iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

VB-9 strikes Rabaul

On November 1, 1943, American forces landed on Cape Torokina at Bougainville. That night, the Navy fought the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, which stopped a Japanese force of heavy cruisers from disrupting the invasion and forced them to [...]

Zip da dee Zipper! Kinetic 1/48 F-104G Starfighter

Kinetic 1/48 F-104G Starfighter Box Packaging/Decals/Pubs: 7 This is the biggest letdown of the whole kit. But I’ll get to that. The decals are cartograph, so they are of perfect register, glossy, and colorful. There aren’t many, as [...]

Mirage F1 AZ 1/32 Scale, Scratch Build. Part 8

Yes, its time for another progress report on the F1, After joining the wings and sanding to get the fuselage smooth, I started to scribe the elevators and the vertical stabilizer, then I added rivets. I then had the urge to paint the [...]

Trumpeter 1/48 A-37A Dragonfly

Hello, This is my Dragonfly as used in Vietnam in the '60's. It's a special kit for me because I graduated in the Air Force Academy in his older and less powerful brother, the T-37C. Nice little bird though. I wish they had a kit for it, [...]

RAF Mustang III – Revell 1/72

Hi iModelers: Here is kit #2 from my modeling renaissance. The kit has pretty good detail for 1/72, but some flash and fit issues. Added a Squadron vacu-form canopy, two tiny photo etch levers you can't even see in these pictures, a [...]

Gloster Javelin 1/48 Airfix in build

Because i dont forgot my visit Duxford last year and because a I love in british jets on cold war, after builded TSR-2, now i build that and Sea Vixen wait. Super kits from Airfix

Two shiny "little friends": here comes the second one.

I did chose to build a RAF Mustang Mk. III, the decals have been taken from the kit. I hope you like the outcome and the pictures!

Two shiny "little friends": here is the first one.

Recently, I have decided to once again tackle a rather problem-free construction. Having Airfix's 1:24 P-51 on my workbench and two 1:32 Mustangs from Revell and Trumpeter, I chose the Tamiya kit. A few etched parts from Eduard freshened [...]

Hasegawa 1/48 Messerschmitt Bf-109G-6

After a nearly 2 1/2 year hiatus from scale modeling, I chose this project to blow the dust off of my creativity. All told, I spent about a month from start to completion. This model depicts a Bf 109G-6 of 7./JG3 -White 10 + Black I, Bad [...]

Italeri Junkers 87 B-2 Stuka

Hello, in this article I would like to show galery of my Junkers 87 B-2 Stuka. I come from Wieluń town in Poland and this town was bombarded 3 times on 1 September 1939 by these dive bombers. There were 3 seperate raid at exact times: [...]