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Christmas wishes

by Editor on December 25, 2012 · in Uncategorized · 8 ≡

To all members and visitors of iModeler, I'd like to take this opportunity to wish you a wonderful festive break and a Happy New Year. Launched in the fall of 2012, iModeler is already a hive of activity, thanks to the fantastic level of [...]

Building The “Double Hun” in 48th scale.

by Jack Mugan on December 24, 2012 · in Aviation · 6 ≡

It has been 30 years or so since I built the Monogram F-100D “Super Sabre”, one of my favorite airplanes and one of my favorite models. I still have it in the display case after all these years. Several years ago I got a hold of a [...]

ProModeler P-47N

by Stephen W Towle on December 24, 2012 · in Aviation · 7 ≡

Monogram continued their line of P-47's by doing the N model with engraved panel lines that are sharp on wings and soft on fuselage and Ok on the tail. In other words there is some in consistency of the last production model of the Jug [...]

Video: Airfix 1/144 Handley Page H.P. 42 "Heracles" Part 1

by MakingModelsAgain on December 24, 2012 · in Aviation

Right, next video I make I promise I will shut off my laptop so that you don't get that incessant hiss from its fan all the way through the damn video!

Rest Models 1/48 I-5

by Maxim Bylkin on December 24, 2012 · in Aviation · 6 ≡

Continue with Soviet aircraft) - now the Polikarpov I-5. Resin model is not new, and therefore rare. Going a little worse than I-3, and the quality is the same casting is excellent. Enjoy all the viewing.

1/48 Tamiya A6M3 Type 32

by one4832 on December 24, 2012 · in Aviation · 6 ≡

This kit is certainly showing it's age as the detail is very limited and its very basic when compared with today's releases from Tamiya or Hasegawa. The engine is only half molded, and the kit is an odd mix of raised (which I rescribed) [...]

1/48 ICM P-51B

by one4832 on December 24, 2012 · in Aviation · 7 ≡

This is ICM's knock off of the Tamiya kit. It is so close that the parts are virtually interchangeable. However that is where all similarities end. This kit is nowhere nearly as well engineered as the Tamiya kit and given it's low price [...]

1/48 Tamiya Bf-109E-7 Trop

by Bryan W. Bernart on December 23, 2012 · in Aviation · 1 ≡

Of JG.27, somewhere in the North African desert.

B-26 “Mild and Bitter” Monogram 1/48

by Billy Smith on December 23, 2012 · in Aviation · 8 ≡

Most of the shopping I do for my planes is on a website named hobbylinc considering the closest hobby store is an hour away but as I was in this hobby store that is an hour away I stumbled upon this plane that I know hobbylinc no longer [...]

1/32 Trumpeter P-47C-2 Thunderbolt

by Tom Cleaver on December 23, 2012 · in Aviation · 8 ≡

Trumpeter's P-47D razorback modified to a P-47C-2 (mostly involved getting the lower two cowling flaps removed and replaced as cowling), done as my friend Steve Pisanos' airplane circa late July/early August 1943. (Thanks to Mike Grant [...]