iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

1/48 AMODEL Aeroflot Yak-18t

Another member of my civilian fleet. Giving a minus to Amodel kit for unclear instructions and very fragile decals, besides that it was fun kit to build.

Review: Tamiya 1/48 F-4B Phantom II review

Aviodrome Lelystad, The Netherlands, August 3rd

Hi all, Yesterday I had a great day at the airplane museum Aviodrome. A one and a half hour drive from my hometown. A fantastic day, if you love aviation ofcourse. Several historic planes inside which are at a pretty good condition and [...]

F-86F RCAF ‘Hawk One’ Sabre – Hasegawa 1/72

Vintage Wings of Canada owned and operated RCAF 23314 Canadair F-86 'Hawk One' Sabre from 2008-2018. A few posts identify 23314 was originally a Sabre Mk.5 with the small upper wing fences to help counteract the deletion of the previous [...]

Matchbox 1/72 Avro Lancaster

This is my Matchbox Lancaster that was built in 1985, originally I started on the Airfix kit that was released in the late 70's but I had some pretty bad warpage on both wings. Usually I can fix warpage issues but both wings were twisted [...]

6 – Revell AH-1S Tow-Cobra & AH-1T Sea Cobra Group build with my son

I managed to get similar Cobra Helicopters and wanted to do a build together with my son so we could work on similar kits while he learnt. What an awesome experience, he did so well and we both learnt a lot. He did the Sea cobra in the [...]

Revell 1/32 F-4E Phantom II, Hellenic Air Force

Hi everyone! This is my Revell 1/32 F-4E Phantom II, finished as a Hellenic Air Force bird, wearing the "older" Vietnam camo. The Phantom entered service with the Hellenic Air Force in 1974 under the arms program “Peace [...]

1/32nd scale Short Sunderland Mk II – ID Models vacform WIP

Morning all, I thought some of you may be interested in one of my longer term vacform projects that's been making good progress of late - the old ID Models 1/32nd scale Short Sunderland. This kit is a basic shell of the fuselage, wings, [...]

1/72 Bristol Beaufort.

This is the new Airfix kit. It continues Airfix’ recent record of excellence by packing a lot of detail into a small box. The model features a pretty complete interior that you would expect in a 1/48 kit. In addition to the great [...]

Airfix 1/72 Buccaneer (old mold)

Here’s my build of the 1/72 Airfix Buccaneer S.2B (1989 mold). It’s an old kit, and I decided to build it side-by-side with the new Airfix Buccaneer. Since there is little detail in the wheel wells and cockpit, I decided to build it as [...]