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Pearl Harbour 80th Anniversary. Agaki – Hasegawa 1/700

by Paul Barber on December 7, 2021 · in Ships · 22 ≡

I am posting this article at 8am, December 7th, Honolulu time. Exactly 80 years on from the moment of the first wave of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941. The aircraft carrier Agaki was Vice Admiral Chūichi Nagumo's flagship [...]

Review: Moebius 1/4105 Battlestar Galactica review

by iModeler Youtube Picks on December 7, 2021 · in Reviews

80 Years Ago: TORA! TORA! TORA!

by Łukasz Matuszczak on December 7, 2021 · in Aviation · 9 ≡

FROM THE AUTHOR: I would thank the group of "The 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor [..]" to invite me to do some of the group build. The time frame was very tight. Aproxymately I had two an a half week to complete [...]

80 Years Ago: "I Knew My Plans Had Changed"

by Tom Cleaver on December 7, 2021 · in Uncategorized · 11 ≡

The flight deck of USS Enterprise (CV-6) echoed with the command over the loudspeaker from the bridge: “Pilots! Man your planes!” Thirty-one year old Lieutenant Richard H. “Dick” Best Jr., operations officer of Bombing-Six, watched [...]

Hasegawa 1/72 Mitsubishi F-2A

by dagored on December 7, 2021 · in Aviation · 16 ≡

Hasegawa 1/72 scale kit I assembled the 1/72 F-2 from the standard box. I made some modifications to the nose cable, AOA sensor, pitot tube, wing tip cables and nozzles, but the rest of the kit is as is.

1/25 Revell Snap Tite Peterbuilt 387 log truck conversion

by Mark P Hartig on December 6, 2021 · in Automotive · 8 ≡

I also like heavy trucks and do a few from time to time. This was a cheap kit at the LHS that I decided to test my scratching and grafting skill level on...and it occupied the bench for a fair amount of time. The dump box is from an AMT [...]

Video: Kriegslokomotive BR 86 - Hobby Boss 1/72 – Train Model

by iModeler Youtube Picks on December 6, 2021 · in Aviation · 1 ≡

1/48 Hasegawa A-7E Corsair II

by Mark P Hartig on December 6, 2021 · in Aviation · 14 ≡

I mostly model armor but lately I've wanted to try an aircraft as it's been probably forty years since I've built one. This one I found in the LHS and began it in late October, finishing it up the first week of December. I used the Eduard [...]

Revell of Germany M-48 A2C 1/35

by Mark P Hartig on December 6, 2021 · in Armor · 6 ≡

One of the ROG M-48 kits built and slightly converted into a Vietnam era A2. Finished it a few months ago, a surpisingly good kit with the mantlet face as the only weak spot. I sharpened up the bow a bit, scratched the American style [...]