iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

Kurt Tank's Masterpiece: The FW Ta-152H-0 in 1/32 by Z-M

Professor Kurt Tank, the man behind the design of one of the Luftwaffe's most successful fighter planes, the FW190 series, saw an early need for improving the high altitude performance of his creation and started design studies for various [...]

A Tableful of 2023

A productive year! 72 completions total, 58 aircraft and 14 vehicles, all to 1/72 scale. I managed to complete one batch roughly every month, the photos are of each group which shared the bench. If anyone is interested, more details and [...]

Video: Full video buildP-47D Thunderbolt by Mini Art 48th scale

Iranian Phantom: Hasegawa 1/48 RF-4E

The venerable Hasegawa kit is the workhorse for another unique scheme of the Phabolous Phantom. This time, a reconnaissance version in the Iranian Air Force Service.

Curtiss CW-21B

Here's my latest Dora Wings build, the CW-21B in 1:48. The CW 21 was an effort by Curtiss pre-war to provide a lightweight interceptor based on their earlier CW-19 trainer with a high rate of climb and decent top speed. It lacked armor [...]

2024, let's see what it brings, a happy new year to all, my models finished in 2023, aproximatly in order of completion.

All but two feature in a Group build here on iModeler, see annotations, the PC 9 in my aerobatic group, the FA 18B - not yet, the Mil Mi 8 was started in 2006, good to see it finished, some were started in 2023, others a little earlier, [...]

Unmanned: Northrop Grumman RQ-4B Global HawkSkunk Models 1/48

As we round off 2023, I wanted to share at least one of the two most recent builds I have completed this year, as well as just have a quick peek at some projects in process for 2024. Today I'm sharing a few pictures that, frankly, were [...]

Not my last completed model of 2023, but the last one I wrote a few words about: Yak 50 aerobatic plane in the colours of DOSAAF!

The powerful and agile Yak 50 can be considered one of the great designs in the field of aerobatics: since its appearance in 1973, it has repeatedly written success stories at competitions and was the declared favourite aircraft of [...]

My 2023 builds

Hi guys Last two days and my 2023 balance sheet is ready. I'm not very productive this year considering the length of my to-do list. Here it is in chronological order 1/32 Hasegawa P-40M (Kittyhavk Mk.III) 1/32 PCM Hawker Hurricane [...]

F4U-5 Corsair U.S.NAVY

The Chance Vought Corsair was developed in 1938 to the specifications of the U.S. Navy, which wanted a fast single-seat fighter that could take off from an aircraft carrier and which had the most powerful engine on the market at the time [...]