iModeler Ships

Naval modeling - ships, submarines and boats.

Revell 1/72 U.S. Navy Swift Boat Mk.1

My recently completed Revell 1/72 Swift Boat Mk.1. Once again this is mainly brush painted. The only spray paint used is the under coat red on the lower hull. The flag was printed off on printer paper, folded in half over some 0.25mm [...]

1/700 IJN Akagi, Battle of Midway

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1/700 IJN Momi

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Revell of Germany 1/144 Landing Ship Medium

Last year and a half I devoted it to 1/144 scale, this is the last model of that effort, I improved many details with plastic sheets, strips and rods, copper wire, brass rod and tubes, piano wire, thin aluminum paper and replaced the [...]

Build thread for Border Models Type Vll U Boat

So, first build of the this year and first after retirement from working at a great company for 27 years! Now I have the time and the kits! No figures, and not using the conning tower interior cause the hatches are closed. Stay tuned for [...]

1/350 Revell-Germany U-Boot type VII U-81,1941

Hi folks, an easy and reasonably accurate kit,with a different camo: (link)U-81(1941) Hope you like,and thanks for visiting! Marcus

18TH Century Long Boat

Happy 2023 All, I've been itching to do another wood boat kit but I did not want to get into a long term project so I went with this Model Shipway's 18th Century Long Boat. This was a nice change of pace and fun to build and I'm pleased [...]

Revell 1/50th Viking Longship

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2022 Build Review: When Double Builds Go Bad

2021 was such a good year. I finished 13 models – eight 1/72 aircraft, a 1/72 88mm gun, and four 1/700 Essex-class carriers, one a major kitbash. 2022, by comparison saw no models finished. Not one. Instead I started on one 1/700 [...]

First to fight. Duel on Dec 7 1941

6:40 AM, December 7, 1941. "Captain, come on the bridge!". Lieutenant William W. Outerbridge had been summoned to the bridge of the U.S.S. Ward, straight out of bed and wrapped in a Kimono. He had taken command, his first, of the [...]