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1/700 Korea Navy Ponokseon 1592
Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98)
(link)Korea(1592–98)
Panokseon :(link)
Manufacturer : Artist hobby
Scale : 1/700
General Yi Sun-sin has won all 23 naval battles on the Panokseon. He is one of the best naval commanders in history.
Work in progress: Belgian diorama – evacuating the wounded...
Happy New Year to everybody. I have not posted anything in a long time and this morning my good friend, Marc Barris called me and told me to get out of my modeling closet. So thinking about what he told me I decided to post one of my [...]
Modeling a street industry building in 1/24 scale
The material used here are form board through out the entire diorama. The asphalt is represented by fine grade sand paper. The sidewalk is formboard painted with a concrete color mix, I had mixed at my local paint store. I used the same [...]
Close Contact
This diorama was scratch built diorama built back in 2014. The scale is 1/35. The dio is pretty much done for the exception of one more figure to be added. The last figure will be a boy pointing to the corner of the building, alerting the [...]
Truck Docking Bay
The truck docking bay was scratch built using foam-board and lots and lots of small misc. materials from my big box of miscellaneous stuff. The trailer is from Italeri, which I added some scratch built parts to it. The forklift is a toy, [...]
1/144 KC-135 refueling a B-2 Spirit Bomber
I uploaded a few WIP pics of this little diorama a few months ago and after languishing on the shelf for a few months, I decided to finish the build. I don't normally build anything smaller than 1/72, but these two at 1/144 were the [...]
Iwo Jima Amphibious operations
1/700 Scale
This diorama is Iwo jima landing operation.
Actually, the actual landing was carried out with LVT and Sherman Tank, but the LVT and sherman tank's details were very low. So I exclude them.
This diorama is distant from [...]
Leyte Gulf; the Orphans of the USS Princeton.
This is my first attempt at a diorama and it's been a steep learning curve. I wanted to create a scene that captured something of the spirit of the carrier groups that fought so bravely such a long way from home in the Pacific.
The 'Work [...]
1/700 SBD-Dauntless
1/700 Scale
Trumpeter SBD-Dauntless
I made ripples with AK Interactive's Water Gel Transparent.
White waves...Using Vallejo's Foam Effect.
Franz Stigler and Charlie Brown; a story for the generations.
I think most people on iModeler will know of the story of Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler. On the return journey home from a bombing raid on Germany in December 1943, 20 year old pilot Charlie Brown nursed his critically injured B-17 [...]