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Monogram B-24D "Sleepy / The Squaw" Bond Tour Markings in 1/48th Scale

by Walt on November 17, 2022 · in Aviation · 28 ≡

I have always really liked the B-24 and have built a few of these kits over the years. Ungainly looking, and never getting the love from the press and many aircrews that the B-17 did, I still love it. When I was young I read a lot of [...]

Facing Challenges

by Dennis Meyers on November 17, 2022 · in Aviation · 9 ≡

I've heard that there is no such thing as a bad model kit. There are just good kits and challenging kits. I recently built a couple of challenging kits of historically notable aircraft--ICM 1/72 Ghost of Kyiv and Classic Airframes 1/48 [...]

Video: Painting a 1/35 Panzer 1 in DESERT Camouflage.

by iModeler Youtube Picks on November 16, 2022 · in Aviation

Review: Magic Factory 1/35 Iron Dome Review

by iModeler Youtube Picks on November 16, 2022 · in Reviews · 1 ≡

1/72 Octopus I.M.A.M. Ro.43

by Anthony Ricco on November 16, 2022 · in Aviation · 22 ≡

This kit was a challenge like I'd never had before, a short run kit with vague instructions, no alignment pins and vac form canopies, but its such a cool plane and I had to do it. So off I went, and what fun I had, yes, yes, I'm a s****r [...]

Viking Spear...1/48 Saab J32B Lansen, Svenska Flygvapnet

by Reinhard Spreitzhofer on November 16, 2022 · in Aviation · 8 ≡

So, after Harvard and Saab 17, here´s my dad´s third and last Swedish subject for now. As with all HB/Trumpeter kits the HB Lansen has its shape and accuracy issues but it looks like a Lansen. The only thing my dad did was engraving some [...]

Pretty in Pink

by Bruce Archer on November 15, 2022 · in Aviation · 11 ≡

Hi All! Here is another Spitfire, this time a Spitfire MK.I PR Type Ic (early or first). It started out as an Airfix 1/48th scale Spitfire Vb, which led to more work but I had run out of Spitfire Is. The wings had the bulges removed ( I [...]

Alles kaputt! A Junkers Ju 290A-7 crosses the Atlantic.

by Roland Sachsenhofer on November 15, 2022 · in Aviation · 25 ≡

To the original: Junkers Ju-290 A-7 "Alles Kaputt" (Everything Broken) The story that the Junkers Ju 290A-7 shown here can tell has undoubtedly earned the title "highly unusual". Even a first glance finds some [...]

Tamiya Honda 750 Police bike 1/6th scale

by Cricket on November 14, 2022 · in Automotive · 10 ≡

Hello all, I built this in January of this year and just posted to the motorcycle group, reposting here. It was my first experience with 1/6th motorcycles and now I’m hooked. Thanks for viewing nod to @chinesegeorge for the suggestion [...]