iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

Sopwith CamelMore or Less

I've completed the empennage and lower wing of this 1:16 model. If I'd taken the photos a week ago you would have seen a real dog's dinner, but somehow it all came right. I'd mentioned previously that I probably wouldn't include images of [...]

A 38A Skyraider

This is my rendition of a Skyraider in the use of the Royal Swedish Air Force if the Sandy CSAR concept had been brought to the temperate and sub-arctic forests and mountains of the Scandinavian peninsula from the steaming jungles of [...]

More fromthe Cradle of Aviation Museum

A variety of subjects

HobbyBoss FJ-4B Fury

I built this kit awhile ago, but haven't displayed it much, so here goes. This is the old HobbyBoss kit in 1/48th scale. It is done OOB, using parts and decals that come with the kit. I think this kit is fairly basic, but it makes up into [...]

Martin B 57B Canberra, 52-1590, The Black Knights 38th Bomb Wing USAFE Laon AFB France 1956.

1/72 Airfix, I modified a few things, pilot seats narrower, removed the hinges from all control surfaces, the tail-plane joints, engine jet-pipes and replaced some antennae, finished in MM and Humbrol enamels with Future over kit and other [...]

Revell Germany 1/72 FW 190 F8/R14

Just finished past week, an old mold that required some care to improve it. As you can see I made use of several resin additions and a vacuum-formed canopy that required a lot of adjustment to make it fit, I scratch built several details [...]

Review: Amodel 1/72 Mil Mi-10 review

Revell's new 1/32nd Spitfire MkIXc

Evening all, The latest off the bench is Revell's new 1/32nd Spitfire MkIXc, which as I'm sure you know follows their release from a few years back of a Spitfire MkII and thus the breakdown of the kits is almost identical. This was a very [...]

Antonov-8 (An-8) 1/72 Amodel

Greetings to all! I want to show my last work. Something under the influence of such a rainy summer I was struck by the winter theme )). Decided to land your An-8 somewhere in the winter. Cold, drove UMP-350, let it warm up plane before [...]

Zertsoerer day fighter swansong during Battle of Britain 1940

Early on the morning of the 27th of September 1940, Austrian Gruppenkommandeur, Horst Liensberger, of V Gruppe / (Zerstoerer) Lehrgeschwader 1 led a formation of 10 Bf 110s from his unit on an escort mission for some KG 77 Ju 88s which [...]