iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

1/48 Eduard P-51D-5

My first attempt at building one of Eduard's new P-51 offers. Finished several weeks ago but just now posting. Having build several Accurate Miniatures, Tamiya, Revell and a Airfix P-51 I decided to tackle the Eduard addition, this one is [...]

F18 E Super Hornet 1/48 - Italieri

Hello! I'm new to the forum, so first things first. My name is Federico and I am a novice modeler from the distant lands of a country called Argentina! Although I have already built a few other models, this is my first job in aviation. [...]

Jim Sullivan Memorial Group: F9F-2 Panther

I was looking in one of Jim Sullivan's books, entitled "Bent and Battered Wings", and came across an interesting series of photos of an F9F-2 Panther that came to grief in 1952. Apparently the returning Panther failed to catch a [...]

Pilot map details

hey guys this photo always fascinated me due to the detail captured and not sure why you don't see more of this detail on other photos of the time as I always thought it was common practice this Photo is available to view at American air [...]

1/48 Hobby Boss A-6A – “Flight of the Intruder”

This build was using the 1/48 Hobby Boss A-6A and building as the aircraft portrayed in the 1991 Viet Nam era movie “The Flight of the Intruder. The model itself was detailed using Eduard’s “BigEd” photo etch set as well as self [...]

Monogram 1/48 B-24J: The Dragon and His Tail

A famous "nose art" sported by a Liberator serving in the Pacific Theater. I used Kitsworld Decals. Since the application of decals over large and uneven surfaces is tricky, I approached the project with caution. Nonetheless, the [...]

Lockheed Neptune

On a recent trip to Colorado, I visited the Weisbrod Aircraft Museum in Pueblo, Colorado. While there I noticed that their Lockheed Neptune had been repainted and looks pretty nice for an outdoors display aircraft. It inspired me to [...]

Savoia Marchetti SM 79 Bombardiere

SIAI SM 79 belonging to the 52° squadron of the 27th land bomber group. ITALERI 1/72 model,ITALERI AND SKY DECALS,colored with Gunze and Tamiya acrylics ,XF 59 for yellow camo 3,XF 64 for brown camo 2 ,,Gunze H302 for green camo [...]

Airfix 1/72 Bristol Blenheim IV

The development of the Blenheim began when the Bristol Type 142, a civil airliner that first flew in April 1935, impressed with its performance, with the Air Ministry ordering a modified design as the Type 142M for the RAF as a bomber. [...]

Korean War Douglas AD-4 Skyraider Tamiya 1/48

Hi folks, an old A-1J junkie,some missing parts,warped fuselage,saved and 'transformed' into an earlier AD-4 in the Korean war...hope you like it,and tks for visiting.