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Scourge of the Atlantic.

by Paul van Acker on June 7, 2024 · in Aviation · 4 ≡

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

by Graham GREEN on June 7, 2024 · in Uncategorized · 6 ≡

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

by Brian Powell on June 6, 2024 · in Aviation · 6 ≡

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!

by Roland Sachsenhofer on June 6, 2024 · in Aviation · 9 ≡

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.

by Mike Maynard on June 6, 2024 · in Aviation · 14 ≡

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'

by Paul Barber on June 6, 2024 · in Aviation · 18 ≡

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 [...]

Invasion Stripes: Airspeed AS.51 Horsa, Bronco Models 1/35 – 'Churchill's Reply', Operation Mallard, Normandy 1944.

by Paul Barber on June 6, 2024 · in Diorama · 14 ≡

Historically Hengist and Horsa were Germanic brothers said to have led the Angles, Saxons and Jutes in their supposed invasion of Britain in the 5th century. In 1944 the ‘first boots on the ground’ on D-Day at 00:11 were carried by [...]

Invasion Stripes: Williams Villian, Mustang P-51D 352nd Fighter Group, Tamiya 1/48

by Paul Barber on June 6, 2024 · in Aviation · 16 ≡

It is always fairly difficult to find operations and tasking for individual aircraft. It is fair to say that The Blue Nosed ‘Basterds’ of Bodney were huge players over Normandy in 1944 and then beyond. June 1st to 5th The 352nd Fighter [...]

Invasion Stripes / Flight 19 P-51B Mustang Viscous Virgie, The Flying Scott

by Louis Gardner on June 6, 2024 · in Aviation · 10 ≡

This is the old 1/48 scale Tamiya P-51B Mustang... or is it ? It also happens to the the VERY FIRST razorback Mustang I have built in about 20 years. With those being the Accurate Miniatures kits which were pretty nice. Say it isn't [...]

Invasion Stripes / Flight 19, 1/48 Tamiya Republic P-47D-28RA Thunderbolt "Eileen"

by Louis Gardner on June 6, 2024 · in Aviation · 6 ≡

Building this model was a first for me. Believe it or not, this is my VERY first Tamiya P-47. EVER ! I know, sad but very true. I know, I need to get seated at the bench more often... but life has a bad habit of interfering with the [...]