iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

BF-109 E3 EDUARD 1:48

Hello, this is my first model in this web. Is a very good kit of BF-109. This aircraft was flown by Helmut Henz in 1941 (six victories),he was shot down by a Blenheim and crashed into the sea nearby Greek island of Antikythera. The [...]

1/48 F6F-5N Hellcat

This is the Eduard Weekend Edition kit built with a few add ones. The model represents the Hellcat flown by VMF(N)-533’s Captain Robert Baird on Okinawa in the summer of 1945. Baird became the Marines’ first night fighter ace with [...]

Hobbycraft 1/48 Vought F7U-3 “Cutlass”

Hi everyone! Here is my 1/48 F7U-3 "Cutlass", built 15 years ago. The F7U Cutlass was a United States Navy carrier-based jet fighter and fighter-bomber of the early Cold War era. It was a tailless aircraft for which aerodynamic [...]

3 Spitfires to make 1: Spitfire Mk.XIVe High-Back Conversion from Eduard and Airfix 1/48 kits

As something of a Coronavirus lockdown special effort, I finally did something I've been thinking about attempting for months and which others including Tom Cleaver have done previously: A Mk.XIV high-back conversion kit bash. I built this [...]

Video: TAMIYA P-47D Thunderbolt full video build

TAMIYA 1/48 Republic P-47 Thunderbolt Highly recommended becouse it is a best kit on the market, period! (IMHO). For more details about this Tamiya kit, tools and paints from this video please visit: (link) DISCLAIMER: I am NOT! being paid [...]

Tamiya 1/32 FAA F4U-1 Birdcage Corsair

The Corsair is my favourite aircraft of all time. I used to watch the show "Black Sheep Squadron" with my dad when I was a kid. The show was kind of terrible but I loved it and the vintage footage of corsairs and zeros was [...]

Koster/Monogram 1/48 XP-47J Superbolt

Finished early in the Lockdown, this was quick and easy for a vac conversion. The required Revell/Monogram donor was easy to locate, in this case a "razorback". Koster provides a fuselage, resin prop/hub assembly in one piece ( [...]

SWAT...1/48 Messerschmitt Bf109G-1 Fieseler-Skoda FiSk 199

After the Fw190 with the Hagelkorn gliding bomb, my dad has finished another subject of the Special Weapons And Tactics category. Hasegawa kit (limited), added Eduard seatbelts, Antenna wire with EZ Line and fishing line, yellow fuel line [...]

P-51D Mustang. Tamiya 1/48.

Hi all Long time out of here, but still alive. This is my latest model, a well known P-51D Mustang from 8th Air Force. This is the Tamiya kit with a horrible silver plastic. I never will build another one with this kind of plastic [...]

Spitfire and R&R Griffon: when two sounding names combine, a legend is born! Spitfire Mk.XIV from Airfix.

In the course of its long career, the Spitfire has been flown with two Roll-Royce engines, whose illustrious names have become legends in connection with this aircraft itself: on the one hand, the engines of the Merlin series, and on the [...]