iModeler Ships

Naval modeling - ships, submarines and boats.

1/700 IJN Akagi, Battle of Midway

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1/700 IJN Momi

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Revell of Germany 1/144 Landing Ship Medium

Last year and a half I devoted it to 1/144 scale, this is the last model of that effort, I improved many details with plastic sheets, strips and rods, copper wire, brass rod and tubes, piano wire, thin aluminum paper and replaced the [...]

Build thread for Border Models Type Vll U Boat

So, first build of the this year and first after retirement from working at a great company for 27 years! Now I have the time and the kits! No figures, and not using the conning tower interior cause the hatches are closed. Stay tuned for [...]

1/350 Revell-Germany U-Boot type VII U-81,1941

Hi folks, an easy and reasonably accurate kit,with a different camo: (link)U-81(1941) Hope you like,and thanks for visiting! Marcus

18TH Century Long Boat

Happy 2023 All, I've been itching to do another wood boat kit but I did not want to get into a long term project so I went with this Model Shipway's 18th Century Long Boat. This was a nice change of pace and fun to build and I'm pleased [...]

Revell 1/50th Viking Longship

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2022 Build Review: When Double Builds Go Bad

2021 was such a good year. I finished 13 models – eight 1/72 aircraft, a 1/72 88mm gun, and four 1/700 Essex-class carriers, one a major kitbash. 2022, by comparison saw no models finished. Not one. Instead I started on one 1/700 [...]

First to fight. Duel on Dec 7 1941

6:40 AM, December 7, 1941. "Captain, come on the bridge!". Lieutenant William W. Outerbridge had been summoned to the bridge of the U.S.S. Ward, straight out of bed and wrapped in a Kimono. He had taken command, his first, of the [...]

Scharnhorst, 1943, Part 2 Dragon Smart Kit,

Dragon's 1943 1/350 KMS Scharnhorst continues to be a real pleasure to work on. I am well into the build now and things are beginning to come together. this submission features a mid build photo shoot so the painting is rough in places [...]