iModeler Reviews

Reviews of scale model kits, products and publications.

iModeler Review: Trumpeter 1/35 Tiger I late w/Zimmerit (09540) – Part 2

Building the kit is very straight forward – after all, the Tiger is more or less a box with some doodads attached to it. I followed the first steps of the instructions and attached the swing arms and the final drive plates. These plates [...]

Review: AMK 1/48 Kfir C2/C7 review

Review: New Eduard 1/48 Fw-190s

The Fw-190A series was so right in design that - once the problem of providing adequate cooling for the BMW 801 radial engine was solved - the airframe went through little modification other than minor airframe changes associated with [...]

Review: 1/48 Bf 109G-6 Eduard, Tamiya, Zvezda Scale Model Aircraft Step-by-step Build Comparison

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Review: Eduard 1/48 Finnish Bf-109G-6 “racer”

By late 1942, the Finnish Air Force’s motley collection of Brewster B-239s, Fiat G.50s, Hawker Hurricanes and Curtiss Hawk 75As were no longer able to maintain air superiority over the Northern Front as the Red Air Force replaced their [...]

Kit Review: 1/48 Tamiya 61117, Messerschmitt Bf-106 G6, Part 2 of 2

Here it is, hot on the heels of Part 1. This article has a special meaning for me, since it will be my 100th article posted here on iModeler. Many thanks go out to Martin and his extraordinary team. The first article dealt mainly with [...]

Kit review: 1/48 Tamiya Messerschmitt Bf-109 G6, Part 1 of 2

Once I saw that Tamiya was going to be releasing a new 1/48 scale kit of the Bf-109, I knew that when it arrived at the nearest Hobby Store I had to purchase it. This is a kit that I have been waiting for a while now. After opening the [...]