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Airfix Spitfire Mk1a 1/72 Starter Kit
Hi, everybody. This is my first contribution as an article to iModeler. Some years ago I bought this Spitfire MK1a Starter Kit for my then 16 yo step son, but he never got interested in modelling. Anyway, some years later I found this when [...]
Italeri 1/72 F-111A Aardvark
Built OOB except added crew, and swapped out 1000 lb iron bombs for r******d bombs. Was a pretty nice kit - a bit difficult to get the exhaust nozzles snuggled up next to the fuselage once everything was put together. I used a panel line [...]
MBB BO105 M VBH, 8054, 16th Anti Tank Regiment FGAA Celle 1982.
1/72 Airfix, OOB, finished in Humbrol and MM enamels with Tamiya X22 over kit decals. built pre 2004.
1/72 Ilyushin IL-28 Bomber (h-5 Bomber)
This is a Trumpeter Kit,I bought on line for $1.99cents,yes cheap,and that's what the kit reflected,Trumpeter I read took over some kits from Italeri,and this was some of their early tooling.all guide pins had to be sanded,and so many [...]
Airfix Dogfight Double 1/72 F4F-4 Wildcat vs B5N2 Kate
This display represents the factual interception of LT Tomonaga Joichi, commander of the Hiryu's Air Group by LCDR James Thach commander of the Yorktown's Air Group.
LT Tomonaga led the Hiryu's second strike force of 10 Kate's and 6 Zeros [...]
1/72 Fujimi D3A Val dive bomber
This model is marked as the aircraft of the commander of the dive bomber squadron on the IJN Hiryu, LT Kobayashi Michio. He led the Hiryu's first attack of 18 Val's & 6 Zeros that launched at about 1045. After allowing his fighter [...]
Skymax 1/72d TBD-1 & Airfix 1/72d A6M2
I've decided to concentrate on the history rather than the models in my Midway GB posts.
12 TBD-1's of VT-3 led by LCDR Lance E. (Lem) Massey spotted the Japanese carriers at about 1015. Initially the Zeros were kept at bay by their [...]
Academy 1/72 F4 Wildcat. Lt Wilmer. E. Rawie
Lt. Wilmer E. Rawie
The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting a Gold Star in lieu of a Second Award of the Distinguished Flying Cross to Lieutenant, Junior Grade Wilmer Ernest Rawie (NSN: 0-81338), United [...]
North American X15, 66670, NASA, Edwards Air Force Base California 1961.
1/72 Monogram, I shortened the fuselage and removed some things to convert the kit back to the original X15, hinged the rudder and elevators also scribed the panel lines, finished in Revell and MM enamels with Future and Xtracrylix flat [...]
Meanwhile back in the north, 1/72 Hasegawa P-40E 18th F.S.,11th A.F. Adak
Actually according to what I read, the 18th F.S. didn't arrive in the Aleutians with their P-40's until the late 1942. So technically it's not part of the group? Anyway this is the old Hasegawa kit build right out of the box, including [...]
