I finished this Dewoitine D.520 in 1/72 scale from Heller in 2023. It's a very old tooled kit, with raised panel lines, thick undercarriage doors, no detail inside the wheel wells and just the seat inside the cockpit. Fortunately the [...]
This build starts with a story that I read in the British magazine "Flypast". I had never heard this story, and it was so cool that I couldn't resist building a model to represent the Spitfires in the story. So, first is the [...]
The 1/72-scale Eduard Spitfire Mk.IXc is a phenomenon. This is my first Eduard kit, so I’d like to give my impressions. As I think is generally understood, Eduard kits are of high-quality: excellent detail, well-molded and engineered, [...]
In this article I'll show a Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat in 1/72 scale from Academy that I finished by september, 2023. It represents the fighter flown by Lt. Richard Stambook within the VF-17 sqn. on board at the WWII USS Princeton aircraft [...]
For my third article on iModeler I'll show my latest model, a Tamiya Republic P-47D Thunderbolt "razorback" in 1/72 scale which was finished on April of this year. It's my second "razorback" kit, the first one was an [...]
Airfix' Gannet is an excellent kit. The fit of parts is very good, and the detailing is extensive with recessed and raised surface texture.My choice of colors and texture was influenced by a detailed indoors walkaround of a non restored [...]
Simple diorama about abandoned Panzer IV. Reference picture as a starting point for the diorama.
Kits used:
Tamiya German machine gun crew on maneuver
RFM Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf. H (5046), tracks Friulmodel
ICM railroad track
Painting [...]
I finished Hasegawa's Type 5 kit.
The kit was modest in detail, so I re-sculpted the overall panel lines and emphasized the main wing fillets in particular.
The panel lines were re-carved, and at the same time, the rivets and the dent [...]
I recently started rewatching the X-files for the first time in years and it struck me that (at least for the first series), whenever that weeks particular weirdness was going down, agent Scully was always looking the other way. This is a [...]
In this article I'll show the 1/72 Academy Curtiss P-40M kit from the 112nd sqn. (a.k.a. "Sharkmouth Squadron") that I finished by february this year. I built this kit almost simultaneously with my Revell Hurricane Mk.IIc because [...]