The Aurora Channel at iModeler (36 articles)

The Aurora Channel at iModeler

Aurora model kits

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36 articles
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Some odd old parts wanted…

by Jaime Carreon on June 2, 2020
in Uncategorized — 1 Comment

Not sure if this is the place to post this, but I didn't see the marketplace in the groups section. I'm looking for some old parts; need canopies for a 1/42 Strombecker / Aurora TT-1 Pinto, and for the 1/48 Hawk / Testors F2H Banshee. Hope som[...]

A Trip down Memory Lane…The Aurora, Revell, Monogram Models Story

by James B Robinson on April 5, 2020
in News — 9 Comments

Something I stumbled upon from a fellow modeller. A brief History of some of the giants in models. Enjoy.

Boeing F4B-4 dive-bomber

by Robert Knaack on March 23, 2020
in Aviation — 17 Comments

Built from 1928-1935, with tube steel fuselage, wood wings with fabric covering, ailerons of corrugated aluminum. The US Navy began heavily investigating the tactic of dive bombing in the 1920s and 1930s. Of aircraft in current service at the ti[...]

Atlantis Turbo prop!

by Rob Anderson on January 8, 2020
in Uncategorized — 11 Comments

I am so happy Atlantis has started re-popping these old Revell, Monogram an Aurora kits. If you could have found one of these the price would have been prohibitive. For me my wife got me this for Christmas! It is very much like the engines I [...]

P-38 Lightning Review Part 2,Hasegawa 1/48th

by Chuck A. Villanueva on November 2, 2019
in Reviews — 24 Comments

Ever since Tamiya announced the that they were going to do a P-38 earlier this year, it was like wow and ever since that we have been impatiently waiting for it to hit the shelves. With one numb nut know it all swearing they will not do an earl[...]

I-19 Japanese submarine,Monogram

by Robert Royes on July 19, 2019
in Ships — 10 Comments

This is Monograms issue of Aurora's I-19, It's considered one of the better detailed of the Aurora submarines, it went together well. the scale is supposed to be 1/275. I added Das Boot 505,another Mon/Aurora box scale, an older build. The I-19[...]

Aurora 1/8 “Fraankensteen”…monogram illuminators re-pop-

by bob mack on April 18, 2019
in Figures — 14 Comments

More than a hundred years ago, in a mountain village in Switzerland, lived a man who's strange experiments with the dead have since become legend.,the legend is still told the world over, the legend of Fraankensteen ahhgh,pig snort, gasp...why[...]

Aurora 1/8 “BATMAN”

by bob mack on April 15, 2019
in Figures — 14 Comments

actually the Revell knock-off as the original Aurora had Batman written on the tree Holy Smokes Batman as a young man he served as "batboy" for the Gotham city Yankees zoinks kapow I thought the searchlight was the bomb but i always wondere[...]

M8E2 Munitions Carrier, US Army, 1/48 Aurora, Blast from the past.

by Robert Royes on February 13, 2019
in Armor — 7 Comments

I found this on ebay, along Aurora's MBT 70,[which I have already built]. The M8 was based on the M41 Walker bulldog chassis, It was developed in the 1950s. Don't no much more about its operational use.Now I have something to resupply the M109 P[...]

MBT 70, a cold war mistake, Aurora, 1/48

by Robert Royes on June 6, 2018
in Armor — 20 Comments

Having recently arrived with their new tanks, the crews were confident yet apprehensive about their ability to confront the new tanks from the East. They hadn't even been on maneuvers yet when the alert was sounded, they made it to their positio[...]