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Coastal Command Crusader: 1/48th Tamiya Beaufighter

by Fly Past Rush on July 6, 2024 · in Aviation · 7 ≡

Tamiya released their 1/48th scale Beaufighter duo starting in 1997 with the Mk.VI and added the TF.X later. This offering was pretty much The go-to kit in 1/48th scale, for a couple of decades, until Revell's release in 2018 offered a [...]

Canadian Snowbird: 1/48th Hobbycraft CT-114 Tutor

by Fly Past Rush on July 1, 2024 · in Aviation · 14 ≡

Canada Day Special: This is my Hobbycraft CT-114 (CL-41) Tutor, an aircraft familiar to many Canadians. If you have been to an airshow in Canada, chances are you have seen this 9-plane aerobatic team. Most model makers never thought we'd [...]

A giant spreads its wings: B-24 GR.Mk.VI, 10th Squadron RCAF

by Roland Sachsenhofer on March 12, 2024 · in Aviation · 42 ≡

A quote from Paul Kennedy's book "Engineers of Victory" should open this article: "Closing the air gap did not happen because some great person decreed it. There was a group of chiefly Canadian air engineers who in early [...]

Mustang I, 1/72 Italeri, RCAF 414 Squadron, F/O Hollis Hills

by Aldo Missio on November 21, 2023 · in Aviation · 14 ≡

Hollis Hills was an American flying with the Royal Canadian Air Force, and this aircraft, with Hollis at the stick, was the first Mustang to score a victory, over an FW-190, above the beaches of the disastrous Dieppe raid, a dark day for [...]

1/72 Canso A.

by John Healy on November 17, 2023 · in Aviation · 40 ≡

This is the Academy PBY-5A finished as a RCAF Canso A. The Canso was a license built Catalina manufactured by Boeing Canada and Canadian Vickers. The one I chose to model was a Canadian Vickers built machine from the last production [...]

RCAF CF-188B Hornet in 1/48

by Justin Bronk on August 13, 2023 · in Aviation · 20 ≡

A build of Kinetic's 1/48 scale F-18A/B kit as aircraft '934' of the Royal Canadian Air Force, based at Bagotville, Quebec. This was a special build project for me as I was lucky enough to fly in 934 with 425 Squadron in May 2023 while [...]

Grumman Goose (JRF) Mk III, No.13 Operational Training Squadron, RCAF base, Sea Island, B.C.

by Colin Latta on April 11, 2023 · in Aviation · 26 ≡

This is Czech Models 1/48 limited edition Grumman Goose JRF kit finished as an RCAF Goose Mk III. Grumman Goose 941 was flown by No. 13 Operational Training Squadron based at RCAF Station Sea Island, British Columbia. Prior to military [...]

404 Squadron Beaufighter, June 6, 1944.

by Colin Latta on December 3, 2022 · in Aviation · 20 ≡

This is my 404 (Buffalo) Squadron, RCAF, Beaufighter, as it would have appeared on the morning of D-Day. While Coastal Command would usually have used semi-armor piercing warheads, on this day they had the 60lb warheads for Flak [...]

CC-130J Canadian Super Hercules RCAF Built from Scratch

by Aaron Bouma on January 14, 2022 · in Aviation · 4 ≡

This is the CC-130J Super Hercules, most modern variant of the Legacy Hercules Transport Aircraft, built and designed by Lockheed Martin. I built this one from pine, engraved with a wood burner. Flaps are down, at takeoff position, wheels [...]