iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

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 [...]

1/48 CAC CA-13 Boomerang

When Australia became involved in the Pacific War in December 1941, the Royal Australian Air Force was ill-prepared, to say the very least. With Australia’s main combat forces deployed to North Africa and England, it was clear that there [...]

Harrier GR.3, Airfix 1/72nd

So here's this week's model. It's the Airfix kit. Problem free build. The pilot is from PJ Productions and the bombs are from the Revell Tornado GR.1 kit. I used some plastic card and superglue to correct the tip of the tail (Kit tail has [...]

Bf 109 E

This picture was taken from this Website. (link) Someone told me that the caption is wrong because the camouflage of Bf 109s were changed in August-September 1940 during the Battle of Britain. I have been doing a research on Feldwebel [...]