iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

The North American F-86K(aasjager) of the RNLAF (1956-1964)

This kit from Special Hobby sure has it's challenges. Most difficult part was connecting the wings to the fuselage as the fitting was quite dramatic. All in all, I am happy with the result. What do you all think? Below a little history on [...]

Korean War Group BuildVought F4U-4 Corsair, Hobby Boss 1/72

Sometimes, things that weren't planned work out pretty well, and this was one of them. The spark for this one came from our club's contest theme for this year, Big and Little, in which the subject is built in two different scales with the [...]

Messerschmitt Bf-109E-3 JG 51 Early War Period Hasegawa 1/48

Hi folks, this was a project I had to finish,for it was initiated by a dear friend. Although it is not a top job,I am at least glad to finally conclude it on behalf of this friend of mine. Hope you like it. Marcus

Sopwith Baby 1/32 Lukgraph

This kit represents one of the aircrafts ordered in August 1915 by Sopwith Aviation Company (Kingston on Thames) and whose serial numbers 8123-8186 were powered by a 9-cylinder Clerget rotary engine. Aircraft 8695 was delivered in February [...]

F-14D TARPS, VF-143 "Pukin Dogs" CAG

1/48 Tamiya kit, Fightertown "Pukin' Dogs Last Ride" decals. Pain-free as far as assembly goes, but do be mindful of aligning the wing-sweep teeth otherwise you'll end up like I did: the wings will over-sweep aft and never be [...]

B-25J with D-Day markings.

Recently completed Revell 1/48th B-25J for my D-Day scheme. Added a pre-assembly photo (pic2) and some maintenance equipment from some other kits. Overall the model is well detailed with some trouble spots. The nose, wings and the engine [...]

1/48 AMT P-40M

Most recent off the bench is this old AMT P-40 kit. Not really sure they ever offered a M model, but some of their P-40 kits included a fuselage for an E as well as one for the N. The N model had the fuselage extended by 13 inches. Use the [...]

P-51B 356FS/354FG UK May 1944 – One week wonder

After spending 6 weeks working on the Hobbycraft Mohawk IV obsessing over tiny details, I decided to do an easy build and do it in no more that one week. So here is my one-week wonder, the Tamiya 1/48 P-51B. The rules where, I got 7 days [...]

Revell B-24D (GR-V)

Here's a B-24D I converted to a GR-V sub hunter a few years ago. I used the Revell B-24D kit with the Belcher Bits conversion which consisted of a radome and 5-million candlepower Leigh Light. The winglets for the rocket launchers and [...]

Tamiya 1:48 Focke-Wulf Fw-190A-8/A-8R2 Kit #61095

I'll let Eduard explain the story... What can be said about the Tamiya kit other than the well known wheel size issue that I let be and the upper gun cowl fit. I went over a lot of builds on different sites and saw that many modellers [...]