1/48 scale modeling
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Thank you Robert Royes, aka roofrat!
A late arrival, mostly due to me because I havent been here in a week to check the mail, but I would like to thank Mr. Robert Royes, who sent me this 1/48 scale M4 Sherman and Fw 190 by monogram. This came with a display, so keep an eye [...]
1/48 Scale P-47D Thunderbolt "SWEET MUSIC."
Back in 2007 I found a photo of this P-47D Thunderbolt and I bought a kit of it. The decals came from "AeroMaster Decals." When we moved from Colorado in 2016 to a town near the Los Angeles area of California, the model was [...]
Airfix 1/48 Bolton Paul Defiant
Very nice kit from Airfix and rare topiic from WWII RAF.
1/48 Scale Testor’s “Gates Learjet”
There are other LearJets here on "iModeler" so I'll enclose mine and show a couple of new things that I tried out.
First off I painted the inside of the windows with some medium blue colored Tamiya gloss paint then looked at it [...]
Freezin´Wulf…Eduard 1/48 Focke-Wulf Fw190A-4 “Greenheart”
Built in 2017.
When Eduard released the new genetration 190, my dad had to build one. Finally also the first model of our Austrian WW2 leading ace Nowotny.
The kit is definitely to recommend. Fit and engineering are far better then with [...]
Green Ghost
Hi All,
Built this some time ago. Tamiya kit, Aries cockpit and after market decals. This airframe was put into service late in the war and survived into peacetime. Number 93 squadron were called the Green Ghosts and had a relatively [...]
Major Walter Sigel’s Ju 87R-2 from Stab I./StG 3 – The Aircraft
This is my first post and will be the first part of a series of articles ( at least I hope it will work that way) documenting my build of the Ju 87R-2 flown by Major Walter Sigel Commanding Officer (Grupenkomandeur) from I./St.G 3 in the [...]
White Turkey...Hobby Boss 1/48 Grumman TBM-1C Avenger ASW US Navy
Built in 2016.
Initially my dad wanted to build a RN Mk.I with the Hobby Boss kit. After examining the kit we found out that the intended version wasn´t possible oob, no bubble side windows, no observer seat behind the pilot, no cowl gun. [...]
Eduard Me Bf 109G-6
W. Nr 165350, flown by Lt Anton Hafner, the C/O of 8./JG 51, Tilsit-Ost, August 1944.
Nothing to say about the kit, other than it's close to perfection. No flash or sink marks worth commenting on, and there was not one instance of my [...]
Modelsvit's P-51H Mustang
History:
The original Allison-powered Mustang was a lightweight fighter with excellent handling capability. Pilots I know who have had the opportunity to fly these early Mustangs and compare them with the later Merlin-powered P-51B and [...]
