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Monogram 1/48 Hawker Typhoon

by Tom Bebout on July 29, 2016 · in Aviation · 8 ≡

Bought this kit several years ago before it's recent re-release. Used it along with other Revell and Monogram kits as test beds for developing some sorely needed modeling skills. When you haven't built a kit in over 50 years, things like [...]

Abandoned Su-15 (1/48 Trumpeter Su-15 Flagon-A)

by George Johnson on July 28, 2016 · in Aviation · 11 ≡

I started this model a while back and posted a few work-in-progress articles about the build. The only after-markey I used was a photo-etch seat belt from another model. You can't really see it through the stained, cracked, and weathered [...]

Review: UMM Punch Set & Riveters review

by iModeler Youtube Picks on July 28, 2016 · in How-to, Reviews

Dong Ba Tower

by Thomas Sweeney on July 28, 2016 · in Diorama · 3 ≡

This diorama depicts Delta 1/5 taking the Dong Ba Tower in Hue 1968 The tower had to be taken so the Marine could advance into The Citadel Thanks for looking Tom

Fire and smoke on Iwo Jima

by Thomas Sweeney on July 28, 2016 · in Uncategorized · 6 ≡

This i my depiction of an Marine squad burning out the caves on Iwo. This was also my first attempt to make smoke. Sorry i I.m boring you with my old builds Thanks for looking Tom

Westland UH 14A Lynx, Royal Netherlands Navy 1977.

by Allan J Withers on July 28, 2016 · in Aviation · 13 ≡

1/72 Revell, finished in mainly Humbrol and MM enamels with Tamiya X22+X21 over kit decals.

Across the reef

by Thomas Sweeney on July 27, 2016 · in Diorama · 5 ≡

At dawn on 20 November 1943, U.S. marines launched an assault on Tarawa, a Japanese-held atoll in the British Protectorate of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. The water in the lagoon was only 3 feet deep that morning, less than the 4–5 [...]

BiG MiG

by Thomas Probert on July 27, 2016 · in Aviation · 8 ≡

I've just finished building this as a mojo-mender as with a few long term projects on the go, I'd become bogged down and in need of something that went together without problems - this 1/32nd scale twin-stick MiG-29UB proved to be just the [...]

Red Beach 1 Betio

by Thomas Sweeney on July 26, 2016 · in Diorama · 9 ≡

In November 1943 the 2nd US Marines Division landed on a small Betio island in the Tarawa atoll in the Pacific. The island, only a few square kilometers large, was defended by 4500 Japanese soldiers There were many things during the Beto [...]

Frozen Chosin

by Thomas Sweeney on July 25, 2016 · in Diorama · 5 ≡

Gemtlemen This a depiction of a Marine unit fighting back the Red Chinese On 27th Nov. 50, thousands of Chinese troops swarmed over the frozen Yalu River, on the N. Korean/Chinese border, cutting off US Marines in the Chosin Reservoir [...]