iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

1/48 Bristol Beaufighter Mk VIF – Malta 1942

My first attempt at an article or work in progress on this site, please bear with me! Recently purchased (more like invested) in a Harder-Steenbeck Infinity airbrush and decided to try this out on a new kit build; this Tamiya classic [...]

Airfix 1/72 Mig-17F Fresco

Done as an experiment for myself in doing a NMF. It came out reasonably. Primed with Tamiya LP Black Gloss Painted with Xtreme Metals Polished Aluminium Alclad Duraluminium,Dark Aluminium, Airframe Aluminium. Tamiya Nato Black, Rubber [...]

Review: Eduard 1/48 Spitfire HF Mk. VIII

The Airplane: While the Spitfire IX was both better-known and produced in far larger numbers, the Spitfire VIII represents the high-point of development of the Merlin-powered Spitfire variants. Basically an unpressurized Mk.VII, the [...]

Review: Eduard 1/48 Camel & CO, review

Monogram T-28D

Well another oldie but goodie for you this evening. The Monogram 1/48ish T-28D from the mid-sixties I believe. I even built it will all of the operating features but decided to go ahead and lock down the flimsy gear with a touch of [...]

Ray Collishaw, RNAS 10th Aero Sqn. Canadian Ace WW1

WnW 1:32 Tamiya paints Alcalad II metals Aero wires from AIMS

1/48 Hobby Boss Romanian IAR-80

This summer a bunch of photographs surfaced from a movie studio archive depicting some IAR-80's in a very sorry state. The photographs were taken in 1954 during the production of a movie and stayed unknown until recently. IAR-80 was the [...]

Review: Eduard 1/72 B-25 Angel Of Mercy review

1/72 Special HobbyBf 109E3, Stab/Jg 77, Deta, April 1941. Brown One

On the 6. of april 1941. Geramn Reich attacked Yugoslavia, Serbia in particular, without declaration of war. Gravely outnumbered by invaders Serbia capitulated. I did many planes flew by Royal Yugoslav Air Force. So, this time it is [...]

1/72 Hobby 2000 – Ju87 G2, Rudel’s last flight

I did this model as a fun build. My first Stuka build was done some may years ago, it was Hasegawa’s 1/48 scale Rudel’s plane. The summer was hot as hell and I didn’t want to during the build. So, I decided to do some easy model, [...]