Hasegawa 1/48 A6M5 Type 52 Zero (Captured)
My entry in the The Empire of Japan 1919-1946 GB. Build seen here...(link)
Many thanks to Louis Gardner for the invite
Heavy equipment operator in a gold mine. Strictly 1/48 aircraft with a penchant for oddball schemes
Trumpeter 1:48 MiG-3 Late Version
This is said to be the aircraft of Capt. A.V. Schopov, of 6 IAP, 6 IAK (Fighter Air Corps), IA-PVO (Moscow Air Defence), winter 1941/42. There is no photo of the aircraft. The box top shows gun pods under the wings but none are in the kit [...]
Tamiya 1:48 F2A-2/Model 339D Buffalo
F2A - Dutch East Indies Model 339D captured by the Japanese in March '42 and tested at the Tachikawa Army Air Force base in Japan. Another in my growing fleet of "Captured"/Odd ball schemes. Did this back in my brush painting [...]
Eduard 1:48 Bf- 109G-6
This is the aircraft as flown by Rudolf Bozik (10.7. 1920-27. 6. 2000) during Sept. 1944. These are the Slovak Combined Squadron. This is from the Bunny Fighter Club Dual Combo, two kits in one box + a spiffy T-shirt. When you are a BFC [...]
Hasegawa 1:48 CF-104D
CF-104D, Lockheed model 583-04-15, Lockheed construction number 583A-5303, RCAF serial number 12633, Mk.1 (Dual Training Aircraft), built by Lockheed. Taken on service March 23, 1962; it served the 448 Test Squadron "Central [...]
Revell 1:48 F-104G (CF-104) 417Sq. Cold Lake, Alberta
A nice kit with a few issues. The instructions want you to join the forward fuselage halves together first, then join the rear halves together and then put the two together as one. Do this and you'll have a whacking great seam to deal [...]
Revell 1:48 F-104G
This is an RCAF 441 Sqn CF-104. This aircraft wore this scheme for the 30th anniversary of CFB Baden Soellingen, Germany. I built it using the Revell boxing of the "Tiger Meet" and this came with god awful yellow sprues. I'm [...]
Hasegawa 1:48 P-51D
This aircraft depicts that of Capt Ted Lines, 335th FS/4th FG.8th AF.. Capt. Lines is officially credited with ten victories, however, examination of combat reports indicates that he actually destroyed 14. These victories included four in [...]
Airfix 1:48 Spitfire Mk.Vb
This aircraft was flown by Pilot Officer Robert W. "Buck" McNair D.S.O., D.F.C (2 Bars)(RCAF). No. 249 (Gold Coast) Sqn. at Ta' Qali, Malta, Mar. 1942. (link)
This is the newest Airfix boxing with all the issues that everyone [...]
Hasegawa 1:48 Nakajima Ki-44-II Ko (Shoki – Demon)
This aircraft is from the Akeno Training Flight Division, Akeno Airfield, 1944. A very nice kit with no vices. When I started collecting info on this kit I noticed almost every build mentioned an over-lap of the of the wings near the wing [...]
