iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

Welcome to Mystical Experiences (Workbench build progress of 1/48 Fonderie Miniature Vautour IIB)

Hi everyone! A week ago I decided to give this beast a go. Tom Cleaver warned me about the difficulty of the kit and guess what: he's spot-on right! The plastic texture could well be used for lunar surface simulation, there are tons of [...]

Tamiya New-Tool 1/48 Spitfire Mk. I

My dalliance with the Spitfire continued... But I think that will be it for a while. A great kit- engineering and fit are as good as it gets, nice instruction booklet. That said the prototype "bonnet"/upper cowling is a single [...]

Part One: 1/32nd F2G Corsair

I was new at scratch-building model parts back in the 1980's. As time went by I got better at it. Looking back on my model building career, I wonder why I didn't just stay in the "Out-of-the Box" category? This Corsair project [...]

F-16c blk30 HAF Tamiya 1/48

Airfix 1/144 Handley Page H.P.42 “Heracles”

Hi everyone, This is my Airfix 1/144 Handley Page H.P.42 built about ten years ago. The Handley Page H.P.42 was a four-engine biplane airliner designed and manufactured by British aviation company Handley Page. She held the distinction of [...]

SWAT...1/48 Focke-Wulf Fw190A-8 with Blohm&Voss BV246 Hagelkorn

And a third and last finished 190 for now. Hasegawa kit (limited edition), Eduard seatbelts, details added like brake lines, landing gear indicators and tailwheel retraction wire. EZ Line was used for the antenna wire, AK Real Colors [...]

AMC DH.9a Ninak

The AMC DH.9a, said "Ninak", was born out of the necessity to replace the underperforming DH9 essentialy due to inferior performance of its engine (Puma). The DH.9a was powered by the american Liberty engine (400hp). Shaken [...]

TBF Avenger – Atlantic Scheme

Hi Guys, Here is my build of the great Accurate Miniatures TBF Avenger 1in 1/48. I actually had the Pacific version and had to buy Atlantic Scheme decals online. They were a bit old, so I substituted some of the stars and bars from other [...]

1/48 Eduard P-51D "Doll" Numero Uno.

Here’s my first shelter-in-place build: This P-51D (Eduard’s “Frenesi” boxing) represents the very first marking of “Big Beautiful Doll”. There were six different “Doll” schemes painted on the two Mustangs flown by Col. [...]

Video: AMT A-20 Havoc Construction, Episode 1

This is the first episode on the construction of the AMT A-20 Havoc. In this series I will be converting the AMT A-20 B/C (Italeri Boston) to an early A-20A of the 89th Bomb Squadron in the Pacific Theater during WWII. Here are some links [...]