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An early B-17: before the Flying Fortress became a legend!

Does a B-17 Flying Fortress really need to be presented in modelling circles? Probably not, if it is a representative of the thousands of E, F or G versions built, but very well, if one is faced with the early variant B-17B as in this [...]

PLAAF Kong Jiang-1 AWACS Conversion

In 1953 the Soviets transferred twenty-five Tupolev Tu-4 “Bull” bombers (a direct copy of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress) to the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force. The Chinese flew these aircraft in front-line units as [...]

B 24 J Academy, 31 squadron SAAF during the airlift to Warsaw. August 1944.

(link) (link) (link) Actually, it's hard to add anything here, having such excellent material on YT, which I am attaching. These are the memories of pilots during the mission over Warsaw. I am particularly connected with the topic of South [...]

NH Industries MRH 90, A40-005, 5 Avn Reg AAAC, Townsville Qld 2012.

1/72 Revell, my second "NH90" built 02-2022 to 12-2023 for the Helicopter GB, more details, pic's there ! A40-005, the first aircraft assembled at the Eurocopter facility in Brisbane Qld 2007.

E-75 s.Pz.Jg Ausf.M 10,5cm L/62 (1/72)

E-75 variant as heavy tank destroyer. I derived "Ausf.M" from the Marder III Ausf.M, which indicates a design with a centrally mounted engine. The E-Tank series is quite popular with me, because I find the design with the many [...]

Jak-3,1.French regiment " Normandie Niemen" 303 FAD USSR, Pilot komandir Marcel Albert Spring 1945.

Jak-3 1.French regiment " Normandie Niemen" 303 FAD USSR, Pilot komandir Marcel Albert Spring 1945. After some fiddling and a lot of putty I finished it. I used an exhaust from Quicboost, Aires propeller and spinner and height [...]

1/72 Heller Dewoitine D.520

I finished this Dewoitine D.520 in 1/72 scale from Heller in 2023. It's a very old tooled kit, with raised panel lines, thick undercarriage doors, no detail inside the wheel wells and just the seat inside the cockpit. Fortunately the [...]

Eduard Spitfire Mk.IXc

The 1/72-scale Eduard Spitfire Mk.IXc is a phenomenon. This is my first Eduard kit, so I’d like to give my impressions. As I think is generally understood, Eduard kits are of high-quality: excellent detail, well-molded and engineered, [...]

1/72 Academy Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat

In this article I'll show a Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat in 1/72 scale from Academy that I finished by september, 2023. It represents the fighter flown by Lt. Richard Stambook within the VF-17 sqn. on board at the WWII USS Princeton aircraft [...]

1/72 Tamiya Republic P-47D Thunderbolt

For my third article on iModeler I'll show my latest model, a Tamiya Republic P-47D Thunderbolt "razorback" in 1/72 scale which was finished on April of this year. It's my second "razorback" kit, the first one was an [...]