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1/48 scale modeling

Any landing you walk away from is a good one….

This is the 1/48 Eduard French Nieuport Ni-11, my first ever Bi-Plane, and last completed build of 2016. I have always wanted to build a WW1 Bi-Plane but never got around to it until now. Its from the box (with the addition of rigging) and [...]

Just Under the Wire

My last completed kit for 2016, making it 13 finished models for the year. That's the most I've completed in a year for many, many years. I present the Tamiya 1/48 JGSDF Type 10 Tank. As I and many others have said before, these kits go [...]

Revell 1/48 P-38 Lightning

A blast from the recent pass. This kit has been around forever so I thought I would try my hand at a natural metal finish. Used Tamiya TS-17 gloss aluminum from a rattle can. Then added some True Detail wheels and an UltraCast seat. Got [...]

1/48 Revell F4u-7 Corsair

This is my last build for 2016.I hope you like it

1/48 Hobby Boss T-34

This is the first Hobby Boss kit I've built, and I was not ready for all the internal detail, complete engine and crew compartment - what a fabulous kit! Unfortunately with what I had planned for it I never built the interior, except for [...]

RAF P-47s

Not totally oddball but 2 1/48 P-47s that served with the 73OTU in Fayid, Egypt,1945. The razorback was a Monogram kit and the bubbletop was Academy. Decals by LPS Decals "British Thunderbolts" and Iliad Decals "RAF [...]

1/48 Airfix B.P Defiant Mk.I

Hello Folks My latest and last in 2016 completed build. This time Defiant Mk.I from Airfix in 1/48 scale. Pretty nice kit maybe the panel lines a little bit soft and out of scale, but goes together no problem it all. Decals I used for this [...]

1/48 Tamiya F4U-1 Birdcage Corsair “Daphne C” Bureau number 03829, VMF-213, Captain James Cupp

Tonight's article is about the second F4U from my very first article here on Imodeller. This one is hot off the work bench. It's one of 3 early Corsair builds that I had going on at the same time. Two were by Tamiya and one was from [...]

1/48 AMT F7F-2N Tigercat night fighter

Hi all, I hope you are having a good Christmastime with friends and family. I have had this kit sitting for a while waiting to get the outer wing panels properly set to finish the kit. It is the AMT 1/48 F7F-2N. I made use of Obscureco [...]

Homage to Jim Goodson

I am late, I know. He died more than two years ago. But I actually built this diorama before his death. James Goodson has always been one of my favorite air aces of WII. He is one of those guys that never achieved the popular status some [...]