Avro 707A
This is the second Avro 707A. It was assembled at the Avro maintenance facility at Bracebridge heath in Lincolnshire and flew for the first time on 20 February 1953. As early as 1947 the Avro company designed a jet bomber that was [...]
iModeler Aviation
Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Focke Wulf Fw 190 D-9
Images created during 2018 Moson Model Show at the iModeler booth.
Flying Dragon – P-38 Lightning of the 459th FS, Burma
This is the old 1/48 Monogram P-38 Lightning updated somewhat. I started the kit because I had the original Aeromaster decal sheet with the dragon's mouths done in the wrong colors (later printings had a correction sheet) The result was [...]
74 years ago this week…
Around 2200 hours on the night of May 13, Captain Thomas and three friends interrupted their bridge game when they heard explosions to the north. They quickly realized it was a “show,” an air raid, though none realized what they were [...]
Hasegawa 1/32 P-47D-30 “Eight Nifties”
Hasegawa 1/32 P-47D-30 (08174) ‘Eight Nifties’
I sometimes wonder whether I should read kit reviews as this kit received the entire spectrum. I guess the moral of the story is that if you like the subject and scale then just go build, [...]
Speed build: the Airfix Me-262 in 48hrs
Hi Everyone!
This is my "48hrs Me-262" from the new tool Airfix Me-262 1:72 kit. We - some modeling friends and enthusiasts - just held a friendly speed building competition this weekend. As far as I know this was the first such [...]
Italeri 1/48 Sea Hurricane: Fresh Off the Bench
1/48 Italeri Sea Hurricane. This is a continuation of my build article published last week on same model.
Fresh off the work bench. I never new much about this kit and did not perform any research on it. My kids wanted to get me a model [...]
1/72 Revell Hurricane Mk IIB
This is a 1/72 Revell Hurricane Mk IIB I just finished today. Painted with MRP paints. I added gunsight glass, clear wingtip nav lights and resin wheels. The markings are from LF Models and depict a Hurricane of the Portuguese Air Force [...]
TBM-1C Avenger, VT-7 USS Hancock (1:48, Accurate Miniatures)
This was my second kit in 1:48 scale - and a lot of memories! I love this airplane, I loved the kit, which has truly a lot of amazing details allowing you to build excellent model straight from the box.
My only improvement was replacing of [...]
