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Weather warning: Typhoon over Normandy! Hawker Typhoon Ib, No. 198 Squadron
Hurricane, Tempest, Tornado, Whirlwind, Thunderbolt - and Typhoon: energetic weather phenomena as namesakes are very popular with aircraft manufacturers. Hawker Aircraft in particular seems to have subscribed to these names. Many of these [...]
F-8E Crusader Mig Killer June 21, 1966
This is the Hasegawa 1/48th kit of the F-8E Crusader with decals from the Furball, Mig Masters F-8 Crusaders of the Vietnam War. The model depicts aircraft F-8E 150300 Nickel 104 VF-211 (Fighting Checkmates, call sign Nickel aka The Mig [...]
P-40M and P-40N, Italeri, AMT/Ertl
Greetings, fellow modelers.
I added to my P-40 collection in order to include a Nationalist Chinese P-40N and an Australian P-40M; a salute to America's Pacific and Asian allies. Both planes are identical in the box, despite the different [...]
Eduard 1/48 Focke Wulf 190 A-5
Hello!
Here's my recent project, the nice Eduard's Profipack Fw190 A-5, a very good kit, with no issues at all. Paints from Mr Color range. Weathering trying to replicate operating from dusty Eastern Front airfields.
Hope you [...]
"Know your enemy": Hawker Typhoon T9+GK / 2. Staffel Versuchsverband Ob.d.L
"If you know yourself and your enemy, you need not fear the outcome of 100 battles".
Well, what model building article can you begin, as here, with the quote of an ancient Chinese philosopher? In the case of this Hawker Typhoon [...]
Hasegawa 1/48 Typhoon Mk.IB
No. 198 Squadron was formed at Rochford on 1 June 1917 with Avro 504K biplanes to teach pilots elementary night flying and later a comprehensive night flying course for home defense pilots. It disbanded at Rochford in September 1919, but [...]
Eduard Bf 109E-1, 1/48. 'Emil Over France'
I added Eduard's dual-combo 'Adlerangriff' to the stash at the beginning of last year but put off doing it until a few months ago due to the dreaded mottling, which I hadn't tried. I had a few chip aways at the kit in the past, doing the [...]
Chinese Civil War/Korean War...1/48 Lavochkin La-11 "Fang", Chinese People’s Volunteer Air Force
After the USN Skyraider, this is my dad´s second Korean War build this year.
Hobby Boss kit, painted with a mix of Gunze H307 FS36320 Gray and H334 Barley Gray BS4800. Horizontal antenna wires with EZ Line, vertical one with fishing [...]
1/48 Tarangus Saab JA-37 Viggen
I started this kit in 2016 (and only finished it a week before publishing this article) when I came back to modeling after a 2 year hiatus (due to personal issues.) The kit itself is a short run kit that isn't the easiest to build or [...]
