iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

RAAF Pilot 1/48 (Reskit RSF48-007)

Hey iModeler's, Here's my most recent (mini) project. My last project was an RAAF Classic Hornet [(link)], and the model being pilotless, I felt needed a pilot to compliment the build and be part of a future diorama set - well that's the [...]

Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter (Roden) 1:32

Aviattic decals all over. Gaspatch guns and end wire terminals Model Kasten rigging Alclad metals All wood: oils over acrylic Pitot tubing rolled out Duro

Airfix Hawker Tempest Mk. V Post War

Just completed this Airfix post-war Tempest Mk. V in 72nd scale. The scheme shows a plane from No. 80 squadron in Germany in 1946. Painted with Ammo Mig and AK Interactive acrylics, an Ammo Mig light grey acrylic filter, Vallejo matte [...]

F-86E(M) Honduras Air Force: Airfix 1/72 F-86E(M)Sabre and Fury Group Build

This is Sabre #3 that I have built for the Sabre and Fury Group Build. I usually never build more than 1 model of a given type of airplane, and I usually never build more than one at a time, so this group build has launched me into new [...]

de Havilland Heron II by Airfix in 72nd Scale

The DH.114 Heron was developed as a follow-on to the popular DH.104 Dove. It was designed to be used in less developed regions as a more rugged four-engine upgrade. As well as switching to four-engine, the Heron also had increased wingspan [...]

Two Destroyers in 1/72 Scale

In my quest to build all of the Navy/Marine dive bombers, I keep discovering aircraft that I knew nothing about. The latest discovery is the Douglas Destroyer, which the Navy requested in 1941, hoping to replace both the Douglas SBD and [...]

FALKLANDS GB-1/72nd Italeri Boeing HC.1 Chinook RAF "Bravo November"

25 April 1982, the container ship MV Atlantic Conveyer departs the UK to the Falkland Islands. Aboard are 5 HC.1 Ch-47 Chinook medium lift helicopters (No.8 squadron), all the maintenance and ground crews with equipment aboard. Along [...]

1/32 Hasegawa Fw-190A-7 "Bar"

This is 1/32 Hasegawa's Fw 190A-7 with the markings of Kommandeur Major Heinz Bar from II/JG1 in Germany April 1944. I used ; Eduard Löök instrument panel and seatbelts AML seat Quickboost exhaust set Quickboost Gun Barrels Barracudacast [...]

SZD 16 Gil prototype SP-1880 1958.

1/72 PZW, built 2013 to 2022, with a what if registration of VH-GWZ, finished in MM enamels with Pledge over decals from the spares folder.

Retro F-84

Some time ago I was given a 1:48 Revell F-84G by a relative who is a yard sale junkie. It had no decals and a build was started by someone, but all the parts were there. I'm not much off a modern jet guy, I like old airplanes. I had [...]