iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

1/48 Kinetic Pucará IA 58AGuerra de las Malvinas (group build)

The IA-58 Pucará is an Argentine ground attack/counter-insurgency aircraft manufactured by Fábrica Militar de Aaviones (FMA) and capable of operating from less than ideal airstrips that were too short or rough for jet fighters. Pucarás [...]

Serving Under Another Flag GB: Red Star 1/72 Captured MiG-3 in Romanian Colors

Red Star was a small model company in England that used four molds that were made by Frog around 1976. That year Frog folded and was not able to release their newer kits. While most of their molds went to Novo and Matchbox/Revell, the [...]

Italeri 1/72 FIAT BR.20 ”Cicogna”, I-Type (私はタイプする), IJAA, 12th Sentai, China 1939

Hi everyone! This is my Italeri1/72 FIAT BR.20 "Cicogna" finisehd as a Japanese bird. The BR.20 Cicogna (stork) was a low-wing twin-engine medium bomber that was developed and manufactured by Italian aircraft company Fiat [...]

A truly rare bird: Flettner FL 282 "Kolibri" V23 as US-prize aircraft, summer 1945

I would like to begin my contribution to the presentation of the FL 282 with a personal thought: my approach to aircraft modelling is fed by several sources, as is probably the case with most of us. One of them is the fascination with the [...]

1/48 Hasegawa F/A-18B VMFAT-101 Sharpshooters

This is my 1/48 Hasegawa F/A-18B VMFAT-101 Sharpshooters. Painted with Gunze/Tamiya acrylics. Decals (Twobobs) were used as template and painted all markings except slime lights and stensils. Ejection seats from Blackbox resin, Eduard pe [...]

Miles Sparrowhawk 1:72or how a model kit born

Hi Everyone! This article is for mainly whose interested in the model kit making process and also the end of a long and interesting journey (at least for me). If anybody remembers this Miles M.5 Sparrowhawk was my first 3D designed model [...]

Guerre d'Indochine...1/48 Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat, Aviation Navale

My dad finished the next French in the line. Hobby Boss kit with Berna Decals, the nose and fuselage side numbers are a bit oversized, the missing tail "1" was taken from a French Corsair sheet. The roundels come in three pieces [...]

Eduard Fokker Dr.I, 1/48. Udet's Striped Triplane.

Last year I built a Fokker D.VII, and towards the end of that build I started up on this Fokker Dr.I before putting it down, but I felt the motivation to put some work into it a few weeks ago and got to work! This is Eduard's Fokker Dr.I, [...]

RAF Hawker Fury Mk.1

This article is intended to supplement and expand on Rick Kent's excellent Hawker Fury markings article on this website. The Hawker Fury was the first 200 mph aircraft to serve with the Royal Air Force. It's been reasonably well served [...]

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