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1/72 Special Hobby, Fairey Barracuda Mk. III "ASV Mk.XI Radar"
This is the Special Hobby, Fairey Barracuda Mk. III with ASV Mk.XI radar. The kit includes four different, post WWII sets of markings, including a French Navy variant, painted in overall dark sea blue. I did not like the included [...]
Review: 1/72 Sword Fairey Gannet AEW.3
I like 1960's Fleet Air Arm (FAA) aircraft and inspired by the amazing painting on the box art, I purchased Sword's Fairey Gannet AEW.3, in 1/72 scale. I chose the second set of markings, included in the kit, depicting aircraft XP224 of [...]
Bristol Blenheim Mk.I Airfix 1/72. Malaya 1941.
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Hello. Today's story is about the Bristol Blenheim. It is a very iconic machine from the beginning of the war. Especially in the Mk.I version. This medium bomber built according to the specification 1000/1000/200 (Carry a load of [...]
CMK 1/72 Sukhoi Su-5
This is my first resin kit build that was built a little over 3 years ago. The kit is an old one from the 70's probably one of the early releases from CMK (Czech Master's Kits). It has fine recessed panel lines, decent details in the [...]
1/72 Me-410 Hornisse, Frog F178
One of those planes that looked like a winner and didn’t quite pan out that way, I always considered the Me-410 looked like a mean machine. It did do considerable damage once the Me-210/410 design was finalized, but the history books do [...]
1/72 Fiat CR.42 Falco, VINTAGE Revell H-648
Another inspiration while reading R.S.Tucks biography, 'Fly for your Life', I did not know that the Regia Aeronautica sent aircraft to participate in the Battle of Britain. One learned fact the book does report was that the Fiat C.R.42 [...]
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 [...]
