iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

Video: Building the Revell Monogram A-26 Invader ... Episode 1

This is the first video in the series on building the 1/48 scale Revell - Monogram A-26 Invader. Additional information on the A-26 can be found on my web page ... (link)

Year of the Cat F4F Wildcat

Got too busy with the holiday season and also wanted to get one of these posted before the year was over. So, there's no antenna as I couldn't wait for some EZ Line. I should've taken the photos yesterday when it was a little overcast to [...]

1/48 Hasegawa Ki-27 Nakajima Type 97 “Nate” 77th Sentai

Tonight's posting will quite probably be my last "new" article for the year. It follows hot on the heels of my other Ki-27 article that was posted last night. John Clark inspired me to finish both of these kits up when he [...]

THE FRYING PAN CHALLENGE! Part 5. Model finished. Challenge met.

Is that correct English by the way? Do you "meet" a challenge? Anyway, here she is. Since the last post, I've worked with thin mists of various colors over the paintwork and with artists colored pencils on the decals, to bleach [...]

Pilatus PC 21, 1/32 scale Scratch Built, Part 2

Well after all the Christmas food, I decided that I need some exercise, so I got back to work. Here are the steps I took to get to where I am now, this has taken about a day and a half, with the odd break in between. After I had glued all [...]

1/48 Hasegawa Ki-27 Nakajima Type 97 “Nate” 246th Hiko Sentai

Here's one I finished up a few days ago. I finally got around to posting up some photos... I was inspired to post this plane after looking at the excellent posting by John Clark with his "Nate". This is a fairly recent [...]

F-14A Tomcat VF-41 august 1981

Hello, I choose to represent this plane because when the old 1/48 F-14 Monogram appear, a french modeler dicided to publish this plane in "Fana de l'aviation". I read this book a lot of time since 1982 and i am very interesting [...]

1/48 Revell (ProModeller) SB2C-4 Hellldiver

Hello Folks My latest completed build. This time last of US Navy dive bomber SB2C-4 Helldiver from Revell. The kit goes together rather well the only problem I have was installing resin replacement wheel bays. I have some gaps to fill [...]

Avia BH-11 "Boska" (Kovozavody Prostejov 1/72)

No, this year is not over! One more kit should be completed before 2018 will arrive! – this is what I was thinking about last week. So, the result. Avia BH-9/11 is a tiny sport aircraft from the golden age of aviation, produced in [...]

As long as we're talking about jacks....

Here's one of 747-100's on jacks for a retraction check at the Los Angeles maintenance base just before we retired the Whales in 1999. These normally weren't done outside unless the hangars were full, which was probably the case here. [...]