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Airfix (Esci) 1/48 “Blå Petter”

by Spiros Pendedekas on December 12, 2020 · in Aviation · 54 ≡

Hi everyone! This is my Airfix 1/48 Saab 37 Viggen, carrying the famous "Blå Petter" scheme! The A/C's serial number is 37432, being the 132 production JA 37, delivered to F 16 wing in 1990. This striking scheme was chosen to [...]

1/48 Hispano Ha-1112 Buchon, Ejército del Aire

by Reinhard Spreitzhofer on December 12, 2020 · in Aviation · 9 ≡

Built in 2015. Academy boxing of the Hobbycraft kit, mostly built oob. Replaced the crappy kit canopy with a Hasegawa one, for that some putty and re-scribing was neccessary in the fuselage area behind the canopy. Used a piece of sponge [...]

Su-35S 'Flanker-E'

by Sebastijan Videc on December 12, 2020 · in Aviation · 31 ≡

Su-35S ‘Flanker-E’ is the latest and very likely last version of the formidable Flanker series. It is not to be confused with the Su-35 of the late ’80s, which was the first to be designated Su-35 (aka Su-27M and T-10M). The first [...]

Airfix 1/48 Tiger Moth

by Matt Buxton on December 11, 2020 · in Aviation · 11 ≡

This is my build of the Shuttleworth Tiger Moth from Airfix's 1/48 kit. It's a nice kit and well engineered, there's even an included jig for adapting the tail for the two different versions featured in the kit as one has the anti-spin [...]

1/48 Messerschmitt Bf109F-4 Ejército del Aire

by Reinhard Spreitzhofer on December 11, 2020 · in Aviation · 9 ≡

Built in 2015. Zvezda kit with decals from LF Models, painted with Gunze and Tamiya acrylics, antenna wires with EZ Line. In 1943 the Spanish Airforce received about a dozen F-4s which were stationed partly in France and Spain. Not much [...]

The Empire of Japan Group meets The Movies Group…

by Paul Barber on December 11, 2020 · in Aviation · 30 ≡

'For Those We Love' and 'The Eternal Zero' are two films that broach the difficult subject of Kamikaze. For David Leigh-Smith’s movies group I chose to build various subjects from these films. As I moved to a new house this time last [...]

Forgotten War Group Build – Special Hobby 1/48 Fairey Firefly F.R.1, HMS Triumph, 1950

by Tom Cleaver on December 11, 2020 · in Aviation · 11 ≡

You can see the WIP for this model at the Forgotten War Group Build. History: The Fleet Air Arm was the only carrier air arm to carry on with the development and operation of the two-seat carrier fighter past the early 1930s. Both the [...]

Restoring an old Westland Lysander kit: Matchbox, 1973, 1:72.

by Manuel Magrinho on December 10, 2020 · in Aviation · 29 ≡

THE CHALLENGE Lysander has always been a plane that I really liked, mainly because of the mission mystique associated with the French resistance and in the transport of agents, which it played. When a friend showed me an old Matchbox from [...]

Revell Junkers Ju 88P-1 1/72 Scale

by Jeff Groves on December 10, 2020 · in Aviation · 10 ≡

This is a conversion of Revell of Germany’s excellent Junkers Ju 88C-6 kit into a cannon-armed P-1 version using an Aimes conversion set. This set consist of a vacuformed gondola, resin nose and canopy combing, brass gun barrel, and [...]

First Flight – Empire of Japan

by Steven Brandon on December 10, 2020 · in Aviation · 7 ≡

Here's the last of the four kits I finished this year - Hasegawa's lovely Mitshubishi 12 Shi experimental fighter, a.k.a. the A6M1. The kit allows you to build either of the two prototypes. I built the first and decided to model it as it [...]