iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

A Swordfish with D-Day Stripes – Trumpeter 1/32 Swordfish Mk.II

Most of the Swordfish aircraft produced during the Second World War were constructed by Blackburn Aviation, including all Swordfish Mks. II and III. This situation must have felt good to Fairey Aviation - the company responsible for the [...]

Mosquito Mk. IV, 1/48, just done!

Greetings From Virginia, Friends! Here is my just completed Revell, 1/48 Mosquito Mk. IV. Seeing as how the instructions for this kit were pretty vague on some things and self-contradictory on some, I decided to take a little artistic [...]

Some modeling inspiration

Neat diorama idea. (link) (link)

Academy Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat in 1:72 scale

Hello there. This Wildcat is my second airplane model and a lot of fun to build. I’m mainly experimenting with techniques and learning…watching a lot of YouTube videos and reading as much as I can. One thing I learned? If you’re [...]

D-Day plus 20 days. P-38J 55th FS, 20th FG

P--38J, 42-67916 KI * S of the 55th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Group, 8th AF. Kingscliffe UK. This Lightening, “California Cutie” was flown by 1st Lieutenant Richard O. Loehnert. I was unable to find any information on Loehnert [...]

PCM 1/32 Reggiane Re.2005

The Reggiane series of fighters - the Re.2000, Re.2001, Re.2002 and Re.2005 - were technically among the best Italian fighters designed during the Second World War. All the aircraft designed and produced were obviously based on the [...]

Monogram 1/48 P-38M “Night Lightning”

I finished this one a few months ago but I haven't gotten around to do an article on it until now. So hang on, here is my story of how I came to build an old 1/48 Monogram P-38! I am not a 1/48-guy, not at all really, but in 2013 my [...]

Video: Sprue tour! Trumpeter 1/48 Westland Whirlwind

Big thanks to Jim Starkweather of Kitmaker Network for supplying this kit. www.kitmaker.net

My G-10 Erla Has Landed!

It's rather cold, wet and miserable in Canberra at present, but the day was brightened considerably for me when the postman arrived with my Revell 1/32 Bf109G-10 Erla, this being my prize for fooling all you guys with my Roland D.VIb in [...]

Hawker Typhoon 1b

Hi Yawl, Finished at last my little addition to the D-Day Build, the Academy Hawker Typhoon b1 in 1/72 scale originally i was going to build the MPM A-20G Havoc but got completely bogged down with that one plus as per MPM's usual kits it [...]