iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

1/72 Tamiya P-47D Thunderbolt

Not a completely accurate depiction of Lt. John Godfrey's P-47, changed a couple of little things to suit what I wanted to build, dropped the emblem and made him an ace.(I know he clocked up around 16.33 kills but in Aeromasters Debden [...]

1/24 Trumpeter Hurricane Mk IICSpecial Night Finish

Here are a couple of shots of Trumpeter's 1/24 Hurricane. I bought the kit second-hand at a model show last spring and built it in the summer. It's OOB except for replacement belts. The livery is for a night fighter of 87 Squadron in [...]

1/144th scale New Ware Thor Able II-Tiros 1 LV

This is another non-AC subject I completed in the past two weeks. New Ware is a company that produces high quality all resin kits of various rocket designs. This is the first kit I have built from this company and I will say that it was [...]

Third time's the charm . . . yet another A3D Skywarrior

Here again is another Hasegawa Skywarrior, this time in the early attack scheme. This is in the out of box markings for USS Independence in the early 60's. I am still working on a scratch built bomb bay with the two nuclear shapes she [...]

I'm in the mood for love . . . the KA3D Skywarrior by Hasegawa

It seems everyone likes the Whale, so I present another of my Skywarrior models, this time the KA3D. Not much to say, except that this is the carrier borne refueling tanker version out of the box by Hasegawa. The diagonal stripes are a [...]

Monogram 1/48 Cessna A-37 Dragonfly

With the help of aftermarket decals, this was built as an OA-37, as pictured on the back cover of the A-37/T-37 Dragonfly in Action. These replaced the OV-10 in the FAC role with the 19th TASS, based at Osan AB, South Korea,. The kit was [...]

Eduard’s Spitfire MkIXc on the bench…..

I have started to built "Eduard Spitfire" this week. You can see the building process from the Work in progress section by using the following link. (link) Happy modelling.

A3D-2 Skywarrior of VAH-10 aboard USS. Constellation (VVA-64) 1962

This model is of an aircraft assigned to VAH-10 "Vikings". Commissioned a NAS Whidbey Island, Washington on May 1,1961. VAH-10 was the last HATRON to be activated. It received its first A3D-2's six weeks after being organized. As [...]

Tamiya 1/48 N1K1-J Shiden "George"

This was an enjoyable build start to finish. I built the "George" with only photo-etch harness straps for cockpit detail. My Paints were Model Master enamels and I weathered using pastels and a Prisma color silver pencil.

1/72, F-89 Scorpion, Revell

I found this model in my stash of old models in my parents attic, and was pleasantly surprised. As a straight from the box production, it has real "class." Right from the Cold War days of flying shot guns, the Scorpion was [...]