iModeler Aviation
Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
REVELL 1:48th “MEMPHIS BELLE”
Thought i'd try my hand at a larger scale aircraft for a change.
So, went BIG...1:48th Scale B17 "Memphis Belle".
Kit was reasonably cheap (and i found out why) so i decided that this would be a baptism of fire and bought an [...]
1/48 Tamiya A6M3 Model 32 Hamp
I think this is my fourth build for The Empire of Japan Group. Nice kit for being so old but it does lack the detail of the newer kits. I decided to do the field applied paint scheme to change it up a bit and it was a lot of fun. Painted [...]
F-15E Strike Eagle Revell 1/48 in progress… part 3.
and we continue working.
paneling the entire plane, check.
paneling the bombs, lantrin, fuel tanks, missiles, done.
installation all the above elements, check.
What's next? ..weathering, varnish semi-opaque, finish the cockpit and start [...]
Lindberg 1/48 Brostol Bulldog
I built this kit when I was a kid and a always wanted a new tool version but since that hasn't happened, I decided to search for the old Lindberg kit on Ebay and I found one for $15. I wanted a quick build after spending the last 3-½ [...]
Hawker Audax. No 4 Glider Training School 1942
My Father completed primary training in Georgia, USA. Before being posted 61 OTU Rednal and thence to 243 Squadron Spitfires he spent quite a few months of 1942 towing Hotspur gliders at the No 4 Glider Training School, Kidlington (Now [...]
Bristol F 2b Fighter, A-7198, 1 Sqn AFC, Ramleh airfield, Palestine 1918.
1/72 Roden, built 2009 to 2019, finished in MM, Tamiya and Humbrol enamels with Pledge and Vallejo matt varnish over kit decals, pilot lt Jack Keith Curwen-Walker and Cpl Niels Peder Berg Jensen were killed when the aircraft crashed due to [...]
Eduard Spitfire Mk.Ia, 1/48. A Pair of Kiwis over Dunkirk.
'the airspeed indicator read 240 mph, and I thought "this is bloody marvellous!", but then the Spitfire began to shudder and seemed as if it was going to stall. - I realised what had happened, my pitot head had been shot away, [...]
Vintage Modeling. Aichi D3A1 Val – The kit from the 80’s in a contemporary version.
The Battle of the Coral Sea was probably the first topic of the War in the Pacific that I became interested in already in elementary school. I was very interested in the randomness of actions, where the proverbial happiness of the fighting [...]
Austrian Aces…1/48 Messerschmitt Me262A-1a, III./JG7, Major Rudolf Sinner
Another last foto session of one of my dad´s older models. This Tamiya kit was built about ten years ago, mostly oob, only added seatbelts, brake lines and antenna wires.
Rudolf Sinner was born in 1915 in Austria. In the thirties he [...]
