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Fairchild C 119 flyng boxcar.
AERONAUTICA MILITARE ITALIANA
November 1961 kindu ( Congo) UN mission.Italeri Kit 1/72 scale,plus Tauro model decals.
Aluminium color obtained with a 33% blend matt aluminium + chrome silver + glossy [...]
Having had this kit for awhile now, I originally wanted to do some sort of Flight of the Phoenix build, ala Jimmy Stewart, but he flew or crashed a C-82. It worked out well that the kit decals were of the Korean war. i was apprehensive [...]
Was up at the LHS this afternoon reading "airplane porn mags" and found out that last year the second-oldest C-119 "flying boxcar" was up for sale as aluminum scrap, when the AF Museum discovered it was the [...]
I just finished this one in time for our club's contest April 18th. Built out of box except for flight crew, and some stretched sprue for the whip arial on the nose and some cabling on the illuminator. All decals were from the spares box [...]
On the night of 8 May 1970 Capt. Alan Milacek's AC 119K Stinger is patrolling over a remote corner of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Far below a convoy of North Vietnamese trucks are slowly moving down a valley hugging the Laotion border on their [...]