iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

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.

de Havilland D.H.82a Tiger Moth, AIRFIX, 1/48

Yugoslav Partizan Tiger Moth registration NM150, Prva pilotska škola, Zadar 1945. Color: MRP, Revell, TAMIYA, Gunze, Mission Models Aftermarket: eduard detail set (#491073) & Tiger Moth wheels (#648556), S.B.S. model de Havilland [...]

Guerre d'Algérie...1/48 North American T-6G Texan, Armée de l’Air

My dad´s next addition to the French at war theme. Italeri reboxing of the Ocidental kit, Eduard PE detailing set, painted with AK Xtreme Metal Aluminium. All French combat Texans came with three rocket racks under each wing, the kit has [...]

1/48 Tamiya P-38F 95th FS

Fresh off the bench the awesome 1/48 Tamiya P-38F . Fished in markings of the 85th FS Vcenzo, Italy May 1944 , Model finished with Mr color paints, Tamiya LP paints and Fundekals secals 64E309BA-D19E-4630-BFD1-92BCB95AA66B by b007scott, [...]

Hasegawa Spitfire Mk.I, 1/72 scale

The Hasegawa Spitfire built mostly out of the box, including the kit decals. This is the first kit I used Humbrol enamels and was impressed with how well the paint airbrushed. The kit was waiting in the stash for many years to be built - [...]

One more moldy oldy, Hasegawa C-2 1/72 F-4E Phantom

I used Hasegawa's C-2 kit, of which the molds go back to the 1972 release JS-080 kit, It's still in their catalog, they have updated it somewhat by adding the leading edge slats. The decals are equally ancient being remnants from [...]

A true king of the skies! Beechcraft 200 King Air in the service of the Royal Air Force

Do you know this too? Almost all of my kits tend to have a long to very long stay in the various stacks and storerooms of my model building sanctuary before they actually make it to the workbench. Not so with this Beechcraft 200 King Air [...]

Video: Zero! Eduard 1/48 New Tool A6M2 Type 21 Full Build.

1/72 Revell Shackleton AEW.2

1/72 Revell Shackleton AEW.2 One of my favorite ‘big wings’. I wanted to build one for many years and for my sins, Revell delivered this great kit! The slide spar wings fit so perfectly they didn’t require glue. I used white metal [...]