iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

It's Duck season.

Merit 1/48 Grumman J2-5 Duck of the Air Photographic Unit Atlantic-3, 1941. Very nice build, going together better than expected. I painted the tail markings to avoid potential decal adhesion problems. Looks great amongst my growing [...]

Accurate Miniatures IL-2M3 Stormovik

Probably, the most mass produced aircraft in a characteristic camouflage scheme.

Waku's 1/72 Yak-17 (Vacu-form build)

This is my 4th vacu-form build and an interesting subject, the Yak-17. Waku is a company from Poland which has released other vacu-form kits in the past, their Yak-17 kit was released in 1984. This kit consists of one styrene sheet with [...]

Tamiya 1/48 F4U-2 Bird Cage Corsair

One of the best kits ever produced.

1/72 RAF Mustang Mk.III (P-51C) Vanity Call Letters

Inspired by a previous post, I searched for an aircraft with call letters ‘G-A-S’ and found this P-51C with 112 Squadron RAF. There’s actually a ‘J’ required for my complete initials as I do have two middle names, always a [...]

Hasegawa Grumman TBM-1C Avenger

This is the Grumman TBM-1C Avenger flown by a LTJG Rothwell from USS Petrof Bay (CVE 80). The kit is from Hasegawa, decals are from Techmod sheet 72128. No surprises from either the kit or the decals, a very enjoyable build! Construction [...]

Fairchild F.91 “Baby Clipper”: Adventure... wherever you look!

Although only seven examples of this extremely attractive and highly capable flying boat were built from the mid-1930s onwards, each of these flying boats, designed as “flying boat airliners”, was to have a short but all the more [...]

SE5a 1/24 ( I love kit ) GREAT WAR GROUP BUILD

I started this kit back in April and from the very start realised that it had many problems. The fit of all parts was good and the moulding ok but the detail and mistakes just kept occuring as I got into it. It's supposed to be a SE5a but [...]

Heinkel He 162A-2 "Salamander" Revell | No. 04723 | 1:32

(link) I think I started to build this kit in 2017 or 2018 and deviated from the instructions by assembling and painting the fuselage, the wings, the tail, the wheels, engine covers, canopy etc as sub assemblies. This was as far as I got [...]

Hobbycraft 1/72 F2H-3 Banshee

With its name derived from Irish mythology, the McDonnell F2H Banshee was an early jet fighter operated by the United States Navy, the United States Marine Corps and the Royal Canadian Navy. The Banshee was developed during the mid to late [...]