iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

Hasegawa 1:48 Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero (Captured Pt.2)

This is my third and final entry into this awesome GB (Many thanks for the invite Louis) This aircraft represents one of many in the so-called "surrender markings", white all-over with green crosses. Why were they done like this? [...]

Banzai!…1/48 Nakajima Ki-44-II Otsu Shoki ”Tojo” 40mm cannon, Imperial Japanese Army

The Empire of Japan group build entries continue. After an army and two navy subjects now another one from the army. Hasegawa kit oob, only added Eduard seatbelts, EZ line for the antenna wires and plastic rod pieces for the landing gear [...]

“Big Brother is watching” or: a Bf 108 Taifun as birthday present for my dear brother

A first look at the present depiction of a Bf 08 Taifun will quickly make the expert frown, because neither the identification on the fuselage nor those on the wings seem to make sense or should even be brought into line with a real [...]

Eduard 1/48 early Spitfire I

By the spring of 1940, Spitfires equipped approximately one-third of the squadrons in Fighter Command. Over that summer, the pilots of the Spitfires and their more numerous comrades in the cockpits of Hawker Hurricanes successfully stopped [...]

13 August 1940 80 years of the Battle of Britain.

A toast to the former Royal Air Force pilots who fought for freedom that day. Best regards Hans Peter and Verena

More of my 1/48 Scale AH-64 Apache Helicopter.

My first photo shows one of my scribing tools which also doubles as a "rivet" maker. I draw lines on the model, then use my ruler to line up all the rivets to be put in, then make pencil marks on the kit plastic. I just push in [...]

Eduard 1/48 Hellcat F6F-5

Hello! Here's my recent project, an Eduard (Profipack) Hellcat F6F-5 Late. It means PE, canopy masks and resin wheels included, which is great. Everything went fine, this is a very good kit. Even after I dropped some varnish all over [...]

Review: Eduard 1/48 Mustang. Tales of Iwajima review

Review: Eduard 1/48 Spitfire Mk.1 Limited Edition review

Revised AH-64 Apache's Canon

I was happy with my results working with metal for this AH-64 helicopter so I thought I could add some metal parts to the kits canon. Remember...it's cut and fit until it fit's. Hope you like the outcome of my efforts. When I showed these [...]