iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

1/72 Airfix Gloster Javelin T.3

My 1/72 Airfix Gloster Javelin T.3 as made in Feb 2022. Paints used are Vallejo Model Color Dark Sea Grey, Dark Green, brush painted & Halfords spray can Mini Silver. The masks for the camo scheme were home made using 40mm Tamiya tape [...]

1/48 Hasegawa Macchi 202

A tale of a build and a half. I built the sublime Hasegawa Macchi 202 quite some time ago. The kit is a super model with only one tricky part of the build and that's the gun troughs over the engine. Everything else is sweet. I used a True [...]

1/48 Tamiya A6M2-N "Rufe"36th Air Wing, Borneo

This is Tamiya's aging 1/48 "Rufe",(released in 1973!) Its a nice, simple build out of the box, and with a little help, can look quite presentable. I tweaked it with lots of weight in the front of the float, added Eduard's [...]

Heller 1/72 Caudron 714

The Caudron Renault C.710 series was one of the emerging types out of a French 1936 specification, calling for a light fighter of wooden construction that could be built rapidly in large numbers without upsetting the production of existing [...]

About tank carts, fire extinguishers ...and photographing models: two pieces of Japanese airfield equipment

A statement at the beginning: when purchasing these two kits, it is not so much the fascination for the respective original that is in the foreground, but rather their modelling possibilities. Presumably, most miniatures of this Japanese [...]

P-51B in Slovak National Uprising (1/48 Tamiya P-51B)

First, a little background. In the spring of 1944, the Czech Government in exile in London and various resistance groups began to believe that the German occupation forces had been sufficiently depleted by the war on the Eastern Front that [...]

Hawker Hurricane mk.I

Airfix 1/72 early fabric winged hurricane. Kit decals.

1/48 AD-4 - Korean War Group Build.

This is the Tamiya A-1H kit backdated to a late model AD-4. The model depicts an aircraft assigned to VA-95 aboard USS Philippine Sea during 1952-53. The main things involved in backdating a Viet Nam era Skyraider to a Korean War AD-4 [...]

Grumman SA-16A Albatross 1/72

I have always made some effort to build Brazilian theme models, so I have several items in my collection. They usually are hard to build due most of the kits have some differences in comparison to the real thing operated in Brazil, so [...]

End of War...1/48 Messerschmitt Bf109G-10 (Mtt. Regensburg), 13./JG27

So, this is my dad´s last good old Hasegawa 109, only a few Eduard ones left in the stash. Markings taken from the Eduard Regensburg kit. Also Eduard seatbelts and cockpit fuel line used. Plastic rods and lead wire for the brake lines, EZ [...]