iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

Pilatus PC 21, 1/32 Scale, Scratch Build, Part 3.

Well, here is part 3 of the build, things are moving quite swiftly and needless to say I am having some serious fun. Apart from my husband duties, like going to the beach and chatting with the Wife, I have managed to do some building as [...]

GWH MiG-29 9-12 Late Red-35

Hello my friends, some pics of my recently finished MiG-29 which is a comission build for a collector...Hope you like it and I wish you all a happy new year! Christian

A Diorama entitled ‘Pause beendet, zurück zur Arbeit!’ (Break finished, back to work)

This is by far my most ambitious project so far. The diorama was born from the Revell 1/32 scale kit of the FW 190 F-8 and the superb range of Eduard resin and PE that was available for it. Having built the kit with the resin engine, [...]

James H. Howard's "Ding Hao!"Tamiya P-51B

The Tamiya kit, OOB, with Aeromaster decals. James H. Howard and “Ding Hao!”: Born in China, the son of Methodist missionaries, James H. Howard joined the U.S. Navy in 1938. After graduating from flight school at Pensacola, Ensign [...]

A Monogram P-51D

Proof you don't have to have the latest kit to get a nice model, if you're willing to put in the work. About 15 years ago, a friend gave me a bunch of old kits that he figured were good for spare parts. Among them was this kit, which I [...]

Trumpeters Wellington Mk III.

Hi friends! I guess some of you know that this build was my "FRYING PAN CHALLENGE". (link) Yesterday was spent planting grass on the base plate. As you can see, I made some low valleys and hills in the plate, to give it a bit [...]

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 [...]