Italeri model kits
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Eurofighter Typhoon
In 1983, Britain, France, Spain, Italy and West Germany formed a consortium to produce a European answer to the Su-27 and the Mig 29. France left the consortium in 1985 and Dassault subsequently produced the Rafale. In August 1986, [...]
Piasecki’s “Flying Banana”
The Piasecki H-21 Workhorse / Shawnee / Flying Banana was the US Army's first principal helicopter in Vietnam. Deployed to Vietnam as early as December 1961, the US Army's 8th. and 57th. Transportation Companies utilised the H-21 to haul [...]
Focke Wulf Ta-152 ‘Hohenjager’
The Ta-152 was a short-lived high-level interceptor fielded by the Luftwaffe towards the end of WW II. Developed from the existing Fw-190 D fighter family, it incorporated a new wing, lengthened fuselage and to attain high-altitude / high [...]
DUKW with a Big Block Chevy! What could go wrong?
Sometimes I just have to goof off. This is a 1/35 scale Italeri kit that I modified a bit by
a little engine modification, larger tires and a active rear suspension,(last photo) I really had to modify the real wheel wells to fit the tires. [...]
Fairchild AC-119K Stinger
On the night of 8 May 1970 Capt. Alan Milacek's AC 119K Stinger is patrolling over a remote corner of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Far below a convoy of North Vietnamese trucks are slowly moving down a valley hugging the Laotion border on their [...]
Staghound Mk.III
I'm not a real AFV fan, but sometimes it's very interesting to build some unusual (to me) model. This is an Italery kit in 1/35 scale. Kit also contains metal barrel, etched parts - so it's a good start for OOB build and fun.
I've replaced [...]
Marine Landing
After completing my Iwo Jima diorama for the customer, I had three DML Marines sets left over with various original parts, i.e. Guadalcanal with all the figures intact and a mix of all the remaining two sets with lots of left over arms, [...]
About the 50th P-40 here lately!
As soon as I started building this Italeri 1/48 P-40N it seems like they started coming out of the woodwork on Imodeler - which is fine with me, I love seeing everyone's different takes on this classic, a favorite of mine.
In my first post [...]
F-104G Starfighter
Here's Italeri's new-tool,1/32 F104 Starfighter. I've modelled it as the RCAF CF-104G, nuclear strike version, Cold Lake, Alberta AB,1962, which is one of ten kit livery choices but I think the only NMF version.
I used an Aires exhaust [...]
D-Day group build, Airspeed Horsa assault glider
June 6th 1944 - D-Day. What many of us , me included, may not of known was that the allied airbourne assault force in the form of 6, 28 man Horsa gliders took of from their base in the south of England at 22:56 hrs on the 5th June, the [...]
