V-E Day Flyover

On the 70th anniversary of V-E Day (Friday May 8, 2015), World War II bombers and fighters will fly together in historic group formations directly over Washington, DC. The planes will originate from Manassas Regional Airport and Culpeper Regional Airport.

The first planes are expected to arrive over the nation’s capital beginning at noon. If bad weather forces a postponement, the flyover will take place on May 9. Early arrivals, including the B-17 Texas Raider, a four-engine bomber, will be on display at the Manassas Airshow on May 2 and offer rides and tours May 3, 5 and 6. Admission to the airshow is free to the public.

The other three big bombers Fifi, the only B-29 still flying; Diamond Lil, the oldest remaining B-24; and Aluminum Overcast, a B-17G built in 1945. participating in the flyover will be open May 9-13 for cockpit tours at the Manassas Regional Airport from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for a fee. includes the opportunity to go aboard and walk through all three bombers on the ground.

Also on display at the Manassas Regional Airport will be smaller planes participating in the flyover, like Gunfighter, a P-51 fighter plane; the only flying SB2C Hell Diver, a Navy dive bomber; and the twin-engine Bucket of Bolts C-45 Expeditor, a multi-engine trainer used for light cargo and as a VIP transport aircraft during the war.

Battleship download

Does anyone know of a site where I could download a WW2 type battleship? Retail or otherwise.

Hello From Greenock

I am new to paper modelling,and look forward to getting loads of advice.
I would like to try building ships and aircraft.Have a few waiting to come through the post,and will let you all know how i get on.:)

Help ! !

I have a Wrebbit Card Model of a MERCEDES S.S. from The thirties . I bought it used .Well , it had been opened and then stored . While building it I used the jig for the two ply hood panels .
Inside and outside panels have color and detail on them . Problem is The hood panels don't match up with the curve in the cowling or the radiator .
This thing is a beautiful card creation in 1/8 or 1/12 scale ( I don't remember which.) I have it at 90% finished .This brought me to a complete halt . I will Not finish it unless I can display it with the four part hood opening and closing on the cowl or radiator !
It just doesn't look right without the hood and it took so long to thread the silver jewelry wire when I made the wheels .
Now here's the question . Can I or should I, try to de-laminate the panels with warm water and will this hurt the high gloss graphics ?

"Hansa- Brandenburg W29" scale 1/33 & 1/48

I would like to present you one my atempt to create a "Hansa-Brandenburg W29" not only in scale 1/33, but also in my favorit scale 1/48. Please know that this is my first atempt to create an airplane model :).

Here is the cockpit of the plani in 1:33

Here are the first photos:

Lunar Rover by PaperAviation (Martin Saenger)

I finally finished building PaperAviation's (Martin Saenger) gorgeous model of the truck from the movie Moon.

Here's the link to the model on the designer's website - Lunar Rover.

From the moment I saw the mock-up pictures (the model wasn't finished when I first came across it) I really, really wanted to build it. I liked the minimalist coloring, rich detailing and just the overall look of the model. I waited for almost 2 years before the model was made available for download. Then I spent about 6 months building it - mostly on weekends, just a couple of hours a day.

It's a really well designed model. Never during the build I thought "this doesn't make sense, it should have been done some other way". I mean, the instructions tell you how to position the piece to best hide the seems!

I did my best but of course I couldn't build it as beautifully as Martin built his (you can see his finished model on his site). I did some pretty big mistakes early on which kinda accumulated as other pieces got added but I am not a person who would re-cut.

Here is the finished model as built by me - Lunar rover from the movie Moon - Album on Imgur. And some process pictures (I'm not great at documenting the steps apparently) - Lunar rover - on the bench photos - Album on Imgur.

Something else I thought you would be interested to know is that I posted these pictures on Reddit's SciFi board and, I kid you not, Gavin Rothery - the guy who designed the actual prop for the movie - showed up and commented "Hey, nice job! I love it when people take the time out to do stuff like this! (I designed most of the hardware in the film)". That caught me by surprise. Somehow I never really thought about the actual model used in the model. It was pretty cool to hear from him.

Just wanted to share this completed build with you all. Again, thank you, Martin - you did an amazing job.

USS Connecticut

I found this picture by accident while searching for USS Iowa pictures. It's of the USS Connecticut during her trials in 1906. It's one of the coolest pictures I've seen and I thought I would share it.

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UHU02 Gotengo in the works

Uhu02 looks to be working on something called a Gotengo which is a battleship which can tunnel, fly, and submerge.
Uhu02 Gotengo

Some information about the ship:
Gotengo [Showa]

Quote:

Gotengo Length: 150 meters Mass: 10,000 tons Powers/Weapons: Flight at mach 2; equipped with the Zero Cannon which can freeze things to absolute zero; giant drill in front that allows the ship to burrow; equipped with four Electronic Particle cannons; can move at 80 knots on the water's surface; has two giant rotating blades above and below the ship; can discharge electricity that will shock anything that touches the ship; able to submerge to very deep depths and move at 50 knots First Appearance: Atragon (1963)

Gotengo | Wikizilla, the Godzilla Resource and Wiki

uhu02 models

Does anyone know if uhu02 ever reopens his models for download after he has ended the download link? He has a few amazing star wars models that I didn't get to before he closed the download links. Or, is there a way to get in touch with him directly to ask for them? He does amazing work and I know that he has been burned by people taking advantage of his work and he is very protective of it (and i don't blame him at all).

