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Hello, I am a former police officer from the Czech Republic. After 31 years I returned to building aircraft from the great war. My lifelong interest is history and WW1 pilots. I build 1:48 and occasionally 1:32 models. It's a big inspiration for me when I literally see works of art from other colleagues here.
Finally, after almost two months of hiatus, I finally got around to finishing a long-standing model. A relatively more demanding build, mainly due to the more complex coloring that Halberstadts are known for. The propeller is made of wood [...]
The kits from this company are not the easiest to build, but with a little patience and your own modifications, you can still build a decent-looking model of this aircraft. I have roughly described the main problems during construction in [...]
So I found a little more time to finish this kit before the end of the year, which was sitting unfinished in the closet for a long time due to very bad, unusable decals. I ended up using HGW decals and my home made. Completely redesigned [...]
This kit was one of the worst I have ever built. Very bad pressings with thick burrs, so that sometimes it was not possible to tell where the burr ends and where the part begins. I had to confront the large parts with the drawing to get [...]
This is my first resin build in this scale. The kit is very finely and detailed, a joy to build. Only the installation of the upper wing was somewhat more demanding. You also had to adjust the length of the hull struts. Painted by Revell, [...]
The Royal Aircraft Factory SE5a is a British World War I biplane fighter aircraft. It was developed at the Royal Aircraft Factory by a team consisting of Henry Folland, John Kenworthy and Major Frank Goodden. It was one of the fastest [...]
The SPAD S.VII was the first successful design of a series of biplane fighters produced by the Société Pour L'Aviation et ses Dérivés (SPAD) during the First World War. Like its successors, the S.VII was renowned as a sturdy and robust [...]
I saw two nicely built Roden D.III Albatross here recently and I liked them so much I thought I'd build one too. I chose the less presented coloring of the ace Emil Schäfer.
I modified a nice looking engine with pipes, cables, spark plugs [...]
Conversion from the Eduard SSW D.III kit. Made completely new wings, rudder and struts by casting from resin and sanding adjusted to the desired shape. I shortened the height rudder according to the drawing and modified it by grinding. [...]
A very nicely made model with lots of small details and a realistic surface. However, this is a more demanding construction, due to the fact that all parts (even the small ones) are attached to the frame at four and six points. Removing [...]
