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“No idea, Joe. Tell em it’s some kind of Wonderbug Machine.”

by Kyle Koppos on March 9, 2021 · in Aviation · 13 ≡

April 1945: the US Army's Shermans are overrunning airfields faster than the AAF can shoot them up. As some GIs poke their Garands into the backs of Luftwaffe scientists and groundcrew and shuffle them off the base, other Americans take a [...]

Tamiya Corsair Mk.II, 1/48. The Fleet Air Arm.

by Harvey R. on March 8, 2021 · in Aviation · 33 ≡

Greetings folks, After getting more into the hobby and posting on a few other places, I've decided to make an account here and post my most recent builds. Critique is always important, and keeping confined to one forum or social media can [...]

Starting the Breed...1/48 Messerschmitt Bf109V4, Luftwaffe

by Reinhard Spreitzhofer on March 8, 2021 · in Aviation · 9 ≡

Built 5-10 years ago. Classic Airframes kit oob, painted with Gunze and Tamiya acrylics. Fourth prototype of the Bf109. Was tested and saw some action in the Spanish Civil War, later designated "A".

Review: GWH 1/72 F-14A Tomcat review

by iModeler Youtube Picks on March 8, 2021 · in Aviation, Reviews

Three Me 262s: Finale

by Michael Turner on March 8, 2021 · in Aviation · 22 ≡

I am a member of the Warbirds Aviation Modelling Group (Melbourne, Australia: (link)). Each year we have two club competitions, "Gunna Build" and "Build a “Build a B#%@#$". The "Gunna Build" is an open build [...]

Normandy ‘Piggy-back’ ride

by Carl Christensen on March 8, 2021 · in Armor · 19 ≡

This is the 1/48 Tamiya U.S. Army 2.5 ton 6x6 Cargo Truck, and the Mister Craft 1/48 Piper Cub. The model deplicts the transportation of Piper Cubs in the days following the D-day landings as they were brought off the large landing ships. [...]

Tamiya 1/48 North American P-51B Mustang

by James Kelley on March 7, 2021 · in Aviation · 17 ≡

This is one of those projects that started out great, but ended on a not-so-high note. I was very happy with the construction, paint, and weathering. Alas, when I took the 26 year old decals out of the water, they shattered into a million [...]

Heller F4U-7 in 1/48

by Bob Dudolevitch on March 7, 2021 · in Aviation · 20 ≡

Presented for review: Aéronavale F4U-7 F.14.9, USN Bureau No 133690, by Heller, in 1/48. As noted in many French F4U articles, the black and yellow ID stripes were for 'Operation Musketeer', aka the Suez Crisis of 1956. Heller did [...]

Messerschmitt Bf110E "Wespen" Winter 1942

by John vd Biggelaar on March 7, 2021 · in Aviation · 46 ≡

The 110's from the Wespen geschwader are one of my favorite German aircraft, unfortunately I never did build one, till now. This kit is the Eduard 8203 from 2007 in 1/48 scale. It does include a lot of extra PE parts which are very [...]

Disguised Aquatic Eyes in the Sky…1/48 Arado Ar196A-3, Handelsstörkreuzer 3 “Widder”

by Reinhard Spreitzhofer on March 7, 2021 · in Aviation · 19 ≡

Here´s my dad´s fourth and last seaplane for a while. Italeri kit oob, fit is mostly only mediocre. The gunsight is molded onto the instrument board but was in the way of the windshield. So my dad cut it off and replaced it with a part [...]