iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

It's a Quickie ! Really weird

Idly leafing through the Hannants’ newsletter a couple of months ago, hoping to resist the urge to increase the stash pile, I noticed a new release from Brengun of a resin 1/48 scale Rutan Quickie. Perhaps unknown to many, the Quickie is [...]

Revell 1/48 F-86D Sabre in Greek Colors

This was a really fun build of one of the most detailed Revell kits I have seen. As I was researching info on F-86D's in the Hellenic Air Force, I discovered that F-86D's sold to foreign air forces were equipped with Sidewinders. So I [...]

Tamiya 1:48 Mitsubishi A6M3 (Captured)

This is my entry into the "The Empire of Japan 1919-1946 GB" This aircraft was restored to flying condition by the joint USAAF/USN/Royal Australian Air Force Technical Air Intelligence Unit (TAIU) at Eagle Farm, Brisbane, [...]

The 1/48 Eduard F6F-5N Nightfighter with Illumination is finished.

This build is the 1/48 Eduard F6F-5N Hellcat Nightfighter. This is Eduard’s “Weekend Edition” so it comes with some resin detail accessories like radar pod, gun barrels, exhaust pipes, and under wing antenna. I also added Eduard’s [...]

Spitfire Mk VIII

Recently I completed an Arii Spitfire Mk VIII. The MkVIII is my favorite version of the Spitfire and as fate would have it, there was this one waiting in my stash of unbuilt kits. It was the first time I had made extensive use of paper [...]

What-If Build: North American FJ-1 (P-51)Revell 1/48

Or would it have been an FJ-0, and by what name... "Seahorse"? "Fury"? 🙂 This one was purely for fun, just wanted to share. I did this one up some time ago.. not really good by any means, nor was it ever meant to be. [...]

Testors/Hawk 1/48 OV-10A ‘Bronco’

Hi everyone! This is my Testors 1/48 Bronco, finished as 27TASS C/Os plane. Built OOB, with saratchbuilt details and improvements added at many places, as the kit is quite simplistic and toy-like. If you so wish, you may read the full [...]

USS Saidor VMF-213 Tamiya 1/48 F4U-1D/FG-1D

At the 1976 Rickenbacker AFB Airshow I saw my first Corsair...love at first sight. The Canadian Warplane Heritage had owned and operated her for years before selling her to Brian Reynolds. Brian owns and operates the Olympic Flight Museum [...]

Vintage Sikorsky CH-54 Skycrane – 1/72 Revell

This post is about the Sikorsky CH-54 Skycrane, an American twin-engine heavy-lift helicopter designed for the United States Army. I keep in mind my project to build or restore some old models that could bring me some memories. I restored [...]

BBI F/A-18C Hornet scale 1/18

Just finished my current project is to detailing the BBI Standmodel of a F/A-18C Hornet in scale 1/18 to a Swiss Air Force J-5018