iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

Mitsubishi Ka-14 (FineMolds 1/48)

Mitsubishi Ka-14 by FineMolds in 1/48 scale. One of the best model kits I've built recently. Comes together really easy and enjoyable. Highly recommended! With this build I was experimenting again with the weathering and shading, so I [...]

F-16A IAF ‘Netz’ ESCI 1/72 Fighting Falcon

Just completed last night. this ESCI kit #9026 was initiated a long time ago and was put in storage with the fuselage and wings assembled. Pulled out of storage, I worked on the build and paint on and off the last few months. I decide to [...]

Meet the Fokkers…

... Eduard 1/48 Dual Combo kit, totally OOB. Due to too small/vague locating pins, these guys are a bit fiddley, especially having to apply the wing decals first. On the second model I learned that attaching the positively located [...]

New pics of an old model…

... other pics posted here before, but as Black History Month comes to a close soon, I thought an homage to the Tuskegee Airmen was in order. No 72, "Ina the Macon Belle", flown by Lee Archer- One half of the 332nd's [...]

2 Messerschmitts in original wartime paint

G’day all, it’s been an age since I posted here as life has been in the way of modelling recently. Unfortunately I still don’t have a project to share but I thought some of you might be interested in this. I recently took my son to [...]

Northrop F-5E Tiger II, Adversary – VFC-13 Fighting Saints

Fighter Squadron Composite (VFC-13) Saints is a US Navy fighter squadron that provides adversary training for U.S. Navy air wings at NAS Fallon, Nevada. The unit's mix of 23 F-5E, F-5F, and F-5N aircraft are all painted in a variety of [...]

Freezin´ Schmitt...1/48 Messerschmitt Bf109G-6, JG54

Built in 2017. Hasegawa kit, painted with Gunze and Tamiya acrylics, EZ Line for aerials, plastic rods and lead wire for brake lines and cockpit fuel line, decals from the kit and the Kagero book "Bf109G/K Vol.II" The model shows [...]

F-16N Top Gun

Hello modellers, last job,a very old model from Hasegawa, easy to assemble. I just added the wing rivets. I hope you like it.

1/48 Monogram classic P-61 Black Widow

A delightful if troublesome kit...a classic...hope you like this 40+ year oldie...

Monogram B-17 Flying Fortress, "The Swoose -1944 Model" 1/48th

Well my first completion of the new year, and one that I have been working on for a longer period of time than I would like to admit. I did a build blog in the Aircraft work in progress (link) . I could have just as easily done it in the [...]