iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

Tamiya 1/48th Scale Skyraider of VA 215

Well, it seems like forever and a day since I’ve posted model anything on this great site. Life has been crazy-laid off-job search-landed new job and so on. I am truly inspired every time I log onto this site- such great talent and [...]

Video: Sprue tour! Hobby Boss 1/48 Blohm & Voss BV141

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Hobbycraft 1/48 P-26

Well, after a small absence due to family things (and a trip to the IPMS Nats), I thought it was time to contribute something. This is Hobbycraft's 1/48 P-26 built many years ago using Aeromaster decals. I have since learned that the [...]

Spitfire Mk.IXe (AZ 1/72)

I always wanted to make Spitfire in an unusual painting scheme. So, this one for unpainted look of this famous warbird. This is a new AZmodel kit in HQT (high quality technology). And I can say that plastic really looks very good and if [...]

Boeing B-29 Superfortress – 1/32nd scale vacform

This was a huge undertaking, in both the challenge it provided and the sheer size of this kit. An ID Models vacform, this model provided the absolute basics such as the fuselage shell, wings and stabilisers. No interior was provided, so [...]

Handley-Page Halifax GRII – 1/32nd scale vacform

This was a year long project and started life as a very basic vacform (the old ID Models' kit now marketed as Tigger Models) and involved a great deal of scratch building. Kits such as these come as a blank canvas - the shell of the main [...]

ICM P-51D “Nancy Lee” – 1:48 scale

Good ICM's kit with addition of Eduard's cockpit PE set. Painted with Alclad II metalizers and Vallejo acrylics. Weathered with oils. I have used Lifelike decals for this build and I can recommend them without hesitation. This plane was [...]

Grumman Hellcat 1 – No 800 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm (Royal Navy) – 1/32

Not having seen one in real life, I hadn't fully appreciated how big the F6F was until I built this kit and parked it alongside other WW2 fighters of the same scale. This is from the Trumpeter 1/32 F6F-3 kit. OOB except for Eduard cockpit [...]

Fairchild AC-119K Stinger

On the night of 8 May 1970 Capt. Alan Milacek's AC 119K Stinger is patrolling over a remote corner of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Far below a convoy of North Vietnamese trucks are slowly moving down a valley hugging the Laotion border on their [...]

Boeing 767-300, Hasegawa 1/200