iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

Lockheed AP-3C(EW) Orion, 10 Squadron RAAF

I completed this one some months ago, it is the Hasegawa P-3C kit converted to an RAAF ISR/EW aircraft. The base kit was updated with a Hamilton Hobbies EW conversion set as well as additional scratch building of fittings and antennas not [...]

Lockheed LC-130F Hercules

This is the 1/72 Italeri C-130 kit (Testors boxing) built as an LC-130F of the United States Navy. It represents LC-130F 148321 of VXE-6 which crashed in 1971 at an ice runway 860 miles (1,380 km) from McMurdo Station as a result of two [...]

Lockheed HC-130N Hercules

This is the original tooling of the Airfix C-130 kit. I have built it as a USAF HC-130N CSAR aircraft or as the USAF puts it "the only dedicated fixed-wing Personnel Recovery platform in the Air Force inventory". To build the [...]

I was wary of Secret Santa, but I stand corrected

Coworkers can turn out to be pretty cool. This (last?) year my coworkers invited me to participate in the Secret Santa game, or the anonymous gift exchange. I was doubtful, as who could really get another random person, someone we know [...]

Phantom 1/48 F-4G "Wild Weasel"

The Phabolous Phantom as a Wild Weasel both by Hasegawa and Meng. Hasegawa's Phantom is presented it the first three photographs and the Meng Phantom follows. The Meng kit is much better engineered and more detailed. It also includes more [...]

Hong Kong Models 1/48 Mitchell B-25J "Glazed Nose"

My first HKM kit and I was really chuffed with the fit of the kit. It is beautifully engineered and fits together nicely except for the top of the fuselage which gave me some issues. I believe this is a known issue. I got the seam sorted [...]

Me 262A - 1960 and 2017 Airfix 1/72 kits

I recently finished a double-build - two 1/72 Me 262A German jet fighters. The reason for the double-build was that I had two kits - a 1960 Airfix kit which I sat on for so long they came out with a much-improved version in 2017, which I [...]

Major Michael Jackson's Teddy

This is the venerable Tamiya P-47D with Aeromaster decals. The paints are also Aeromaster. They stir up well years, or could be decades at this point, after purchasing them. The decals did not tear or shatter. I did have serious silvering [...]

A model that I originally didn't want to build at allbut which was (and still is!) a lot of fun: Zlin 137 Agro

The path to building this model of the Zlin 137 Agro is so entertainingly winding and full of twists and turns that I would like to start this report with a description of it. Sometimes the journey changes the perspective in such a way [...]

"Riding My First Mustang" (Mk IV, Eduard 1/48)

Hey Everyone. As you may recall, I have been trying to challenge myself more with attempting more plane models and getting myself out of my armored comfort zone. I started with the Wurger, then onto the Corsair and now I've tried riding [...]