iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

What If… RAAF F-16F

This is the third in a series of ‘what if' aircraft that I'm building. In 1999 the Australian Department of Defence announced Project AIR 6000 "New Air Combat Capability (NACC)", which was intended to find a replacement for the [...]

Video: Building the A 26 Invader Part 1

This video is the first part of a series about building a 1/48 scale A-26B Invader from the best of the Monogram and ICM A-26B kits. New episodes will be posted to the Scale Model Workshop Patreon Channel: (link) Special thank you to [...]

1/48 SAAF Harvard

1/48 build of the Italeri Harvard MK II a kit in the colors of the SAAF. I should've actually used the Texan T-6 model to be more accurate depiction of the SAAF aircraft, the difference being the MK II had a slightly longer rear canopy. [...]

De Havilland DH 60G Gipsy Moth, A7-55, Seaplane Training Flight RAAF, Point Cook, Victoria 1936.

1/72 Avis, built 10-2020 to 03-2022 for the DH 100 GB, more pic's, details there, ------ A7-55 the only one, built at the Cockatoo Island Naval Dockyard in 1931 under the supervision of Lawrence Wackett, it was used to locate the missing [...]

Video: DUNE - 1/12 Paul Atreides MENG - review

Gotha Go 244B

Hello all, This is my 1/48 ICM Gotha Go 244B. KGr.z.b.v 106 Special Purpose Battle Group, Kirovohrad 1942. It's a great kit, probably not for beginners, but goes together beautifully. You'll need alot of space for this one. Lol. I had [...]

1/72 Heinkel He 100 (a.k.a. He 113), Lindberg kit 435-39

Crikey! This kit is almost as old as I am! Scalemates shows that the Lindberg Heinkel He 100 Kit 435-39 was first released in 1965. Lindberg put the kit out again several times over the years, Revell also issued the kit in 1984. [...]

SEA KING SH3- A conversion

My most recent build from last month! Hasagawa 1/48 Scale Sea King SH-3H conversion to an SH-3A version. This is a replica of my brother's US Navy Days from 1968 - 1974. He was an SH-3A Sikorsky Sea King Pilot with Helicopter Anti Sub [...]

Triple MiG Killer: 1/48th Tamiya F-84G Thunderjet

After a very long period without any decent representation (in injection mold) of the F-84G in 1/48th scale, we got two excellent examples about a year apart. The Tamiya F-84G was released in 1998 and ProModeler's example in 1999. Both [...]

Bright red, nimble, good-looking -and doomed to a violent end: Culver PQ-14 target drone

Who would have expected to be able to put a target drone of the US armed forces from the 1940s on the workbench as the subject of a brand-new and really first-class kit in the popular 1:48 scale? Well, certainly not me! This can also be [...]