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Frog Buccaneer

Hi All! The Blackburn Buccaneer was designed to a Royal Navy specification for an all-weather strike aircraft. First fitted with Rolls-Royce Gyron Junior engines, the Buccaneer was soon found to be underpowered. Refitted with Rolls-Royce [...]

Frog Hunter FGA.10

Hi All! The Hawker Hunter has been well represented in 1/72nd scale, from Frog's F.1 from 1955 to Revell's F.6 from 2008. This posting is about Frog's FGA.9 from 1974. The kit is a product of its time, with a sparse cockpit, no wheel [...]

Frog (Ark Models) 1/72 Martin 167 Maryland

This is the old Frog kit (F241), first released In 1973. The model I built was boxed by Ark Models. I actually started this near the end of 2023 but stopped when I was working on other builds at the time. After my recent Matchbox B-17 [...]

Bristol-138A

Bristol-138A 1/72 Огонек / FROG

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 [...]

DH.60G Gipsy Moth "Jason"

DH.60G Gipsy Moth "Jason" 1/72 South Front / FROG

Fokker F.VIIb/3m Southern Cross

Fokker F.VIIb/3m Southern Cross 1/72 ZVEZDA/FROG

Detailing Special Hobby Fairey Barracuda 1/48 kit

Special Hobby's Barracuda is an injection short run kit that is a challenge to build. The kit attracted my attention following a complete scratch-built wing fold done on Frog's 1/72 kit. The unique wing fold mechanism adds a lot of [...]

An Inauspicious InauguralFrog’s Typhoon IB (kit 231)

I built this kit many years ago when I resumed building after my growing hiatus. It is the Frog kit number 231. While I have not measured the length and wingspan for accuracy the overall shape seems good. The spinner seems a little bulbous [...]

Higher and higher

Interwar aviation wasn't just biplanes and silver wings. A lot of valuable research took place under the guise of competition. Aviation was new; it was a prestige activity and the boost to national morale and pride of an aviation success [...]