iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

1/48 SAAF Impala MK II

Here's my build of the ESCI 1/48 Aermacchi MB-326K Impala in early SAAF colors. Really nice kit with fine recessed panel lines and a good fit. The only after market added is the Neomega resin cockpit and Wolfpack MB MK6 ejection seat as [...]

Video: Subaru Impreza WRC 2007 - Tamiya 1/10 - RC Model

Video: Subaru Impreza WRC 1999 - Tamiya 1/10 - RC Model

1:32 Scale, Trumpeter, F4F-4, 'Wildcat'

Decent kit that went together very well. Building her with wings deployed was a little bit of a pain in the hind quarters, While Trumpeter gives you the option of folded or extended wings, I think the kit is designed more to have the [...]

Avro Lancaster "Dambuster", Revell (04295) 1/72

As part of the "80th Anniversary of Dambuster Raid - group build!" created by Bernard @lis, I entered with the Revell kit 04295 in 1/72 scale. It was already 10 months ago that I received this kit and it still took two months [...]

1/144 Curtiss C-46

This is the newish Platz kit finished with Tamiya lacquer paints and Vintage Flyer decals. It represents a Slick Airways freighter during the late 1940s. Slick was a significant American cargo carrier between 1946 and 1966 when it was [...]

Messerschmitt 108B Taifun Swiss Air Force

In 1938, the Swiss Air Force was looking for a new Fighter aircraft. The tests of the Messerschmitt aircraft showed consistently positive results, after which immediate procurement took place. In order to be able to immediately retrain the [...]

Sopwith Snipe

Sopwith Snipe 1/72 Восточный Экспресс/ТОКО

Grumman Goose Airliner

In 1936, a group of wealthy residents of Long Island, including E. Roland Harriman, approached Grumman and commissioned an aircraft that they could use to fly to New York City. In response, produced the Model G-21. It was a high-wing [...]

1/48 TA-4PTM conversion

This is a Classic Airframes TA-4J, modified into a TA-4PTM, by the fitting of a Hasegawa A-4C nose cone. Also, they carried a windscreen wiper, so I added a spare one I had from a Hasegawa A-4E kit. The Classic Airframes TA-4J was released [...]