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1/48 ClearProp F-86A

by Steven Corvi on September 22, 2024 · in Aviation · 10 ≡

This is my PREVIEW of the IPMS USA review of the ClearProp F-86A. A decent kit with some 'Caveats' but it is nice to see the early version kit in 1/48 ...and soon in 1/72! Bravo CleaProp. Here is the link to my more Extensive IPMS USA [...]

Review: Clear Prop 1/48 North American F-86A-5 Sabre

by Tom Cleaver on August 30, 2024 · in Reviews · 21 ≡

The F-86 Sabre almost didn't happen. Had the Air Force not been willing to delay the F-86 program for a year while North American undertook to study the swept wing research done by Messerschmitt during World War II, the F-86 would have [...]

Polikarpov I-16

by Chas Bunch on August 24, 2024 · in Aviation · 15 ≡

I just read Tom Cleaver's post of his build of this fine kit and was inspired to post mine after I decided not to bother. I usually shoot a few photos of a new build indoors to check for flaws, omissions, mistakes, etc. Before I could [...]

Review: Clear Prop 1/48 Polikarpov I-16 Type 5

by Tom Cleaver on August 24, 2024 · in Reviews · 19 ≡

Nikolai Polikarpov was perhaps the leading Russian aircraft designer in the early days of the Soviet aircraft industry. In 1918, he was put in charge of preparing manufacture of the DH-4 at the GAZ-1 facility where at least 63 were [...]

Bright red, nimble, good-looking -and doomed to a violent end: Culver PQ-14 target drone

by Roland Sachsenhofer on August 15, 2024 · in Aviation · 13 ≡

Who would have expected to be able to put a target drone of the US armed forces from the 1940s on the workbench as the subject of a brand-new and really first-class kit in the popular 1:48 scale? Well, certainly not me! This can also be [...]

Oh Happy, Happy, Happy Day! A 1/48 F-86A!!!

by Tom Cleaver on April 15, 2024 · in News · 17 ≡

Clear Prop will officially announce the release of a 1/48 F-86A at the Moson Model Show this coming weekend. From design information made public,the kit will ultimately be released in multiple versions. OH HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY DAY! Clear Prop [...]

Early Rat...1/48 Polikarpov I-16 Type 5, Soviet Airforce

by Reinhard Spreitzhofer on March 14, 2024 · in Aviation · 8 ≡

My dad and I are a bit late to the 2024 party because the fotoroom was out of order for some time. But now let´s get finally started, a bunch of already finished models to come. The new I-16 Type 5 kit by Ukrainian company Clear Prop. The [...]

MiG-23MLA 'Flogger-G' (Clearprop 1:72)

by Sebastijan Videc on December 3, 2023 · in Aviation · 26 ≡

MiG-23 is a Soviet third generation jet fighter. It was one of the first Soviet fighters equipped with ‘beyond visual range’ missiles (R-23 and R-24) and its RP-23 radar was capable of ‘look down-shoot down’ mode. Production [...]

1/72 Clear Prop A5M2B Claude

by Steven Corvi on August 18, 2023 · in Aviation · 7 ≡

I wanted the enclosed canopy A5M so It was nice to see the new tooled Clear Prop kit . A very nice build. I also have the Wingsy 1/48 Version and it is really identical but larger in scale...Same tooling & nice detail. This build [...]

iModeler Review: Clear Prop 1/48 Polikarpov I-16 Type 5

by Editor on July 6, 2023 · in Reviews · 12 ≡

Polikarpov I-16 was the world's first low-wing cantilever monoplane fighter with retractable landing gear to attain operational status and as such, introduced a new vogue in fighter design. This fact alone makes the type to an obvious [...]