iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

Video: Airfix Spitfire Mk XIV Conversion

This video presents a simple approach to converting the Airfix Spitfire FR MK XIV kit to an earlier Spitire Mk F XIV with the more familiar Spitfire hood. Note: the hatch shown at 9:55 should be on starboard side. The web page for this [...]

F4U-1A Corsair Arii 1/48

Hi all , it's been a while since my last posting but here we are. This is an Arii kit of the brilliant F4U Corsair, it seems strange for me to say that as a lifelong modeller I've never built one of these before in any scale so when I saw [...]

Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-5, Wilde Sau, Eduard, 1/48

This one has been waiting for the last few details for some time, and was actually started in October 2018! I really liked the colors of “white 1” from JG300, but sadly my airbrush skills were not up to the thin lines needed for that [...]

Spitfire Mk IX. 316 Sqdron. Italeri 1/48

Hi guys. This is my last victim, a Spitfire from 316 sqd. RAF. After bult the Hasegawa model of the same item, this one from Italeri looks a litle bit "less", but has been a very satisfactory built. Hope you like it. Sifredo Cubas

FW190A-5 Airfix 1/24

Hello friends! I present to you my work that I did in 2017. A huge red box with a beautiful pattern of the prototype model contained very old details! Perhaps set released in the mid-1980s. The low quality of the set and poor detailing [...]

Back with the C-47

I have begun assembly of this magnificent bird. Gaps are to be filled with Tamiya putty, and then I will put on the wings, and then a final layer of dope, and then it's time to paint! There are various patch spots where my clumsy self [...]

FW190A-2 Hptm. Hans Hahn Gruppenkommandeur III./JG2, (Tamiya 1/72)

This is my latest kit finished. Tamiya kit (60766). Built mostly straight out of the box with the following improvements: Eduard pre-painted photo etched seat belts Replace the wing cannons by 1mm metal tubes Replace the pitot tube using [...]

Sukhoi Su-15 Flagon, Anigrand 1/144

Anigrands Sukhoi Su-15 Flagon in 1/144 is a bonus kit in one of their earliest offerings, the M-50 Bounder. The Flagon is another cold-war fighter aircraft which is ignored by the mainstream model kit manufacturers. I finished the Su-15 [...]

Boeing FA 18A Hornet, A21-26, 2 OCU RAAF Williamtown NSW 2005.

1/72 Fujimi, I started this in 2015, finished in MM enamels with Future over Leading Edge decals which are not intended for Fujimi kit ! it has Quickboost seat with scratch built ASRAAM's and antennae, completed for the nose art group [...]

1/48th Boeing B-52H Stratofortress - update

It's been a while since I updated you on my progress with Sanger's massive 1/48th scale vacuform B-52H project. Since last time I've worked on the fuselage, scratch-building the main undercarriage bays, as well as adding numerous [...]