iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

“Three Perfect Ladies in Italy” (Tamiya Spitfire MK VIII, 1/32)

Hi folks, this is my second submission to imodeler... The diorama depicts a possible scene in Italy in 1944: An American Spitfire Mk. VIII is forced to belly-land near to a farm. In order to hide it as far as possible during repair, the [...]

Classic Airframes Arado Ar 68, 1/48th.

Not the easiest of kits but I found it a very enjoyable build. Mostly OOB but some of the struts were replaced as they were useless! Painted with GS aqueous paints, weathered with pastels and finished with Alclad II flat varnish.

1/72 Hasegawa Spitfire Mk VIII

Just completed this morning, this is my Hasegawa Spitfire Mk VIII of 452 Sqn RAAF, Morotai 1944. The markings are from DK decals and the model was painted using MRP paints. I added a Eduard Zoom set in the cockpit, very little of which you [...]

Tamiya Beaufighter Night Fighter

Tamiya 1/48th scale Bristol Beaufighter MkVI. I made this model when it was originally released on 1997. This was made straight out if the box, including decal seat belts. I've just replaced the stretched sprue rigging with [...]

Willy Lovers Panther

This is the Hobby Boss 1/72 F9F Panther I built a while ago for a group build. I have actually used Hobby Boss F9F-2P kit that I converted to a F9F-2 using Quickboost corrected nose and exhaust resin parts. There is also a Eduard PE [...]

Consolidated PB2B 2 Catalina, A24-353 OX-M, 43 Sqn RAAF Darwin NT 1945.

1/72 Academy, with Red Roo resin and decals, finished in flat black enamel with Future and Xtra flat over all, built for the Year of the Cat GB, mid 2017 to early 2018, more pic's and details there.

F-84E Texas ANG in Korea 1951

F-84E-25-RE s/n 51-480, 111th Fighter-Bomber Squadron (136th FBW) Texas Air National Guard The 111th was, like her sister squadrons 182nd and 154th FBS, a federalized ANG unit replacing the 27th FEW during the Korean war in summer 1951. [...]

1/144 scale Airbus 320 Airasia Livery (flight 8501)

This is my second built of a commercial airliner which is a Revell 1/144 scale Airbus 320 with Airasia livery. This built is inspired by the tragedy of flight 8501 (PK-AXC) Indonesian Airasia which crashed on December of 2014 killing all [...]

Tamiya 1/48 Me-262 A-1a

the Messerschmitt 262 the first operational and combat jet must have been a pretty scary opponent, being as it could do 100 mph faster than anything in the allied inventory...i still remember Clark Gable's consternation about it in the [...]

2 Doolittle Raiders

Hi All. I posted these Doolittle Raiders on the Movies Group Build, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo but I'd like to share them with everyone here too. Hope that's acceptable to duplicate my efforts. I completed these Accurate Miniatures B-25b's [...]