iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

Trumpeter 1/48 Vigilante RA-5C

Trumpeter's Vigilante was never on my list due to reports on shape and fit issues related to the kit. Nonetheless, I received this model from a friend and promptly built it. In spite of the bad reputation, it builds to an impressive [...]

Video: Tamiya F-4B Phantom II Full video build (1/48th scale)

TAMIYA 1/48 McDonnell Douglas F-4B Phantom II Item No: 61121 Highly recommended! Thanks for watching! All the best! Dusan

Hasegawa A6M2b Zero

G'day all. Just finished this one this afternoon. It's the 1/48 Hasegawa A6M2b Zero from the Rabaul boxing. The interior is dressed up with a Quinta cockpit set and the roundels and tail codes are painted using masks. The cowl gun barrels [...]

A different type of Fortress… PB-1W

Greetings fellow imodellers, Here is the new-tool 1/72nd Airfix B-17G converted to a US Navy PB-1W airborne early warning aircraft. I used the old 299Models conversion which gives you the big radome in short-run injection plastic, as well [...]

Pro Modeler 1/48 P-39Q Airacobra

The origins of the Airacobra can be traced back in 1937, when USAAC issued a specification calling for a single-engine high-altitude interceptor. The aggressive specifications called, among others, for a liquid-cooled Allison engine [...]

Another razor back to the collection

Another practice model for me same as my last post Diecast donor repainted as Francis Gabby Gabraski P47 D-11 HV*A my shading looks more realistic and I went one stage more than last model as this one got flat coat over decals

KOREA: THE FORGOTTEN WAR - 1/48 Hasegawa F-86E-5(Can)Major John Bolt, USMC

The F-86 Sabre was the first really successful US jet fighter, with 9,800 Sabres produced between 1949-60 in the U.S., Canada, Japan, Italy and Australia. The F-86A was capable of supersonic flight in a dive, though the airplane was [...]

Morane-Saulnier in the Swiss Air Force 1939 – 1959

The Morane-Saulnier, together with the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and the Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-6, formed the backbone of the Swiss fighter Squadrons, especially during the active Service period 1939-1945. They were involved in dogfights mainly [...]

Hasegawa 1/48 F-16A IDF "Netz"

The venerable Hasegawa F-16A kit is an excellent platform to depict IDF's Netz (Hawk.) All you need to do is to add an appropriate decal sheet (Isradecal in this case) and a resin ACES II ejection seat. The visible cockpit area craves for [...]

„En Condor over Danmark!“ The Fw 200A "Jutlandia" in service with DDL

Coincidences, especially chance encounters, are a popular literary topos to start great stories. The already legendary story of the Fw 200 Condor can also boast such an incident: in March 1936, Dr Kurt Tank, who had recently become head of [...]