iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

Eduard 1/48 Nieuport-17 VVS RKKA

Again, the red stars! This time it's Nieuport-17 aircraft of the Baltic Fleet, the 20-ies. Model repainted, it was originally a Nieuport labeled "Bob." Almost all the small things were manufactured from scratch. Coloring was done [...]

1/48 Zvezda Bf-109F-2

The 1/48 Zvezda Bf-109F-2, using Lifelike Decals to do the airplane flown by Hans Phillip as 4 Staffel Kapitaen of II/JG 54 in 1941. Always liked the "lizard scheme" of camouflage JG 54 created. Full review today over at [...]

R6D VR-21 Barbers Point, Hawaii 1963 -1966

This aircraft was flown by a very good friend of mine when he was assigned to VR-21 in Hawaii. Aside from various transport duties it was used as transportation for two Admirals. One was Cincpac and the other was Cincpacflt. Other duties [...]

Eduard 1:48 Spitfire Mk. IXc

Much has been written about the Eduard Spitfire and the history of Spitfires by better men then I so i'll spare you all. I modeled Spitfire ML296, 312 (Czech) Squadron, RAF, August, 1944. I painted most of the markings, Roundels, codes, [...]

Pilot: Oblt Hans Zweiacker Swiss Air Force

This Messerschmitt 109 G-6 J-713 with the pilot Oblt Hans Zweiacker accident on 29 May 1946 at Piz di Rod, the Messerschmitt with the pilot was not until seven years later found by a hiker. On 4 September 1953 reported Felice Ressighini [...]

Four ICM Spitfires

Back before there was the Eduard kit, before there was the Hasegawa kit, there was the ICM kit, released first in around 1999 with the Spitfire IX, the first series of kits to get anywhere close to accuracy with the Merlin-60 series [...]

Video: Meet The Fokker - 1/48 D.XXIFinished-ish!

The 0.5% of unfinishednessness was due to the fact I'd forgotten to add the prop spinner - which you can see shining like a beacon of stupidity at the bottom right of the frame. It's been Alcladed but still needs a yellow band. That and [...]

Airfix 1/72 Hawker Typhoon 1B

Built OOB, finished in Testors and Tamiya acrylics. I had planned on mounting bombs instead of rockets, for something a little different. However, I really didn't like the way the bombs ended up looking. I also left off the boarding step, [...]

48th scale North American F-86D Sabre Dog

This model represents the first production single seat fighter to which air-to-air missiles replace the classic gun armament. The Monogram kit is built out of the box and I do not recall any fit issues. I used several shades of Alclad [...]

Late war JG 26 Bf-109K-4 (1/32 Hasegawa)

This 1/32 Hasegawa Bf-109K-4 is done as an airplane flown by Georg Genth of III/JG 26 around the time of Operation Bodenplatte. Genth was the son of a WW1 German aviator who flew Gotha bombers, and joined the Luftwaffe as a [...]