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Two Oldies Join Forces

by John Staehle on August 18, 2016 · in News · 12 ≡

Italeri came out with the Opel Maultier years ago and along with the older Tamiya FLAK 2 cm Quad I brought them together in my multitudes of vehicles. Neither kit is of the high quality found in today's kits but there is enjoyment in [...]

75 years ago today

by Tom Cleaver on August 17, 2016 · in Aviation · 10 ≡

75 years ago today, RCAF Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee landed from his first flight in a Spitfire. He went to his barracks and wrote "High Flight," the greatest poem of flight ever written. When I was in 8th grade, I had to [...]

1/48 Italeri AH-1W Super Cobra

by Emre Tuzun on August 17, 2016 · in Aviation · 7 ≡

This is my Turkish Army AH-1W Super Cobra from the Italeri's 1/48 scale. The build was for a very close friend of mine, -better to say brother in arms-, who flew with the W in the Army more than 15 years and retired with the rank of [...]

iModeler July Awards

by Editor on August 17, 2016 · in News · 14 ≡

I hope you'd agree that with the outpour of new model presentations that we enjoy these days, iModeler remains a premium source of modeling inspiration. Let's hold on to that feeling by looking back at some of the notable additions in [...]

1/32 Tamiya F-15I Ra’am

by David Porter on August 17, 2016 · in Aviation · 14 ≡

Built this one awhile back. Made it by combining both the F-15J and F-15E kits plus a bunch of other parts and various scratch built bits. The F-15 is my favourite aircraft and the Israeli's make a very colourful variant which I feel is [...]

Stunning photographs from RAF competition

by George Williams on August 16, 2016 · in Aviation · 7 ≡

You aircraft fans may like some of these pictures entered into the recent RAF photograph competition: (link)

D-520 Vichy, RS Models 1/72

by Mladen Janjic on August 16, 2016 · in Aviation · 10 ≡

Hello everyone. Here's another one ready for inspection. It is RS Models D-520 1/72 short run, nice little kit. I painted the model with Lifecolor colors. I hope you like it Cheers. Mladen.

VF-0S from Macross Zero, 1/72 Hasegawa #15

by Murad Özer on August 16, 2016 · in Sci-fi · 21 ≡

This went as a birthday gift to a dear friend who's addicted to Macross. Display stand is Trumpeter's, the sticker is cut from the kit's box and stuck via double sided tape. Enjoy.

“Smit Rotterdam” – 22,000 HP strong ocean-going super tug

by Dirk Derks on August 16, 2016 · in Ships · 18 ≡

“SMIT ROTTERDAM” from the Dutch towing company "SMITWIJS". The Netherlands used to be known as a sea faring nation. Especially ocean going tugs were famous. There were two big firms. Smit in Maassluis and Wijsmuller in [...]

Tu-134A Amodel 1/72

by Dmitry Ryzhenkov on August 16, 2016 · in Aviation · 21 ≡

Hello, dear colleagues! I want to share my joy with you. Almost 7 months of work on the model ended with the result visible in these photos. There ere many improvements made to the basic kit. Lighting. This includes: salon, cockpit, and [...]