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Airfix Fokker F27-500 Laser Airborne Depth Sounder (LADS) Flight, Royal Australian Navy
This is the Airfix F-27 kit, the 'updated' kit which was converted to a -500 using the Hamilton Hobbies LADS conversion set. Decals are from Southern Sky Models.
The aircraft was operated on behalf of the Royal Australian Navy's [...]
Revell 1/72 He-177A-5
The origins of the idiosyncratic He-177 “Greif” can be traced in the mid 1930s, where Generalleutnant Walther Wever, a longtime advocate of strategic bombing, pressed the Luftwaffe to develop a dedicated long-range bomber for the role [...]
Anigrand XP-67 Moonbat
In 1940, the U.S. Army Air Corps issued Request for Proposal R-40C for a new interceptor with long range, high speed, and high altitude. It encouraged bold proposals with new ideas and technologies to upset the status quo. Two dozen [...]
Stablemates, F-4J 1/72 VF-103, VF-11
Way back when there was more variety of aircraft in a Carrier Air Wing, i.e. two F-4, two A-7 one A-6, one E-2 one S-3 and an SH-3 or H-3 squadron. When I was in VF-31 we had with us VF-103 later in VF-74 there was VF-11. both of which I [...]
Airfix 1/72 Spitfire Mk1
“A walk down Memory Lane…”
There was a time when kids used to go out and play in the neighborhood (after having finished their homework, of course), coming back home by sunset, having beforehand meticulously cleaned all their small [...]
F-80 Shooting Star Airfix 1/72
Hi all,
after long time i finally managed to finish one model (somehow getting older i have less and less time for this hobby, spending more time on the work 🙁 .
Airfix F-80 Shooting Star, model i first built some 40+ year ago. Now [...]
Tamiya 1/72 DeHavilland Mosquito Mk.XX, Guy Gibson / Jim Warwick, AZ-E KB267
After my completion of the Dam Buster Lancaster with the aircraft codes of Commanding Officer Guy Gibson, I read that after his Dam Buster adventure he flew the De Havilland Mosquito in which he unfortunately crashed near Steenbergen, the [...]
PBM-5A Mariner in Royal Nedherlands Navy Forces, East New Guinea.
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I have recently become interested in flying boats. After the great success of the PBY-5A flying boat project, I decided to build a PBM-5A. Initially, I wanted to find a model in the PBM5 version, but the Minicraft model on eBay was [...]
Dragon 1/72 P-38M Night Lightning
A very nice kit by Dragon.
World's Greatest Air Race: Clear Prop's 1/72 DH. Comet
A Bit O’ History:
Built and designed by the De Havilland Aircraft Co, the DH.88 Comet was specifically constructed to participate in the October, 1934 MacRobertson Air Race (aka: “World’s Greatest Air Race”) from RAF Mildenhall, [...]
