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RIP Valery Grygorenko
Brett Green reports:
I am greatly saddened to report that prominent Ukrainian artist Valery Grygorenko was killed in a Russian attack near Kyiv yesterday. Even if you don't recognise the name you will almost certainly know his work, in [...]
Ukraine and the plastic modeling community
The following companies are all in Kyiv:
My friend Eugen Evtushenko at Dora Wings has let me know everyone he knows in the scale modeling community are sheltering.
Armory Models Group
Big Planes Kits
A&A Models
Dora Wings
ICM [...]
1/48 Condor Legion He-51B – Imperial German Air Service/Luftwaffe Group Build.
This is the fairly recent Roden kit. All in all, not a bad kit. It’s engineered very nicely and has good cockpit detailing. It’s best feature is that the landing gear struts are molded to the fuselage halves. This guarantees [...]
Pan Am Boeing 307 Stratoliner Clipper
The first pressurized commercial aircraft, 1940.
Roden 1/72 AN-12 BK-PPS
The An-12 Soviet military transport aircraft (or 'Cub' according to NATO classification) was produced at the end of the1950s under the guidance of O.K. Antonov. From the very beginning of its long service the intended principal mission of [...]
Roden 1/144 Boeing 720B Pan American
This is the first time I have assembled a Roden kit.
The box art is attractive, but the kit itself has a nice atmosphere when completed.
The accuracy of the parts was good and they took shape quickly.
However, because the surface of the [...]
Roden 1/48 OV-1A Mohawk
Hi everyone!
This is my Roden 1/48 OV-1A Mohawk, finished as the "Phantom Hawks” 60-3736 JOV-1A, flown by Capt. Mike Langer, as it stood in Vietnam in December 1964.
The Grumman OV-1 Mohawk is an armed military observation and [...]
Roden 1/48 BE-2
Hello all. Just completed. 1/48 Roden Royal Aircraft Factory RAF BE-2 completed. No. 12 Squadron Western Front, France March 1916. My first of several Rodens in the stash. A fun easy build, I'm looking forward to doing another one soon. I [...]
Albatros D.III OAW, Jasta 50, 1917
Roden 1/32 + WNW decals + Gaspatch.
I didn't find pictures of the wings and I didn't know the exact colour of ribs.
I chose pink, but blue could be equally valid.
Rigging not yet finished.
