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Anigrand Bell XHSL-1

To satisfy a US Navy requirement for an anti-submarine warfare helicopter, Bell’s Model 61 first flew in March 1953. It was a tandem rotor design, and the first helicopter specifically designed for this role. The name XHSL indicated the [...]

1/72 Anigrand HL-10 Lifting Body

A lifting body is a craft whose body, rather than its wings, generates lift. NASA and the US Air Force researched lifting bodies in the 1960s and 1970s as potential spacecraft designs that could glide to a landing after leaving orbit. A [...]

Cold War what ifHughes XF-11

The XF-11 was a long range reconnaissance aircraft designed by Howard Hughes and built by the Hughes Aircraft Company. Power was supplied by a pair of Pratt and Whitney 4360 radial engines. Although orders were received for 100 aircraft [...]

Pan Am Martin M-130 China Clipper Anigrand 1/72

1/72 Anigrand A2D SkyShark

The A2D Sky Shark was originally designed to be a turboprop powered contra rotating propeller equipped reply to the short range and low thrust of early jets based on a requirement for an attack plane able to fly off escort carriers. [...]

Myasishchev M-50 Bounder, Anigrand 1/144

The Myasishchev M-50 Bounder was a Sovjet bomber prototype in the late 50ies, see (link) for more details. The M-50 was Anigrand's second resin kit, released in 2007. Casting quality is fine but adding filler, sanding, filler, sanding, … [...]

Yakovlev Yak-28-64, Anigrand 1/144

The Yakovlev Yak-28-64 is a truely exotic airplane. Designed in competition with the Sukhoi Su-15 Flagon, the protoype was difficult to fly and the project soon ended with only one plane ever flown. Few pictures can be found in the [...]

Sukhoi Su-15 Flagon, Anigrand 1/144

Anigrands Sukhoi Su-15 Flagon in 1/144 is a bonus kit in one of their earliest offerings, the M-50 Bounder. The Flagon is another cold-war fighter aircraft which is ignored by the mainstream model kit manufacturers. I finished the Su-15 [...]

Ilyushin Il-28 Beagle, Anigrand 1/144

Another short-run resin kit from Anigrand is the Ilyushin Il-28 Beagle, a bonus item in their offering of the Ekranoplan Bartini-Beriev VVA-14M1P in 1/144. This kit was ‚allmost done’ for several years and finally finished only few [...]

Lavochkin La-250 Anakonda, Anigrand 1/144

The Lavochkin La-250 Anakonda is one of three bonus kits in Anigrand‘s offering of the M-50 Bounder in 1/144, a short-run resin kit from Hongkong. This is an older project that I completed allmost 10 years ago. In fact, it was the first [...]