iModeler Aviation

Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.

Hasegawa 1/72 Mdd F-18C “Hornet” VFA-81,Desert storm 91.

Hornet is back ! After two decades of home back home in showcase. Yeah so long graced showcase a local store which is now closed. Build in 1992 with minimal adjustments :airwawes echet parts,Verlinden ejetion seat MB Mk.10,& Superscale [...]

1/72 Italeri B 26 K Counter Invader.

Finally got this one finished. It's fitted out with some Hasegawa gun pods, otherwise it's OOB. Some fit problems with this build, mostly with the clear parts. The model is lightly weathered.

Republic Thunderbolt Razorback

I have been behind in my postings. Hopefully I can catch up and post more about my builds. I have been doing more Armor than planes these days. Here is a P-47 Thunderbolt. Tamiya 1/48 kit. As always painted by hand with Model Master [...]

1/48 Tarpon (Revell Avenger)

I said I would next built an American plane in British markings, here it is, a Tarpon, from the ancient 1/48 scale Revell TBF Avenger kit. This kit is sooo old...it has a 1958 copyright mark, that,s even older than my copyright mark, but [...]

Mitsubishi A6M2b (Model 21) – 1:72

Mitsubishi A6M2b (Model 21) - Akagi Carrier, Lead ship of Carrier Div. 1, flown by Lt. Saburo Shindo, Air Superiority Force, 2nd Strike Unit - Dec, 1941. The kit: Tamiya 1:72 I think Zeke needs no presentation, but let me drop a few [...]

1/72 Airfix + 3D Kits Spitfire MKII LR

Just finished my Airfix 1/72 Spitfire MK II LR. Used the new tool Airfix kit with the 3D Kits conversion kit which provides the extra wing mounted fuel tank and markings for Spitfire P8448 "Counterattack" of 152 Squadron. Added [...]

August 15, 1945

Today is the70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War the most destructive event in human history. It was hard-fought to the last minute. HMS Indefatigable joined the American Third Fleet in Japanese waters after August 10, 1945, [...]

Video: Airfix 1/144 Handley Page H.P. 42 "Heracles" Part 2

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Revell 1/32 Hawker car door Typhoon

an oldie but goodie from 1972...sanded out the lines and did a half fast re scribe...Techmod decals...this plane was meant to be a fighter but the engine leaked so much oil and exhaust pilots had to muzzle up and go on oxygen as soon as [...]

Monogram 1/48 Dassault Mirage 2000

The model is the Monogram 1/48 Mirage 2000, the instructions are dated 1986. I built the kit somewhere between '93 and '95. It had never been photographed at all until last Tuesday. When it was built way back then, I had very little [...]