iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

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 [...]

Review: GWH 1/72 F-15I IAF Ra'am review

Dragon 1/48 Fw-190A-7

Heinz Bär - Experte: As an air‑minded working-class teenager, Heinz Bär took up the sport of gliding and soon became a qualified powered aircraft pilot at age of 17. With hopes of eventually flying for Deutsche Lufthansa, he joined [...]

Identity crisis! Monogram FW-190

I recently picked this kit up at a model show, the kit doesn't specify what model FW-190 it's supposed to be, As I'm not to familiar with the 190 I wonder If the experts out there could lend a hand in identifying it. Thanks.

Video: Photographing Scale Models: The Camera

This video discusses several camera options that are most suitable for photographing scale models. There is also a step-by-step demonstration on how to record an image using the various hardware options available on today's cameras.

Review: ICM 1/48 Ju-88 A-4 Review

Trumpeter A3D-2 Sky Warrior

I picked this kit up when it first came out a few years ago...and I finally got around to building it. I was between kits and I thought this Trumpeter kit would be a fast and easy build... I was so wrong! First of all, this is a large [...]

Video: 254 Shades of Gray

This video is a brief look at how limitations of digital imaging might effect how modelers choose to finish and weather their models

Hasegawa 1/48 Ju-87B-2 Stuka N. Afrika

This is a kit I built about 15 years ago, and has been languishing on the shelf ever since. One of the early builds with no WIP . Also suffered some damage and lost pieces on a move a few years ago. But I did find a couple of images I [...]

Video: A Lloyd in the garden

THE SPECIAL HOBBY LLOYD C.V series 46 - 1:72 Here's my little stop motion experiment of assembling the Lloyd C.V series 46 from Special Hobby in the scale 1:72. For me it was a pleasure to partial work in my garden since we had a long [...]