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'Ooops!, there goes the Holiday Bonus' Forklift Incident

by Charles King on December 9, 2022 · in Diorama · 22 ≡

After these photos were taken, I'd realized I did not add a crucial detail. The slight damage to the ground, when the forks came in contact. Not there would have been any major difference to the ground or tarmac, but it would make for a [...]

Video: Building a 1/35 DESERT Diorama for a Panzer I .

by iModeler Youtube Picks on December 9, 2022 · in Diorama · 1 ≡

Fez-day Night Live - Kits and bits Scale modelling - with Guests – 1900 GMT/1400 EST

by Kits And Bits Scale Modelling on December 9, 2022 · in Aviation

Tonight, The PRU spitfire diorama, and more work on the T62. (link)

Accurate Miniatures 1/48 Il-2m3 Stormovik

by Spiros Pendedekas on December 9, 2022 · in Aviation · 45 ≡

Though the idea for a Soviet armored ground-attack aircraft dates to the early 1930s, when Dmitry Pavlovich Grigorovich designed TSh-1 and TSh-2 armored biplanes, Soviet engines of the time lacked the power needed to provide the heavy [...]

Trumpeter 1/16, PZ.IV J , 31Pz.Rgt, East Prussia – October 1944

by Wirgiliusz Babirecki on December 9, 2022 · in Armor · 14 ≡

Whew... finally, after 190 hours and 9 months of work, another model from the Trumpeter stable is finished. This time it's Pz.IV J with 31 Pz.Rgt 5Pz.Div. from the time of fighting in East Prussia in the fall of 1944. I added captured [...]

Austrian Aces...1/48 Messerschmitt Bf109G-4/R6/trop, 8./JG53, Lt. Franz Schiehs

by Reinhard Spreitzhofer on December 9, 2022 · in Aviation · 11 ≡

Another 109 by my dad. Eduard Weekend Edition, added PE seatbelts from the sparesbox, antenna wires with EZ Line, brake lines added with plastic rods and lead wire. Painted with AK Real Color RLM 78/79/80. Build thread here (link) Franz [...]

Squadron Leader Johnny Johnson – the last Dambuster

by Tom Cleaver on December 9, 2022 · in News · 7 ≡

I noted in the author's foreword of my coming book on VIII Fighter Command that none of the people in the book, many of whom I had been privileged to know, were still alive. Obituary from The Telegraph: Squadron Leader Johnny Johnson, who [...]

1/72 KP Supermarine Spitfire PR. Mk.XI "SEAC"

by Alistair Gauld on December 8, 2022 · in Aviation · 24 ≡

A kit that gave me no issues at all. Any problems along the way were caused purely by me. The fit was fantastic and only required the smallest amount of filler. Primed with Tamiya Neutral Grey, Painted with Colourcoats PRU Blue, Medium Sea [...]

Academy 1/72 F4F-4 Wildcat, Atlantic Theater

by Greg Kittinger on December 8, 2022 · in Aviation · 19 ≡

This was a nice little kit – engraved panel lines and some larger fastener details around the cowl/nose area. They were a bit like new Airfix kits, waaayyy over scale! I added a few additional missing panel lines and then riveted the [...]