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by Tom Cleaver on July 17, 2022 · in News · 13 ≡

(link) Air & Space Magazine finally does an article about modeling. I have to say, myself, I love the modern kits - they're the kits I wanted way back then, accurate kits of the airplanes I loved. I look at the old kits and all I can [...]

Video: Lotus 79 Black Beauty 1/20 Hasegawa - Car Model

by iModeler Youtube Picks on July 16, 2022 · in Automotive · 1 ≡

FormaPlane 1/72 vacuform Beriev MBR-2

by Bob Torres on July 16, 2022 · in Aviation · 18 ≡

The Russian MBR-2 was designed by Georgy Mikhailovich Beriev and first flew in 1931, this was his first plane that he designed and put into production. From October 1934 to 1968, he ran the Central Design Office for marine aircraft in [...]

TIGER I "DAS REIGH KURSK"

by DIONYSIOS MOYKRIOTIS on July 16, 2022 · in Armor · 8 ≡

The kit is the old ACADEMY full interior. There are many newer kits and offcourse much better. Old kit with small fitting problems. The tracks are piece by piece a little tricky. The model painted with Tamiya Colours and Winsor varnish. I [...]

P-40M and P-40N, Italeri, AMT/Ertl

by Bob Dudolevitch on July 16, 2022 · in Aviation · 24 ≡

Greetings, fellow modelers. I added to my P-40 collection in order to include a Nationalist Chinese P-40N and an Australian P-40M; a salute to America's Pacific and Asian allies. Both planes are identical in the box, despite the different [...]

1/72 A-Model Tsar Bomba

by Dan Lee on July 15, 2022 · in Uncategorized · 13 ≡

This is my build of the USSR's wildly impractical Tsar Bomba which had proved that there is such thing as too much overkill. Despite making necessary precautions to prevent the Tu-95 Bomber from getting torn apart in the bomb blast, the [...]

Eduard 1/48 Focke Wulf 190 A-5

by George V Guimaraes on July 14, 2022 · in Aviation · 20 ≡

Hello! Here's my recent project, the nice Eduard's Profipack Fw190 A-5, a very good kit, with no issues at all. Paints from Mr Color range. Weathering trying to replicate operating from dusty Eastern Front airfields. Hope you [...]

FGS Hessen F-221 German Frigate, (1/350 Takom)

by Anthony Alvear on July 13, 2022 · in Ships · 20 ≡

After more 3 months, +390 parts and 130 hours work,..finished Sachsen class Frigate, very nice model. Added many improvements and modification, hangar fully scratch,..plastruct styrene sheet, rod,strip, generic PE from Trumpeter set master [...]

Trumpeter 1/32 TBM-3 VMTB-132 USS Cape Gloucester Okinawa 1945

by Mark Krumrey on July 13, 2022 · in Aviation · 19 ≡

I became a big fan of the Avenger after seeing the movie: "On a Wing and Prayer" with Don Ameche, Dana Andrews, Richard Jaeckle and others. The movie was filmed aboard the USS Yorktown CV-10 during it's shakedown cruise in about [...]

"Know your enemy": Hawker Typhoon T9+GK / 2. Staffel Versuchsverband Ob.d.L

by Roland Sachsenhofer on July 13, 2022 · in Aviation · 21 ≡

"If you know yourself and your enemy, you need not fear the outcome of 100 battles". Well, what model building article can you begin, as here, with the quote of an ancient Chinese philosopher? In the case of this Hawker Typhoon [...]