What are the odds of finding a Kinetic 48076 F-16C/D Block 52+ Polish Air Force Advanced Viper or Kinetic 48010 F-16D Polish Air Force Advanced Viper

Hi ! Here some SOLIDO 1/50 DIE CAST , I have updated for my future airfield diorama ..If you like toi view more pics , I have set-up an GOOGLE page for the, just follow this link : https://photos.app.goo.gl/Sfrbv4rd1mMuZzrr8 Enjoy Jmarc

Just completed and set up display (less name label) for this double bust from Ignis Art. The back drop is the amin lobby of the Wisteriahurst Museum in Holyoke MA edited in Lightroom.

1/48 Hasegawa Weapons D- U.S. Smart Bombs & Target Pods 36008 Box open, sprues sealed $15.00 - OBO + shipping 1/48 Hasegawa F-16D Block 52 Plus Hellenic Air Force Box, sprues open, but complete $15.00 - OBO + shipping Did not come with kit decals or instructions, but does have printed Polish & Hellenic Air Force instructions and Techmod 1/48 POLISH F-16 Block 52+ decals OR trade both for one Trade list: 1/48 Mig 21U (No Eduard or OEZ) 1/48 Mig 21MF (No Eduard or OEZ) 1/48 Mig 21BIS (No Eduard or OEZ) !/48 Mig 19P/PF 1/48 SU series Polish AF 1/35 T-54/55 1/35 T-62 1962 1/35 T-72 - prefer Tamiya I'm in Texas Email t55mbt@outlook.com or message Billy

For my next build I will be building the Academy 1/48 scale TOW Defender 500D and using the kit decals for the Israeli Ai Force. This kit does lack some details so there will be some scratch building of the missing details. I started off with the pod for the nose. The kit does not provide any details under the lens so I used some styrene to make the inside panel. I used a reference photo to replicate the panel. I then assembled the TOW missile launchers that mount on the sides of the fuselage. The reference photos show cabling from the fuselage thru the wing and into the pod. The kit does not provide this detail but I will add them later once they are mounted to the fuselage. Next I started working on the cockpit and interior. The bulkheads have no details on them. I used some photo etch pieces to add the details. It looks like the inside of the fuselage halves will also need a lot of work due to the large mold marks. Switching over to the cockpit side I added seatbelts to the seats. One big detail that is missing is the cyclic control stick. I used some styrene rod and photo etch to replicate them. The instrument panel has no raised details and a very basic decal is supplied for the panel as well as the center console. I found some nice reference photos and created my own decals of them. The kit foot pedals were huge so I trim them down. I am going to wait to install the instrument panel until after the interior id mounted inside the fuselage. I am currently working on the indie of the fuselage halves. Once the mold marks are corrected I need to use some styrene to replicate the inside ribbing. You can see all the photos and details from the start in the build log at: https://davidsscalemodels.com/build-log/1-48-tow-defender-500d-helicopter/

Hello Gentlemen and Ladies Trying to restart my love and passion for model building, now that I’m retired and have slowed down a little with Wifey’s "sweetie let’s go here…" I’m really looking forward to joining a chapter meeting people and attending one of the big conventions. My interest has been cars, old and new, military Jets, and modern 1:35 military. Right now I’m working on a LE figures and diorama. THANK YOU for letting me come hangout Eugene

Hi ! Here another project I have done in the past , this was a club challenge , one fellow was providing with an resin fuselage of an BOEING P-12 and outer wing of an P-38 LIGHTNING , and the ideal was to create something with it.. Here what mine turn out .. . the fellow who gave us the parts name is GADBOIS and he live on POLPEAUX street , so I call this project GABOISI POLPO, if you like to view more pics , just follow this GOOGLE link: https://photos.app.goo.gl/ary4FzcLzpVP1mtd7 Enjoy ! Jmarc

HI ! Here another project that I been working on the side ,I plan to do several of them … but lets start with this one from the 'NEXT GENERATION serie '… If you like to view the complete WIP on this project, just follow this Google link : https://photos.app.goo.gl/UECshHgpHyfRTFHJA Here where I'm at : (JAN 22th )....Today ,I continue working on the landing ponton ! If you like to view the complete WIP on this project, just follow this Google link : https://photos.app.goo.gl/UECshHgpHyfRTFHJA Enjoy ! Jmarc

