iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero (Tamiya 1/72)

Hi all Just finished this little gem from Tamiya. It was the time build the Tamiya Zero and I was really impressed. The overall fitting and crispy details makes hard to believe it's a 1/72nd scale kit. Kit built OOTB including the [...]

Hawk Bf-109 Repop

Those of you of a certain age (like me) no doubt made several of these old Hawk Models Bf-109s. I could always talk Mom into buying a few of the old 1/72 kits on a trip to Gemco for a few cents. This nostalgia build (again?!) is a [...]

Dassault Falcon 50; A-Model 1/72; Portuguese Air Force

The Falcon 50, designed and produced by the French factory MARCEL DASSAULT, is a tri-engine that, due to its characteristics and qualities, offers flexibility of use, safety in all its circumstances and excellent cruising performances. The [...]

Converting a Bf 109 to a Ha-1109

The starting point is the SBS-model resin conversion kit mentioned elsewhere on iModeler. It is designed to use Tamiyas new Bf109G-6. Instead of filling in a lot of words here, might I interest you with a link to the full build over in [...]

B 24 J LIBERATOR .31° st. sq. SAAF

B 24 J Liberator 1/72 scale The model is an Airfix ,assembled from the box,only signs and serial numbers are self - produced. The model represent a SAAF aircraft used to launch supplies to the partisan formation operating in the [...]

Film Star !, part 2. 'Battle of Britain' movie Spitfire Mk IX (dressed up as a Mk 1)

This is the next completion in my "Battle of Britain" movie builds, the ICM 1/48 Spitfire IXc, modified into Spitfire Mk IXc, MK297 that was the aircraft marked as AI*A, flown by Squadron leader 'Skipper' {Robert Shaw} in the [...]

P-51D-15 CheckertailEduard 1:48

Hello to everyone, maybe you noticed some photos of 3D print wheel-bay and brassin cockpit on the eduard facebook page. Here is final result of my finished model P-51D from eduard in scale 1:48. As mentioned I used 3D-print wheel-bay, [...]

RAAF Spitfire Vc. 452 Sqn. Northern Territory, Australia, 1943

Having made what seems to be a career out of Spitfires & particularly Vc versions of late, I'm happy to have finished my first Eduard 1/48 Vc kit. All my other efforts for this mark have been mostly kit bashed, with the exception of [...]

Shark! 1/32 Great Wall Hobby Curtiss Hawk H81

Merriam Webster Dictionary says: ICONIC - adjective: "Widely known and acknowledged, especially for distinctive excellence". I guess few would argue that the shark-faced Curtiss P-40's of the American Volunteer Group do not fit [...]

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