iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

Eduard 1/48 P-51D-5

“Frenesi” was named after a song popularized by the great Artie Shaw, pronounced "Free 'n Easy". Why would a fighter pilot name his airplane for a song? Click here - (link) - and find out. The airplane was one the very first [...]

Video: Focke Wulf Fw-190 D-9 Hasegawa 1/32 – Aircraft Model

My Corsair family

I suspect that most people who build model airplanes are very familiar with the famous Vought F4U Corsair fighter from WWII and Korea. Likewise, many are familiar with the A7 Corsair II which served the US Navy and later the Air National [...]

Mini Whiskey 7 #2 1/48 Monogram C-47 Skytrain

I finished Mini W7 #1 roughly a year ago, and since then I've started volunteering at the museum that owns the real Whiskey 7. I donated Mini W7 #1 to the museum and she resides in their gift shop. So I had to build myself a Mini W7 #2. [...]

Trumpeter 1/48 MiG-3 (401th Special Purpose Fighter Aviation Regiment)

Hello! We continue). Model of the Soviet MiG-3 fighter from Trumpeter - if someone else has not bought it, I highly recommend it. Very nice to build and good in quality. Worked in pleasure). A variant of the fighter of the 401st Special [...]

Review: Kitty Hawk 1/32 Mirage 2000C review

First completion of the year: Tamiya’s 109 G-6

Salute, gentlemen! And a great new year to all of you! I just finished Tamiya’s 1/48 109 G-6, and what a great kit it is. I would guess no other manufacturer could pull off such “gimmicks” as the interchangeable exposed engine/closed [...]

Special Hobby 1/32 Morane N (Russian Imperial Air Force.)

Hello! For a long time I didn’t post anything on the Imodeler, but a lot of models have accumulated))). Let's go in order - Moran N from Special Hobby, an old and uncontested model on the 32nd scale. In the assembly is simple, but it [...]

Me 262 Major Rudolf Sinner.

Hello friends, Here is my last adventure, an old monogram kit from the 90s. It is a Me 262, on 1/48 scale, it has reasonable fittings, but a little poor in details, with raised pannel lines, but with dedication I achieved a pleasant [...]

F-16 fighter

I took no "in progress" photos, but you all know how to build models! My first photo show's the model with the decal instruction sheet which was easy to follow. All I had to do was use my Tamiya X-2 Gloss White paint, then apply [...]