Douglas C-47 Skytrain (Dakota)
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Douglas Dakota mk. III Airfix 1/72, 334 sqn RNeAF.
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I invite you to watch a short slideshow presenting the model's construction and history of the Douglas Dakota X-18. The Airfix model is excellent and highly recommended. As always, I was inspired to complete this project by a visit [...]
Monogram 1/48 C-47 "That's All Brother"
I was about 13 years old the first time I built this kit. I hung it from my ceiling then, and that's where this one is going. Thanks to it's wingspan it won't fit on any of my shelves. This thing is huge, and I'm not kidding!
I was [...]
C-47A - "That's All Brother" – 1/72 Airfix
I picked up a 1967 boxing of this 1960 Airfix 1/72 C-47 Douglas Dakota kit last month, and decided to make it my first build for 2025. I chose as my subject "That's All Brother", which led the main airborne invasion of [...]
"Canucks Unlimited" Dakota III, 436 Squadron RCAF, India/Burma 1944/45
Built for "100 Years of the Royal Canadian Air Force" group build. Used the Airfix kit with decals from Flight Colours. Tamiya RAF Dark Green, Dark Earth and Medium Sea Grey.
Some notes about 436 Squadron (from Wikiwand): [...]
Juno Dakota: 1/48th Monogram C-47 Skytrain
This old 1/48th Monogram C-47 Skytrain kit was originally released in 1978. The moulds are now in Revell's possession and still available on occasion. By the standards of the day, Monogram's 1/48th C-47 kit was well detailed and included [...]
Back from the forgotten storage box: Monogram 1/48 Douglas C-47A Skytrain
The C-47 is the military development of the Douglas DC-3, the civil airliner that has been called “The Plane That Changed The World.” That is not hyperbole. The DC-3 was unlike any airplane that came before it. It gave airlines [...]
Fifty years of service in the IDF: Monogram 1/48 C-47/DC-3
Three camouflage schemes characterize much of the Dakota (also in Hebrew) appearance in its long service since the War of Independence. The blue and brown scheme was introduced in the mid 50s. It was replaced by the multicolored version by [...]
Santa Fe Airways Sky Chief Acoma
My wife comes from a Santa Fe Railroad family. Many of her family members worked for the railroad or were Harvey Girls in the famous Fred Harvey restaurants that served the lines’ passengers.
One day about a year ago, I saw a decal sheet [...]
1/72 Airfix DC-3
Here’s a DC3 that I built for a guy... she’s has scratch made flaps and decals by Vintage Flyer decals.
Airfix (Italeri) 1/72 C-47 Skytrain Hellenic Air Force
After the end of the war, many C-47s continued to offer their services to the USAF, with their contribution to war operations being enormous, as the typical examples of the aerial resupply of Berlin during the Soviet blockade in 1947 and [...]
