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iModeler May Awards

by Editor on June 4, 2013 · in Uncategorized · 13 ≡

Another month has passed and one can almost sense the anticipation pending the announcement of our mothly winners. So without further ado: here they are, carefully selected among the 145 articles added during the month. Maxim Bylkin's ( [...]

Progress on USS Wilkes

by Rob Anderson on June 1, 2013 · in Ships · 7 ≡

Lots of painting, lots more to go main colors are on for the Measure 22 scheme she wore from 44 (possibly late '43) on through the end of the war. Need to do lots of touch ups, the Italeri Acrylics I used for the light grey gave me fits, [...]

Academy 1/72 B-17F

by Tom Bebout on May 31, 2013 · in Aviation · 9 ≡

A couple of years ago I'm visiting my brother and sister-in-law and noticed she had displayed a photo of her deceased father and the crew of his B-17F Double Exposure. Bernard Brailer is in the second row, fourth man going from left to [...]

Revellogram 148 Hawker Typhoon

by steven a weinmann on May 31, 2013 · in Aviation · 3 ≡

Built for Normandy invasion nice old school kit

Dragon 148 Ho-229 Horten flying wing

by steven a weinmann on May 31, 2013 · in Aviation · 1 ≡

The Ho-229 is a nice kit built OOB a few months back nice interesting plane something different for a change adds to the Luftwaffe experimental collection

1/48th Macchi Veltro C.205,Hasegawa MTO, WWII

by Chuck A. Villanueva on May 31, 2013 · in Aviation · 11 ≡

Something a little different tonite. We have Hasegawa's excellent Veltro in 48th scale. When I first started to plan on this particular project, my biggest dilemma was what scheme to replicate. Thinking this may be the only Veltro I [...]

The postman's just been!

by George Williams on May 30, 2013 · in Uncategorized · 3 ≡

Hurray, at last, my new kits have arrived! There's no choice in the livery for the Ferrari, but I haven't decided about the Meteor yet, either the camoflage or the plain (easy to identify) white finish What do you guys think? Thanks [...]

P-38J Flown by Philip Goldstein/Graham 49th FS, 14th FG, Triolo, Italy 1944

by Frank Cronin on May 30, 2013 · in Aviation · 15 ≡

Through another friend I found out that Philip Graham lives in San Francisco so I gave him a call. We agreed to meet for lunch and chat about his service. Prior to the lunch I made this model of his airplane so that I could present it to [...]

F4J flown by then CO of VF-143 “Pukin Dogs” on board Constellation.

by Frank Cronin on May 30, 2013 · in Aviation · 9 ≡

I built this model and presented it to retired Captain Marland Townsand. He flew it when he was CO of VF-143. He went on to be the CO of Kitty Hawk prior to his retirement. He is one of the members of our little "Military Mafia" [...]

1/48,Monogram F-5E Bahrain Air Force, Gulf War

by Chuck A. Villanueva on May 30, 2013 · in Aviation · 3 ≡

Though not much has been mentioned in what capacity that the Bahrain Amiri Air Force contributed during the Gulf War. Flying F-5E's and F-16's. Starting with defensive operations on the 25th of January and then launching offensive [...]