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My wife and I enjoyed three delightful weeks in Argentina, December 2023. While in Buenos Aires, I made a point of visiting the Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica, dedicated to the history of the Argentine Air Force aka: Fuerza Aérea [...]
A gem from Kinetic. The kit has good fit of parts and fine details that in turn, invite a delicate weathering practice.
FMA IA.58 Pucará (Special Hobby 1/72)
A-511 Grupo de Ataque 3 - BAM Malvinas, pilot mayor Carlos Tomba. This aircraft was shot down on the 21st may 1982 by Lt Cdr "Sharkey" Ward piloting the Sea Harrier XZ451/006. Mayor Tomba [...]
The full review, as published last week at Modeling Madness, with many many more pix here:
The Airplane:
The FMA IA 58 Pucará - the name is from the Quechua language, meaning “Fortress,” referring to a form of South American stone [...]
Kinetic's best kit yet. Absolutely wonderful. There's a WIP on this in the WIP Group and it's also in the Falkland Islands group. Full review next Thursday March 25 at Modeling Madness.
Buy. In. Confidence.
Finally I found a little time to write part 2 of the article about my 1/48 Pucarà, which was ended just in time for Moson Model Show in April 2017, after 3 years of start and stop.
Here is the link to part one, in case somebody would [...]
In 1988, a team of then Meteor CAE SpA , Ronchi dei Legionari ( GO ) Italy, now part of Finmeccanica Company, travels to Argentina, in the province of Cordoba , to perform the test launches of a Mirach 100/2 remote controlled aerial [...]