iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

1/48 Hasegawa Spitfire Mk.IXe TuAF

This is 1/48 Hasegawa Spitfire Mk IXe finished -several years ago- with the markings of the Turkish Air Force (TuaF). After WWII, between January 1947 and February 1948, TuAF received 170 Spitfire Mk.IX ans used them up to the beginning [...]

Zoukei-Mura J7W1 Shinden 1/32

Here is ZM's Shinden. It's a complex kit. Much of it builds without issues, while other areas require more focus. It builds like a cross between a Tamiya and Trumpeter kit. The complex shapes of the rear fuselage panels in particular are [...]

Further progress on the big B-17G - painted!

I ended up sitting this thing on a bar stool outside and walking around it to get all the paint on. Four different shades of Alclad, and it took half a bottle of Duraluminum and a third of a bottle of White Aluminum for their areas. [...]

1/48 Hobbycraft Military Tutor

A Canadian trainer. This is a simple, basic kit, with decals for 4 different versions, none of which is a "Snowbird", Canada's aerial demonstration team. Hobbycraft does make the "Snowbird", just don't look for it [...]

Achtung, Spitfire!

Sometime in mid-December of last year, while attending a meeting of the Brooklyn Plastic Modelers Society (my chapter of the IPMS), I came across this kit being sold 2nd hand for $25.00 with an Eduard photo-etch set and a Masters [...]

Vintage Fighter Series P-47D Thunderbolt 1/24

You may have read recently that Kinetic has bought the moulds to the VFS 1/24 Thunderbolts. These were originally produced by Ray Thomas, and I bought my kit from him at the Hornchurch show in 2009, and built it a year or so later when it [...]

1/72 Lindberg Heinkel He-219

What do you do with a Lindberg kit ? What do you do with one that's missing parts? Can't give it away, or sell it, so just have some fun with it ! Take a color you have little use for, some decals, you don't need and build a [...]

ICM 1/72 Tupolev SB- High-speed bomber

Greetings to all of its fresh model, it is the next fastest build out of the box))). This time, it's high-speed bomber Tupolev / Archangel, SB. Have proved effective in the war in Spain, the aircraft is out of date by 1941, and could not [...]

Trumpeter 1/32 P-38 Lightnings

Mark's really nice Trumpeter P-38 reminded me I hadn't shown any of my Trumpeter P-38s. They are: P-38L OOB other than seat belts and Eagle Edition decals, to do Tommy McGuire's last "Pudgy." P-38H done as McGuire's first [...]

P-40N flown by Lt. Jack A. Fenimaore, 7th FS, 49th FG

I have no further information on Lt. Fenimore but he must have been a good guy because of the name and painting he put on his aircraft. Again,the kit is from Mauve and I found it to be very good. OOB it is good but if one wanted to go hog [...]