iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

AMK 1/48 Aero L-29 Delfin

The Aero L-29 Delfin (Dolphin)was Czechoslovakia's first locally-designed and built jet aircraft, and became the standard jet trainer for all Warsaw Pact air forces (other than Poland) during the 1960s. The prototype XL-29, designed by Z. [...]

Lavochkin LA-5FN 1/48 Eduard

In 1941, to integrate the cumbersome Shvetsov ASh-82 (M-82) engine into the frame of the LaGG-3 to build LA-5 was not a small matter and it costs the life to some Russian test pilots. The new machine required many improvements (cooling, [...]

Shades of Yossarian.

There were (until this find last year) virtually no photographs of Joseph Heller, the author of "Catch-22" from World War 2. This 6-minute segment comes from what was a 73-minute documentary made by 340th BombGroup Public [...]

New Airfix kits

Just received the review kit of the new Airfix 1/48 Spitfire I (Hornby USA not having its head up its posterior about review kits, as Hornby UK has done). In case you were wondering, it's as beautiful as the new Mk. V, and definitely the [...]

1/32 Scale Zoukei Mura Raiden

I have been posting pictures in the group build of this kit. Well I can finally say that it is complete. I am not a professional Photographer, but I hope you enjoy the pictures non the less, the last pictures I took I placed it with a P 51 [...]

Heinkel He 162A-2 Volksjäger, Trimaster 1/48

Made from a box somewhere 1989 crosses paint and decal. xtracolor .RLM: late war. For now, the only representative of the Luftwaffe in my showcase In stash im have new TAMIYA to build Capture colors of RAF. P.k

1/48 Classic Airframes Bf 109B-2

This was built primarily out of the box with an Ultracast seat added and the prop pieced together from a CMK 109E prop. The documentation is all over the place on this aircraft. I have seen it referred to as a B, C, and D in [...]

1/48 Testors/Hawk Ryan STM -S2 (PT20)

Easy, old build that comes with floats/wheels, and it's own base. Just plain fun !

Curtiss Condor II. “William Horlick” – ITC/Glencoe 1:81 – Byrd’s expedition plane

This is the horrible ITC Condor kit, represents Richard Evelyn Byrd's expedition plane, "The William Horlick" from 1934. The kit is a "modeling nightmare" - be aware of the one build can find on the net says: [...]

Dragon 1/72 Mig-15Bis Ex LR Korea, USAF

Build from the box in the nineties, decals applied by Cutting Edge paint Xtracolor . On 21 September 1953 a disenchanted North Korean pilot made a decision that changed his life and American history. Lt No Kum Suk flew a MiG-15bis with [...]