iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

MACH 2 1/72 Vickers Viscount

The person that I built This for is a close friend of the owner of MACH 2 and has asked me to build quite a few of this companies kits. I compliment MACH 2 for the fact that they have introduced quite a number of very interesting [...]

Various Aircraft

Paints on a great scale! Two Navy Dive Bombers/ Torpedo the 2nd photo represents the aircraft flown by a the 20 year old GWH Bush in the attack of a Japanese radio station on Chi Chi Jama where his plane was hit in the engine by a 75mm AAA [...]

Lightning F.1A, Airfix 1/72

Here's this weeks model. It's the new Airfix Lightning F.2A converted back to an F.1A. The tank is from a Trumpeter kit, which was cut out, reshaped, and used to cast a resin replacement. It's still all sorts of wrong really, and I have [...]

Two more photos from Flt Lt Roy French

Acording to Roy's logbook, these were taken on a "fun flight" in September 1953; this would have been just before his return to England. Roy is flying F-86F-1 52-4345, an early narrow-chord/slatted-wing F-86F, while the two he [...]

1/48 Great Wall Hobby – Northrop P-61A Black Widow

Here is my 1/48 scale Great Wall Hobby P-61A Black Widow. The kit is finished with the markings of “Lady Gen” 42-5544 flown by Capt. Eugene Lee from 422nd Night Fighter Squadron in 1945. The 422nd Squadron was the first to operate [...]

Academy 1/48 P-26A Peashooter

Hello! Fresh model, still sticks to the fingers))) It seems to be simple model, and gathered it since last September. Now I can breathe a sigh of relieved- a done deal )) Everyone enjoy, hope, browsing, and interested - link to the [...]

Major Walter Nowotny Messerschmitt 262A-1a

Erprobungskommando Walter Nowotny Achmer 1944 Modell Hasegawa 1:32

P-51D 55th FG, 343FS Flown by Capt. Robert E. Welsh (6 victories)

This is a Monogram 1/48 P-51 that I built in 1976. This is just one of many Monogram Mustangs that I have built over the years. All things considered the Monogram kit is still one of the best for overall outline and quality and was [...]

“Götterdämmerung”

I previously posted photos of a specimen build of the Trumpeter 1/32 Messerschmitt Me 262 B-1a/U1, the late-war Luftwaffe night fighter. (link) I mentioned that I intended to 'de-construct' the model in part, and use it in a wreck [...]

SBD-4 Dauntless Hasegawa 1/48

The Hasegawa Dauntless model has been blamed to have a lower quality than the Dauntless series produced by Accurate Miniatures. The last one are still avaiable under the Italeri and Academy brands. With all the issues about the accuracy [...]