iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

Oblt. Armin Faber's Fw190 A-3

On the evening of June 23rd 1942 Oblt. Faber landed on an airfield he thought was in western France. It turned out he was landing at RAF Pembrey in Wales, thus presenting the RAF with a perfectly intact 190. After testing Faber's plane the [...]

Tamiya Sturmvogel

This is the classic Tamiya Me 262 kit in 1/48. Had started it and a Monogram Schwable way back in 2016. Had wanted to build a plane base at Rheine since I had been TDY at that base when it had F-4F Phantom IIs. Well hit a few hiccups like [...]

A Captured Lightning Bolt, Hasegawa J2M3 ‘Jack’ 1/72

This wasn’t on my radar, but when I found Rising Decals MM72-0101 Dying Suns Pt.2 decal sheet in the decal bin at my LHS, I knew I had this Hasegawa ‘B2’ kit and thought I’d give it a go. I have seen Aircraft BI-01 in many photos [...]

Albatros D.II

1/48 Eduard kit. I used a Black Dog detail set and Gaspatch guns. Tamiya Acrylic paints and Quinta Studios decal on the propeller.

Siemens-Schuckert SSW D.IV

Siemens-Schuckert SSW D.IV ТОКО/Eastern Express 1/72

Airfix 1/48 Fairey Gannet AS.4815 NAS Ark Royal 1958.

What a kit. It all just fits together. The wings are still just a dry fit. I need to give a massive shout out to Airfix and their customer service as they replaced my clear sprue after i'd cracked two of the canopies whilst polishing. I [...]

Airfix 1/48th Westland Sea King HAS.2A

This is my recently completed Airfix 1/48th Westland Sea King. This kit is a vast improvement on the old Hasegawa kit and in particular is the inclusion of a fully detailed and equipped interior. I have completed a couple of the Hasegawa [...]

Kinetic 1/48 Mirage IIID Nesher

The most beautiful aircraft design ever produced, the Mirage had many variants. One of them was the IDF "Nesher", an identical version of the Mirage 5 that was under the French arms embargo. A handful of these aircraft were [...]

Rivets? I'll give you rivets.

So found a local bargain place with some model kits. So snagged the Atlantis repop of the box scale B-26 Invader. Talk about Brooklyn Bridge scale rivets. We got it so good nowadays. What amazed me was the framing in the clear parts were [...]

Airfix Spitfire Vc

Greetings my fellow Imodelers. Haven‘t posted in a while, but here is my Spitfire Vc from Airfix. Tim Tozer made a spectacular build of this kit in flight last year, which was very inspiring: (link) Initially, i wanted to do the same [...]