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Innovative, superior, ahead of its time- and rejected: the Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne
The original: Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne
Some aircraft are astonishing - and the AH-56 Cheyenne undoubtedly belongs to this category. The appearance of this aircraft is astonishing, the flight performance amazes and the short but intense [...]
Horizon Models 1/72 Mercury-Redstone
“I’m a hell of a lot cooler than you guys. Why don’t you fix your little problem and light this candle?”
So remarked Alan Shepard, first American in space, as he sat inside his tiny Mercury capsule on May 5th, 1961, atop a Redstone [...]
Video: The new Revell F-15E Strike Eagle 1/72 scale (Video preview)
New Tool, REVELL McDonnell F-15E Strike Eagle No. 03841 scale 1/72
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SMER (Heller) 1/72 Hurricane Mk IIc
This kit sat in my bagged kits box and every time I picked it up I thought to myself that I must build it. Well I did. The kit is the Heller Hurricane issued by SMER and includes a small photo-etch (PE) fret. Every time I tried to use [...]
JARARACA - BRAZILIAN ARMY PROTOTYPE 4X4 VEHICLE (3D SCALE MODELS – 1/72 SCALE)
HISTORY
The idea of producing a 4x4 light armored vehicle for the Brazilian Army is not new, it dates back to the early 70's, when the first idea appeared in the Regional Motomechanization Park of the 2nd Military Region of São Paulo – [...]
1/72 A-6 Intruder – Frog kit F272
When I started this Frog Yellow Series F272 kit, it must have been back in the mid ‘80s and this Frog/Hasegawa mold may have been the only A-6 Intruder tooling in 1/72 at that time. Cockpit….what cockpit? There isn’t even a [...]
Hasegawa Spitfire Mk.I, 1/72 scale
The Hasegawa Spitfire built mostly out of the box, including the kit decals. This is the first kit I used Humbrol enamels and was impressed with how well the paint airbrushed. The kit was waiting in the stash for many years to be built - [...]
One more moldy oldy, Hasegawa C-2 1/72 F-4E Phantom
I used Hasegawa's C-2 kit, of which the molds go back to the 1972 release JS-080 kit, It's still in their catalog, they have updated it somewhat by adding the leading edge slats. The decals are equally ancient being remnants from [...]
A true king of the skies! Beechcraft 200 King Air in the service of the Royal Air Force
Do you know this too? Almost all of my kits tend to have a long to very long stay in the various stacks and storerooms of my model building sanctuary before they actually make it to the workbench.
Not so with this Beechcraft 200 King Air [...]
