iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

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 [...]

Boeing F/A-18C HORNET VFA-192 "Golden Dragons" 1/72

Hello to all, This is my second airbrushed model. This time I tried to do some weathering, panel lines etc...Maybe it is too much weathered for my taste, but It was too late when I realized. But hey...I learn as I go. The kit was from [...]

Revell 1/32 Heinkel he-219 uhu, 1./NJG1 1944

Hello. This is my first 1/32 scale model. A model of a German night fighter he-219 in camouflage 1./NJG1 stationed in 1944 in Venlo, Netherlands. Hptm. Modrow flew on this machine. The pilot shot down 34 RAFu bombers on a plane of this [...]

Kinetic 1/24 P47D “Miss Mutt”, 348thFG, New Guinea autumn 1943

Hello everyone. At this particular time, we all have more time for new projects. I recently completed my next model in 1/24. This time from my hand came the P47 Thunderbolt "Miss Mutt" in camouflage 348thFG 5AF on which he flew [...]

My P51 fetish continues

P51B-10 flown by Major George E Preddy, 487th FG, UK June 6th 1944. C hood. Tamiya kit. My 4 day lock down challenge in between various music family and friends activities. Started good friday and finished Monday at 2pm. Decals still [...]

Spitfirepalooza Continues!

Another model completed during the Great Hunkering Down, the Eduard 1/72 Spitfire Mk. VIII. This is my first 1/72 Eduard Spit and as has been said by many before, these kits are great! I will definitely do more.