iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

Classic Kit: Matchbox 1/72 Spitfire Mk IX PK-2

Hello everyone, this is my first post here. I build old kits, the older the better. I especially like Revell, Aurora, HAWK, Matchbox and Airfix from the 1950s and '60s and 1970's. This Matchbox PK-2 of the 1/72 Spitfire Mk IX upgraded [...]

AMT 1/48 Grumman F7F-2N Tigercat “Big Bird”

The kit directions have a note that I started putting paint to plastic on July 16, 2020 and I finished the model July 5 of this year. During that time, I did manage to complete one other model that had been set aside, and also started [...]

Review: Hobby Boss 1/48 F/A-18E Super Hornet review

Vichy...1/48 Marcel Bloch MB.152, French Armistice Airforce

For a kit with shortrun character the new Dora Wings Marcel Bloch isn´t so bad. But the decals are thin and the white areas are translucent, as you may see. Camo done with Gunze RLM65 for the underside, Tamiya XF-10 Brown and selfmixed [...]

1/72 scale RMAF CA-27 Avon Sabre Mk.II

Greetings to all members, Here is my latest build, the CAC Avon Sabre's was used by the Malaysian Airforce since the 70's designated into the 11th Squadron based in Penang, Butterworth airbase. The model used to produce the Royal [...]

Fw 190 A-6 1/48 Hasegawa

This is an old build. I was going through photos and found these. I'm not sure when I did this but it was probably early 2000's It represents a JG1 plane operating from Schiphol Airfield, Holland 1943. I've always liked the checkerboard [...]

AMT-FROG “Famous Fighters Series I” – Box Theme Build

This is a build I completed a few months ago of AMT-FROG Famous Fighters Series I, No. 3955-130, 1:72 (1967 boxing). I started work on the first plane this past September while involved with two different FB group builds on a totally [...]

1/72 Hasegawa Rockwell OV-10 Bronco

I started this simple little kit around 1980 when I was still in college. I was quite ambitious at the time by cutting out the flaps and cutting off the cargo door, planning to detail the interior. At the time I numbered the flaps and wing [...]

SHORT Sunderland MK III ,Italeri 1/72 scale Costal command 1943 Dakar ( Senegal)

Italeri kit 1/72 scale Same defects as short stirling in the same scale,1/24 scale paneling Otherwise a good starting point,with accurate lines,assembly not easy,i replaced the engines with resin elements from Engine & wheels Bristol [...]

Arma Hobby 1/72 Mk IIc Hurricane

A gem of a kit. Not that many parts (around 70 or so, I think). Took me about three weeks to finish, done in MRP colours, with some oils and some weathering powders. I understand that they are about to release the same thing in 1/48, which [...]