and articles that we think have [...]
The first part of this review can be found here: (link)
Moving on with the main body of the machine, I'm now finding a few discrepancies - nothing major, but you need your wits about you.
In these photos, you can see that there are a few [...]