The Marines Channel at iModeler (8 articles)

The Marines Channel at iModeler

Items tagged with Marines
8 articles
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Monogram F4U-5

by Scott Nelson on September 12, 2020
in Aviation — 10 Comments

Stopped in Hobby Lobby after visiting with my dad one day and decided to pick up this old Monogram Corsair as a bit of a nostalgia build. The age of the molds (1963 © on the belly) showed as I had to spend a lot of time cleaning up flash on near[...]

Tamiya 1/48th Scale Corsair

by Rick Schad on March 17, 2020
in Aviation — 11 Comments

Well while we try and stay coronavirus free I am doing a lot of model building. Here is my finished Tamiya 1/48 scale F4-U Corsair. I have to say this was the worst fitting Tamiya kit that I have built. Weak wing assemblies, weak landing gear a[...]

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[...]

1/35th USMC M1A1 Norway 2016

by Jason Vukovich on April 18, 2019
in Armor — 8 Comments

Another Abrams, this time I built Tamiya's 1/35th M1A2 Operation Iraqi Freedom kit into a USMC M1A1 in Norway for Exercise Reindeer II in 2016. Tamiya includes the Marine M1A1 as an option in this boxing. I added a bustle rack extension from [...]

U. S. Marines in Mangrove Swamp

by Thomas Sweeney on June 4, 2018
in Diorama — 5 Comments

I can hear Bernie now Not a Marine diorama Tom

A-4M Skyhawk (1:32, Trumpeter)

by Martin Dytrych on May 13, 2018
in Aviation — 10 Comments

This is special build for my friend and his colection. The kit is avegare quality, big advantage is perfect fitting of all parts and clear instruction sheet, plus there is full buffet of weapons you can put on. The kit offers also opening of som[...]

Marine Landing

by John Staehle on July 23, 2014
in How-to — 5 Comments

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, etc. I t[...]