The Siskin Database at iModeler

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Vintage models

Here are some of my vintage models. They're all Matchbox. Firstly, there is the Armstrong Whitworth Siskin IIIA which is J8652 P from B Flight No. 41 Squadron at Northolt in 1929. Then there's a Handley Page Heyford Mk. 1 of K3498 Q of A [...]

AW Siskin Mk.III 1/72 (Matchbox)

Hello again, I would like to present a few pics of one of my older models – a Siskin from Matchbox. A few details were scratchbuilt and the rigging was made from a black stockings (nylon thread). Kit was painted using GunzeSangyo Super [...]

Armstrong Whitworth Siskin MK IIIA 1:72

Hi folks! This is the old Matchbox Siskin with some minor modifications. The kit itself is quite good, as the biplane Matchboxes in general and simplicistic in some area (as Matchboxes in general 🙂 ), namely the interior and the small [...]

Camouflage & MarkingsArmstrong Whitworth Siskin

The first prototype of the Siskin flew in May 1919. Unfortunately its Dragonfly engine, of which much was expected, proved to be lacking in power and was unreliable. Hence, after some long time, the aircraft was redesigned with a metal [...]