iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

Wildcat revisited... Tamiya 1/48

This would be one of my earliest Tamiya kits; built, I think, around 1995. I recently read a magazine article by a fellow modeller about his problems with using the right colour for the topsides & the more I looked at mine , the more [...]

Kamov Ka 50 "Hokum", 018, test aircraft Tashkent 1991.

1/72 Italeri, I modified the rotor head, replacing some parts to separate the two rotors, finished in MM enamels with I think Tamiya X22 and MM 30000 over kit decals.

Tamiya 1/48 Avro Lancaster PB150 of 625 Sqn RAF 1945

Some pics of my Tamiya 1/48 Lanc tastefully shot against the lurid backdrop of our back-bedroom! - Sorry about that but the finished model is so large it had to go somewhere uncluttered and it was still raining outside. I scratch-built the [...]

Wasn't going to post it, but.....

This is the Gavia 1/48 Westland Lysander. I hated it. Nothing fitted well, the wings to canopy fit was very hard and decals unusable. I used spares. Even photographing it was a nightmare. A random gust of wind blew it over. I lost a [...]

Revell 1/32 Ju-88 A-1, Norway, 1940

The airframe depicted has been raised from a lake in Jonsvatnet, Norway in 2004 where it sank through the ice in 1940. Even though it was a relatively new airframe built in 1940, it already had a new wing and had been recoded on the [...]

Tamiya 1/32 F-4C Phantom USAF early scheme. Vietnam 1965

This is my Tamiya Phantom in the early USAF gull gray & white colour scheme used until around 1966 when the SEA camo scheme came into use. I loved building this kit even though it was a few years ago now. Cockpit is Black Box and there [...]

Monogram D-335A4 Pfeil Luft'46

Another What-If? - Luftwaffe1946: After much drawn out fighting, the Germans finally capitulate. Leaving behind items such as this D0-335 much abused & repaired Arrow. Replaced wing & lower fin in case you hadn't noticed! Have fun [...]

Hasegawa 1/48 Kyushu J7W1 Shinden (Greased Lightning?)

Another silly take on what could have happened... This was an experiment in flaking paint as well as another captured trials aircraft. Cheers!

Hasegawa 1/72 RF-29G (for Germany!) - What If?

Just some fun stuff with Hasegawa's old X-29 kit. No one can say this is the wrong colour eh? 'Ave a larf why don't you...? Cheers guys!

Tamiya 1/32 F-14A Tomcat of VF-84 after Gulf War (1), 1991

A small number of pics of my Tamiya 1/32 F-14 Tomcat which I still believe to one of the best looking of all the Grumman 'Cats! Please forgive the bombs but they were in the box - & I like bombs... Rather heavy weathering on top but [...]