1/48 HKM B-17G Flying Fortress “Queenie”
This is 1/48 HKM’s B-17G-15 (42-31353) LG-Q named “Queenie” from 91st BG, 322nd BS in Bassingbourn –England April 1944.
I have used Eduard instrument panel and seat belts in the cockpit.
I shortened the length of the landing legs [...]
Invasion stripes: Clostermann's Spitfire
When Hasegawa's 1/48th scale Spitfire Mk. IXc appeared, it was a big disappointment due to the short fuselage that seemed to doom the kit. Yet overall, the kit had a finely engraved panel lines and was easy to build.
Hasegawa's flaw was [...]
Flt 19 Invasion Stripes GB-Hawker Tempest Mk.V Series 2,Eduard's 1/48th
As the Allies continue their push into retaking Europe pushing the Axis back to the German border. No.80 Squadron, transitioned to the new Hawker Tempest Mk.V's and until the end of September were tasked on anti V1 duty while maintaining [...]
Scourge of the Atlantic.
Trumpeter 1/48 Focke Wulf Fw200C-4 Condor of 8/KG40 Atlantic anti shipping duties equipped with FuG 200 Hoentwiel radar. I always said I'd need a bigger house before building this old kit. Luckily, I have the bigger house now.
I'd not want [...]
Scratchbuilt 1/8th scale Spyder/Exercising Sulky
Here is a 1/8th scale “Exercising Cart", or, you can use its popular name that it goes by today, a ’Spider’, for very obvious reasons.
The full sized vehicle was owned by Mrs Val Perkins, from a small town called Coonewarre, [...]
The Toss Up: First Soviet Jets, MiG-9 and Yak-15
On April 24, 1946, both the MiG-9 and Yak-15 were ready to become the USSR's first jet aircraft. The MiG-9 flew first, allegedly on account of a lucky coin toss.
Both jets made use of salvaged German engines; while the MiG-9 was a new [...]
Travelling globally at Mach 3.5: the future looked so limitless! Boeing 7207, America's Supersonic Transport of the 70s!
Europe's Concorde, the Soviet Union's Tupolev Tu-144 - and the USA's Boeing 2707: this is what the world of supersonic passenger aviation would have looked like from the 1970s onwards according to US plans. It was obvious that the American [...]
Air Station Barbers Point and it's "HERCULES," the C-130J.
The US Coast Guard acquired it's first C-130 in 1959 and still maintains a fleet of 28 aircraft today. These multi engine aircraft are flown out of Clearwater Florida, Kodiak Alaska and Barber's Point Hawaii, utilized as long range patrol [...]
Invasion Stripes: Commemorating D-Day with 'Flight 19'
With the 80th Anniversary of the Normandy landings and the campaign that followed upon us, a small group of iModelers who now stay in regular contact outside of the site set up a group build to depict ‘Invasion Stripes’. This pays [...]
