iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

1/48 Classic Resin Airframes/Hasegawa Bf-109Z “Zwilling”

Back before there was Classic Airframes, there was Classic Resin Airframes, a series of resin conversion sets released by Jules Bringuer in the 1990s. I found the kit for the Zwilling conversion at the LHS back in 1995. By the time I [...]

1/72 Scale is turning out to be a good place to start

I came back to scale modeling and re-started from scratch. Since then, I've taken in a couple of shows and I am slowly expanding my range of supplies and sources. I have found these 1/72 scale kits to be a great chance to practice, [...]

1/48 Mania Ki-27 "Nate" Empire of Japan Group Build

I took the lazy way on this and didn't post any in progress photos. I added a few extra details to the engine in the form of intakes made from brass tubing squeezed to the proper oval shape and made oil cooler support struts from sprue. [...]

An Old USA Navy Airplane

Thanks to the invention of the "net" I was able to get some quality "Life Magazine" photo's of the old airplane on a carrier deck and in flight. As a kid growing up during WW-II we all bought Life Magazine's weekly [...]

Tamiyas Skyraider- I had to switch to the reserve tank to get her home.

This was one of those builds where she ended up spending a few weeks in near solitary, staring at me from the workbench with worrying eyes as i left her unfinished and slowly gathering dust. A few days ago i looked at her sternly, flipped [...]

WIP 1/48 Tamiya F-15A 58th TFTW

Pulled out a shelf of doom project from 4 years ago, Cockpit instruments and side consoles from the Hasegawa kit. Been in the paint shop for the last few weeks. The air-superiority blue is from the Mr color paints .Today i started add [...]

Hasegawa 1/48 Nakajima Ki-27 “Nate”

Hi everyone! This is my Nakajima Ki-27Ko, built as part of "The Empire of Japan 1919-1946" Group Build, hosted here in this site. The Nakajima Ki-27 (九七式戦闘機, Kyūnana-shiki sentōki, or Type 97 Fighter) was the main [...]

Babs, harbinger of doom

If in Spring 1942 one of these was sighted over your base, it meant hell was coming to breakfast. The C5M2 was only made in small numbers and was used for a short time, but it was part of a deadly system. The land based Kokutais Of the [...]

F4U-1a Corsair: VF-17 - 1/48 Tamiya

This is the Tamiya 1/48 F4U-1a Corsair – an older build of mine when I first tried out Lifecolor Acrylics. These went on very smoothly but tended to clog the airbrush until I got them thinned correctly. The color differentiation [...]

Boeing 737/300, Daco 1/144

B-737/300 Aviolet (Airserbia) Daco 1/144. Home made masks for painting the livery. Some photos are with its younger brother A-319 Airserbia (Revell 1/144) sorry for bad quality of photos.