The Kitty Hawk Channel at iModeler (35 articles)

The Kitty Hawk Channel at iModeler

Kitty Hawk model kits

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Kity Hawk 1/48 FJ-2 Fury

by Tom Cleaver on November 29, 2019
in Aviation — 17 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[...]

“Let me at ’em”

by gary sausmikat on March 31, 2019
in Aviation — 12 Comments

Hi All, This vignette, “Let me at-em”, I completed about two years ago, portrays an excited trainee and an old-hand instructor just back from a training flight. The build includes the 1/32, Kitty Hawk, T-6 Texan kit, using the SNJ scheme suppl[...]

Kittyhawk 1/48 McDonnell F2H-2 Banshee (corrected)

by Tom Cleaver on March 30, 2019
in Aviation — 15 Comments

The first jet aircraft to be used successfully operationally from a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier was the McDonnell FH-1 Phantom. The aircraft was not really combat ready and was transferred to the naval reserves by 1949, disappearing from service [...]

Building Mig-25PD 1/48 Kitty Hawk

by Josef Rössner on February 18, 2019
in Aviation — 7 Comments

This is some moments of my second build this year. The kit from Kittyhawk has some mistakes and I used PE parts from Eduard, metal pitot tube from Model Master and resin parts (nose and engine) from Barracuda, but the resin engines were too long[...]

Kitty Hawk 1/48 XF5U-1 “Flying Flapjack”

by Eric Berg on January 30, 2019
in Aviation — 13 Comments

I really like modeling propeller driven X-planes. When Kitty Hawk came out with this 48th scale XF5U-1 “Flying Flapjack” in early 2016, I jumped on it. I built this straight out of the box as it has everything you need including PE seat harnes[...]

Kitty Hawk F2H-2 Banshee

by Marvin Reyes on October 27, 2018
in Aviation — 20 Comments

This is the Kitty Hawk F2H-2 done almost OOB, using kit decals. I added Furball canopy decals, along with a scratched metal pitot. Reading the reviews of this KH kit is not very much fun, because they highlight a lot of problems that this kit ha[...]