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Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
FOCKE-WULF FW 190 F-8 1/48 – 1./SG 5, "Black 10"
Detachment Kuhlmey's (Schlachtgeschwader 1./SG 5) "Black 10" In Immola Finland during summer 1944. Pilot was Feldwebel Hartmut Gettwart.
If you have some interest about the history of detachment Kuhlmey, please see more: [...]
Two Dragon 1/48 Messerschmitt 262b-1a
Red 10 and 6 were captured by the Allied and photographed while evaluated before being scrapped. Some data suggest that Red 6 had RLM 75 painted on upper wing surfaces instead of the RLM 82 presented here.
Dragon's kit is a challenge to [...]
1/48 Tamiya P-38J (Robin Old's Scat II)
The P-38 Lightning was originally planned to be a high altitude twin engined bomber interceptor. It was designed by Clarence Kelly Johnson's team with its now famous and unique twin boom configuration around the turbo-supercharged engines [...]
PBY-4 Conversion
I have a couple of PBY-5As in 1:48 and some years ago I came across an old Monogram PBY-5. I got the Belcher Bits #BB06 PBY-2,-3,-4 conversion kit and settled on a yellow wing PBY-4. The conversion set includes a new tail and rudder, [...]
Hasegawa SR-71 Egg Plane
This next build is another commission for a returning client. The kit is the Hasegawa SR-71 Egg Plane. Hasegawa has a large series of these egg planes. They feature an egg-shaped distorted interpretation of a real world aircraft. They are [...]
Airfix 1:48 Scale, Curtiss P-40B, "Tomahawk" in RAF Service.
Airfix's newer releases the past few years, of which this is one of, have really upped their game. In the past, some of their kits left a LOT to be desired, being little more than toys.
This P-40 kit is really nice and it's the second of [...]
Mikro-Mir DeHavilland Venom FB4
De Havilland proposed a development of the Vampire for the high altitude fighter-bomber role in 1948, using a thinner wing and a more powerful engine. With the4 company identification of DH 112, further development to fulfill Air Ministry [...]
Spitfire in IDF Service
It is well-known that President Truman recognized the Jewish state within hours of its creation on May 14, 1948. He did that over the objection of the State Department, which may or may not have been asked, since that institution was [...]
