iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

1/48 SAAF Hawker Hurricane

This Hasegawa kit was a gift to me from my friend , Morné @mornem. He shipped it to me here in Oklahoma from South Africa…. so this is really a South African Hurricane ! I used my airbrush, Tamiya paints, and AML paint masks to paint [...]

PBY 1/48 in flight...over the bar

This is the venerable Revell-Monogram 1/48 PBY-5 kit. A very nice kit from 1995. The tooling & fit is great for this era and the size of this built up is rather large and impressive! Hats off to the moldings! ALl Ia dded was a few [...]

Aeroplast Mi-2 Hoplite, 1/48 scale

Hello iModeler! I realized I hadn't posted pics of this build, even though I finished it late last year. This is Aeroplast's Mi-2 Hoplite helicopter. I had fun building this kit, although some of the parts were a bit too delicate for my [...]

A Build for a Friend

Focke-Wulf Fw190 D-9 (motorized), Fujimi, 1:48 For many years my friend Mike hosted monthly working meetings of a small group of modelers with a common interest in historical miniature figures. Those meetings were fun, informative and [...]

Macchi C 205 V A.N.R.

I present to my reproduction of the Macchi C 205 Veltro of the second Fighter Group of the Aeronautica Repubblicana ,whitch to lieutenant Robetto. I.made all modification to the Hasegawa 1/48 model kit di that the 205 version was credible [...]

Revell 1/32 Mosquito Mk. IV

The large Revell Mosquito is a nice kit in spite its age. It is very basic, particularly the cockpit and has raised panel lines. Nonetheless, it retains the characteristic Mosquito outlines. I separated flying surfaces and detailed the [...]

CAC CA-32 - Bell 206B-1 Kiowa, A17-015, Army Helicopter School, AAAC, Oakey Qld 2005.

1/72 Italeri, started 01-2013, finished 03-2022, a few modifications done - pic 3, featured in the helicopter GB, more pics and details there.

1/32 Fw 190 F-8 Revell 04869

This is my Fw 190 F-8 which I recently finished. A nice kit, certainly for its price. I build it mostly out of the box, and only added refinements from scratch plastic and different types of wire, and control surfaces decals from HGW. The [...]

Quick! What was the most produced Allied fighter...

Quick! What was the most produced Allied fighter of WW2? Since this is an article on Yaks, I guess I gave the answer away already. Yep, Aleksandr Yakovlev's Yak series, about 35,700 being put together by 6 factories. Now 2000 or so were [...]

1/32 Revell Junkers Ju-88 A11

This is 1/32 Revell’s Junkers Ju-88 A11 with the markings of “L1-OK” I./LG1 in North Africa 1942 Cockpit modified with some parts of CMK cockpit set, Eduard’s PE instrument panel and CMK resin seats I have used Aerocraft’s [...]