iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

Martin PBM 3R Mariner, A70-11, 40 Sqn RAAF Townsville Qld 1943.

1/72 Mach2, I modified the turrets to convert to a transport, sanded and polished the canopy and painted on the frames, strengthened the fuselage join between the wings with a strip of cloth and added the mooring rails to the nose, [...]

Corsair A7D – Commission Build

A major departure from my usual subjects - I tend to stick to 1/32 WWI aviation, but this 1/72nd A7D was built under commission, as a presentation piece for the pilot who flew the original, pictured below. He was an RAF Test Pilot, on an [...]

Tamiya 1/72 scale P-47D

Pilot: Lt. Robert E. Wagner 9th AF 510th FS - 405th FG. St. Dizier France 1944. I actually do build other aircraft, but P-47s are just so much fun, especially when the kits are this nice ! For this build, I used Alclad Dura aluminum, [...]

Tamiya 1:48 Focke-Wulf 190F-8

Subject: Fw 190F-8 “W-521” of Hungarian 102/2 Squadron Close Support Group, 1945 Brief History: (Ref.: Tally Ho! decal sheet 4110) The Hungarian 102 Dive Bomber Group was formed in 1942 equipped with Ju-87s, and throughout 1943 -44 [...]

It’s Twins!… well, sort of?

Finished, last night and this morning...these two have haunted my workbench for several months, and at last they are completed! Both are Tamiya's 1/72 A6M2b kit; one a Pearl Harbor raid Zuikaku machine with kit decals and the other a 1942 [...]

1/32nd Spitfire MkIIa - Revell

I fancied a quick and easy project and seeing Spitfires overhead daily during the summer months (I'm under the approach to Biggin Hill) I didn't need much inspiration to dig this one out of the attic 🙂 This model simply fell together [...]

Matchbox 1/72 North American T-2 C/E "Buckeye"

Another "oldie" , built OOB, just because I like the unusual paint scheme. It's been re-popped by Revell, and is still available. It is a very basic kit, more fun to paint than to build.While it wasn't much of a challenge to [...]

Ryan STM, A50-2, 3 Communications Unit RAAF 1942.

1/72 MPM, I replaced and added a few things, exhausts from sprue, pitots and bracing from brass wire, air scoops from alloy foil, finished in Humbrol and MM enamels with Future and Micro flat over kit decals.

LaGG-3 in winter colors (Roden 1/72)

Winter LaGG-3 series 35 in 1/72 scale. Original kit by Toko, produced by Roden nowadays. This is an old kit back from the late 90s. The kit quality is far, far from good – it took me two months to get it done. Completely not suitable as [...]

An update to “What do you do the day after you get a tooth pulled?… You build a crazy build!”

Hi Folks; A few weeks back I posted a build that I did in a day. I got a tooth pulled so it was either doing the build or binge watching "Grey's Anatomy" on Netflix. A few days back I found a few Spanish Ejercito del Aire (Air [...]