iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

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

B-747/400, Lufthansa, Hasegawa 1/200

B-737, Lufthansa, Virgin, Malev, Hasegawa 1/200

The A Shau Valley, March 10, 1966, Rest in Peace Col Fisher, January 11, 1927 – August 16, 2014

Because of Col Fisher's passing I decided to share with you the story of a model I built and the experience I had because of it. I do not tell this story often, it's not really about me but what a very gentle man from Iowa did for me [...]

1/48 scale Monogram A-1H Skyraider

Hello all! In the hopes of instigating another flash mob group build, I present to you my Monogram A-1H Skyraider that I had finished a couple years ago. I built it for a buddy of mine to represent his uncle's Spad flown over Vietnam. [...]

A 1 H Skyraider

Picture the following scenario: It is 1969, a Navy A-6 crew has gone down in enemy territory and the NVA is closing in for the kill. The aviators are at the mercy of the jungle and an enemy hell bent on capturing Yankee Air Pirates. The [...]

B-737/300 & 400, YU-AOS, YU-ANJ, YU-ANF, YU-AND, JAT, hasegawa 1/200