iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

Review: ICM 1/48 He 111H-3 Review

#3 for 2018 1/48 Tamiya Fw190 D-9

Just finished her last night the awesome Tamiya Dora . Cant get enough building Tamiya Kits. Painted with Tamiya paints, weathered with Mig wash. Decals are from Eagle Strike. Enjoy 🙂 29196281_10214295904004374_8491439107728211968_n by [...]

1/48 Yak-1b Eduard/Accurate Miniatures

Hello Folks Here it is my first completed in 2018 kit. This time it is Yak-1 from Eduard wich is re pack of Accurate Miniatures kit with Eduard goodies like PE parts and Masks. Goes together rather well some sink marks and ejection pin [...]

1/48 GWH Italian T-33A Shooting Star

Hello Folks My last completed build in 2017. This time T-33A Shooting Star from Great Wall Hobby. The kit goes together rather it was built straight out of the box. For this kit, I used Montex masks for a canopy and also some decals for [...]

'Mikey’s First Build' – Tamiya 1/48th Focke Wulf D9 – ‘Rudel’s Dora’

When we relocated to Australia from London, the shipping container with our possessions included a small number of partially started kits that I put away, upon our arrival, into 'the cupboard', to finish at a later point. The youngest of [...]

Part 4: Tamiya A6M2 Zero—Having some fun with the initial weathering process

I really should be building the engine assembly and the landing gear but just could not get motivated for more complex assembly work. So instead I decided to start the weathering process with some basic paint chipping and staining. The [...]

1/48 Otaki Ki-61 "Tony"

Howdy, Finally finished this one. Markings are for Captain Ichikawa of the 3rd Chutai, 244th Sentai. The 1/48 Otaki Ki-61, started back in the eighties and sitting on the shelf since then. The decals are from the Aeromaster "Eagles [...]

Review: Italeri 1/48 F-104G Starfighter review

Build Part 3: 1/32 Tamiya A6M2 Zero----Putting on Decals and Semi-Gloss Varnish

In the 3rd part of the build I applied the decals and then applied Tamiya semi-gloss varnish. The model kit comes with decent decals to make 1 of 6 specific Zeros, all of them part of the Peal Harbor raiders. My customer, who has [...]

The P-47 Factory

I have received a few requests for WIP of one of my P-47 builds. The pics show what I have done in the last 3 days, probably a 1-2 hour stretch of modelling on those days. I have been fiddling with my Airfix P-51D and a few tidy ups on the [...]