Aurora model kits
The Aurora Database at iModeler
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Innovative, superior, ahead of its time- and rejected: the Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne
The original: Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne
Some aircraft are astonishing - and the AH-56 Cheyenne undoubtedly belongs to this category. The appearance of this aircraft is astonishing, the flight performance amazes and the short but intense [...]
Classic Kit: Aurora 1/48 P-38 Restoration
This is a labor of love. I wanted to see if I could build a broken relic into something presentable. I learned about the P-38 when I build this kit as a child and I would fly it around outside shooting down me109s and what have you. The [...]
The Invaders!
The Invaders: Alien beings from another planet.
Their destination: The Earth.
Their purpose: To make it their own.
It began with a closed deserted diner and a man too long without sleep to continue his journey. It began with a craft from [...]
1/48 Aurora Fokker D-VII
Built this one a while ago. Lozenge decals by America’s Gryphon. Checkerboard hand done on flat white with black India ink. The “Mimi” was drawn on white decal film. I rather like how it turned out.
Brian Riedel
1/48 Aurora SPAD XIII
An Aurora SPAD XIII’s, one being an original kit with decals by Aeromaster.
Brian Riedel
Some odd old parts wanted...
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. [...]
A Trip down Memory Lane..........The Aurora, Revell, Monogram Models Story
Something I stumbled upon from a fellow modeller. A brief History of some of the giants in models.
Enjoy.
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Boeing F4B-4 dive-bomber
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 [...]
Atlantis Turbo prop!
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 [...]
Review: P-38 Lightning Review Part 2,Hasegawa 1/48th
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 [...]
