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Me 209 V1: a dwarf on speed
755.138 kilometres per hour is an impressive speed- and that flight performance with which the Me 209 V1 shown here set a world speed record on 26 April 1939, which was to last until 1969.
At the controls of this fragile and difficult to [...]
Miles Magister M.14A - Special Hobby - 1/48
Miles M.14A Magister I
Turkish Airforce White 6
Kayseri Tayyare Fabrikası 3606
Hava Okulu, 1st Training Batallion, 1st & 2nd Companies
Date of Arrival: 1942
Kit: Special Hobby
Scale: 1/48
Decals: Tigerhead Decals
Paints: Mission [...]
1/48 Special Hobby CAC Boomerang
Finished nice and early today. My Special Hobby RAAF CAC Boomerang. Typical limited run... sanding, filling, sanding, angle grinder, sanding. Probably wont do another Boomerang in this lifetime, ( It wont come back ) but I'm glad I have [...]
Special Hobby 1/48 Finnish Fiat G.50
Following on the really nice G.50 prototype posted by Valter, here's a G.50 build I recently finished. The kit was done mostly OOB with Master gun barrels and aftermarket decals being the only additions. Model represents an aircraft [...]
1/48 Reggiane 2005 "Sagittario"
Flying Machines kit represents an aircraft operating with Squdriglia 362, 22 Gruppo, 42 Stormo, Littoria June 1943.
This is a limited run kit of good quality that has some nice resin parts for the cockpit and wheel wells. Modifications [...]
Kittyhawk Mk.III (Long Fuselage P-40K)
Another review kit that I build for Scale Aviation Modeller International (SAMI), that should appear in one of the upcoming issues of the magazine. In short: great kit with four very interesting decal options, light years away from the [...]
Greek Master – Special Hobby`s 1/32 T-2 Buckeye
The operational story of the Buckeye started in 1959. Since then, and until 2004, this North American Corporation design was the trainer that introduced all the Naval Aviators and Naval Flight Officers. In 1976, The Hellenic Air Force [...]
Vultee V1A American Airlines
This is the 1:72 Special Hobby Vultee V1A. I previously built this as a Spanish Civil War bomber, but wanted to depict it in its civilian guise as well. Other than its SCW stable mate this one was much more difficult to track down.
The [...]
