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Tom Hudner died today

by Tom Cleaver on November 14, 2017 · in News · 6 ≡

(link) In 1969, then-Captain Hudner was ordered by Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, to go to bases where race riots had occurred, take testimony and institute reforms to "establish justice." He was able to do this [...]

HOLY GRAIL TEASER

by Harry Brogan on November 14, 2017 · in Automotive · 5 ≡

Well, as most of you know, the "Holy Grail" arrived. I am currently working on the 1/6 scale Tamiya Harley with sidecar. So I thought I would post a few "teaser" photos. So here are shots of the engine in-progress as [...]

Jaguar XJ220

by Richard Mcstay on November 14, 2017 · in Automotive · 20 ≡

Hello again! This is my entry for the 'year of the cat' group build, my childhood favourite, the XJ220. About the car... There was originally never any intention of making the car. It was designed as a concept by Jim Randle and unveiled [...]

1/72 Airfix Stormovik

by Joe Caputo on November 14, 2017 · in Aviation · 7 ≡

Like it's builder (me), this model is an antique. It seems I've been going through a stage of doing old kits, that are fast and relatively easy. I've ignored my WWII Japanese and Soviet aircraft in the past, and I'm starting to fill [...]

Wasteland ‘Anti-gravity’ bike Extreme Edition, ver. MK4

by Charles King on November 14, 2017 · in Sci-fi · 11 ≡

Yep. I am a sci-fi builder as well. 🙂 This build was inspired from a 3D artist drawing of a wasteland hover bike, I found on the net. The 3D drawing gave me the fuel to build something similar. But as always, I kind of like to tweak [...]

Scale Modelworld 2017 – Club Displays and SIG's

by Boris Rakic on November 14, 2017 · in Show Reports · 6 ≡

This year's show featured an incredible number of displays - according to the SMW website, 85 SIG's, 94 IPMS branches and 27 clubs from 15 different countries participated! With such a huge amount of displays it is almost impossible to [...]

Scania Heavy Hauler 8x4x4 Combo

by Charles King on November 14, 2017 · in Automotive · 14 ≡

The tractor unit is mostly heavily modified from two kits and some minor scratch building. I also added a 99% scratch built trailer based on two different trailers from pics off the net and from one in my area. So I hope you enjoy the [...]

Close Contact

by Charles King on November 14, 2017 · in Diorama · 12 ≡

This diorama was scratch built diorama built back in 2014. The scale is 1/35. The dio is pretty much done for the exception of one more figure to be added. The last figure will be a boy pointing to the corner of the building, alerting the [...]

Preview: Airfix 1/48 North American P-51D Mustang

by Tom Cleaver on November 13, 2017 · in Reviews · 12 ≡

Kit arrived Friday, took five careful hours to assemble without filler. Done OOB other than used Tamiya decals from the "8th AF Aces" release to do Bud Anderson's "Old Crow" ID stripes, invasion stripes, personal [...]