iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

A Tribute to Steve McQueen

Le Mans is my favorite McQueen movie. I had this old Airfix A-26 and thought it would make a good what if.

Video: LTP - Revell's Republic Star Destroyer Pt1

LTP = Long Term project. Because I don't have enough of them already. 🙂

Monogram 1/48 F-8E Crusader…

The Vought F-8 Crusader has always been a favorite of mine. It has to me some of the same classic look as the Hawker Hunter does. And it was one of the greatest Navy fighters ever, a fitting jet descendant of the famous Vought F4U Corsair. [...]

Orange you glad you aren't trying to match this scheme?

So I am well on the way to what I am currently calling the "clownfish" scheme for my HU-16C. White, yellow and fluorescent orange are done. I may "red" up the orange a bit, but looking at the two color pictures of [...]

1/48 Hobbycraft Messerschmitt Me 109G-14 Jg77

Sorry, the pic won’t sit right. Thanks for looking.:)

A.K.A. “Val”

Here is my just completed Aichi D3A1 Type 99 dive bomber, AKA “Val”. It is a Hasegawa 1/48 scale kit, no ‘aftermarket’ stuff unless you count the seat belts which are aftermarket masking tape, or some of the markings, which I [...]

Video: Pt1 of the Trumpeter 1/48 Westland Whirlwind build

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Eduard 1/48 Fokker DVII

This is one I did a while back - my first 1/48 WW1 subject. One of Eduard's (then) new and improved line of WW1 kits. I think it was released in 2005 or so. I recall this one just coming together effortlessly. It was a lot of fun to [...]

Adolf Galland General of Fighters

Adolf Galland Jagdgeschwader 26 "Schlageter" Messerschmitt 109 E-4 Kit: Hasegawa 1:32

Eduard Me109E-1

Still working on my D-Day build, I've become stuck on the tricky fit of the cowls on the Eduard 190 kit, but in the meantime I built this Eduard 1/48 Mw109E-1 with Brassin engine, cockpit and radio bay (not that you can see muck of the [...]