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My dad isn´t usually a friend of whiffers and Luft 46 subjects. But the Amusing Hobby kit of the Triebflügel is rather simple, hasn´t many parts, so he decided to give it a try.
Painted it in prototype style, some metal some primer some [...]
Built in 2019.
Hasegawa kit with Rising Decals, Eduard seatbelts, plastic rods and lead wire for the brake lines, legs shortened about 2mm.
This aircraft had additional cowl scoops like a G-2, so took some from the sparesbox.
AK Real Color [...]
Like the recently posted "6o30", also this model was built somewhere between 10 and 15 years ago.
Hobbycraft kit, AFAIR my dad did some minor corrections to the nose or did some rescribing to get a more correct "A", [...]
Built more than 10 years ago. Hobbycraft kit with resin nose from Classic Airframes, decals from Cutting Edge.
Unteroffizier Willhelm Staege, 2.J/88 Legion Condor, Alar d'el Rey August 1937
Built in 2016. Hasegawa kit with EagleCals, Gunze and Tamiya paints, wiring with EZ Line, brake lines with plastic rods and lead wire
Model shows the Regensburg built a/c of Staffelkapitän Hauptmann Karl-Heinz Langer, CO of the [...]
Built in 2017.
From 1960 to 1961 the IIAF got in total 52 Sabres, F-25 and F-30 Blocks fitted with either 6-3 hard wings or F-40 wings. Initially they were in a nmf livery. 1965/66 they were flown to Israel and overhauled by IAI (think of [...]
Built over 6 years ago. Eduard kit oob, except sliding canopy from Tamiya, Gunze and Tamiya paints used, EZ line for antenna wire.
Aircraft was captured by US troops in May 1945 at Pilsen airfield in Czechoslovakia. The little stylized [...]
Built in 2016. Dragon kit with kit decals and additional ones from Revell and Testors, the RLM red was a selfmix.
The model shows an a/c of Erprobungskommando 16 at Bad Zwischenahn in May 1944. This aircraft made the first operational [...]
All good things come in three, so here´s my dad´s third and last 262 for now.
Hobby Boss kit, "712" decals from Kagero book "Messerschmitt Me 262 In Defence of the Third Reich", rest of decals from the sparesbox, [...]
Built over 6 years ago. The "infamous" 1/48 Trumpeter kit..lol
At first my dad wanted to do a RAF North Africa a/c but during the build he decided that it should be a Flying Tiger. Found a nice scheme in Kagero´s P-40 Vol.I, the [...]
