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SR-71 What If

by Bruce Lewerenz on May 19, 2016 · in Aviation · 10 ≡

Another WIFFER! It was a cold snowy February morning when I started this project. It was too cold to go outside and play so I decided to do a quick build from my dollar stash. That's a model you pick up for a dollar at a swap meet. As I [...]

Survivors, memory lane

by Robert Royes on May 18, 2016 · in Uncategorized · 9 ≡

1- An original Revell 1/48? Chevy stake truck which my uncle gave me way back around 1964, along with others that didn't survive. Some how I could never throw this out. 2- My oldest IMC 1/72 A-4 Skyhawk, which originally was built with the [...]

North American FJ-1 Fury 1/72

by Robert Royes on May 18, 2016 · in Aviation · 9 ≡

One of the first operational jet aircraft for the US Navy its service was short. First flight was 1946. They operated with VF-5A,[ VF-51],and then Naval Reserve units. in service until 1954.About thirty aircraft were produced. The model [...]

IPMS Race City Modelers May Meeting

by Bruce Lewerenz on May 18, 2016 · in News · 12 ≡

We had another successful club meeting this past Sunday at the Mooresville, NC Hobbytown USA. A lot of great models for show and tell. We had several discussions on the type of glues we each like to use and what we use to strip paint from [...]

1/48 Italeri/AM A-36A Apache

by Michal Walusz on May 18, 2016 · in Aviation · 11 ≡

Hello Folks This time I would like to present my March completed build. This was A-36 Apache from Italeri that is rebox of Accurate Miniatures kit. The build take me a year or so but not because the kit is woeful but I have long brakes [...]

Dornier Cs II Delphin 1924 US Navy, 1:72

by René Hieronymus on May 17, 2016 · in Aviation · 10 ≡

It started with a kit but it ended as a complete scratch build. I stumbled across this kit from a short run manufacturer (Lüdemann) during a model show near Munich Germany. Actually it looked pretty well inside the bag and the price, as [...]

Royal Guard Tie Interceptor

by Dobó János on May 16, 2016 · in Sci-fi · 13 ≡

I saw the X-wing miniatures games few years ago, and I love this red scheme. The kit is the Revell 1/90 Sanp fast kit. Not bad, but I'm a beginer, so ... I hope you like it!

1/48 MIG-29A FULCRUM 9-12

by Kelly Cottle on May 15, 2016 · in Aviation · 28 ≡

Here is my latest work, Great Wall kit, the kit went together with NO problems, I used a resin ejection seat but the cockpit was very detailed,I used the kit decals they were a little different decals were flat no shine, used modelmaster [...]

Yamaha YZR 500 1980, Kenny Roberts.

by Allan J Withers on May 15, 2016 · in Automotive · 19 ≡

My first 1/12 Tamiya, I modified the exhausts, filled the holes, might be why the fairing doesn't quite fit, finished in Model Master and Tamiya enamels, X22 over decals. Kenny Roberts was 500cc world champion in 1978, 1979 and 1980.

Video: FULL VIDEO BUILD REVELL F4U-1D CORSAIR

by iModeler Youtube Picks on May 14, 2016 · in Aviation

The Corsair is considered to have been one of the U.S. Navy's best World War 2 fighter aircraft. It was feared by its Japanese opponents who nicknamed it Whistling Death . Corsairs fought in the Pacific theatre from 1943 to 1945, scoring [...]