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Alpine Canary…1/48 North American T-6G Texan, Austrian Airforce

by Reinhard Spreitzhofer on July 10, 2020 · in Aviation · 16 ≡

After my fellow countryman Roland Sachsenhofer posted his Italeri (Occidental) French Texan I looked through my foto albums and realized that there were only very old pics of my father´s Austrian T-6 that he built with the same kit a [...]

Kawanishi N1K1 Kyofu "Rex" Tamiya 1/48

by Marcus Vinicius Teixeira Borges on July 10, 2020 · in Aviation · 10 ≡

Very nice kit finished in the EofJ GB,and presented here attending my friend Colin request... 🙂

Aussie Sea Fury

by Jimmy Zed on July 10, 2020 · in Aviation · 40 ≡

This one has a fairly unusual peace time 'kill'.. On the morning of 30th August 1955, one of the oddest 'shoot downs' in the history of military aviation occurred; No 805 Squadron would be called upon to fire on an unusual 'enemy' in the [...]

“Cobra II” P-39 air racer – 1946 Thompson Trophy winner

by Tom Cleaver on July 9, 2020 · in Aviation · 22 ≡

"Cobra II” at the 1946 Thompson Trophy Race: The P-39 known as “Cobra II,” was a Bell P-39Q-10BE, AAF 42-20869, assigned to the 430th Army Air Force Base Unit, Ephrata AAB, Washington, a Combat Crew Training Station, in April [...]

1/48th F-104C

by Scott Snow on July 9, 2020 · in Aviation · 9 ≡

Here are a hand full of photos of my Hasegawa, 1/48th scale F-104C. It depicts FG-891 of the 479th Tactical Fighter Wing. Because of it's colorful scheme, this Starfighter is probably one of the most photographed airframes. What can I [...]

Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum – Tiger Moth Flight and Visit #1

by George Schembri on July 8, 2020 · in Aviation · 22 ≡

As things start opening up, I was lucky enough to be able to book a flight as a passenger on a de Havilland Tiger Moth at The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, Ontario - First time taking a flight other than being an airline [...]

Hasegawa 1/72 T-33A Shooting Star “6th Wing Last Flight”

by Tommy Killander on July 8, 2020 · in Aviation · 22 ≡

This was supposed to be a quick build to restore mojo and get something finished off my bench. It turned out that the tooling is from 1969 so there were quite some work to complete the build of this bird... The kit is from 2001 with [...]

Samurai Phantoms! For Phantom Phanatics only…

by Greg Kittinger on July 8, 2020 · in Aviation · 6 ≡

The gentleman who manages the Asian Air Arms special interest group sent me the following email and the photos that accompany this post, asking for help getting the word out about this resource for Phantom modelers. As a phellow Phantom [...]

Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka Fine Molds 1/48 for The Empire of Japan Group Build

by Paul Barber on July 8, 2020 · in Aviation · 33 ≡

A while back I started building Kamikaze machines for the 'iModeler goes to The Movies' group build. A thread can be found there that shares some views and history around two modern Japanese films (The Eternal Zero and For Those We Love) [...]

Video: Heinkel He177 Greif full video build - REVELL

by iModeler Youtube Picks on July 7, 2020 · in Aviation

REVELL 1/72 scale Heinkel He177A-5 Greif Luftwaffe long range heavy bomber with guided glide bombs "Fritz X". For more details about this and new kits from Revell please visit: (link) DISCLAIMER: I am NOT! being paid to promote [...]