iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

SBD-3 Dauntless, Battle of Midway (repost)

I posted this project here three-and-a-half years ago, and sometime back Martin indicated it would be OK to add previous project photos when the Midway Group Build went live. The kit is Trumpeter's 1/32 offering, with additional scratch [...]

Hasegawa 1/72 SBD-2 Dauntless @ Midway

What began as an OOB build turned into something a bit more complex. I had 2 SDB's in the stash to pick from for the Midway group build, and selected the Hasegawa SDB-3. The Midway decal set I was able to secure for it was for a Marine [...]

1/32nd MiG-29G 'Polish Air Froce'

I picked up this long out of production single-seat Revell 1/32nd MiG-29A cheap recently, and fancied doing a Polish version so also ordered a set of Decals from Techmod. I built this more or less out of the box, but did close the upper [...]

Midway Group Build 1/48 AMT P-40E Aleutian Tiger

Hand salute to Louis Gardner for organizing this build and to Chuck Villanueva for the fine introduction to the Midway reveal. And to Martin and staff for maintaining this excellent modeling web site. Well done gentleman. My subject is one [...]

Coral Sea, Part Three: Douglas SBD-3, Dauntless

Part Three, is Accurate Miniatures, AWESOME 1:48 scale kit of this famous dive bomber. It is in the markings of the aircraft flown from USS Lexington, by Ens John A Leppla, and John Liska, for attacks against IJN Shoho on 7 May, and IJN [...]

Coral Sea; Part Two... Aichi D3A1, Type 99, Carrier Bomber

Part Two, is the 1:48 scale Hasegawa kit, and it is in the markings of an aircraft flown from IJN Zuikaku, by Lt. Tomatsu Ema, (Pilot) with W/O Azuma, (Gunner).

Coral Sea, Part One: Mitsubishi A5M4, Type 96, Carrier Fighter...

With the Battle of Midway Group Build being close to it's reveal, I thought it would be proper to also include the "Other" carrier battle that took place, only a month earlier, in the Coral Sea. Much of what occurred during [...]

Yakolev Yak 38 "Forger A" 10, AV-MF Novorossivyk 1982.

1/72 Ace, I modified the pilot seat and the lift engines, otherwise OOB, finished in MM enamels with MM FS 20000 acrylic over kit decals, built 2007.

MiG-21 CZ “4175”

Dear Friends, enclosed one of my latest work - a big thanks to the Kitchecker Team for contributing my building-report within their latest issue: (link)

1/48 Tamiya Dewoitine D.520

Here is my D.520. Its almost straight out of the box except exhaust stacks from ultra cast and a photoetch gunsight from Eduard. The pilot figure is from PJ Productions. Markings are a combination of masks and the god awful Tamiya [...]