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Hawker Sea Fury FB 11, WH 589, 115, 724 Sqn RAN, HMAS Albatross, Nowra NSW, 1962.
1/72 Special Hobby, I started working on this in 2007, off and on till finishing in early 2021.
This was one of two display aircraft, The other being WH 588, 114.
I modified a few things along the way, brass wire and tube for the prop', [...]
Video: Nürnberg 2023 – and unreleased NEW KITS!
Spielwarenmesse 2023 - Nürnberg
...just a a fraction of nice stands @ Spielwarenmesse 2023
Many new and unreleased scale kits from:
Tamiya Scale/RC kits
Revell scale kits
Italeri scale kits
Scale75 figures
AK interactive
Art Scale - [...]
La Poste - Part 2
History
After the successful pioneering of the African routes Latécoère turned their attention to South America and postal services there. However, changed priorities meant that the Latécoère decided to focus more on aircraft [...]
Vultee Vengeance 1, A27-48, 23 Sqn RAAF, Nadzab 1944.
1/72 Special Hobby, started early 2020, finished early 2022.
Special Hobby 1/72 Harvard MkIIA
A reboxing of the Academy plastic with some lovely resin bits and transparencies from Special Hobby and surgical instructions to covert the Texan to the Harvard.
No real issues with the fit, my only complaint would be that the masking set [...]
Grunau Baby Glider, 1/48 Special Hobby
Another gift for my dad... harking back to his gliding days in South Australia in the 1950's. He declared this his favourite aeroplane ever, and he even managed to get his "Silver C" in this aircraft: 5 hours aloft. This was back [...]
1/32 Special Hobby Hawker Tempest Mk.II
This is 1/32 Special Hobby Hawker Tempest Mk.II with the markings of EG-X /PR733 flown by R.E.Mooney Co of No 16 Sqn RAF in Fassberg West Germany.
This Tempest built OOB except for CMK seat and Eduard instrument panel.
Paints are Gunze [...]
Special Hobby 1/48 Piper L-4 "Grasshopper"
The Airplane:
In 1929 engineer Clarence Gilbert Taylor created a light tourism plane which was economical to operate. The first flight of the prototype took place in September 1930 and the aircraft was baptized “Taylor E2 [...]
Marchetti 88 (SIAI SF260M+ diorama)
The SIAI Marchetti SF260M+ is an italian trainer and light ground attack monoplane designed around 1964. I represented my own version from the belgian Red Devils Aerobatic Display Team that in 2019 celebrated the 50th anniversary (not 88!) [...]
