The Kitty Hawk Channel at iModeler (32 articles)

The Kitty Hawk Channel at iModeler

Kitty Hawk model kits

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32 articles
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“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[...]

1/48 Kitty Hawk F-35B

by George Johnson on September 24, 2018
in Aviation — 20 Comments

I was getting ready for a contest here in Portland so I didn't have a chance to get around to working on my Kitty Hawk F-35B. Here's a shot of some additional progress I made on the engine this weekend. The kit is a contradiction of really preci[...]

Kitty Hawk F-101C Voodoo

by Marvin Reyes on September 13, 2018
in Aviation — 28 Comments

I've had this Kitty Hawk kit since it came out a couple years ago, but it kept getting put on the back burner due to other projects cutting in line. Well, I finally decided to finish the Voodoo, especially since Kitty Hawk has decided to release[...]

“Year of the Cat” Kitty Hawk 1/48th SEPECAT Jaguar GR. Mk 1A RAF Operation Granby

by Chuck A. Villanueva on June 24, 2018
in Aviation — 14 Comments

12 RAF Coltishall Jaguars were sent to Muharraq International Airport, Bahrain in October of 1990. Here would be their base of operation throughout if and when the war would start. Several modifications were made to each of the Jags in[...]

Saturday, Dec 6th, 1941…

by gary sausmikat on June 18, 2018
in Diorama — 23 Comments

Hi all, Presenting a recently completed diorama/vignette. The Story (please allow my fictional, artistic license)….A USS Arizona Kingfisher crew out scrounging supplies for the Saturday night party back at the O-Club….Dec 6, 1941. I think we [...]

MiG-25 PDS “Foxbat”

by Rafael Michael Drozdzowski on April 27, 2018
in Aviation — 10 Comments

MiG-25PDS, belonged to 146th Guardian Fighter Aviation Regiment by the name 60th anniversary of VLKSM (youth communist organisation in USSR), 8th Separate Aerial Army of USSR Air Defence System, Vasilkov, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, 198[...]