iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

1/32 Hasegawa Spitfire Mk.Va “Douglas Bader”

This is 1/32 Hasegawa Spitfire Mk.Va with the markings of Douglas Bader’s W3185 flown by him in August 1941 in Tangmere. I have used Hasegawa’s Mk.II No.41 kit. This is re-tooled Hasegawa Mk.V with new wings parts, years ago. So it s [...]

Review: Eduard 1/32 P-40N Warhawk review

Iljushin Il-76TD „Candid“Trumpeter 1/144

I saw many nice built Candids und Midas on this site, so I would also like to show my version. It´s a cargoairline from Azerbaijan names Silkway Airline. Decals are from TwoSixDecals and correctionset for engines and tailcone from [...]

1/48 Tamiya AD-3 Skyraider

Shelf of doom # 3 complete . 1/48 Tamiya AD-3 Bu.No. 122743 air VMW -121 based at K-3 ( Pohang ) Korea 1951. Started on this almost two years ago. Finally she is completed . Painted with Mr. Paints and Tamiya paints [...]

1:16 Sopwith Camel F.1 – Fuselage

Arguably the most difficult and complex part of the build to date, the fuselage is now complete, with the exception of the cockpit coaming, which is added at a later stage. As with the wings, the structure was built up directly over the [...]

Desert Duo, 1/72nd Sepecat Jaguars GR.1,RAF Operation Granby 1991

These desert cats were built over 15 years ago. An inspiration for the "Year of the Cat GB". The first Jag is the Hasegawa kit #E23, this one is the oldest of the pair, being built around 1996 or so. The 2nd one is the Italeri [...]

FIAT G.91 R1 ESCI 1/48

Just getting to posting a weekend build. The first time I saw a picture of a Gina (young enough to be pre-internet, but still old enough to know what "license built" meant), I thought it was a license built Sabre. Now that I have [...]

Zvezda Boeing 737-800

Though not contributed for quite a while have been modelling away. Just finished Zvezda's Boeing 737-800 which went together very well. Straightforward build and very impressed by how good Zvezda's kits are moulded and packaged. Decided [...]

Su-34 Fullback

Hi again folks, just finished building Mr Putin's flying tank! This is the fairly new Hobbyboss 1/48 scale kit of the strike flanker and the first ever Su-34 in this scale. I waited ages for its release and eventually bought it back in [...]

Scratch build 1/72 Gulfstream G650 ER

...So I've always wanted to build models from scratch because I knew there where some aircraft that just weren't available from manufacturers. Recently I made the decision to give it a go. Part of why I build airplanes models is because [...]