iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

1/48th Trumpeter F9F-2 Panther

I just finished building the 1/48th Trumpeter F9F-2 Grumman Panther. It's finished in the markings of VMF-311 as carried by that squadron during their participation in the Korean War. As a side note, the great baseball player Ted Williams [...]

Tamiya P-38H Lightning 1/48

In a great September 14, 2020 iModeler review of this kit Tom Cleaver said "The kit is a marvel of production design" that successfully deals with traditional shortcomings of P-38 kits and is “modeler-friendly.” I couldn't [...]

"The deadliest thing in the sky!" Okay, but for whom...? Bell YFM-1 Airacuda

About the YFM1 Airacuda The Bell YFM1 Airacuda is probably one of those designs that, despite its aesthetically pleasing appearance and a certain number of models built, has remained largely unknown. In my opinion, the design looks [...]

Nine Weeks of OOB

Back in mid-August I decided to take a little time off a nearly-complete 1/700 carrier model - yet another Essex-class ship - to try something a little different. I wanted to build one of the 1/72 aviation subjects I had been adding to my [...]

Korean War Group BuildNorth American LT-6G Texan FAC

This one started as a decal sheet. Friend Tom Bebout had some decals left over from his T-6 build and he kindly sent me the markings for a second airplane, an FAC bird named "Night Train". I didn't have the model yet, so I [...]

1/72 Airfix Hawker Hurricane

Airfix’ 2013 new tool 1/72 Hurricane shows the aircraft at the beginning of its career with a fabric covered wing, and options for the original wooden two-bladed Watts propellor and the later three-bladed DeHavilland, as well as fuselage [...]

Be I the One? The Soviet attempt at fighter rocketry.

Many nations in the 30s and 40s courted the idea of a rocket-powered fighter or interceptor. The Bereznyak-Isayev BI program was the Soviet Union's attempt at a "short range fighter" powered by a rocket engine. Like it's [...]

Video: TAMIYA P-51D Full video build (Custom 1/32nd scale kit)

TAMIYA North American P-51D Mustang scale kit in 1/32nd scale. Highly recommended! DISCLAIMER: I am NOT! being paid to promote this kit, paints, tools and to make this video! Thanks! Thanks for watching! All the best! Dusan

1/32 Special Hobby Hawker Tempest Mk.V (JN766 SA-N)

This is 1/32 Special Hobby Hawker Tempest Mk.V with the markings of JN766/SA-N of 486 (RNZAF) Squadron RAF at Castle Camps Cambridgeshire in January 1944. Cockpit modified with CMK seat and Eduard instrument panel. I have used [...]

Another one rolls off the assembly line.

Spad XIII believed to be flown once or twice by 1Lt Ralph L Hartman, 93rd Aero Squadron 1918. 1/48 Eduard kit. Nice build. Going Italian next. ?