Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Away from my normal focus on the BoB, I made this 1/48 Roden kit some time back after meeting the son of William Francis Blackadder, who joined the Auxiliary air Force in 1937 and in mid November 1939 flew with 607 (County of Durham) [...]
Bf109 E-3, from 4. /JG 77 (II. Gruppe) September 1940, Fornebu, Norway.
JG 77, nicknamed "Ace of hearts", took part on every German front during the war and also in operation Weserübung, the invasion of Norway.
The kit is [...]
Spitfire Mk. XIVe TZ138. This aircraft built in 1945 at Aldermanston and shipped to Canada in 1945 and was used for cold weather testing with the Winter Experimental Establishment (WEE) Flight in western Canada from early 1946 to July [...]
I made this some years back, having seen some interesting articles about adding realistic detail to the old Airfix moulding of the 109 E. The result's since been sold to someone who made me an offer I couldn't refuse at an Aerojumble a few [...]
Dear Mates,
my random award for June arrived in Salzburg - finally choosed the Airfix Electric Lightning in 1:48 - ever wanted to build one of this beautiful and special aircrafts!
Many thanks to the Imodeler-Team for sending me this great [...]
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Here is another of my recent builds, the old Airfix Westland Whirlwind in 1/72 scale.
This is a "retooling" from the '70's rather than the original kit they produced in the 1960's. Although a simple kit with less than 50 [...]
Made for an old pal, I decided that by July/Aug 1940, the Stukas that remained in service would have looked used and abused. They'd followed the advancing Wehrmacht through N Europe from field to field, then operated intensively over the [...]