iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

Off the SoDHasegawa 1/48 P-47D "Eileen"

Everyone liked the Hasegawa P-47s when they came out 25 years ago, then lost interest when the Tamiya P-47s came out 18 (!) years ago. Yes, there is a shape problem with the fuselage, the belly is too shallow - but not so much that it is [...]

Airfix 1/72 scale Hawker Typhoon Mk IIb

Hello, this is my first Hawker Typhoon "Tiffy". My inspriration was the nice 1/24 kit from Airfix. You can find some very nice builds from this kit via Google and that's why I was inspired to try this on a much smaller scale. The [...]

Fancy Friedrich...1/48 Messerschmitt Bf109F-2, 5./JG52

Built a couple of years ago. Hasegawa kit, Iliad Design decals, Gunze and Tamiya paints used. EZ Line for the antenna wire and brake lines added. Airbrush job done freehand, so there´s some paint spray, hard to avoid. This aircraft wears [...]

T-Birds in the North…1/48 Messerschmitt Bf109T-2, 11./JG11

Another fancy 109 scheme ? built in 2014 by my dad. Hasegawa kit (JG77 boxing), included the lengthened wingtips and slats and the different charger intake as resin parts. Sadly the slats were too short so my dad used a piece of the [...]

Review: Zvezda 1/48 SU-57 review

Review: ICM 1/32 DH.82A Tiger Moth Review

La La Lavochkin Land! 1/48 Zvezda La-5s

I get inspired by the planes I fly in flight simulators. Go figure. I've flown the LaGG-3 in IL2-GB and hated every minute of it. Once I stepped up to the La-5 I had something approaching the same revelatory moment pilots had when they [...]

F7 Tigercat Korean War Group Build

Hi everyone, this is the Italeri 1/48 Tigercat. I also finally get to go back to in-person at my school. Walking around, I also noticed some models around my school including a 1:16 kv1 and a Thunderbolt of an unidentified but very large [...]

Northrop Delta 1 D, A61-1, 35 Sqn RAAF 1943.

1/72 Special Hobby, built December 2019 to August 2020, finished in Pollyscale - 505248, 505244 and 505246 with Pledge and Xtra flat over kit decals.

Monogram 1/48 F-80s from the shelf of doom…

Original edition of the venerable Monogram F-80 Shooting Stars. I started these two back in the early 80s with he intention of building Minimum and Maximum Goose. I finally finished them using and old set of Aeromaster decals and Model [...]