Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Airfix have recently produced a new tool 1/48 scale Avro Anson
My father, as a staff pilot at No. 24 Bombing, Gunnery and Navigation School based at Moffat in Southern Rhodesia flew Ansons on a daily basis
but sadly only took one [...]
Tamiya 1/72 F4U-1A Chance-Vought Corsair. Piloted by LT(jg) Doris "Chico" Freeman, VF-17 Jolly Rogers. He would claim two victories with VF-17 and an additional seven with VF-84.
Improvements include:
Quinta Studios [...]
About the Supermarine Swift
When the name Supermarine Swift is mentioned, even many a friend of aviation will find it difficult to associate the aircraft with it: unlike the name of the British manufacturer, which still has a good ring to [...]
This is my 404 (Buffalo) Squadron, RCAF, Beaufighter, as it would have appeared on the morning of D-Day.
While Coastal Command would usually have used semi-armor piercing warheads, on this day they had the 60lb warheads for Flak [...]
A few years ago I was at a local club day admiring the work done by my fellow modelers and mooching through the boxes under the tables of models for sale (always the best bit of the day for me) when I came across the Hobbyboss Hellcat, I [...]
Hello friends,
I recently started a new subject, since my dad passed away, I decided to find the old kits that we built when I was a kid, from the end of the 70s to the end of the 80s. It's not an easy task, because there are few left, [...]
live tonight at 1900 GMT/1400 EST: Fezday night live! Finishing the diorama for the Shelby Mustang, and Starting the Diorama for the PRU spitfire crash. with the usual gang, Starr, Sandy, Beth and Squiddy
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In its brief operational role, the small fighter made a lasting impression thanks to its revolutionary design.
Of the four models presented here, one is Tamiya's and the rest are Dragon kits. Both are very good kits. Yet, I had to replace [...]
The Airplane:
Before the war, the Imperial Japanese Navy wasn’t the only one concerned about the provision of air power in an island campaign across the Pacific. The U.S. Navy was also well aware that between the time the troops stormed [...]
Missing for Seven years May 26, 1946
The Messerschmitt Me-109 G-6 J-713 was on March 29, 1944 as an aircraft
of the German Air Force under the master Code RU + OZ Landed in Samedan.
The designation Me 109 G-6 / J Bo Rei was found in the [...]
