iModeler Photo Collections

New and historic photograph collections

National Military Museum visit at Soesterberg, Netherlands

On December 9th I payed a visit to the National Military Museum at Soesterberg in the Netherlands, this museum is located on the former airbase which was founded in 1913, due to money cuts the airfield was closed in 2008. Besides being [...]

Spitfire LF Mk IXc MJ755 Walkaround

MJ755 was built at the Castle Bromwich factory and first delivered to 43 Squadron RAF in August 1944, which was operating over Southern France. In 1947 it was transferred to the Royal Hellenic Air Force, as part of a batch of 120 [...]

National Museum of WW II Aviation

Visiting my son at Fort Carson for a few days and got a chance to visit the WW II aviation museum. What a great museum. Saw the ongoing restorations as well. If you're ever in Colorado Springs, make sure to check it out. Photos from the [...]

Operation Eagle Claw

Operation Eagle Claw was the code name given for the Iranian hostage rescue attempt. It is more commonly known as Desert One where the mission came apart in explosive and deadly fashion while costing the lives of eight American [...]

Piper Aircraft Museum

Hi All. Finally made a trip to Lock-Haven, Pennsylvania to visit the Piper Aircraft museum and I'd like to share some pics. The museum is located at the old Piper facilities where the aircraft were manufactured from 1930's - 1980's. If [...]

56th Fighter group I wanted wings Button Nose D-22

Looking to build and paint a model as historical correct to a date in time as possible I am new here and this will be my first model I have made in maybe 20 years The subject of my model is 56th FG P47 Thunderbolt D-22 LM*A bar July [...]

MSC ( MODELLISTI STATICI CANAVESANI)MODEL SHOW 2023

Today 7 may 2023 in Courgne' ( Torino Italy)The MSC Model SHOW Took place,a modeling competition exhibition,here are a few photos of the aircraft categories on the tables of the exhibition. I Hope you like them.

A Quick One: Pima Air & Space Museum Walkaround

All I can say is “wow”! What a superb air museum this place has evolved into. I’d venture to say this is the best collection west of the US Air Force Museum at Wright Patterson in Dayton, Ohio. Not surprisingly there are many [...]

Oldies but Goodies

Here are some of my builds from 2013-15 era before we left Louisiana and moved to Minnesota. Sadly none of these build made it on the trek North and were either sold or given away. The kits pictured are as I recall: 1/350 Hobbyboss USS [...]

Vintage Kits

Hello to everyone This is my first post. Reading all the posts on Vintage kits, I decided to look through my stash of unbuilt kits to see what I might have. I found quite a few and included a couple of photos of a few of them. The include [...]