iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

Tamiya 1/48 P-47M 61st FS

Tamiya Kit with scratch-built lead foil seat belts. Mixed the blue/black color IAW Tamiya's instructions. Must be careful and use the right magnetos, not the ones called out for in the instructions. Aeromaster decals were used. [...]

Hasegawa 1/32 Bf-109K-4

Another big Hasegawa Bf-109 model from January 2004, according to the site map at Modeling Madness, the 109K-4. The markings are inspired by a color photo in one of Jeff Ethell's "WW2 in Color" books of a shot-down late-war 109, [...]

1/32 Eduard / Alley cat Messerschmitt Bf-109D-1

This is 1/32 Messerschmitt Bf-109D-1 with the markings of 2./JGr 176 in Gablingen during August 1939. I have used Eduard Bf-109 E-1 as base kit and converted it to D-1 by using Alley cat conversion set. Additionnaly I swapped Quickboost [...]

Vintage Lindberg Model: 1/72 Curtiss BFC-2

This is a real vintage kit I built some time ago. I always love these pre-war Naval aircraft and try to build all the examples produced in a main-stream kit regardless of how old, and vintage it is. I had this one sitting in my stash for [...]

Erich Hartmann’s last 109

By the Spring of 1944, the Bf-109G-6, which had been the primary production version of Messerschmitt’s fighter since the previous fall, was falling behind in the relentless race for performance. Beginning in the late spring, many [...]

1/72 Matchbox PB4Y-2 Privateer

Finally have some pics to post of the finished build. My apologies for the quality - me and my iPhone have a more difficult time with larger subjects! This was the "enhanced" Privateer build that I posted in the Aircraft WIP [...]

CityBird MD-11

Evening all, I used to build lots of airliners but had lost a little interest over the last few years. However, I have always loved the MD-11 and when MicroMir released their's in a 1/144th scale injection-molding I decided to have a go at [...]

F-82G Twin Mustang ,4th[AW] squadron, Okinawa.1950,Nose art group build.

This is Revells 1994 boxing of Monograms 1/72 N A F-82G. The G was an all weather model used with some success in the early days of the Korean war. The first aerial victories are attributed to the F-82, it also was used for ground attack [...]

Project Completed: 1/48 HobbyBoss US Navy F3H-2 Demon

I finally finished my latest workbench project; the F3H-2 Demon in 1/48. If you would like to hear more about my build experience please take a look at my recent build article posted last week, or, on my blog. I had not built a [...]

War Above the Trenches: Ansaldo A.1 Balilla

The Ansaldo A.1, nicknamed "Balilla", after the Genoan folk-hero, was Italy's only fighter aircraft to be both domestically designed and produced during the First World War. The A.1 resulted from continued efforts by the Ansaldo [...]