iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

Ki-61-I Hien

Hasegawa 1/48 Ki-61-I Otsu, 149th Speciál Attack Squadron, Ashiya Airfield, Japan 1945

Video: REVELL F-15E Strike Eagle Full video build

1/72nd scale REVELL F-15E Strike Eagle Product number 03841, new tool. For more details about this REVELL kit, tools and paints from this video please visit: (link) DISCLAIMER: I am NOT! being paid to promote this kit, paints, tools and to [...]

Eduard 1/48 Seafire F. Mk. IIc (conversion)

The Airplane: Writing in his memoir, “They Gave me a Seafire,” Commander R 'Mike' Crosley said: “It was inevitable that the FAA had to have the Seafire. It was the only fighter available that would fit into the new, low-hangar-roofed [...]

1/48 Trumpeter C-47 conversion to the Tropical Tilly R4D-5 from the 1951 movie “The Thing from another world”.

This build was a little different. I have always been a fan of the 1950’s and 1960’s horror and sci-fi movies. One of my favorites is the Howard Hawks 1951 movie “The Thing From Another World”. The movie is set in the arctic at an [...]

1/48 Folland Gnat T.1

This is the Airfix kit which was released in 2014. This kit features some unique engineering that I honestly thought was over complicated for such a small plane at first glance. Once I started building it, I realized the genius of it [...]

23 - 1/48 Academy Lavochkin Lav-7

This was a pretty straight forward build, went together easily enough and had no real issues. I decided to do the Aircraft of Captain Aleksei Alelyukhin. Painted red by his mechanics and flew over Berlin as it fell to the Russians to dig [...]

1/48 Tamiya Me262-1a

Aftermarket items include Quinta Studio 3D cockpit decals, Wingz slats, Hussar resin wheels and EagleCals # 138 decals. The Quinta set is fantastic, easy to use, much more so than photo etch. The model represents a 262 that operated with [...]

A colourful cat: Italeri 1/48 F7F-3P Tigercat (VMP-354)

Here are some photos of my Tigercat, completed in 2020 about the same time the news services were starting to talk a lot about a virus spreading from Wuhan. I consider the Tigercat a really good looking plane, with the combination of the [...]

Tamiya P-47D-11-RE, 1/48. 'The Razorback over Normandy'.

Personally, I'm a razorback fan over the bubbletop, and when I think razorback I can't help but think D-Day stripes which really narrowed down the sort of scheme I wanted to do for the build. This kit is the Tamiya's offering in 1/48, [...]

Tamiya 1/48 F4F-4 Wildcat

This is the 4th model in my model-building career so my learning curve is still nearly vertical. I could only find one grainy photo of a plane from VF-22 (USS Independence) so this is my interpretation of the plane's paint scheme from [...]