iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

1/72 Italeri; Bell-206B Jetranger, Croatian Air Force

An easy kit to build, but it was a painting challenge. It was the tiniest model I've made (cca 12-13cm) which made masking job very difficult. For example painted sqares are 4x4mm and it took a lot of tryouts before I managed to line them [...]

Sopwith T.F.2 Salamander 1/72 Восточный Экспресс

Hello! My next Sopwich in unusual camouflage. Sincerely, Vlad.

Monogram 1/48 P-39 as a Portuguese P-39D 1943

I have always had an interest in Portuguese aircraft, as my parents are both from the Acores. This diorama was built as a curiosity for my dad, as he had always seen me building kits from my early teens up until I left the house when I got [...]

First of 3 Local BoB Bf 110 casualties

Around my home town of Eastbourne during August and September 1940, no less than 3 Messerschmitt Bf 110 heavy fighters were brought down over land and probably many others were lost off the coast, unable to regain comparative safety in [...]

Review: Kitty Hawk 1/48 UH-1D Huey review

The new Aifix P-51 Mustang in 1:48 scale (extra photos added)

With the new issue of Airfix Model World Magazine now out, I can post some photos of the all new Airfix 1:48 scale Mustang. This is a superb kit, the detail is excellent, some very clever engineering involved too to get nice a seamless [...]

S 38B Skyraider

By 1972 a number of the remaining Skyraiders in the Royal Swedish Air Force inventory were re-designated from A (attack) to S (spaning) for the new role as search and rescue aircraft to operate over the Baltic sea and the West coast. A [...]

Tamiya FW-190 A3 > A2 1/72

The aircraft, "blue 2" of Leopold (Poldi) Wenger was stationed in Caen-Carpiquet France in the middle of August 1942. This plane has no outer armor in the wings, probably to compensate the weight of the bomb. On 19 August 1942, [...]

Review: Zvezda 1/72 MI-24A Hind review

Trainers in Arms (T-41D)….

Here comes my latest combo T-41D build. The manufacturer is the historic Turkish company PM. The kit comes with fine engraved panel lines for two versions which the Turkish Armed Forces have been using since 80s for basic flight [...]