iModeler Aviation
Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
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 [...]
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 [...]
North American B 25J Mitchell, A47-26, 2 Sqn 79 Wing RAAF Hughes NT 1944.
1/72 Italeri, I thinned the cockpit armor plates, drilled the landing light lenses, corrected the nose gear door position and added some antennae wires, finished in MM enamels with Tamiya X22 + X21 over Aussie decals, built previous to [...]
1/48 Macchi MC. 205 Veltro
This is the Hasegawa kit from the mid 1990s. They did both the 202 and the 205 back in '94-'95. I built the 202 straight away, and this one ripened in the stash for 22 years. I built it pretty much from the box with the exception of an [...]
Roden 1/32 SPAD VII C.1
René Fonck, leading French ace of World War I with 75 victories, said that the introduction of the SPAD VII fighter "...completely changed the face of aerial warfare".
The SPAD S.VII C.1 was the first of a series of single-seat [...]