Paper toys

This site has some pretty cool toys, batman, superman and many more. Sorry if it has already been posted but it was new to me. :)
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1/100 A-Wing (Sunichi Makino model)

Hello my fellow modellers!! This is the last model that I´ve build. It is a fantastic model, very well designed. I´ve scaled down to 1/100...Hope you like it as much as I have enjoyed building it.

Here are the pics

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F-47D ( P47D Thunderbolt ) Wright Field Warning Aircraft

New release...a new Thunderbolt!

This one, another special request, and a somewhat unique aircraft.
This P-47 was used by the Wright-Patterson AFB to warn away Civilian aircraft over the Wright Test Field
(since most civilian aircraft in 1948 were not equipped with radios).
The plane wore the basic USAAF unpainted finish with large warning banners painted on either side of the fuselage.

Kit is in the shops now.
Find it at http://ift.tt/1ydbr7D
And here, at ecardmodels: 1/33 Republic F-47D ( P47D ) Thunderbolt Wright-Patterson AFB Warning Aircraft Paper Model

Golden Bear

Does Carl Beetz still develop ship models. The last activity I note is 2013. Is he still with us?

Kurt

Happy Birthday Brut

Dear Brut:
Happy Birthday to you and may you just be able to make paper models all day long.
Enjoy,
Miles

In between projects. oops

Having spent a couple of months on my Queen of the Isle, the wife pestered me for the Taj Mahal, so I decided to do some small projects in between the next ship. So I tidied the desk and did a cute Anime girl for my daughters Japanese teacher, the Taj Mahal for my wife and scaled down Mikromodele to 1:144 aircraft to go into my F-toy collection. Now Clean the desk for JCS Titanic

Here are the Photos

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In between projects

Having spent a couple of months on my Queen of the Isle, the wife pestered me for the Taj Mahal, so I decided to do some small projects in between the next ship. So I tidied the desk and did a cute Anime girl for my daughters Japanese teacher, the Taj Mahal for my wife and scaled down Mikromodele to 1:144 aircraft to go into my F-toy collection. Now Clean the desk for JCS Titanic

hello from Canada

Have recently returned to Canada, after 12 years in Moscow. While I was there I amassed a huge collection of paper models - mostly Russian and Polish. They used to sell them in the Post Office! :-)

I have not yet had time to sit down and build even one, but I'm still stockpiling more for my golden years. Was a vociferous plastic modeler in my youth - mostly cars, planes, and armour.

Recently discovered the 'open source' papermodel communities on the internet, and am thinking of investing in a color laser printer...

Another eBay find... 1:16 scale Tank

ebay item # 131493775279 (cant post the link as I am new here)

Looks magnificent, but I have never heard of "HARD" models.

Legit, or just another ebay pirate??

Henschel Hs 132- another hotel build

I decided to do another Luft 46 aircraft in 1/48 scale while in Montreal on TDY.


This time it is the Henschel Hs 132 jet powered dive bomber from Eric Son in 1/48 scale. I always admired Eric's simple approach and attractive designs and this one is certainly a good one. I especially like the color scheme selected ( a copy of the famous Ju-87B Stuka dive bomber with the red snake on the side ).

A quick aircraft info

This aircraft actualy is not a fantasy plane. It was built and at least one aircraft and some additional sub assemblies were made in 1945 before the end of the war.

The aircraft resembles a Heinkel He-162 with the twin tail and engine podded on top. The main difference is that the pilot was in a prone position. The primary reason ( so they thought ) was that the pilot can withstand more G forces being prone rather than sitting down. maybe so, but you get such a neck pain that after 10 minutes, you are "paralyzed" and can move your head any more ( definitely not up or down ).

Here is a little more about this little dive bomber:

Henschel Hs 132 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


and a picture of the bird in 1945 ( with a little airbrushing ).

Attachment 245994



Isaac

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Sasatoku Horse Head Sculpture

Eh, tacked this onto John's thread on the Sasatoku site, but gonna spin it off to this topic.

ProjectKitt (Heather) helped me out in texturing the horse head from the site. Thank you, Heather

Next time, I will print at regular size and mirror print on the back

Thanks again

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LV Zenit-3 (1:48)

LV Zenit-3SL SeaLaunch (1:48 scale) is now available on my website http://ift.tt/1z6FKRR

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Hello from les

I am a new member. I have incorporated paper models of buildings in a section of on an HO scale model railroad that is a living area for lumerjacks, and I am very pleased with the results.
:)

something totally new no cars!

this time TANTS Co. from regular show if you don't know what that is look here! Tants/Gallery - Regular Show Wiki

and I was thinking way have 3D tants out of paper models! I all so designing it free style and yes there is instructions to it only one page of ez parts! needs to be colored! but here is the cleaning parts to be colors!;):eek:

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DKM Admiral Graf Spee, GPM, rescale 1:400

When I wrote on Chokai link, I´m begining construct German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee. It´s only rescale from 1:200 to 1:400.

Perth model show2015

Hello all,

Another fantastic event at the Scottish National IPMS show, held over two days. Our very own Hiob (Adam) came along and entered his IJN Hiei into the competition. He was a bit wary of entering it at first because it was incomplete, but he went for it anyway. He spent Friday evening at my house putting the final touches to the guard rails.

Here is the master at work



The model on display. Quite frankly, the photos here and on other threads don't do this model justice. It just has to be seen and is really of museum quality standard.



It will come as no surprise that he won the Scratch Build prize......




.........and the Lothian Trophy for best ship model in show.




A very happy Adam.



It was a very good event for the Dunfermline model club with a total of three trophies, three gold, one silver and one bronze awards.

I think you would all like to join me in congratulating Adam.

All the best.

Bernie.

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