I know I'm late, but it's been a crazy, busy first of the year. Most of our departments will be open; however the Motor Pool 'crew' is still on hiatus for another couple weeks. Still, there's lots to see in the Hangar and Shipyards, I'll be showing almost everything I have under construction that I'm putting a priority on to finish. So let's board the trams and go see what we're working on in this new year! Starting in the Hangar, we have these.... In the first bay, we have the F-35 that was started a few months ago: The next bay has the cockpit assembly for the E-2C Hawkeye started a couple months ago as well: Next to that is the F-15E Strike Eagle, almost ready for final assembly and paint: The next bay has a gift from a friend, the British Harrier Jet: In the next bay we have the British Swordfish that was started some time ago: This one has the decals done and is ready for rigging. In the next bay, is the Fairey Seafox, all painted and ready for further assembly: In this next bay, is the F-86 that I got in another kit; still trying to determine what country I'll place it with: In the next bay here, we have the beginnings of the French F-84G, cockpit and nose intake: In the next bay over is one I've been wanting to add to my Italian Air Force, this is the MBB-323: In this bay, another cockpit started, this time for the An-2 Colt: Finally in the last bay, there's the C-46 that was given as a gift to me earlier: And that concludes this tour of the Hangar, now on to the Shipyards. We have a lot going on at the Shipyards here, in these next few slipways, we have some small boats under construction, first slip is the USS Defiance Vietnam-era patrol boat: The next slip has the Coast Guard Icebreaker Eastwind, all completed: It got the decals on it next: In the next bay is the Tugboat Lucky XI, all painted up and waiting for final detail parts and decals: Still trying to find the decals for that. Meanwhile in the next slip is the Tugboat Long Beach in the same state: This one did get the decals and some additional detail parts, just looking for the last ones: Finally, the small boat slips have the PT-109 in this last slip; all details are on except the most breakable ones and the gun on the deck is secured; it just needs the tie-down ropes on it: Now on to the larger ships. In this next slip is the USS Montrose Assault ship: After some time, she got all the detail parts and masts: In this next slip we laid the keel for a British submarine, the HMS Astute. It's a fast and easy build: This got paint and is now waiting for decals for finishing: In these next two slips are the two French frigates Normandie and Aquitane. Both are now painted and the Aquitane is waiting for additional parts to finish up: In the next slip is the hospital ship SS Hope, now all built up and painted: In the next slip is the USS Alaska still waiting for full assembly: Meanwhile, we laid the keel for the USS Albany a Chicago-class missile cruiser after it's conversion: Finally in this last slipway, we laid the keel for the HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier: As I've been waiting for this, we continued with the interior of the main hull: Interestingly enough, Trumpeter 'took pity' on us modelers and painted and decaled the main deck and ski ramp: Here it is dry-fit on the hull: That is gonna be interesting. That completes the tour of the Shipyards, so on to the back lot where other projects are underway.... Here in the Automotive Garage, we have one of the cars I've been trying to build. This seems to be as far as I can go with this until I get another kit to cannibalize since the box had been weakened and a bunch of parts are missing: Now going back into the Back Lot, we have this figure of the Red Knight of Vienna waiting for paint: As well as the European auto dealership that seems to be stalled due to the sprues for one of the buildings are missing: And in the Space Port, the little UFO is still waiting for final paint coat: And that completes our tour showing every current active project we're working on. Thank you all for looking in, I hope you enjoyed this preview of the many (I hope!) projects that will be completed in this new year. Stay tuned for more, and comments are always welcome!

Greetings, new IPMS member from Sharpsburg GA. Have been active for last five years mostly 1/72 military aircraft. Some building in 1/35 tanks and 1/700 battleships. Excited to be involved in a community and learn new techniques. Just started airbrushing in the last couple months.

