iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

My 1/48 Hasegawa Henschel Hs 129 B-1

New aftermarket decals, to avoid the yellow-ish kit decals. Nice kit to build. Hope you like, thanks for looking, Paul.

Video: Sprue tour! Zvezda 1/48 Sukhoi Su-2

A gorgeous kit from those Russian folks, that I reckon I'll be getting started on fairly soon!

Promodeller 1/48 SB2C Helldiver w/Wolfpack wingfold

promodeller 1997 vintage...the decals exploded upon impact with the water so i cobbled them from the the stash...didn't have too many white codes so i stole them from a Korean war corsair...the wing fold went very smooth...had it done in [...]

Tamiya 1/48 F4D-1 Skyray

The Douglas F4D-1 Skyray was the first Navy fighter that could exceed Mach 1 in level flight. It was the first carrier-based fighter to hold the world's absolute speed record, and was the last fighter built by the Douglas Aircraft [...]

First Post : Building a DH Vampire

I'm new to this blogging thing, but my wife blogs extensively about her quilting/patchwork and really enjoys the process and feedback she gets, so here goes. I've restarted modeling after a 25 year (i guess) break and I am amazed at the [...]

Fujimi 1/48 Focke- Wulf Fw190 D-9

When Fujimi came out with this beauty, it was "state of the art". Decades have passed since then, but it still sits on my shelf collecting dust. Back when I built it, my reference material was limited. I had a picture post [...]

Italeri 1/48 C-130 E/H

I can only take credit for the last 75% of this build. Way back in 93 I helped one of my Mom's friends move out of his roofing buisness. He was an avid gardener, which is how my Mom knew him, but he was also a modeler. I always liked going [...]

Hasegawa 1/72, Mitsubishi G4M2 Betty

Real icon of WWII, Betty was a long time on my list of must-do Japanese a/c. As she's big plane, I always opted for some smaller subjects, to be able to finish them more quickly. When I started building it, all went incredible easy and [...]

First Model Plane in 40+ years…..

HI from a new old guy... I guess the last model I built was around 1972...I saw this when my daughter had me take her to the crafts store for school project supplies..whoa! I didn't know they had these! A limited selection but still Revell [...]

Kinetic E-2C Hawkeye

This is my very last build. Just finished before competition in Mosonmagyarovar. I found many issues when building it, some of them too late, unfortunately. The biggest one was balancing the model - I put around 80-90 gr until the model [...]