Video: Trumpeter's 1/48 Westland Whirlwind: Reveal
Kit graciously supplied by the KitMaker Network
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After ambush
I've started to build this diorama in January, finally it is ready, not perfect but as far as it is my second diorama it is not bad i think, hope you like it... 🙂
iModeler July Awards
It is high time again to announce our monthly winners. With the warm summer weather spreading across the northern hemisphere, July was a bit slower than usual with regard to modeling activity. At iModeler, it still meant 90 new headline [...]
Westland Lysander On Floats! Now this is how I would have done it.
This is one aircraft that begs to be modified with floats. I just had to do it! This is 1/32 scale and the crew is 21st Century figures. I have added some detail and wiring behind the instrument panel as this can be seen through the front [...]
More Pictures of the Revell 1/48 Type IXc.
My love for U-Boats started back in the early 70's when I first read Herbert Werner's "Iron Coffins".
I bought Revell's Type IX U-Boat as soon as it was out.
The build was pretty much straight forward. The size of the hull (42 [...]
This year's builds.... so far;
From the top;
Hobby Craft 1/48 Me 109B out of Box.
Williams Bros 1/32 Gee Bee Racer with Gabreski figure for effect. O.o.b.
Testors 1/48 SR-71, added details to landing gear, resin cockpit, rescribed entire model.
Model Craft 1/48 F-82, [...]
Revell 1/72 Type IXc U-Boat, U-505 Capture June 1944.
Built out of box. First time using salt treatment. The conning tower is insignia blue, ya, I couldn't belive it too but according to a couple of sites this was the color. Figures are from Czech Masters with some modification.
Almost scratch-built armored car
This was built on the 1/16 scale Mercedes two seat race car. Not a prototype but my rendition of some of the early armored cars. Most of these were a one off built at the local boiler maker shop. I used the chassis and the rest is sheet [...]
Sad story about a Sea Fury
Watch this link to see the video and story of a Sea Fury at an air display at R.N.A.S. Culdrose, England (link)
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1/72 Haitian F-51D
This is the new-tool Airfix 1/72 F-51D Mustang, finished in the markings of Corps d'Aviation d'Haiti ca. 1963. The aircraft was a civilian P-51D pressed into military service, and carried drop tanks from an F-86.
The Airfix Mustang is [...]
