iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

D-Day flashback

Several years ago, there was a D-Day group build here on iModeler. My submission was an AMT 1/47 A-20G, representing an airplane assigned to the 646th Bomb Squadron, 410th Bomb Group, 9th Air Force. I felt it was appropriate to post this [...]

Roland DVIa

I built this 1/32 WNW Roland DVIa few years ago. The idea was to do a diorama with pilots, mechanics and other things. I started building the cart but then I started a new project and... Looking at the model now, I think there are still [...]

Tempest Mk. V, ‘JN 862’, 3rd RAF Squadron, 150th Wing

Hi folks, Again, I enjoyed our ‘Belgian Sun’ (which is not shining so often those last days) and decided to take few shots of my Tempest, built last years. I chose this famous day of the 6th of June to post this article. 77 years ago [...]

Special Hobby 1/48 AJS-37 Viggen

This was a long project, it began on March 2020 and finished on May 2021, I have always liked the Viggen with its splinter camouflage, therefore I wanted to do this one with all possible improvements. All of the surface received lines of [...]

Fokker EV 1/32

Micro Mir, Aviattic and Pheon decals, Gaspatch Spandau, Tamiya, and me...

Monogram 1/48 TBD-1 Devastator – USS Enterprise

This build has been a long time in coming! A few years ago now Louis Gardner @lgardner organised a Group Build to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Midway. This build was to be my main contribution to that group build, [...]

Mig 17F Angola (1;48 Smer/ Airfix)

Gents and Ladies, Here is an older kit I did a while back its the 1:48 Smer/ Airifix kit of the Mig 17F. I used Tom Coopers African Migs as reference for the background info and photos. I drew up the decals for bort numbers and printed [...]

Video: Arado E.555 Full video build REVELL (1/72)

1/72 scale REVELL Arado Ar(E)555 was a fun and unusual kit for a relaxing build. The Arado E.555 was a project intended to meet the RLM requirement as a long range strategic bomber. In it's early and basic design the E.555 was a first [...]

North American F6-D

Presented for your consideration is my build of Tamiya’s P-51 D/K Mustang in 1/32 scale. This is the first model that I’ve built in this scale since I was a teenager. Back then, to teenager me, the bigger the model, the better. Of [...]

Tamiya 1/48 P-38 LightningMiss Virgina

Wow - what a fantastic model. It went together like butter and it was such a fun build. I was looking forward to a decent Lightning in this scale and I had to do it as Rex Barber's Miss Virgina. There were no build issues and this was [...]