iModeler Ships

Naval modeling - ships, submarines and boats.

iModeler at the movies, The Spy Who Loved Me, HMS Fearless

Only seen at the tail end of the movie and during the credits, HMS Fearless recovers an escape pod in its well deck which has Bond and a female Soviet agent inside of it. The kit is 1/600 Airfix.

1/350 USS Carl Vinson CVN-70

Here is my project of the USS Carl Vinson. This represents how she was at the start of her maiden deployment on March 1, 1983. This deployment was a World Cruise starting in Norfolk Virginia and ending in San Francisco California. I [...]

1/350 LST-178

1/350 Scale LST (AFV Club) P.E : Infini Model Cargo Truck & M4 sherman : Shabby Iron Models (Coming soon~ from South Korea) Thank you for Sang-Hyun Park

Life-Like 24 Pounder Naval Cannon 1:24

Before you read any further, I have to admit that this tale of woe really has very little to do with the Life-Like Naval Cannon. It has more to do with proverbs like: "Measure twice, cut once.", "Look before you [...]

Halfway there, and living on a prayer. Building update on Trumpeters 1/350 “USS TEXAS”

It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve put the first dab of glue on this kit, and it was shortly after that but I knew this was not going to be easy. This is by far the most complicated model I’ve put together. But I believe That [...]

IModeler at the Movies – “Das Boot”.

This is the 1/72 Revell German Type VIIc kit finished as U-96, the inspiration for the movie. I built it pretty much out of the box with the exception of the swordfish decal which came from a German producer named Peddinghaus. They offer [...]

1/700 USS Baltimore CA-68

Trumpeter 1/700 USS Baltimore (1944) This is the first ship model I've attempted in some time using all the details (photo-etch, rigging, sea base, etc.). Pretty satisfied with the results but definitely room for improvement. USS Baltimore [...]

USS Texas

I am pretty new heater, and decided this would be a great place to upload my progress of my trumpeter USS Texas model. I’ve been working on it for about 3 1/2 weeks. And I’m a little under half way done.

K.u.K Torpedoboot SMS Elster – 1/350 WMM

My favourite model ship – SMS Elster, shown as on ca. 1901 – a small torpedo boat made using Schichau design for Austro-Hungarian Navy. It was my first full-resin multimedia kit built some time ago. I have updated it with some [...]

Torpedoboot V105 – 1/400 Mirage Hobby

This is my first "proper" build nearly 10 years ago after longer break from modelling. I chose 1/400 scale V106 torpedo boat kit from the Polish Mirage Hobby range. In addition I used dedicated Mirage PE set 008-40028 plus some [...]