iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

1/48 Hasegawa Hawker Hurricane Mk.IIc RAF WWII

Spitfires and Typhoons Oh my! Since we are on the WWII RAF mode, I will toss in with the Hurricane Mk.IIc, this is the original boxing from Hasegawa when it first appeared in the early 90's. One of those kits which did not go straight [...]

Portuguese Zero, I dont know if this is going to work and if It does I will tell you the story.

Ah Yes it worked, well the story is is that a very good friend of mine, Antonio Sobral from Portugal came here to California on business and I met him and we went to a hobby shop when they were having a sale. We Both saw these cheap Tamiya [...]

Trumpeter 1/48 Spiteful.

Well, here are the photos of my Tumpeter 1/48 Spiteful. I finished it months ago, but had some life issues and have now only now posted them. I did add the air intake on the cowling, drilled out the exhaust and cannon, added a whip [...]

Airfix 1/48 scale Canberra PR 9 by Tony Prince

This was one of the many Canberra variants produced by Airfix when they turned over a new leaf & started making their much improved kits. Not perfect but well worth building. I was lucky enough to pick it up at our local IPMS club for [...]

Hawker Typhoon MK 1B, car door, if 609 Squadron

This is the aircraft of Sq Ldr. R.P.Beamont, leader of 609 Squadron. I have no further information on the details of this squadron or it's leader. This is the Hasegawa 1/48 kit and it was made out of the box with the exception of [...]

1/72nd New tool Airfix Bf109

A friend at work gave me this as a gift for Christmas and said build that before the 6th of January when we return to work! so I did 🙂 1/72 I would not usually bother with as it is way too small for me and my skills but it was a welcome [...]

A really nice New Year’s present

Pardon the unpaid self-promotion ( 😉 ): I've just learned that Casemate Publishers, the best military history publication house in the country, has picked up my book, "Fabled Fifteen: Air Group 15 in the Pacific War," the [...]

Monogram 1/48 AT-6 Built by Stan Staples

I became aware of Stan Staples in 1967. I obtained a copy of a magazine entitled “1001 model airplane ideas, clubs you can join” published by Delta magazines. The purpose of the magazine was to promote an awareness of IPMS. There were [...]

Otaki 1/48 F6F-5 (N) of VF91 (N)

This is a model of an aircraft of VF-91 (N) flown off Bon Homme Richard during the end of 1945. The is an OOB, with the exception of the radar dome on the right wing, Otaki kit. I built this quite a number of years ago and it is showing [...]

Some small scale stuff

Here's some small kits i put together. The apache and the Viggen are in 1/144 scale, and the others are even smaller scales. They are from the top: AH-64D Longbow apache B-1B Tu-144 'Concordskij' SAAB 37 Viggen prototype Ariane, ESA's [...]