iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

“Let me at ’em”

Hi All, This vignette, “Let me at-em”, I completed about two years ago, portrays an excited trainee and an old-hand instructor just back from a training flight. The build includes the 1/32, Kitty Hawk, T-6 Texan kit, using the SNJ [...]

100 YEAR RAF ANNIVERSARY GB, Revell 1/48th Eurofighter Typhoon, No.29 Sqn, GiNA BoB Commemorative Scheme

The grand finale, my final contribution for this outstanding GB, Eurofighter FGR4 Typhoon, in the special BoB commemorative scheme that was displayed back in 2015. (link) The Eurofighter was a collaboration with the UK, Germany, France [...]

Messerschmitt Bf 109 E-7 Trop 1/48

My first go at airbrushing was the Tamiya Bf 109 E-7 in the all too well known red 8 colours (OK - they are very nice colours). There has been incorporated a few changes; the step has been carved out as has a few of the cooling outlets [...]

MiG-21SM – Eduard – 1/72

MiG-21SM No. 03, Krasnodar Military Flying Academy, Soviet Union 1979 Kit Eduard MiG-21MF Royal Class 1/72 Mr.Paint lacquer paints. Very good kit, I will build another two of them soon. Recommended

Airport lamp test 1/144

Airport Lamp Test. It will be part of the future airport diorama. The lamps will be mounted on the airfield. They will be functional. Five pieces of fully functional lamps. They will be powered by AA batteries.

Airfix 1/48 Walrus

I can't rate this kit highly enough. It was an absolute dream to build, and I managed to finish it in less than a month, in no small part due to the fact that I only once had to trim something to fit (I took about .5 of a millimetre from [...]

Video: FULL VIDEO BUILD 1/35 AH-1Z VIPER by ACADEMY

Academy 1/35 USMC AH-1Z Zulu Cobra "Shark Mouth" Kit no. 12127 This kit is straightforward and pleasure to build. Highly Recommended. Airbrush used in this video: MR.PROCONBOY WA PLATINUM 0,3mm, Version.2 [...]

Kittyhawk 1/48 McDonnell F2H-2 Banshee (corrected)

The first jet aircraft to be used successfully operationally from a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier was the McDonnell FH-1 Phantom. The aircraft was not really combat ready and was transferred to the naval reserves by 1949, disappearing from [...]

100 Years of the RAF, Spitfire Mk Vb, 81 Squadron RAF Hornchurch, June 1942 “FL*A” / BM-461 Tamiya 1/48

This one is hot off the press... I finished it up just in time to make the deadline for the 100 Years of the RAF Group Build that was the brain child of Paul Barber. @yellow10 Thanks Paul ! I also want to take this opportunity and thank [...]

Bombs, rockets … when do we stop making them? ..

Hello to all! My question is rather rhetorical, and does not require an answer. But I am sure that without bombs our life would have been completely different, and I hope that someday it will be so. (hope dies last ) For now we are doing [...]