iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

The Somewhat Unappreciated Hasegawa F6F Hellcat

I've been away from iModeler for quite a while, but I haven't been sitting idle. I've been tinkering with several "Shelf of Doom" projects in various stages of construction, and i decided to rebuild and repair a favourite of mine [...]

1/48 Tamiya P-47DMiss Behave

See all my models at: (link) Photograpy: Nikon D7500; Focus Stacking using Helicon Focus; Editing using LightRoom Kit: Tamiya 086 Paint: Top: RAF Dark Green (AK RC286) Bottom: RAF Sky FS34424 (AKRC290) Cockpit: FS34108 (50% Tamiya X5 [...]

P-40 in the Battle of Milne Bay

This the third of six P-40s I built earlier this year for a club display for the Australian Model Expo. I built them as one group of three and a second group of four. The seventh aircraft was not finished in time for Expo but is now [...]

Kinetic 1/48 Su 33 Flanker D

A big and complex kit. It has detailed panel line engravings and good fit of parts. There is one small snag to take this kit off the list of Kinetic's finest. Instructions are the most suggestive and misleading I ever came across. It is [...]

P-51 B Arma Hobby 31 FG Operation Frantic III

(link) Even though the model has been available for over two years, as fate would have it, I only just started buying it now. I heard a lot of good things about it and I approached its construction with very positive energy, having [...]

Eduard's Wildcat F4F-3: A Tribute to Grumman's 'Cat' Legacy on a Custom Deckstop motion

B-17 crash in Schlappintal Klosters Graubünden Switzerland

Here is the Story of tail Gunner Donald Boyle Tail Gunner Donald B. Boyle describes the further course of the Mission: We lost altitude the whole time, and then our two “little friends”, the accompanying Figthers, turned off over the [...]

War Games...1/48 Grumman F4F-3A Wildcat, VMF-111 "Devil Dogs", USMC

Next naval aviation subject finished by my dad. Took a second attempt to finish it, the first model didn´t make it to finish because my dad didn´t get along with Eduard´s complex and fragile landing gear. Built oob, painted with AK RC [...]

Roden 1/32nd Albatros DIII (OAW)

Hello everyone, this is my Roden Albatros DIII (OAW) in 1/32nd scale. To start, its no Wingnut Wings kit but the Roden kits can be built into a pretty nice piece. I've always been a fan of the German WW1 aircraft, and the Albatros family [...]

Grumman F6F Hellcat, Fujimi

Greetings, friends and modelers. Back posting again after life got busy. I'm easing my way back to modeling by repairing and upgrading an old Fujimi F6F I had originally done in the 1990s. Decals had flaked and my repairs were [...]