iModeler Aviation
Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Three Me 262s: Finale
I am a member of the Warbirds Aviation Modelling Group (Melbourne, Australia: (link)).
Each year we have two club competitions, "Gunna Build" and "Build a “Build a B#%@#$".
The "Gunna Build" is an open build [...]
Tamiya 1/48 North American P-51B Mustang
This is one of those projects that started out great, but ended on a not-so-high note. I was very happy with the construction, paint, and weathering. Alas, when I took the 26 year old decals out of the water, they shattered into a million [...]
Heller F4U-7 in 1/48
Presented for review: Aéronavale F4U-7 F.14.9, USN Bureau No 133690, by Heller, in 1/48. As noted in many French F4U articles, the black and yellow ID stripes were for 'Operation Musketeer', aka the Suez Crisis of 1956.
Heller did [...]
Messerschmitt Bf110E "Wespen" Winter 1942
The 110's from the Wespen geschwader are one of my favorite German aircraft, unfortunately I never did build one, till now.
This kit is the Eduard 8203 from 2007 in 1/48 scale. It does include a lot of extra PE parts which are very [...]
Disguised Aquatic Eyes in the Sky…1/48 Arado Ar196A-3, Handelsstörkreuzer 3 “Widder”
Here´s my dad´s fourth and last seaplane for a while. Italeri kit oob, fit is mostly only mediocre. The gunsight is molded onto the instrument board but was in the way of the windshield. So my dad cut it off and replaced it with a part [...]
Hobby Boss 1/48 F-105D Thunderchief “Cherry Girl”
Frequently, my choice of models to build is influenced by whatever book project I am working on. That was the case with this model, which I decided to build while writing “Downtown: the U.S. Air Force in Southeast Asia 1961-73" that [...]
1/144 Hobbycraft B-58A Hustler
INTRODUCTION
The B-58 Hustler was the USAF's first and only delta wing supersonic strategic bomber from the late 50s till 1970. It was designed to fly high and fast which would also end up being the reason for its demise.
Original specs [...]
Jabo...Focke-Wulf Fw190F-8, SG4
Built a couple years ago. Hasegawa kit, added seatbelts, some detail for the landing gear, EZ Line for the antenna wire, painted with Gunze and Tamiya acrylics.
Schlachtgeschwader 4, Eastern Front, summer 1944
P51-D Mustang ‘Donald’ 4th Fighter Group
Hi everybody,
Today was a sunny day, so I decided to take few pictures of my ‘old’ models. The model is the Royal Class Mustang from Eduard on 1/48 scale. I build this model out from the box.
This plane was flown by Captain Donald R. [...]
