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Yakovlev Yak-28-64, Anigrand 1/144

by Thomas Peters on July 20, 2019 · in Aviation · 5 ≡

The Yakovlev Yak-28-64 is a truely exotic airplane. Designed in competition with the Sukhoi Su-15 Flagon, the protoype was difficult to fly and the project soon ended with only one plane ever flown. Few pictures can be found in the [...]

1/700 scale diorama KM Pekan Coast Guard vessel

by Mee Wan on July 20, 2019 · in Ships · 10 ≡

Greetings to all , This is the final touches to my KM Pekan coast guard vessel diorama with added waves and other detailing to call it finally done. Overall its a simple mini diorama my main intention was to experiment with resin base [...]

On This Day-One Giant Leap

by Chuck A. Villanueva on July 20, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 23 ≡

It's Sunday, 20 July 1969, City of Whittier,, Los Angeles County, California, we are all sitting around the TV, pizza and popcorn. It's a little after 9pm PST, and we are about to see the Eagle land on the surface of the Moon. The [...]

Airfix 1/48 Curtis H81-A3 (P-40B Tomahawk)

by John Clark on July 20, 2019 · in Aviation · 35 ≡

This is a nice kit but my problems started when I decided to put the Aires cockpit in it. It was not that great of an improvement to the kit parts and it was too wide. I sealed the fuselage and inserted it as a unit up through the wing [...]

50 years ago

by Tom Cleaver on July 20, 2019 · in Uncategorized · 11 ≡

I wasn't a kid when Apollo landed on the moon. I was 25 years old. When I was a kid, I used to spend summers in Albuquerque with my aunt and uncle David and Marge Carrick (they weren't "blood" aunt and uncle, my parents didn't [...]

I-19 Japanese submarine,Monogram

by Robert Royes on July 19, 2019 · in Ships · 12 ≡

This is Monograms issue of Aurora's I-19, It's considered one of the better detailed of the Aurora submarines, it went together well. the scale is supposed to be 1/275. I added Das Boot 505,another Mon/Aurora box scale, an older build. [...]

Video: Apollo 11 50th anniversary – 1/72 Nasa Model Diorama

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1/48 Tamiya Crusader MkII

by Darren Dickerson on July 19, 2019 · in Armor · 5 ≡

Hi Everyone This kit is a cracker, enjoyed it as much as any kit I have ever built. OOB bar the antenna (RB Models) Happy Modelling Darren

On This Day–Apollo 11 Day 4

by Chuck A. Villanueva on July 19, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 17 ≡

19 July 1969, it is day 4, it has been 62 hours since launch, Columbia is now only 32,000 nautical miles from the Moon. They are traveling at a speed of 3782 feet per second. Houston has noted that the velocity has picked up in the [...]

Airfix 1/48 Spitfire F XIVe

by Tom Cleaver on July 19, 2019 · in Aviation · 23 ≡

It's a strange but interesting fact that the only "built for that specific powerplant" Spitfire to achieve a large production run was the Mk.I; while there were several other Marks specifically designed to make maximum benefit of [...]