iModeler Automotive

Scale models of cars, trucks, motorcycles, machinery.

1/24 Mini Cooper Sports Pack Limited (1998)

Hasegawa 1/24 Mini Cooper Sport Pack Limited (1998) is completed. The body color is MODELKASTEN excavator green, and the roof and fenders are carbon finished.

Chevy Dump Truck

Today's post by my friend Paul's build of a 1955 Ford pickup inspired me to post a similar build. A good flying, hiking, and skydiving buddy of mine asked me to build a model of his Cessna 172 about 5 years ago. I did so, and a little [...]

1953 Ford Pick-up

This is a completely new thing for me and was heaps of fun. My good friend (and band mate) Shaun, restored his 1953 Ford Pick-up, in a restoration that took several years. He found an old rusted F250 in the U.S. and got it sent over here. [...]

Alfa Romeo 179C

I love Italian cars and motorcycles, and Alfa Romeo somehow seem to be the most Italian of the manufacturers. This is the Italeri 1/12 kit for the Alfa Romeo 179/179C Formula One car, entered for the 1979 to 1982 seasons. The kit was [...]

Honda CBR 1000 RR-R Fireblade SP

Was going to steal stuff about this bike off the web bit @chinesegeorge George pretty much said it already in his recent headline post about his Fireblade. I choose to go with the Matte Pearl Morion Black finish. Painted with Tamiya’s [...]

Toyota TS050 Race car with an A6M5 feel

I am an airplane guy. I joined a group build that had as its theme motor sports. I had picked up this Tamiya kit a few months ago with the intent of giving it a Japanese fighter feel. The main color is IJN Dark Green. I shot the hood in [...]

Skip Container

I was hoping I did not have to build my own skip container, but circumstance forced me to do it anyway. But here we are, with a scratch model of a skip container with some metal scrap as the contents. This piece is for my 1/24 scale truck [...]

Honda Fireblade Limited Edition

Hi everyone, this is the standard Tamiya 1/12 Honda Fireblade kit with the addition of an after market transfer (decal) set. Honda decided to market a limited edition of their super bike to recognise the 100th entry of their rider, John [...]

Lotus super 7 series 2

This is my first car model, a Tamiya 1/24 Lotus Super 7, so here it is in all its glory and faults. I replaced the kit seats with Scale Productions Sparco bucket seats and the kit wheels with Scale Productions 15" BRM wheels. The [...]

Mobile Vacis 2002 International 4300

This is a US Border Patrol scan truck built to scan contents off of transport trucks from ship or on US-Canada, US-Mexico borders. Built from scratch. This is a non military contract which are more rare because 95% are military contracts.