iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

1/48 HobbyBoss Bf109 F-4 /TropHans Joachim Marseille.

1/48 HobbyBoss Bf109 F-4 /Trop Werke Nummer 10137 flown by Hans Joachim Marseille. June 1942. His final score in this airplane would be 101 victories.

1/32 Trumpeter AV-8B II Plus

I finished this one in September of this year and it wasn't without its challenges. Lots of ill-fitting parts and inaccuracies- some that were fixable, some not. I used an Aires cockpit and wheel wells. The cockpit did not fit very well [...]

Chilean Air Force F-16

This is F-16 represents the 2-seater version that was sold to Chile as part of the Peace Puma program. I built it from the Academy F-16I Sufa kit. It's a really nice kit that goes together well and fairly easily. It has some things going [...]

1/32 Tamiya F-16U- United Arab Emirates

I built this a couple of years ago Using a Wolfpack resin conversion kit and Aires engine nozzle. It's been in Fine Scale Modeler and has won a few awards.

1/48 Tamiya P-51B Mustang “Shangri La”

This is recently finished 1/48 P-51B Mustang with the markings of well known Don Gentile s Shangri La from 336th FS 4th FG in March 1944. Cockpit modified by Eduard instrument panel and Ultracast resin seat. Additionally wooden floor made [...]

1/72 Fouga CM-170 Magister

Another old Airfix kit build. The Magister is such a unique bird that I had to build it, but didn't like the NMF or other French livery. Finally ran across the IsraDecal offering of decals for Israeli versions and I was good to go! The [...]

VRC 30 Det 3 Bahrain 2009

Since I have been posting my C-2 build I thought you all might be interested to see some pictures from my deployment to Bahrain. In VRC 30 we deployed in two aircraft Detachments attached to a Carrier Battle Group. We were aboard USS [...]

Gearing up…..

The COD saga moves on. Boba Fett is excited about the new Star Wars movie, but is "standing" firm on his COD build! This installment is landing gear. Kinetics is adequate, but not quite right. You can see from the pictures I [...]

More Battle of Britain Builds

Here are some photos from the first four parts of my series on the Battle of Britain which has been running this year in Model Airplane International. I have now finished all the builds and there is still the December issue of the magazine [...]

Battle of Britain He 111

This is my Revel He 111 in 1:48 which appeared in Model Airplane International recently as part of my Battle of Britain series which has been running this year, the 75th anniversary of the battle.