iModeler Aviation
Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
F6F-3 Hellcat kit from Eduard "weekend edition" 1/48
Hello friends,
today I have another US NAVY aircraft for you: It is the nice F6F-3 Hellcat kit from Eduard.
The kit: "Eduard 84160 F6F-3P weekend edition" The model is almost completely build from the box, I only added seat [...]
Eduard 1/48 A6M2b Model 21 Zero (Mitsubishi-built)
The Airplane:
At the time of its appearance in combat over China in September 1940, the Mitsubishi A6M2 "Zero" was arguably the most advanced single-seat single-engine fighter in the world. That it was designed to fly from [...]
Junkers EF 126, Das Werk 1/32, 'First and Last' Project
After the 'Flight 19' lost Avengers project, a mini-group build instigated by our absent but not forgotten friend David Leigh-Smith, the small group of friends who had participated decided we might use the title of Adolf Galland's book and [...]
Eduard 1:48 F6F-3 Hellcat
It had been way too long since I'd built a USN plane in the four-color scheme, so I went with the Eduard kit that's been sitting in my stash for quite a few years. I've done two 1:48 Hellcats in the past: a Hasegawa F6F-3 many years ago [...]
Academy P-47 D, 1/48, 1st Brazilian Fighter Squadron
Salute, gents.
This is Academy's P-47 D in 1/48, a well known kit which was superseded by the Tamiya offering. It is not a bad kit, but can use some improvements. Ultracast resin wheels, seat (with molded harness) and propeller were used. [...]
A-10A Thunderbolt II
Having fun with the ancient Tamiya A-10 kit
The kit really shows its age (not Tamiya’s best) with some fit problems joining the fuselage halves and a few raised panels. But, when it’s solved, all the rest goes quite right.
Until [...]
HK'S 1/48 B-17F-35-BO Lucious Lady
Any aircraft modeler who knows anything about WWII certainly knows about the iconic Boeing B-17. The images and film of the 8th AF bomber fleets smashing the Reich, along with countless books, movies, documentaries, TV and personal [...]
Dancing with the Wolf: F-14A and the Vf-1 Wolfpack, USS Ranger 1982
This F-14 model is the third part in a small series of five Tomcats that I am building in 1/144, 1/72 and 1/48 scale. The history of Grumman's spectacular carrier fighter is rich enough in variations and stories that there is room for five [...]
Donkeys, Rats and Flies, oh my! 1/48 Polikarpov I-16
The Polikarpov I-16 is considered by many to be the first truly modern fighter - a low wing monoplane with an enclosed cockpit and retractable landing gear. Early models saw combat in the Spanish Civil War, where they were referred to as [...]
