iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

Year in review 2017

So here is my review of 2017. But first I like to wish you all a wonderful Christmas and all the best wishes for 2018. Quite some variation over 2017 which included 2 restored models also. The new toolings from Airfix are fantastic and [...]

1/48 Nakajima Ki-27 by Hasegawa

This is an early Hasegawa boxing of the Mania Models Ki-27 from about 1977...I think. I put some Eduard details in the cockpit including a seat, belts, and instrument panel but since its so small I really didn't do much more there. The [...]

1/32 Revell of Germany BF109 G10

Fellas, Just finished the RoG 32 scale BF109 G10 done in Hartmans markings. Added the Barracuda resin oil cooler faring, prop, engine scoops, wheels, and cockpit rear bulkhead, Brassin main gear and used Montex masks for the markings. As [...]

F-7F 3 Tigercat 1/48 Italeri

My last kit F-7F 3 from U.S.M.C., MAG-33, Phoang, Korea, 1953

Tamiya P-51B – Don Gentile’s “Shangri-La”

Don Gentile - The Most Controversial Ace When I sat down 30 years ago to write “the definitive fighter pilot screenplay” and chose as my subject the 4th Fighter Group in the Spring of 1944 during “The Great Ace Race,” with Don [...]

Year In Review 2017

Well, I started off the year with an experiment: a 2017 build plan (see here if interested: (link) ). I ended up completing 4 of the 11 proposed builds, and 7 total. I got distracted by group build opportunities and other surges of [...]

Dornier Do X, “Landing on Hudson River”, 1/144 Otaki

The largest, heaviest, and most powerful flying boat in the world (1929) This is my only made diorama, still, that I've finished just a year ago. Dornier Do X in 1/144 scale. built by old Otaki's kit that I found from german collector. I [...]

1/48th Trumpeter Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23ML Iraqi Air Force January 1991, The Great Escape

It's 5:00 Am in late January, Capt Ahmad Al-Saladi is still contemplating what he and his brothers are about to partake. 2 days prior the Iraqi Air force had launched a rather ambitious attack against coalition ground forces that had [...]

2017 A Year in review

I was looking at Rob's Post, and I actually thought that I built a few models, I actually only built 2...Quite shabby if I must say so. I was a great year, I tried scratch building, and I really enjoyed making something from [...]

Spitfire Mk.IXc

The 1/48 Spitfire from Eduard A good model without problems, the only problem for me is the scale, I usually work with 1:32 and this is my first 1:48 is a gift for a colleague. He asked me at this scale for size issues. But for my eyes it [...]