This will be my 2nd stab at scratchbuilding a model. It's seems to be more seldom done these days since there's SO many kits available that weren't out there just 10yrs ago. Still, there ARE still gaps, especially in 1/48, which is my primary scale of choice. This will take more time than my usual builds and it will be easier to post progress as I go along as opposed to trying to post everything at once at the end. This the Martin T4M-1. It's never been made in 1/48 in vacuform or resin to my knowledge. I've seen 2-3 scratchbuilt over the last 40yrs, but no kits have been produced except in 1/72. After finding some suitable plans I had them enlarged to 1/48. You can see the two pieces cut out of the plans laying under and beside them. I started by first gluing two blocks of balsa together with a sheet of copy paper trapped between them, using white glue. This allows the two "halves" to later be pried apart. Then those cut out plans were taped to the top and side of the balsa and it was cut to the rough shape seen above on a scroll saw. Note that I actually forgot the "dip" for the 3rd cockpit opening for the gunner's position and had to add that later! The two rough halves seen above were then glued back together and the fuselage was sanded to shape. I used rough and medium grit sanding sticks for this step. Although I did cut out one of the side view templates (as seen on the left in the first pic above) to check the shape as I went, I actually found it easiest to just use "mark-1 eyeball" for 90% of the work. I'm satisfied the outline matches the drawings close enough for "government work"! The over-arching idea here is to make a fuselage that can be split back apart into 2 halves that will be used to vacuform the fuselage in plastic. Next up were the wings. I decided to use the KISS principle and just carve them from solid balsa. The wing thickness on the plans is 1/4", so I used a sheet of 1/4" balsa. I decided not to vacuform the wing parts, but to simply use them as "cores" and wrap them in very thin sheet plastic (more on that below with the tailplane surfaces). Luckily for me, the top and bottom wing of the T4M is virtually identical, so all I had to do was cut out the top wing plan and use it to cut the 1/4" balsa sheets to shape on the scroll saw. The next step was to give the block balsa wings their airfoil shapes. The first thing to do then was to draw a center line in fine tipped black marker around the edges of each sheet. Since I also had a 1/8" sheet of balsa handy, it was used as a template to draw the lines. Those center lines would help me judge the evenness of my sanding as I progressed, especially on the trailing edge since both the top and bottom rear surfaces had to taper down exactly to that rear center line! The leading edge was easily done as all it needed was simple "rounding", which was done with sanding sticks. I taped a large sheet of 80grit sandpaper to the front edge of my workbench to do the heavy sanding on to work on getting the airfoil shape. Again, I just used "mark-1 eyeball" to sand a tapering surface on the top and bottom. I switched back and forth between them frequently always trying to sand just as much on one as I'd just done on the other; and to also maintain the same angle I was holding the piece at while sanding. Once again, I found this easier than expected and the heavy 80grit paper helped speed the process along. Once both were sanded to shape I only had to add the pilot's cutout in the center to make the "top" wing. One part of scratchbuilding is knowing you have to engineer things that kits give you. I had to figure out HOW I would attach the bottom wing to the fuselage. Again, trying to go the simplest way, I decided to cut the airfoil shape into the fuselage bottom so the wing can be fit up into it. The scroll saw has more than earned its keep on this project! I tackled the tail surfaces next. Since they're smaller I decided to use thick sheet plastic to carve their blanks. After transferring their plan shapes to the sheet plastic heavy scissors was used to cut them out. They were then hand sanded to their airfoil shapes just like the wings. Note the very thin piece of .005 plastic sheet at the top of the pic. This was what I'd use to "skin" them with, so I didn't have to worry about any sanding marks on the plastic blanks. This and the following pics will show the method used to make the ribbed skinning for the horizontal tailplane, but the same method was used for the fin and rudder too. Note that the tailplane plan has been drawn in pencil onto the .005 plastic sheet, including the "rib" lines. Also note that they do not go all the way to the edges of the drawing/part. The .005 sheet was then placed onto a folded piece of paper towel to give it a slightly padded surface under it. A straight edge and a ball point pen was then used to draw in the rib lines (whether or not the ink transfers to the plastic is not important). This method creates an indented line on the inside and a raised "rib" on the outer surface of the thin sheet. Here, the tail plane blank (which had already been used in 2 previous failing attempts at ribbing!) has been superglued to the first half of its "skin". After it set, more superglue was applied to the other half and it was folded over onto the top. This method isn't perfect.... it produces rough edges at the sides and rear, but those can be carved and sanded to shape. On one of my first attempts I tried using contact cement instead of superglue. It worked ok, BUT when it came time to sand it and the .005 was sanded through, the contact cement did NOT sand well. Superglue solved that problem! Here are the rough sanded and primed tail plane parts. I'm very satisfied with the representation of the structural ribbing as being even and visible enough for my purposes. I believe that once they've been fine sanded and painted they'll look the part, pun intended! That's where things stand as of today! My next step will be to try to "skin" the wings. More pics when more progress has been made. Comments, critiques, questions, and suggestions are all welcome as always! Gil

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I am hoping someone here can help me. I have the AMT 1:200 Artemis I kit and I am trying to find the colors to replicate the tan and orange portions of the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage. I would prefer not having to mix paint colors as much as possible. Anyone out there with any suggestions should please respond here. Thank you. Bob

This is the old Revell kit cleaned up and re-released by Atlantis. It's a relatively simple kit of a little known rocket that played a pretty big role in the US space program. It was used to measure and test the stresses on orbital reentry objects. The missile was launched at an angle to get the appropriate trajectory for the re-entry desired. The extra motors strapped onto its waist provided spin stability. The launch pad is nicely done and actually has more parts than the missile. Three figures are provided, two working at a tracking telescope which would never have been deployed anywhere neat the actual launch site, and a third figure that is a mystery to me. His pose is bizarre and doesn't fit anywhere. To me he looks like some sort of overgrown chimpanzee waving his arms about. A little comic relief at least.

