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iModeler December Awards

by Editor on January 8, 2014 · in Uncategorized · 21 ≡

Time to announce the official results of our final monthly roundup in 2013. 82 new articles and 1035 comments were added to iModeler during December. As per our usual procedure, we are awarding the iModeler Best in Show title to the entry [...]

Royal Caroline 1749

by Rob Pollock on January 7, 2014 · in Ships · 22 ≡

This is Mantua Models' Royal Caroline (kit no.750), the original being launched from Deptford in 1749 as a Royal Yacht. The scale is 1:47. The length, excluding sticky-out-bits fore and aft, is 65cm (just over two feet). It's really a [...]

WNW Sopwith Snipe (late version)

by Jeff Brundt on January 6, 2014 · in Aviation · 20 ≡

Here is my WNW's Sopwith Snipe. The kit goes together very nicely. This is my first completed WNW kit and surely won't be my last. Paint was Tamiya acrylics. I used Bobe's EZ Line for the rigging and Gaspatch turnbuckles. I was able to do [...]

Academy 1/35 scale M1A1 Abrams

by Ramon R. Lomeli on January 6, 2014 · in Armor · 14 ≡

Hello all! This is a kit that I built for a buddy. I took these pics before I applied the custom decals that I had made depicting a 2ACR tank from the Battle of 73 Eastings. I should have took more after decals, but they were just the [...]

Hasegawa 1/32 FW 190 D-9 Jabo

by Paul Wilsford on January 6, 2014 · in Aviation · 12 ≡

I have an ongoing and serious infatuation with a few different planes from the Luftwaffe 190s and 109s, He 111 and He 219 etc.etc.etc. I found this on eBay for a real nice price, almost half the retail so I jumped on it. There are few [...]

1/48 Bulgarian AF Mig-21bis

by John Healy on January 5, 2014 · in Aviation · 19 ≡

This is an Eduard "Weekend Edition" kit. It is an extraordinarily detailed model. Lots of parts and sub-assemblies, but they all fit perfectly. It's my first finished kit for 2014. The model was built straight from the box [...]

Building the Academy 48th scale MIG in the digital scheme.

by Jack Mugan on January 5, 2014 · in Aviation · 28 ≡

I wanted to do this scheme the first time I saw it on an F-18, but I did not want to do all the masking to achieve it. Fortunately good things come to those who wait, and sure enough the MIG arrived with all the hard work done as a kit [...]

Caproni Ca.3 (UPDATED)

by Rob Pollock on January 5, 2014 · in Aviation · 10 ≡

Here is Polish firm Choroszy Modelbud's 1/72 kit of the Caproni Ca.3 with 25.4mm gun, together with six figures from a Waterloo 1815 set of Italian WWI soldiers, the latter having arms and legs repositioned for the project. The vignette [...]

Republic F-105 Thunderchief, one of the greatest airplanes ever...

by Robert Bausch on January 5, 2014 · in Aviation · 24 ≡

I always have liked the Republic F-105 Thunderchief. Designed to do a clean, precision, tactical nuclear attack, back in the Cold War days. And then never doing that, but saddled with a grunt job of delivering conventional ordnance at low [...]

More on Flt Lt Roy French

by Tom Cleaver on January 4, 2014 · in Aviation · 8 ≡

Roy's son sent me these photos he's found. The airplane is Roy's F-86E. The picture of the Sabre is interesting because it's one of the few color photos I have seen of the enlarged "Misawa tanks", which were painted yellow to [...]