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Banzai!..1/48 Kawasaki Ki-45 Kai Koh Toryu "Nick", Imperial Japanese Army

Built by my dad in 2012, Hasegawa dual combo kit with Isuzu fuel truck. Painted with Gunze and Tamiya IJA paints, elastic thread for the antenna wire, Wako fabric seatbelts. 5th Flight Regiment, 1st Company, Timor Island October 1943.

Alpine Schmitt...1/48 Messerschmitt Bf109G-6 Swiss Airforce

Also built in 2018. After a German Bf110G nightfighter crashlanded in Switzerland, Germany delivered 12 Bf109G-6 to Switzerland so that the 110 would be destroyed in exchange and the technology kept secret. Switzerland used these G-6 only [...]

Alpine Schmitt...1/48 Messerschmitt Bf109E-3 Swiss Airforce

Built in 2018. Switzerland purchased 80 E-3 in 1939 and built 8 further aircraft as a licence version which were delivered in 1944. The aircrafts stayed in service until December 1949. Tamiya kit, crosses and stripes painted (Montex masks [...]

Six-Day-War...1/48 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17F, United Arab Republic Airforce

Built over 5 years ago. Hobby Boss kit, decals came from an old Hobbycraft MiG-17 kit. Some unintended scratches in the nose areaand the outer wing edges. Short before completion the model had a "maiden flight" from the table [...]

Six-Day-War...1/48 Fouga CM.170 Magister Israeli Airforce

Built in 2015. Kinetic kit mostly oob, nose guns and rocket pods were donoured by the AMK kit. Seatbelts were made of masking tape. The camo was done with Tamiya XF-52 Flat Earth and a mix of XF-17 Sea Blue with XF-18 Medium Blue. For the [...]

End of War...1/48 Messerschmitt Bf109K-4, III./JG52

Newest model by my dad. Hasegawa kit, decals from the kit, Kagero and AML, EZ Line for the antenna wire, shortened the too long legs some mm to receive a more realistic look,, plastic rods and lead wire for the brake lines, Eduard [...]

Arab-Israeli War...1/48 Avia S-199 Israeli Airforce

This is one of my dad´s oldest still existing models, built 10-15 years ago. The old Hobbycraft/Academy kit, pimped with some Hasegawa parts and PE seatbelts. Should Eduard really release their announced S-199, most probably gonna build a [...]

Banzai!...1/48 Nakajima Ki-84-I Hayate "Frank", Imperial Japanese Army

Also built in 2015. Hasegawa kit (9364), added brake lines, aerials and landing gear indicators, painted with Gunze and Tamiya acrylics, Tamiya Aluminium for nmf. The model shows the a/c of Corporal Noboru Naito, 520th Temporary [...]

1/48 Hispano Ha-1112 Buchon, Ejército del Aire

Built in 2015. Academy boxing of the Hobbycraft kit, mostly built oob. Replaced the crappy kit canopy with a Hasegawa one, for that some putty and re-scribing was neccessary in the fuselage area behind the canopy. Used a piece of sponge [...]

1/48 Messerschmitt Bf109F-4 Ejército del Aire

Built in 2015. Zvezda kit with decals from LF Models, painted with Gunze and Tamiya acrylics, antenna wires with EZ Line. In 1943 the Spanish Airforce received about a dozen F-4s which were stationed partly in France and Spain. Not much [...]