iModeler Aviation
Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
1/48 Hobby Craft P-26 Peashooter
Work in progress: The Faberge´ "Easter Egg" of Fighter Planes...a gift for my wife. Hobby Craft kit, Yellow Wings decals, Starfighter and Eduard rigging and PE. Paint by Vallejo Air. Kit build and painting went nicely. Decals [...]
1/48 Canadian CF-5D – an old school kitbash
Here's an oldie from over 20 years ago. It's a 1/48 Testors F-5A wings and fuselage, a Monogram cockpit section (heavily modified) and canopy, with the nose and tip tanks vacuformed over balsa wood masters. Everything was rescribed, and [...]
My 2017 in Review
I managed to finish 14 models for the year. Some were a concerted effort to reduce the number on the shelf of doom. The majority are 1/72 except for the Mirage (1/48) and USS Excelsior (1/1000).
The C-17 came very close, but I got [...]
Pilatus PC 21, 1/32 Scale Scratch Build, Part 5
Here we go again, did some major work the last few days, as well as spend time with my Family, which was great, so its off to the DRC tomorrow with a stop over in Johannesburg, then an early departure to Lubumbashi on a Embraer EC 135 [...]
Welsh Models 1/72 Boeing 737-7DT (BBJ) – 34SQN, RAAF
Welsh Models are known for the vacform/resin kits. This kit was a challenge in some areas, in particular getting a solid join between the vacform fuselage and resin wing roots. The other issue I had was the amount of nose weight required [...]
Hasegawa 1/48 “Year of the Cat” F6F-5 Hellcat, the first U.S. Navy Blue Angels plane
Tonight's presentation is hot of the work bench. It is the second completed build for this year, (but most of the work was done last year...).
I have been building a set of four Hasegawa F6F Hellcats as part of our current "Year of [...]
F-16C Block 52+ – REVELL 1/72
The F-16C Block 52 + was built by me in 2009, from a very good Revell set. My task was to add some small elements that are characteristic of the Polish version. The model is in painting and marking from the 31st Tactical Air Base based in [...]
Tamiya 1/48th N. American F-51D Mustang Korean War 1950
It's mid July 1950, it has been about a month since the war started when the N. Koreans crossed the 38th parallel invading S. Korea. Cpt James Kerley stands next to his F-51 ready to fly his first mission. One of 145 Mustangs rushed to [...]
