iModeler Aviation
Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Fujimi 1/72 RF-4B Marine Recon Phantom,VMFP-3
Exclusively used by the US Marines,46 built, based on the Navy's F-4B , with the thin tires and wings[the last 10 having the wider tire/wing] , in service from 1965-1990. Saw service in Vietnam and numerous detachments where needed usually [...]
76 years ago today – the Doolittle raid
Newsreel reveals raiders took off from USS Hornet (CV-8)
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Revell-Germany 1/48 Me-410B-2
The Messeschmitt Me-410 was essentially a redesigned Me-210, with a lengthened fuselage and DB603 engines rather than the DB605 of the earlier design. This redesign solved the problems of the Me-210, which were so difficult that it was [...]
1/48 Revell Ventura Mk. II
Here’s a few not so great photos of Revell’s 1/48th scale Ventura Mk. II which I completed on Christmas Eve 2017, my final build of the year. It’s a great kit and fun to construct, but it does take up a lot of shelf space and looks [...]
Kasserine Pass/Tunisia Campaign Hasegawa 1:48 Free French Hurribomber
This is my second contribution to the Kasserine Pass/Tunisia Campaign Group Build…
The Narrative
Borrowing a page from David Leigh-Smith, I have imagined the following story to accompany my presentation of the Hasegawa 1:48 Hawker [...]
Tamiya 1/48 Dewoitine D.520
Very nice model,standard Tamiya high quality,colorful scheme. Anyway, enjoyable build.
1/48 Airfix English Electric Lightning F1A: Cold War Warrior
1/48 Airfix English Electric F1A Lightning: Just finished this today after about a week and a half of working on it. It is OOB except for the detail in the cockpit, seat, and behind canopy. Also added a few bits to the main wheel well and [...]
RAAF Tomahawk Mk.IIb by Airfix
This is my second Airfix 1/48 scale P-40; this time in the guise of a Tomahawk IIb as flown by Wing Commander Peter Jeffrey, 3 Squadron RAAF, in the western desert in 1941.
Our IPMS-NSW club has a group build coming up later this year [...]
