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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 [...]

AMX - T Ghibli

by FRANCO GRESPAN on December 8, 2020 · in Aviation · 9 ≡

Ghibli is the "nickname" attributed in the nineties to the AMX (aeronautical nomenclature A-11B), a single-engine attack and reconnaissance aircraft, also available in the advanced training two-seat version (AMX-T), the result of [...]

1/32 Hasegawa –Montex Focke Wulf Fw 190Aa3 TuAF

by Tolga ULGUR on December 8, 2020 · in Aviation · 20 ≡

This is 1/32 Hasegawa –Montex Fw 190Aa3 with the markings of TuAF. Fw 190Aa3 was the export version of Fw 190 A3 and have not wing root guns. Turkey was received 72 Fw 190Aa3 and the first flight was made on July 1943. They remained in [...]

Chuck Yeager died today

by Tom Cleaver on December 8, 2020 · in News · 19 ≡

Just saw the news that Chuck Yeager died today at age 97. Given how deep he was in Alzheimers over the past several years, my personal take is it was a release. He was my childhood hero, and then the first movie job I had (junior assistant [...]

SBD-3 Dauntless – Hasegawa 1/48

by Christopher Berg-Jones on December 7, 2020 · in Aviation · 3 ≡

Hello everyone, this is another of my old builds, completed sometime around 2007. I wanted to show the plane in the dive-bombing position, so I cut off the dive brakes and drilled out all the holes with a pin-vise. I also cut off the [...]

F4U-4 Corsair – Hasegawa 1/48

by Christopher Berg-Jones on December 7, 2020 · in Aviation · 5 ≡

Hello! This is a kit I finished around 2006. I remember I used a Verlinden resin and photo-etch detail set for the first time to show one wing folded and the inside of the gun bay on the other wing. I remember doing a lot of cutting and [...]