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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 [...]

MiG-29UB of the Azerbaijan Air Force

by George Johnson on May 14, 2016 · in Aviation · 24 ≡

Here's my rendition of the a plane that appears to have been sold by the Ukrainian AF to the Azerbaijan AF (as far as I can tell). It's been stripped of its paint so it looks to be pretty weathered. I used an old Academy MiG-29UB kit that [...]

Grumman S2F Tracker + Crew

by Dirk Derks on May 14, 2016 · in Diorama · 14 ≡

The Grumman Tracker was very successful in service of the Royal Netherlands Navy. In total the Navy Air Arm received 45 Trackers. 28 US build S-2F and 17 Canadian (C)S-2F. The Canadian type was mostly used in the former Dutch Antilles. [...]

Douglas C 47 B Dakota, A65-78, ARDU RAAF Edinburgh SA 1979.

by Allan J Withers on May 13, 2016 · in Aviation · 30 ≡

1/72 Italeri, my first C 47, with Eduard photo etch, finished in Model Master enamels with Roo decals and Future, used by Aircraft Research and Development Unit to check navigation equipment at ADF air bases.