iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

1/48 Scale F-86 RCAF Sabre Jet.

About 17 years ago I found some "Royal Canadian Air Force F-86 Sabre Jet" decals for sale at an "on-line" hobby shop in Canada. I emailed and got a reply then sent some money for two sets. The 2nd set was bought just in [...]

Panavia Tornado IDS A.M. RSV 60th Annivesario 311th G.V.Italeri 1/48

Hi everybody, this couple of Tornado IDS was made in 2018 for pilot and RIO of this beautiful Special Color. I use the old Italeri kit with Cartograf decal, I added the pilots taken from a Tamiya kit dedicated to the F-14 Tomcat and [...]

"Greased Lightning" Rarely has a plane been named more fittingly! B-58 Hustler from Italeri

That the Convair B-58 Hustler is a truly spectacular aircraft can be seen at first sight. But not only the racy exterior, also the "inner values" of this more than twice as sound-fast aircraft can fascinate! I would like to [...]

Spitfire MK.Ia. Tamiya 1:48

History The Supermarine Spitfire and it’s place in Battle of Britain needs no presentation ? THE KIT & BUILD NOTES: I’ve always wanted to build a Spitfire in 1:48 and when Tamiya issue their last one I knew time has arrived. The [...]

1/48th Scale De Havilland Hornet F-1

This is a "Classic Airframes" kit. I was somewhat shocked when I discovered that the fuselage was not mating up with their clear windscreen/canopy part. I moved the one piece windscreen/canopy back to where the canopy would [...]

1/48 Republic P-47D Thunderbolt.

This is the 43 year old Monogram “Razorback” that was based on their 1967 “Bubbletop” kit. I found this original 1977 issue of the kit at a recent show and bought it for $5. The deal of the century! I realized while building it [...]

1/48 Academy B-25B “Doolittle Raider”

This is the Accurate Miniatures 1/48 B-25B “Doolittle Raiders”. I built it as the “Ruptured Duck” which was the aircraft followed in the film "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo". The “Ruptured Duck” was the 7th aircraft to [...]

Review: KP 1/72 MIG-19S Farmer-c review

PZL 11c

I picked this kit up a few weeks ago from a vendor table at a recent contest. It’s the old Heller 1/72 PZL 11c. This is a basic but nice kit. I added some framing in the cockpit, seatbelts, landing strut bracing wire and antenna wires. [...]

P-38F Lightning, Moms favorite, 1/72 Hasegawa

Inspired by the recent P-38 builds of late, I acquired a vintage Hasegawa kit, where you have to do a little surgery on the nacelles to model the F version. Using a combo of spares and USAAF letters and number sheet from Microscale, I did [...]