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Vlad from Russia.
My interests are aviation, especially WWI.
Nieuport pilot 22th corps detachment AG Mikhailova, summer 1918.
At the time of construction of the model was the information that the aircraft is painted with aluminum paint. But now it turned out that he was a natural linen color.
Choosing a prototype for modeling and stopped at one of the best fighters of the First World-Fokker D.VII. With the choice of the pilot did not doubt for a long time, it is Ernst Udet, and of all his sevens spectacularly just looked red [...]
Wanted to make a biplane in Soviet painting, serial and bright. The choice is clear, that is the famous "Kukuruznik" An-2. All the more so with the same, only in green color DOSAAF, I had the good fortune to make some jumps.
I [...]
Legendary ANT-25 Tupolev, Sukhoi.
Transpolar flight June 18-20, 1937.
The plane, operated V.I. Chkalov, G.F. Baidukov and A.V. Belyakov, starting in Moscow for the first time in aviation history flew over the North Pole and landed in [...]
The fuselage is made from real egg. The other details: plastic, wire, clay.
The basic modifications affected the cabin. It was also the location of fixed horizontal stabilizer. Color options of Roden was not I, too hackneyed, so that's found a striped version.
My debut on the resource.
A simple model with a few modifications.
