44 articles · 6.3K karma · 29 friends · active 5 days, 8 hours ago
avid modeller with around 30 years of modelling experience.
I run VVS Modelling weblog and Facebook page and Soviet / Russian Scale Modelling Facebook group.
I mostly build in 1:72 and 1:144.
Main interests are post war soviet/russian aviation, naval aviation, IRIAF, weird looking aircraft, modern naval forces...
Other hobbies include photography, traveling, mountain biking, music journalism (rockline.si) and a bunch of other stuff
While not as famous as Spitfire, Hurricane formed the backbone of Royal Air Force early in the war and was used throughout the conflict in all major theatres in various roles. It was designed in 1930s by Hawker and made its maiden flight [...]
While not as famous as Spitfire, Hurricane formed the backbone of Royal Air Force early in the war and was used throughout the conflict in all major theatres in various roles. It was designed in 1930s by Hawker and made its maiden flight [...]
P-47 was an American fighter produced by the republic from 1941 until 1945. Equipped with 8 0.50cal machine guns and several weapons pylons it could weigh up to 8 tons, making it one of the heaviest WW2 fighters. Designed around an [...]
Mirage 2000 is a French, 4th generation light fighter developed in late 1970s as a replacement for Mirage III. It later evolved into modernised fighter variant 5F, trainer B, as well as strike D and nuclear strike N. Over 600 were built [...]
Conceived as a day fighter with first flight happening in 1946, F-84’s early career was plagued with a bunch of problems typical of early jets like underpowered engines and construction problems. Only the definitive F-84G version solved [...]
Those of you, that are following my work probably know, that F-14 is one of my favourite aircraft. Getting my hands on the GWH’s new kit a few years ago, I just had to build it, though my followers on Facebook and Instagram poll chose [...]
MiG-23 is a Soviet third generation jet fighter. It was one of the first Soviet fighters equipped with ‘beyond visual range’ missiles (R-23 and R-24) and its RP-23 radar was capable of ‘look down-shoot down’ mode. Production [...]
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched to Earth’s elliptical low orbit by Soviet Union on 4 October 1957. This significant event marks the beginning of the space race between Soviet Union and USA, which [...]
BMPT or Tank Support Fighting Vehicle is a type of heavily armored tracked vehicle intended to support tanks and other armor vehicles in either urban or mountainous terrain. Due to the limitations in barrel travel of main battle tanks, [...]
