The 1/400 Channel at iModeler (11 articles)

The 1/400 Channel at iModeler

Items tagged with 1/400
11 articles
Last addition 2 weeks, 5 days ago

Hell(er) of Mine

by caudelguille on June 25, 2020
in Diorama — 7 Comments

Very old and tiny kit of the minesweeper "Mercure" from the french brand Heller. I chose the ship to experiment a diorama using Andrea water and Pébéo Studio Acrylic gloss gel. I added El Arsenal photo-etched railings and Oerlikon canon, and Edu[...]

HNoMS St. Albans – Mirage Hobby 1/400

by Nikos Kosmadakis on March 29, 2020
in Ships — 5 Comments

Finally got some time on the bench in 2020. Needed something small to get me going again, so I gave a go at the four-stack destroyer of Mirage Hobby. The build is OOB with the addition of some generic 1/350 railings. Hope you like it! Comments[...]

Torpedoboot V105 – 1/400 Mirage Hobby

by Marek Targowicz on January 4, 2020
in Ships — 5 Comments

This is my first "proper" build nearly 10 years ago after longer break from modelling. I chose 1/400 scale V106 torpedo boat kit from the Polish Mirage Hobby range. In addition I used dedicated Mirage PE set 008-40028 plus some scratch. I wante[...]

Album ORP KASZUB 1/400 Mirage Hobbies

by Nikos Kosmadakis on October 7, 2019
in Ships — 9 Comments

A small one to get me started again. Masts replaced with brass tubing, and the rock is made of styrofoam.

U60 – Uboottyp IIC – 1/400 Mirage Hobby

by Marek Targowicz on June 24, 2019
in Ships — 12 Comments

This is a Uboat type IIc – U60 – in its late 1940 guise. I have extensively reshaped and modified kiosque and the bow shape of the hull supplied in Mirage's kit. PE deck and limber holes came from Mirage's dedicated set no.00540025. All other fi[...]

B-123 – proj.705K Lira (NATO: Alfa) – 1/400 (Maquette)

by Marek Targowicz on May 24, 2019
in Ships — 9 Comments

Again, one of my older models - this time a B-123 – proj. 705K Lira (NATO: Alfa) – class submarine. It shows the sub in her 1990 guise. Building process was quite long (ca. 5 months) and although the shape of Maquette kit is fairly accurate, the[...]

1/144 scale Airbus A-400M (RMAF) scheme

by Mee Wan on September 3, 2018
in Aviation — 8 Comments

Good day to all ! This is my first post regarding aviation subject lets start with a brief history of the aircraft . The A-400M "Atlas" was added to the Royal Malaysian Air Force inventory back in early 2015 after its purchase by the Malaysian[...]

Duguay Trouin (D611) – Heller 1/400

by Claudio Corral del Castillo on June 18, 2018
in Ships — 3 Comments

Greetings fellow modelers! Some time ago I posted the Duquesne 1/400 from Heller ( and I've already explained the problems that it gave to me, but with this one (which is for the same customer as the Duquesne) it was a total different story. O[...]

Duquesne (D603) – Heller 1/400

by Claudio Corral del Castillo on May 22, 2018
in Ships — 15 Comments

Someone told me some time ago, that a good modeler is the one who can make a bad model look nice. In this case, I think it's true. One of my customers ordered me this french frigate from Heller. I've never built any ship from Heller, so I gave [...]

* ORP Sokół – 1/400 – Mirage

by Çetin SARF on April 23, 2018
in Ships — 17 Comments

* "ORP Sokół (Polish: Falcon) was a U-class submarine (formerly HMS Urchin) built by Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness. Shortly after launching in September 1940 she was to be commissioned by the Royal Navy as HMS Urchin, but instead was le[...]