iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

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. [...]

Review: Revell 1/32 P-51D Mustang review

Video: FULL VIDEO BUILD TAMIYA Tank Destroyer M10 IIC Achilles

TAMIYA 1/48 British Tank Destroyer M10 IIC Achilles For more details about Tamiya kits and tools used in this video please visit (link) Special thanks to my girlfriend for this kit! SPARMAX Airbrush: Model SP-35c with Silver Bullet [...]

Heller 1/72 Dassault Mirage III-R

With 3 other models in various stages of building I've just finished this re-edition of this old Heller kit of the Mirage III-R in 1/72. I's a basic kit, keeping in mind the tooling is over 40 years old, but the lines of the Mirage III are [...]

A Little Help From My Friends...

I have a Sufa coming to convert into a Chilean F-16D Peace Puma, but I'm a little short on decals. I tried to find the old 1/72 TwoBobs set for the Peace Puma, but couldn't find one anywhere. I did buy the set of decals you see in the [...]