iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

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 [...]

1/48 Hasegawa F-15E Dual Role Fighter

This build of this 1/48 Hasegawa F-15E Dual Role Fighter that was supplied by the client was built mostly out of the box. I added some photo etch accessories, resin bombs, and Afterburner Decals to replace the kit decals which did not age [...]

Review: Dora Wings 1/48 Marcel Bloch MB.155.C-1

History: The Bloch MB.155.C1 was the last of the MB.150 series of fighters to enter production and see operational service. Arriving in squadrons in the final weeks before the Armistice in June 1940, only some ten were completed before the [...]

Review: Special Hobby 1/32 Westland Whirlwind review

Eduard 1/48 Pfalz Diii

1/48 Eduard Pfalz Diii . Flown by Ltn Hans Muller, Jasta 18 April 1918. Easy build so I've picked something hard next. RFC Be-2.. ugghh... good thing I like rigging ?

1/32 Spanish Bf-109F-4 from 21st Century Toys

This is a model that was built from a kit from 21st Century Toys. In case you have never heard of them, this company made "die-cast", already built and painted model aircraft in 1/32 and and 1/18 scales in the 1990s. They later [...]