iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

P-39 Airacobra Kitty Hawk

Another model goes to my shelf. This time, a design that appears at competitions quite sporadically, namely the P-39 Airacobra. The model itself is quite nice, but I added Eduard plates, HGW belts, Master barrels and Eduard exhaust pipes. [...]

Review: Arma Hobby 1/72 FM-2 Wildcat review

144th Scale Revell AVRO – RJ-85 Airliner

I built this model back in October, 2009. I cut out and then filled in the window area's with white styrene stock because Revell supplied excellent window decals. I don't know who flew this airline, nor when it flew. I added [...]

Dornier Do17 Z-10 Kauz, Revell 1/72

Hi guys, Another model in my collection, this is the Dornier Do17 Z-10 from "Revell" plastic made by ICM models; nice kit, no major problems during the assembly, beautiful clear parts; in the end I decided just the paint, no [...]

1/72 Hasegawa F-4E Phantom II / Kurnass 2000

Started back in late Feb or early Mar (who can remember that long ago now...), this was the second of 2 Phantoms I started simultaneously (along with the EJ Kai already posted). The kit was typical Hasegawa late-version, with lots of [...]

Airfix 1/72 Buccaneer S.2C No. 809 NAS

Hi There, I bought this at Scale Scotland Murrayfield last year and have been scared stiff to cut the wings ever since. I finally stuck my courage to the sticking place and got on with it. This one is a little personal as the home base for [...]

"B-B's & Scribing Tools

Here is how I add the "b-b's" to the nose area of any "tail dragon" model. I just apply some white glue or superglue then pour in some of the small lead bb's! The second photo shows my two panel line scribing tools that [...]

Sukhoi Su-30MK2 1/48 Hobby Boss

Hi all, this is my last kit. I loved to this plane and this camo along time ago. This is special camo 5th anniversary of Su-30 in Venezuelan Air Force and 200 years of independence. I used resin exhaust nozzles from Reskit,seat from [...]

Kyūshū J7W1 Shinden (震電, ”Magnificent Lightning”), No. 1 Aircraft, Aug. 1945, Hasegawa, 1/48

Hi everyone! This is my Hasegawa 1/48 Kyūshū J7W1 Shinden, finished as a part of the great Empire of Japan Group Build, here in iModeler. The Kyūshū J7W Shinden (震電, "Magnificent Lightning") was a World War II Japanese [...]

PTO/VJ Day: Remembering Ike Kepford

I may as well jump in on this bandwagon honoring the 75th anniversary of VJ Day that marked the end of fighting in the PTO. Here's my tribute to Ike Kepford who was the Navy's highest scoring WWII F4U ace with 16 victories. I built this [...]