iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

Tamiya 1/48 F-14D Tomcat

After seeing Top Gun Maverick, I felt nostalgic and wanted to build a Tomcat for my collection. Somehow, I also managed to get an A model in my stash. 😄 The build was out of the box with no modifications.

Fifty years of service in the IDF: Monogram 1/48 C-47/DC-3

Three camouflage schemes characterize much of the Dakota (also in Hebrew) appearance in its long service since the War of Independence. The blue and brown scheme was introduced in the mid 50s. It was replaced by the multicolored version by [...]

1/48 Accurate Miniatures P-51C

Started in 23 but finally finished is my first completion in 2024. It is the old A/M P-51C kit which is a P-51B with the tail fillet joint. For some reason I seem to be concentrating on checker tail birds especially those from the 325th [...]

1/48 Nieuport 10

Special Hobby kit. A reasonable kit, but I ended up having to fix some weird alignment issues. I struggled to get the proper stagger while maintaining the correct gap between the upper and lower wings. In the end, I think that the gap is [...]

Video: F-100F Super Sabre - Italeri + Trumpeter 1/72Aircraft Model

Fokker D.VII's

Hi All, Finally finished five Fokkers! Though a rewarding project, at times it was tedious (fiddly kit parts, keeping each build parts separated, lozenge decals) and monotonous (over and over steps X 5). I am pleased with the outcome but [...]

Albatros D. III, 253.09 Oeffag, 1:48, Eduard, Hpt. Miroslav (Friedrich) Navratil, Flik 3J, 10 victories

A very nice model to build. I only removed the engine cover as they flew in the hot summer months. I retrofitted the engine with a few details. Next, I removed the surface detail on the fuselage and the bottom of the wings and put in new [...]

Percival Prince 3, A90-1, Air Trials Unit, RAAF, Woomera SA 1953.

1/72 Special Hobby Pembroke kit with Magna Models bits and as reference for conversion, built 04-2021 to 03-2023 for the SuaF GB, more pic's and details there.

Wilde Sau Wurgers: Eduard 1/48 Fw 190A-6 and 8

The innovative development of the first German airborne radar on is a source for modelers to demonstrate different FuG antennae arrays. I used two Eduard A-8 kits to represent the initial and final Neptun radar antenna arrays on the [...]

1/48 Airfix Boulton Paul Defiant Mk.I

1/48 Airfix Boulton Paul Defiant Mk.I See all my models at: (link) Nikon D7500; Focus Stacking using Helicon Focus; Editing using LightRoom Exterior top: AK Interactive RC286 RAF Dark Green; RC287 RAF Dark Earth Exterior bottom: AK [...]