The Destroyer Channel at iModeler (10 articles)

The Destroyer Channel at iModeler

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10 articles
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1/700 Fuyuzuki (Akizuki Type)

by Evan Franklin on June 16, 2020
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Aoshima 1/700 Yoizuki kit with the Five Star Fuyuzuki upgrade kit: The upgrade kit is essential for this build as the original kit is pretty basic. I also added aftermarket rope reels and built the wood base and acrylic case myself. For this bu[...]

HNoMS St. Albans – Mirage Hobby 1/400

by Nikos Kosmadakis on March 29, 2020
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Finally got some time on the bench in 2020. Needed something small to get me going again, so I gave a go at the four-stack destroyer of Mirage Hobby. The build is OOB with the addition of some generic 1/350 railings. Hope you like it! Comments[...]

Toon Time Again: Fujimi “Toon” Ships

by George R Blair Jr on September 11, 2019
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I have built a bunch of the "toon" tanks, planes, and ships over the last few years, usually as a way to decompress from some of my more intricate builds. I had previously built four Meng "toon" ships before and really enjoyed them, so when I [...]

1/700 IJN Destroyer Asashio

by Alex Kuo on July 6, 2019
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Hello fellow modelers, This is the IJN Destroyer Asashio, my 5th attempt at 1/700 scale modelling. My first three 1/700 builds were just straight out of the box build, then I discovered the wonderful world of aftermarket super detailed PE sets[...]

Japanese Destroyer Ayanami 1/700

by Carlo Farina on March 3, 2019
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Hello guys, this is the destroyer Ayanami who is veering to avoid a torpedo while an American torpedo bomber crashes nearby. It’s a 1/700 kit from Hasegawa with photoetched parts from Tetra model, the torpedo bomber came from tamiya. This diora[...]

1/700 U.S.S. Fletcher (Matchbox) – weekend rebuild

by Michael Smith on February 3, 2019
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I've had this old Matchbox 1/700 Fletcher destroyer model for at least 25 years. I had built it partway down to the detail parts and left it, as shown in the picture to the right (no U.S. flag). Last weekend I decided that I wanted to take on [...]

Scratch built type 45 destroyer.

by Derek Matile on January 31, 2019
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This is a scratch built model of HMS Diamond type 45 Destroyer. I copied the dimensions from a 1/700 kit times 3 =1.233 scale.The hull is calved from a block of pine,the rest is ply.I also built Daring and Dauntless to the same scale.

1/350 Uss James E Williams DDG-95

by Olli-Pekka Immonen on December 1, 2018
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Hello! My first post here in iModeler! Though not new to modeling , here's one of my latest ship models I've finished. Trumpeters kit of Uss Momsen was used as a base. Mostly every detail was first cleaned off and everything was build up using[...]

DDG-67 USS Cole

by Sebastijan Videc on April 27, 2018
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Hello fellow iModelers! Looking at David's masterpiece model of a CV-6 Enterprise, and since there's not much ship models posted, I've decided to showcase my only (apart from several submarines) ship model so far. Arleigh Burke class guided mi[...]

Fleet’s In.

by Robert Royes on December 23, 2016
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First up Airfix's Rommel converted to USS Richard E Byrd 1/600 scale. Both were of the Charles Adams class DDG, with differences in radar and mast layout. Second- Zvezda's November class nuclear submarine.1/350 scale Third- Revell's reissue of[...]