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President Eisenhower’s “Columbine III” Heller 1/72 Super Connie

by Tom Cleaver on December 22, 2012 · in Aviation · 13 ≡

I personally don't think there was a more beautiful airliner ever made than the Constellation, and I like the Super Constellation with its long lean look to be the best of the bunch. Doing it in simple natural metal, as President [...]

1/72 LVG C.V

by John Healy on December 22, 2012 · in Aviation · 4 ≡

This is a Sierra Scale vacuform kit from around 1988. These were outstandingly crisp vac kits that were the only game in town for many WW1 types years ago. Sierra Scale kits build superbly. I painted it with Humbrol enamels and used [...]

1/72 SSW D.III

by John Healy on December 22, 2012 · in Aviation · 2 ≡

This is a Pegasus limited run kit from the late '80s. It's still one of my favorite models. I scratchbuilt my first cockpit using the Windsock Datafile as a reference on this one I used kit markings, Superscale lozenge, brass wire [...]

1/72 Pfalz D.IIIa

by John Healy on December 22, 2012 · in Aviation

This is the Meikraft kit that appeared around 1989. I eagerly awaited this one to be released! It is a first generation limited run injection molded kit that still holds up well in my opinion. I used modified Berthold markings from a [...]

Scrach Antonov An-2 Egg-Plane

by Korolev Vlad on December 22, 2012 · in Aviation · 6 ≡

Wanted to make a biplane in Soviet painting, serial and bright. The choice is clear, that is the famous "Kukuruznik" An-2. All the more so with the same, only in green color DOSAAF, I had the good fortune to make some jumps. I [...]

Airfix Sea Vixen in 1/48 scale.

by Tony Prince on December 21, 2012 · in Aviation · 5 ≡

Having cut my plactic modelling teeth on Airfix, I am delighted to see them coming back strongly with a whole range of superb models. As something different from a diet of F-15s, 16s, 18s, F-4s, Mustangs & Messerschmitts (which I love [...]

Hasegawa 1/48th P-40E in ‘Sand & Spinach’ scheme

by Erik Wade Whipple on December 21, 2012 · in Aviation · 4 ≡

I built this P-40E to serve as a general specimen to represent how so many of them began their service life, regardless of which allied nation might receive them. I've always found the P-40E in the color photograph (above) published in [...]

Heinkel He-51W , Special Hobby 1/48th

by Ricardo Dacoba on December 21, 2012 · in Aviation · 8 ≡

Hi, This is my Heinkel He51W, very hard to assemble kit. No major changes, is practically fact box. Hope you like it.

ANTK Tupolev 1/72 ANT-25

by Korolev Vlad on December 21, 2012 · in Aviation · 5 ≡

Legendary ANT-25 Tupolev, Sukhoi. Transpolar flight June 18-20, 1937. The plane, operated V.I. Chkalov, G.F. Baidukov and A.V. Belyakov, starting in Moscow for the first time in aviation history flew over the North Pole and landed in [...]

1/32 Hasegawa/Alley Cat Ki.100-1b

by Tom Cleaver on December 21, 2012 · in Aviation · 3 ≡

In March 1945, B-29 crews began reporting the appearance of a previously-unknown type of Japanese Army fighter appearing in squadron strength at altitude over Japan. The new radial-engined fighter had superb maneuverability and high [...]