iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

Caproni Ca.3 (UPDATED)

Here is Polish firm Choroszy Modelbud's 1/72 kit of the Caproni Ca.3 with 25.4mm gun, together with six figures from a Waterloo 1815 set of Italian WWI soldiers, the latter having arms and legs repositioned for the project. The vignette [...]

Republic F-105 Thunderchief, one of the greatest airplanes ever...

I always have liked the Republic F-105 Thunderchief. Designed to do a clean, precision, tactical nuclear attack, back in the Cold War days. And then never doing that, but saddled with a grunt job of delivering conventional ordnance at low [...]

More on Flt Lt Roy French

Roy's son sent me these photos he's found. The airplane is Roy's F-86E. The picture of the Sabre is interesting because it's one of the few color photos I have seen of the enlarged "Misawa tanks", which were painted yellow to [...]

Gotha WD-13 Seaplane 1/16 Scratchbuilt…

Hi, I'm back 🙂 I was away for a long time because of this baby nearly for a year. On January (last year) my friend asked about 1/16 scratchbuilt this sea plane for his collection. I tried to explain to him that not much information [...]

Hasegawa 1/48 : mitshubishi A6M5 /52, ZERO. ” Saipan Island” June 1944.,

Made out of the box with Eduard belts, painted with WEM colocoats.

Seversky S2 Racer, Flown by Frank Fuller, 1939 Bendix Race

First, let me say that this is a classic example for the motto of my Club "I Know Where the Mistakes Are and I'm Not Going to Tell You Where They Are" second, this is the very old Hobbycraft 1/48 kit of the Seversky S2 Racer [...]

Spitfire MK Vlll 145 Squadron. San Severo, Italy, 1943 Flown by Lance Wade

American Lance Wade was a true Yank in the RAF. Near the end of his combat career Squadron Leader "Wildcat" Wade flew a Spitfire VIII with the serial JF472 and the codes ZX-J. Wade made his final claims in ZX-J; 2 Fw190s [...]

Flt Lt Roy French, RAF 1926-2013

The annals of aviation history do not prominently display the name of Flight Lieutenant Roy French, RAF. However, Captain Joseph McConnell, the American ace of aces of the Korean War, had good reason to remember the name. Roy was [...]

Mitsubishi F1M2 “Pete

This is another right out of the box build even using the kit decals. It is of a "Pete" that was in the Solomon Islands about January 1943. I have no information on the specific Senti but the kit lists the crewmen. They were NAP [...]

Nakajima KI-84 Frank

This is the Otaki KI-84 Frank built strictly out of the box. I did nothing more than add seat belts. I built it for a gentleman and he wanted it as clean as possible. I did put a few exhaust stains on it but that is about it. I used the [...]