HI ! Here another project I have done in the past ,using a kit of wooden ship canon, if you like to view the complete WIP on this project , just follow this link : https://photos.app.goo.gl/TVwvTJM9hT5kR6oc7 Enjoy ! Jmarc

As a matching bookend to my Honest John, here's ROCO's Lacrosse missile and truck launcher. I disassembled it, cleaned it up, added some detail to the cab which you can't see of course, painted it and cobbled together some decals from my spares. In real life the missile was not a success lacking in accuracy mainly. It was pretty quickly superseded by the Lance missile. Renwal/Revell did one in 1/40 scale, but it was based on the wrong truck chassis. They used the same basic truck parts as they already had on hand from other kits. To my knowledge, there is no 1/72 scale kit of it.

Hi ! Here a projects I have completed a while back , if you like to view the complete WIP on these 2 project , just follow this link : https://photos.app.goo.gl/uWiK4i8ewp9aiciR7 Enjoy ! Jmarc

I started the 1/32 Fisher resin F9F-5 Panther last Sunday and finished it this evening. This was the starting point. The resin casting is VERY smooth, extremely nice, and the kit engineering is ingenious. That fuselage is cast as 1-piece and also hollow! The combination cockpit/nose gear bay/speed brake bay is designed to be slid up into the hollow nose from underneath after getting it painted. There's even a tray cast into the front of the cockpit designed to hold pennies or nickels as nose weight (I used fishing sinkers). The wings are cast as 1-piece wing tip to wing tip with the gear wells cast in and the proper dihedral already set. The elevators and ailerons are positionable and the flaps and speed brakes are separate. The resin landing gear are wire reinforced so that they have the strength to hold the model. The kit also includes a fret of PE parts for the cockpit, wing fences, the Tiny Tim rockets, and to help detail the landing gear. The model was primed with Tamiya Silver, which was then masked off on the leading edges of the wings, tail planes, and vertical fin. Rattle can Tamiya T-55 Dark Blue Gloss was used for the USN Navy Blue. When it was dry the red squadron trim was masked off and airbrushed on. The decals are from the kit and represent a typical Panther operating in Korea, but is not accurate for any one plane. This Fisher resin kit is now VERY rare (and expensive) ever since Fisher was burned out of his home in California a few years ago, losing all of his molds and being unable to replace them ever since. If you find this kit at anything near or less than $200 and want it, snatch it up as it's worth 2-3 times that! Critiques, questions, and comments welcome as always! Gil

Good evening all, I picked this one up at a swap meet, at a price I couldn’t pass up. Academy did a great job on the details of this kit. Tons of options. The weapons, and wheels are Reskit. Quinta Studios in the cockpit. My first time using MRP paints. They are great. Spray right out of the bottle. Airbrush between 15-17 psi does the trick. Clear coat with Tamiya clear. Wash was Tamiya ascent colors, black and brown.

This gun was a beast, as a kit and in reality. Developed at the end of WW II, it nevertheless saw service in the US for a short time until it was overtaken by the first generation of SAMs. It could fire up to 60,000 feet and earned the nickname "The Stratosphere Gun". This is the 60's vintage Lifelike kit of it that I got in a bag at the last IPMS Nationals. Amazingly, it was only missing two parts, one that I replaced by scratching up a replacement and the other was the fourth figure that came with the kit which I did without. There was not one part that wasn't covered in flash and/or mold seams or had sink marks or mold release pin marks. When I was done with the clean up my modeling area was under a 1/4" thick coating of plastic dust from filing and sanding every single part. Fit was mostly ok but some areas needed extra help to go together and the instructions weren't very specific on how some things went with other things. It came with a cover for the top of the gun that I have to believe was not used in action but rather when traveling or not in use. It was a typical 'action model' of its era having many moving parts which always makes assembly interesting. It could be displayed in battery or in travel mode, the two bogey wheel sets used similarly to those on a German 88. The figures were typical 60's molds and the poses somewhat stilted. Since the gun was used after the armed forces were integrated, I painted the ammunition handler as an African American. That skin tone is tricky. You may notice the round in the tray. That's the automatic loader. The tray tilts down and an arm swings around and shoves the round into the breach. Lifelike had a series of these 1/40 scale military kits and they all had cute nicknames on them. This gun was "Tilly the Toiler" ( There were no decals in the bag so I couldn't do that), An Amtrac was "Winne the Whale" and a 155 SP gun was "Choo Choo Baby". They also did some of the support equipment for a Hawk AA Missile battery, but they weren't named to my knowledge.