iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

MiG-21MF 'Fishbed-J'

I don’t do a lot of commission builds so this is more of an exception. A flight-simming friend did me a lot of favors in the last few months for which I am very grateful. And he’s a big MiG-21 fan so one thing led to another and I [...]

Snipe; Wingnut Wings; Sopwith Snipe

Hi all, this is my first post but not my first model! I typically build Australian Flying Corps subjects and so the Snipe was a long awaited addition to my collection. I always like a challenge at the Snipe really asked the question,'Why [...]

Review: Hobby Boss 1/48 F-111D/E Aardvark Review (Re uplaoded Video)

Review: Hobby Boss 1/48 F-111D/E Review

1/48 Hasegawa F/A-18C VFA-151 Vigilantes

This is my latest build, 1/48 Hasegawa Legacy Hornet. For this project I used Eduard PE for the cockpit, twobobs decal, MAW resin for the exhaust, Gunze acrylics paint and Alclad for the exhaust. It was an enjoyable build all throughout.

MiG-15 UTI, Iraq Air Force / HobbyBoss 1:72 /

MiG-15 is a very popular plane, so common for Warsaw Pact countries. Almost 18,000 were produced, but mostly MiG-15 is associating with overall silver look. I decided to break that and choose some unusual paint scheme for my model. Decals [...]

Glamorous Glennis in 1/72

Finally finished this one - the old Tamiya kit - and it was a pleasure to build. Fit was generally very good and the cockpit and landing gear really looked the part. I added some Brengun photo etch, some miscellaneous brass pitot booms [...]

Review: Academy 1/48 F-4J Phantom II review

1/48 Late Mk I Hurricane Airfix

After buying a reference book about the Hurricane that had artwork for this a/c I had to try to build it. After a lot of research I found the book artwork to be very inaccurate! I finally located two grainy photos of the a/c online. With [...]

Video: SB2C-5 HELLDIVER by SPECIAL HOBBY (video preview)

1/72 Special Hobby SB2C-5 Helldiver “The Final Version”. The final production version of the famous Helldiver dive bomber was the SB2C-5 which was able to carry much more fuel, featured a paddle-bladed propeller without a spinner, [...]