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1/48 Accurate Miniatures Mustang Mk. 1A

by Tom Bebout on August 7, 2015 · in Aviation · 14 ≡

This is the AM rendition of the Allison engine Mustang used by the Brits. Finished as a photo Recon bird and built pretty much out of the box a couple of years ago. Really hated to see AM fold as I liked their Mustang kits as well as their [...]

Review: MENG 1/35th T-10M Review

by iModeler Youtube Picks on August 6, 2015 · in Aviation, Reviews

Fisher Ryan stm RAAF 1/32

by Brent Thomas Simpson on August 6, 2015 · in Aviation · 14 ≡

Hi all, This is the Fisher Model and Pattern Ryan STM The RAAF obtained a number of these aircraft from the Dutch after the fall of Java in 1942 and put them to use as squadron liason aircraft. my example was based in Temora, New South [...]

Review: Airfix 1/72 Boulton Paul Defiant Mk.I

by Tom Cleaver on August 6, 2015 · in Reviews · 13 ≡

One of the worst developments in air combat, the concept of a turret‑armed defensive fighter emerged in 1935, when the RAF planned to defend Britain against massed formations of unescorted enemy bombers in air combat that more resembled [...]

RIP – Les Munro – the last Dambuster

by Tom Cleaver on August 5, 2015 · in Uncategorized · 18 ≡

We shall not see such men again in our lifetimes. (link) (link)

Challenger I, Mickey Thompson’s Bonneville beauty

by Jack Mugan on August 4, 2015 · in Automotive · 24 ≡

Every year the F.A.S.T. club in Ocala Florida, an IPMS Chapter for car modelers, has a theme build, and this year it was anything that runs at Bonneville. This is to be my entry. It did not start out to be a two car build, but things ran [...]

Eduard 1/48 Airco DH-2

by Robert Joseph Cookson on August 4, 2015 · in Aviation · 20 ≡

Lovely kit, built straight from the box, apart from some tensioners and anchors which I made from .05 copper wire. I managed to destroy the starboard boom, when trying to iron out a very slight bend, using a hairdryer. I had to take it [...]

U.S.Coast Guard HU-16E 1963

by Mike Maynard on August 4, 2015 · in Aviation · 34 ≡

Well today is the US Coast Guard's 225th birthday, so I had to post something the "wing maggots" (we-who-did-not-fly's endearing term for our CG aviator brothers) would recognize. It's the last of my Monogram 1:72 scale HU-16's [...]

Planet Models 1/32 XF5U-1 Flying Pancake, circa 1947

by Eric Galliers on August 4, 2015 · in Aviation · 27 ≡

Modifications and additions to the kit: RB Productions seatbelts Airscale decals. Scratchbuilt the instrument panel (to allow the placement of the airscale decals) Added a bar over the back of the seat to replicate the seatbelt [...]