The Kitty Hawk Channel at iModeler (40 articles)

The Kitty Hawk Channel at iModeler

Kitty Hawk model kits

Items tagged with Kitty Hawk
40 articles
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Kitty Hawk UH-1H Huey

by Ramon R. Lomeli on January 4, 2021
in Aviation — 16 Comments

Hello iModeler! This is my Kitty Hawk Huey kit finished as a Vietnam War era aircraft using Werner's Wings decals. Typical Kitty hawk kit with typical Kitty Hawk issues, but it is still the BEST Huey kit in this scale by far, and I would not m[...]

P-39 Airacobra Kitty Hawk

by Artur Domanski on August 19, 2020
in Aviation — 11 Comments

Another model goes to my shelf. This time, a design that appears at competitions quite sporadically, namely the P-39 Airacobra. The model itself is quite nice, but I added Eduard plates, HGW belts, Master barrels and Eduard exhaust pipes. Markin[...]

Saab JAS39 Gripen; 1:48

by Manuel Magrinho on August 11, 2020
in Aviation — 18 Comments

In the late 1970s, Sweden sought to replace its ageing Saab 35 Draken and Saab 37 Viggen. An affordable Mach 2 aircraft with good short-field performance for a defensive dispersed basing plan in the event of invasion was required; the plan i[...]

North American T-28B Trojan Kitty Hawk 1/32

by Tomáš Pelej on May 24, 2020
in Aviation — 14 Comments

VT-27, NAS Corpus Christi, Texas 1981 Construction from a box, I added some wires Marking completely sprayed, Mr.Paint colors

1/48 Kitty Hawk UH-1Y Venom

by Boris Grgić on February 2, 2020
in Aviation — 4 Comments

A beutiful kit by Kitty Hawk, I recomend it to everyone who is looking for detailed and quality helicopter kit. For $40 it includes detailed cockpit panels, colored paint/decal instructions and PE parts for seatbelts and fuselage details. Parts [...]

Kity Hawk 1/48 FJ-2 Fury

by Tom Cleaver on November 29, 2019
in Aviation — 18 Comments

History: By the end of November, 1950, the Navy knew that its main fleet fighter, the Grumman F9F-2 Panther, was seriously outclassed by the opposition. LCDR William T. Ament of VF-112 had shot down the first MiG-15 confirmed by the Soviet reco[...]

Just arrived on my porch: Kitty Hawk 1/48 FJ-2 Fury

by Tom Cleaver on November 18, 2019
in News — 9 Comments

Big announcement: Kitty Hawk is no longer S-h-itty Hawk here at Le Chateau du Chat. I took the plunge last week and picked up a new FJ-2 kit ($50 included delivery from Shenzen China), since the computer views I had seen looked better than prev[...]

Barber 51- Kitty Hawk’s AH-6J, Operation Gothic Serpent, Mogadishu, 1993

by Ramon R. Lomeli on August 10, 2019
in Aviation — 22 Comments

Hello iModeler! Here is my 1/35th scale Kitty Hawk AH-6J finished as Barber 51 during the battle of Mogadishu, Somalia, 3 OCT 1993. I used detail sets from Werner's Wings, to include the exhaust shroud, FLIR and the AH-6J / MH-6J Update/Correc[...]

F2H-2 Banshee on USS Essex Korean War Diorama

by Michael E Rieth on May 31, 2019
in Diorama — 24 Comments

This photo was the inspiration for creating the diorama using the 1/48th scale Kitty Hawk F2H-2/2P Banshee with my Rieth Creations Resin Correction Set. I found it a very interesting juxtaposition ("primitive" to 1950s modern), how the men we[...]

On This Day…May 25th.

by david leigh-smith on May 25, 2019
in Photo Collections — 21 Comments

Nice set of Spitfire references for weathering. Spitfire MkVb of RAF 222 Squadron (ZD-H) named ‘Flying Scotsman’ In Essex, England, 25th of May, 1942. Pilot, South African Flight Lieutenant Laurie, is a flier of the 222 Squadron (Natal[...]