iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

1/48 Hobbycraft Hawker Hurricane Mk1 RAAF 1945

. See info taken from Point Cook website. Word is, we kinda took it ourselves, after being over run by the Japanese up in the Philipines or like. Open to opinion. So awesome. I'm hoping we nicked it. πŸ™‚ β€” It's an old kit, but it goes [...]

DH-98 Mosquito Mk. VI 1/24 Airfix

My old model DH-98 Mosquito Mk. VI 1/24 Airfix Model Masters paint Eduard photo-etched seat belts Master metal barre

The newest airplane nut meets Steve Hinton

Grand nephew Nathan Elster, who really likes Planes of Fame Air Museum,spent his 8th birthday watching Steve Hinton fly the museum's P-38, and then he got to meet Steve. He also liked the new P-40M/Kittyhawk III restoration

1:72 Polikarpov I-3, from Small Stuff [video]

(link) Can't help but marvel at Tom Grigat's stop-motion modeling videos at Youtube. This time he goes really tiny with 1:72 Polikarpov I-3, a fine resin kit from Small Stuff. Enjoy. The same kit has been built recently by Pavel [...]

General Dynamics F-16XL,Monogram 1/72

Got this online awhile back, I think its been in my current stash the longest. Always liked the aircraft, built it wheels up because some of the gear pieces were broken , replaced missing wing tip missile rails ,loaded out for air to air, [...]

Hasegawa 1/72 scale P-51B

Most of us who build World War II aircraft, started out being interested in the ace's. Therefore most of us have cranked out a Don Gentile "Shangri-La" P-51B. As the story goes, Don Gentile slammed his beloved aircraft into the [...]

1/72 Tamiya F4U-1A Ira Kepford

Just finished! Very quick build for a collector friend of mine. Short Wip here: (link) Thanks for watching

1/72 Hasegawa He-111-H6

This is another re-shoot of an earlier project, originally built and photographed in Aug. 2000. I included one of the old pictures that shows some of the internal detail. For the new set up I replaced the old nylon thread antenna wires [...]

RAF 143 Sqn. Coastal Command Mosquito FB VI,

Tamiya 1/48 again. Hard to beat for sheer enjoyment & my first build for 2017. In the course of building my previous model (Beaufighter TF X) I came across more history about the RAF Strike Wing stationed at Banff; this time about [...]

Hawker Hunter F 58, J4030, Patrouille Suisse, Swiss Air Force Dubendorf Air Base 1982.

1/72 Revell, almost OOB, I replaced ejection handles with copper wire, removed molded instrument detail, added intake covers and have canopy open as it doesn't fit properly closed, finished in Humbrol and MM enamels with Future and Xtra [...]