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Born and raised on the Danish island of Bornholm. I'm vintage 1954, I built my first kit at age 10, an Airfix 1/72 FW 190D (you know, those in a plastic bag). The kit was rather crude, the cockpit consisted of a pilot sitting on pins molded inside in the fuselage halves. But I loved it, and I was immediately hooked, and I've been building kits of planes, tanks and ships ever since.
Last of the trilogy of four-engine British bombers from me.
A Lancaster B.II, “Fanny Ferkin II”, JI-F, of 514 Squadron, serial no. DS842, sits quietly in the late-afternoon light before being prepared for another raid.
Intended as an [...]
I'm obviously very interested in the heavy bombers of RAF, amongst several other topics. Ever since I built the massive Airfix kit of the Stirling many years ago, I've been intrigued by the sheer size of this bomber. Not forgetting the [...]
Porsche GmbH had manufactured about 100 chassis for their unsuccessful proposal for the”Tiger” tank, the "Porsche Tiger", in the Nibelungenwerk factory in Sankt Valentin, Austria. Both the successful Henschel proposal and the [...]
A Handley Page Halifax II, MH-Z, serial no. DT580, is being readied for another sortie during the Battle of the Ruhr. Dangers were many; the Ruhr valley was heavily defended, and it was morbidly known as “Happy Valley”.
But enemy [...]
