iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

First FlightEmpire of Japan

Here's the last of the four kits I finished this year - Hasegawa's lovely Mitshubishi 12 Shi experimental fighter, a.k.a. the A6M1. The kit allows you to build either of the two prototypes. I built the first and decided to model it as it [...]

AMX - T Ghibli

Ghibli is the "nickname" attributed in the nineties to the AMX (aeronautical nomenclature A-11B), a single-engine attack and reconnaissance aircraft, also available in the advanced training two-seat version (AMX-T), the result of [...]

1/32 Hasegawa –Montex Focke Wulf Fw 190Aa3 TuAF

This is 1/32 Hasegawa –Montex Fw 190Aa3 with the markings of TuAF. Fw 190Aa3 was the export version of Fw 190 A3 and have not wing root guns. Turkey was received 72 Fw 190Aa3 and the first flight was made on July 1943. They remained in [...]

SBD-3 DauntlessHasegawa 1/48

Hello everyone, this is another of my old builds, completed sometime around 2007. I wanted to show the plane in the dive-bombing position, so I cut off the dive brakes and drilled out all the holes with a pin-vise. I also cut off the [...]

F4U-4 CorsairHasegawa 1/48

Hello! This is a kit I finished around 2006. I remember I used a Verlinden resin and photo-etch detail set for the first time to show one wing folded and the inside of the gun bay on the other wing. I remember doing a lot of cutting and [...]

The Badercane

‘The RAF needs men, not schoolboys.’ Douglas Bader's Commandant had admonished him after he crashed at Woodley Aerodrome in 1931, having tried to roll his Bristol Bulldog at "naught feet." Needless to say, the biplane became [...]

Piaggio P 166 Scratch Build 1/32 Scale ” The Start”

Well here we go again, I finished the Spitfire about 2 weeks ago, a very enjoyable build, I tell you those Tamiya Kits are really good, so good in fact that I started to get Board with the build, no offense to Mr Tamiya, it was so well [...]

Tamiya Bf-109E-4

I am in the middle of building an old Monogram 1/48 B-17 and got frustrated by some paint issues. I decided to take a break, and do a quick uncomplicated build. I have an old Cutting Edge Bf 109E sheet (CED48189). There was one bird in [...]

Forgotten War Group Build – night-fighting F4U-5N Corsairs

The F4U-5 was the ultimate Navy development of the Corsair series as a fleet defense fighter. The first prototype took to the skies December 21, 1945. It differed from previous Corsairs by having an even longer nose, a raised cockpit, and [...]

“The Stars Look Down” 354th Fighter Group P-51B Tamiya 1/48th Conversion

The resin madness continues. I want thank everyone that followed along with the build, I really appreciate the kind words. This conversion was pretty straight forward. The 354th Fighter Group website was an invaluable resource as was the [...]