iModeler Automotive

Scale models of cars, trucks, motorcycles, machinery.

Challenger I, Mickey Thompson’s Bonneville beauty

Every year the F.A.S.T. club in Ocala Florida, an IPMS Chapter for car modelers, has a theme build, and this year it was anything that runs at Bonneville. This is to be my entry. It did not start out to be a two car build, but things ran [...]

Back to the Fifties... building Monogram's '55 Chevy.

I was a teenager during the fifties and Chevy's were every boys dream car. Cars like this inspired my life long love affair with convertibles and customs. I painted this with Tamiya White and Coral Blue right out of the rattle can The [...]

Review: Tamiya 1/20 Red Bull RB6 review

*** 1988 DAYTONA 500 WINNERBOBBY ALLISON ***

Another one from the past. The final laps of the race was a very tense and exciting one. A battle fitting for the coming FATHERS DAY, it was father vs. son, as society will call it ... MANO a MANO . On this model, the decals had to be [...]

Tamiya 1/12th Yamaha YZR-M1 50th Anniversary U.S. Inter-colouring Edition

For some reason when I logged on this morning I discovered that I could post pictures and articles again, so here goes! 2005 was Yamaha's 50th anniversary, and they were determined to win as many world championships as they could. 2005 [...]

Brett Bodine – Crisco – Ford Thunderbird

Greetings : This model dates way back. The pictures were taken some twelve or thirteen years ago. As a result there is no pictures of the engine but some work has been done, now that I am moved in and organizing things here ( home ), I [...]

*** Dick TrickleSNICKERS ***

Greetings : This model was done years ago, but is has held very good with the passing years. I do have the SNICKERS car driven by Rick Wilson. Hopefully I will post it once I find it ( the cd with the pictures, I have the model )

*** WHITE RAINDale Jarrett ***

Greetings to all : I have not been posting here on a more regular way as I wanted ( photo wise), my room is in a slight halt. I did find a few CD's with my models. This is one which my wife's friend like ( they can relate too the WHITE [...]

1966 Ford Fairlane 427 – AMT kit from 2004

Here is a kit I built a few years back. The Fairlane 427 was Ford's arrival on the "Factory Hot Rod" scene in 1966. Built to compete with Mopar's monstrously successful Dodge franchise, the Fairlane featured ultra-light [...]

Ducati 1199 Panigale S Tricolore

Hi everyone, this is Tamiya's recent 1/12 kit of Ducati's latest attempt to conquer the super bike world. Thanks to everyone who followed the work in progress, the build stages can be seen over in Groups. The kit itself was for the [...]