iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

1/48 Monogram TBD-1 Devastator

First, this is not a Midway Group build model. It is however one of the first Navy kits I wanted to build back in 2010 when I re-started my interest in this hobby. Build mostly straight out of the box, but did add some PE belts, some [...]

1/48 Hasegawa F4U-4 Corsair, NAS Miami

It's been a while since I have posted an article with a completed build here on Imodeler. I have been very busy lately, with the Midway group build, and some projects going on out in the work shop. The other day my wife and I were in [...]

Monogram McDonnell-Douglas F-15C Eagle

This is another older build, circa early-mid 1990s. It had never had a photograph made until the late February session with my Me-262 at the Cameron airport. It's painted with Humbrol and Model Master enamels and built basically out of [...]

Review: Aviattic 1/32nd Balilla review

SNJ, T-6, Harvard, an old friend.

My association with this type began when as a kid when I lived close to Flushing airport in Queens N.Y. A small private airport at that time[ 1960's and '70's] the skytyping team, flying SNJ-2's operated out of there. They were painted [...]

1/48 ESCI AB-205 SAR

Video: 1/72 ACADEMY F-15E (New Tool 2017) video preview

A short video preview: Brand new F-15E by Academy in 72nd scale. 12550 USAF F-15E “333rd Fighter Squadron” box. Overall this is a great model, well detailed, crisp surface details and comes with beautiful markings. Music copyright ® [...]

Bell AH 1W Super Cobra, 162532, USMC.

1/72 Italeri, almost OOB, I replaced the three barrels of the gun with thin piano wire, finished in MM enamels with Future and MM FS30000 acrylic over kit decals, built previous to 2004, all my US service helicopters posted now until I [...]

Hobby Boss 1/48th F-14A Tomcat

Having been brought up on a healthy diet of “Top Gun” and “The Final Countdown”, the F-14 Tomcat to me is the icon of modern military aircraft. And some time ago I decided to finally start on the Hobby Boss’ rendition of this [...]

Frank Luke's SPAD XIII

In 1910, Armand Deperdussin founded the Societe Provisoire des Aeroplanes Deperdussin (SPAD). The company built racing airplanes designed by Deperdussin; a monoplane designed by Chief Designer Louis Bechereau in 1913 set a world air speed [...]