iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

Testors 1/48 F-19

Man it's been a while... I picked this up at an "antique" store for a couple bucks and decided to update the paint scheme. I tried to create a stone look on the base by over-spraying Lt gray, Dk gray, black and white. I hope you [...]

Hamp Over Salomon Islands

The history of the fighting around the Solomon Islands has always amazed me. The Japanese had a sea advantage, but the losses they suffered were, unlike the Americans, impossible to make up for. while for the US navy, the loss of several [...]

Hasegawa Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien 1:48

Here is one I finished up last year ; its Hasegawa's 1/48 Ki-61-i Tei Hien . I bought it as part of a double boxing along with its sister Ki-100 I Otsu. I finished it up as a Chinese Nationalist aircraft just to have a different one from [...]

A6M2b Oita advanced Flying School

I had a desire to make an airplane in the painting of the school unit. And this is how this Zero-Sen model from the Oita flight school was created. I did an attractive painting of the lower surfaces with H24 paint. Cockpit details such as [...]

1/72 Azur Frrom Royal Yugoslav Air Force Rogozarski Ik-3

Rogozarski was founded on 21. April 1924. under name “Zivojin rogozarski”. In the beginning of 1930s Royal Yugoslav Air Force was gravely outdated with bi and triplanes. Construction trio Ilic, Sivcev and Zrnic started new project [...]

A6M5 HEI 303 Air Group, Kagoshima Prefecture 1945.

A long time ago I wanted to build a Zero-Sen Hasegawa 1:72 model. Then, however, it did not come out as I would have liked. I have come back to the subject again with much more experience and now I present the results. Works finished two [...]

MIG-29A 1/48 ACADEMY

A6M5 HEI “Never GIve UP!”

Hello. This is my first work presented on this website. A6M5 HEI Academy - Saburo Sakai "Never Give Up!". Yokosuka Kaigun Kokutai ヨ-137 Japan 1945. An amazing story locked in the plane of the famous pilot Saburo Sakai San. I [...]

Speed Bomber...1/48 Messerschmitt Me262A-2a, 1./KG51

Built about 10 years ago, Tamiya kit oob, Gunze and Tamiya acrylics used, front wheel brake line and antenna wires added. The Kettenkrad comes with the kit. Aircraft serving with 1./KG51 in September 1944, Rheine/Germany.

Trumpeter 1/48 J-7B

I started this build more than three years ago but several things got in the way of posting in headlines, but here goes. More details about the kit, the build, and the real thing can be found on the WIP (link) but here a few details. [...]