iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

Fiat G.50bis – SBS Models – 1/72

My first resin kit, a little gem I guess, the next one will be better ?. Highly recommended to all those fans of Regia Aeronautica.

Very early RB-57E Patrica Lynn Canberra

Hello all, This is my attempt at producing an accurate 1/72 scale rendition on the RB-57E. For many years the Italeri B-57 was regarded as the best option but unfortunately the kit is deeply flawed, the issues are too many to go into here, [...]

1/48 Tamiya Spitfire (new)

The new Spit Mk. I from Tamiya. External parts: XTRADECAL, Eduard Spit Mk.IX elevators, Uschi v.d. Rosten antenna wire and Eduard exhausts. The RAF Dark Earth is way too light, I know, but that was my deliberate decision. The wiring is [...]

1/48 Dragon Ju 188E Racher

Here is my latest build, Dragon 1/48 Ju 188E Racher Kit #5518. First released in 1994 and maybe 2 other times since, it is a rare kit to find and not too common to see built up. Dragon got a lot of mileage of their Ju 88 series of kits, [...]

J35 Draken 1/144 (F-Toys + Shelf Oddity)

This is F-Toys gashapon kit, stripped of the paint and repainted using Vallejo and Hataka Blue Line paints. It also served as test article for prototyping the PE set (see Shelf Oddity stuff). F-Toys kits are absolute gems. I've seen many [...]

1/48 Zvezda Lavockin La-5

Eskadrilya Valeriy Chklov of 11 GIAP, winter 1942/43. Cockpit enhanced with Eduard photo etch parts. Akan paints used over all surfaces including cockpit. White distemper paint was sprayed using the "salt" technique. Aerial [...]

Review: Kinetic 1/48 F/A-18D ATARS review

Airfix Mustang and Eduard Typhoon 48 scale builds

I've just finished shooting the photos for these two builds which will be featured in Model Airplane International soon. They are the Airfix Mustang and Eduard Typhoon, both in 1:48. The Mustang has the excellent Eduard gun bay set in one [...]

Summer of ’44

Hello everyone - not posted here for the longest time, been building almost exclusively 1:24 cars recently, and I will get around to showing them to you, but this is my very latest: This version of the superb Hasegawa Typhoon kit came out [...]

Hasegawa 1:48 Kawanishi N1K2-J Shiden (Violet Lightning) “George”

This model represents an aircraft of the 343rd Fighter Group, flown by Leading Airman Ikuji Matsumura. A very nice kit. I added the RB Model Brass 20mm Japanese cannons Type 99 Mk. 2. I bought these for the soul reason that they were on [...]