iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

(Black)birdcage with a bit of a twist

My article focuses on the unique skeletal model of the SR-71A Blackbird at 1/144 scale, produced by Jasmine Model in China. It contains 120 photo-etched parts and a few pieces of aluminum painted resin bits. The kit is well engineered with [...]

1/48 Focke-Wulf Fw190A-8

1/48 scale kit by Eduard. I finished the Profipak version of the kit almost exclusively with the configuration in the box. The Profi-Pak version kit has all the necessary parts such as etched parts and masking stickers, which is a good [...]

Trumpeter 1/32 Sukhoi Su-27B

Hi everyone! This is my Trumpeter 1/32 Sukhoi Su-27B, finished as “Blue 24”, Poland, 1992. The Sukhoi Su-27 ‘Flanker’ is a Soviet-origin twin-engine supermaneuverable fighter aircraft, intended as a direct competitor for the large [...]

Achtung, Stuka! Out-of-box build of Ju 87B-2 in winter camouflage (Trumpeter 1:32)

This build is again for my friend who is re-newing the lost collection of his father. Therefore it was done right out of the box with minimum weathering and no changes. I do not like german WW2 aircrafts much and this particularly one is [...]

REVELL 1:48 BELL P-39 AIRACOBRA

The old but gold kit depicting one of the aircraft flown by Alexander Ivanovich Pokryshkin. He scored 48 victories while flying P-39's including this one. Bio here...(link) Can't say enough about the fit of the aircraft, a bit of filler [...]

Seafire Fr 47: Korea: The Forgotten War Group Build

Hi All, My latest post is my build from the, Korea: The Forgotten War, group build. Thank you to Louis Gardner for setting up the Korea group. Thank you to Spiros Pendedekas for letting me build the Griffon engine in the Aeroengines group [...]

SMER (Heller) 1/72 Hurricane Mk IIc

This kit sat in my bagged kits box and every time I picked it up I thought to myself that I must build it. Well I did. The kit is the Heller Hurricane issued by SMER and includes a small photo-etch (PE) fret. Every time I tried to use [...]

Fokker Dr.I, Royal Prussian Jasta 11, Lechelle, 1918 (Ltn.Eberhard Mohnicke)

Hi... This is my offering of Roden's 1/32 scale Fokker F.1 triplane, finished as a Dr.I production variant. The kit is good but with some challenging areas, especially the attachment of the lower wing. I would recommend detaching the [...]

1/72 A-6 IntruderFrog kit F272

When I started this Frog Yellow Series F272 kit, it must have been back in the mid ‘80s and this Frog/Hasegawa mold may have been the only A-6 Intruder tooling in 1/72 at that time. Cockpit….what cockpit? There isn’t even a [...]

1/48 Grumman F11F Tiger

The kit is from Fonderie Miniatures . Nothing really fits together. Sanding and putty on each part.