iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

My first article here!

Hello everybody! I am following iModeler for the last 2 or 3 months now. So, I thought I should participate, too. I do especially appreciate your DAILY NEWS thread! A lot of unknown pictures and impressive facts - brief and [...]

1/32 Scale Hawker Sea Fury T 20 “DREADNOUGHT’ Fisher Model and Pattern.

Here are some work in progress pictures of my Sea Fury that I am converting to the air racer Dreadnought. I had to make a few modifications to get the look of the real race plane, not to difficult at all, I am sure you will notice the work [...]

Eurofighter 2000

100th Anniversary Gruppi Caccia Special Colours - IX Gruppo Caccia - Grosseto 2017 - XII Gruppo Caccia - Gioia del Colle 2017

1/48 Hasegawa F/A-18C VMFA-323 Death Rattlers

This is my first finished build for the New Year. It’s a Hasegawa Legacy hornet built, primed and painted using mixed Gunze and Tamiya Acrylics. The ordnance are from Eduard Brassin. Decals were from Twobobs. Thanks for watching.

Airfix 1/24 P-51D Mustang

This is fourth of these that I have built (1 still in stash, lol). I made first kit when I was 11 or 12. I actually painted it white. I thought the instruction book looked white, lol. I gave up on Trumpeter 1/24. I wish I would have waited [...]

Mil Mi-24D 1/48 Revell/Monogramm

The Revell/Monogram cockpit is badly researched, so due to this factI chose the Pavla aftermarket resin cockpit . An overall re-scribing was needed because the kit came from 1986 and doesn’t include any engraving. It was very easy to [...]

C-31A “Troopship”(F-27 Fokker Friendship) US Army

In December of 1985, the U.S. Army Parachute Team, the Golden Knights, leased two F-27-400M Friendship aircraft from the Dutch aeronautical firm, Fokker. The two planes were to replace the team's aging fleet of YC-7A Caribou, which had [...]

Silent film of Albatros production for all of you WnW fans.

Youtube has another neat film short done in Germany during the Great War. Showing some very involved manufacture of Albatros aircraft...from wood stock selection to final finish. (link)

Hasegawa F-22 Egg Plane

Hasegawa F-22 Egg Plane. I built this little gem for my five year old grandson, Reader. He’s getting ready to welcome a new little brother into the world and I didn’t want him to feel left out in the hustle and bustle of all the [...]

Spitfire! 1/48 F Mk. 24

This is my stab at the last of the Spitfires, the mighty F Mk. 24 via the Airfix 1/48 kit. Inspired by the version at Duxford, this depicts VN318 from No. 80 Squadron based in Hong Kong, circa 1955. 1996 is the year stamped on the inside [...]