iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

RAN De Havilland Sea Venom FAW.53 cockpit

Another very black cockpit from the ANAM museum at Moorabbin airport outside Melbourne, Australia. This time the much more cramped office of a side by side seated Sea Venom. It is very clear this early jet is made of wood, as can be seen [...]

Kinetic 1/48th BAe Sea Harrier FA.2

There just something great about the Harrier and such a shame they taken out of service far too early. Still there good kits released of this classic British aircraft and Kinetics' 1/48th Sea Harrier FA.2 is a very good kit eventually. End [...]

Airfix 1/48 Hurricane Mk 1

This is the old tooling of Airfix's Mk 1 Hurricane. I chose to model it "in flight" and mounted the aircraft on a clear plastic pole. The base is a fence post top covered with model railroad static grass. Mostly the kit was built [...]

Trumpeter's F-100C Super Sabre in 1/48.

this is the Trumpeter F-100C kit which I built some 3 years ago. I had absolutely no trouble with it apart from a little bit of fettling around the air intake. Finish is Alclad & decals by Xtra Decals. The weathering is very [...]

Fiat G.50 1:72 Airfix

Another oldie from the shelf. This is the venerable Airfix Fiat G.50 with some improvement. I made this kit years ago when this was the only g.50 around. I scrachbuild the cockpit area and the wheel wells, intakes etc and rescribed the [...]

Oberfähnrich Guido Mutke “Messerschmitt 262”

On April 25, 1945 lands Oberfähnrich Guido Mutke with the Messerschmitt 262 in Dübendorf. Beautiful Christmas greetings and a Happy New Year Hanspeter

Review: Fly 1/32nd westland Wessex review

Review: Trumpeter 1/48th MIG-23 Flogger H review

1:48 Wessex HAS.MK 3

An out of the box build (Revell-Germany) of a British Wessex Helicopter of the Royal Navy. I model this after the helios used in the Falkland war. The original airframe is based on the Sikorsky S-58 (H-34) and subsequently licensed to [...]

The new Airfix Ju87 Stuka

In an Imodeler exclusive - here are a few photos of the new Airfix 1:72 Ju87 Stuka which is about to arrive in the shops. I built this for Airfix Model World Magazine and it is featured in the new January issue of the mag which hit the [...]