iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

Facing Challenges

I've heard that there is no such thing as a bad model kit. There are just good kits and challenging kits. I recently built a couple of challenging kits of historically notable aircraft--ICM 1/72 Ghost of Kyiv and Classic Airframes 1/48 [...]

Video: Painting a 1/35 Panzer 1 in DESERT Camouflage.

1/72 Octopus I.M.A.M. Ro.43

This kit was a challenge like I'd never had before, a short run kit with vague instructions, no alignment pins and vac form canopies, but its such a cool plane and I had to do it. So off I went, and what fun I had, yes, yes, I'm a s****r [...]

Viking Spear...1/48 Saab J32B Lansen, Svenska Flygvapnet

So, after Harvard and Saab 17, here´s my dad´s third and last Swedish subject for now. As with all HB/Trumpeter kits the HB Lansen has its shape and accuracy issues but it looks like a Lansen. The only thing my dad did was engraving some [...]

Pretty in Pink

Hi All! Here is another Spitfire, this time a Spitfire MK.I PR Type Ic (early or first). It started out as an Airfix 1/48th scale Spitfire Vb, which led to more work but I had run out of Spitfire Is. The wings had the bulges removed ( I [...]

Alles kaputt! A Junkers Ju 290A-7 crosses the Atlantic.

To the original: Junkers Ju-290 A-7 "Alles Kaputt" (Everything Broken) The story that the Junkers Ju 290A-7 shown here can tell has undoubtedly earned the title "highly unusual". Even a first glance finds some [...]

A-4E SKYHAWK

Hi my Friends. I show you a simple Hobby 2000 (Hasegawa) kit. Good fit and decals. I hope you like it. Best regards.

Tamiya N1K1 Kyofu / 'Rex', 'Japan's Purpose-Built Floatplane Fighter'

I've built a lot of clean models this year, and what better excuse to make a beaten up bird than a Japanese subject? I ordered this while waiting for some supplies for other projects to arrive and have had fun beating up this big 1/48 [...]

1/32 Special Hobby Hawker Tempest Mk.II

This is 1/32 Special Hobby Hawker Tempest Mk.II with the markings of EG-X /PR733 flown by R.E.Mooney Co of No 16 Sqn RAF in Fassberg West Germany. This Tempest built OOB except for CMK seat and Eduard instrument panel. Paints are Gunze [...]

Video: P-39Q Airacobra - Pavel Chuvelyov - Arma Hobby 1/72Aircraft Model