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RS Models - Aero C4 & C-104

RS Models - Aero C4 & C-104

Zvezda MiG-29SMT

Zvezda MiG-29SMT

Wheeler's Warhawk

Having already provided themodeller with a new tooled kit of anearly P-40 in 1/72 a few years back, Airfix have put their research data to good use and released the same version but in the larger 1/48 format.

kami - commando c-46ecm jasdf 

the origins of what was to become thec-46 lie in a curtiss-wright privateventure identified as the cw-20 designed in 1937, the brainchild of chief designer george a. page jr.

The Condor Legion's Messerschmitt 109s

Using extracts from his latest AIRfile book, Neil Robinson looks at the colour schemes and markings applied to Messerschmitt Bf 109s used by the Condor Legion in the Spanish Civil War.

Walk Around

F-86A-5-NA Sabre 

Boss Wurger

Focke-Wulf Fw190 V18

Chevalier du Ciel

Mirage IIIE

Peak Of Performance

Eduard’s Bf 109F-2 ProfiPACK

Fly Baby

Grunau Baby IIb

Sea Flanker

Zvezda’s Su-33

Shelf Oddities

Enhancing Miniwing's Attacker

Spitfire Summer

Revell’s Mk IXc

A Worthy Kauz

Do 17 Z-10 Kauz II

P-40M Kitty Hawk

The Curtiss P-40 family are among the most kitted aircraft around and I cut my teeth on the Airfix 1/72 version way back last century.

experimental fighter

general dynamic f-16xl.

Malta in a Pedestal Modelling the Axis Bomber

Italeri’s 1/72 Savoia Marchetti S.79sil Sparviero (Sparrowhawk).

Pathfinder P-38s For No.5 Group RAF Bomber Command 1944

That 5 Group Bomber Command experimented with using the North American P-51 Mustang in the hands of 617 Squadron to carry out the precision marking of targets during daylight raids during the summer of 1944 is comparatively well known. That 5 Group also experimented with the Lockheed P-38 Lightning to carry out a similar role by both day and night is less well known and the colour schemes carried by these P-38 Lightnings are enigmatic to say the least.

Yellow Wings

The US Navy placed a contract with DouglasAircraft Company for the development ofthe TBD torpedo bomber in 1934, which was to be a technological jump in carrier aviation in a period where naval aviation was dominated by biplanes on carrier decks. This would soon change. The TBD Devastator’s first flight was on 15th April 1935. Subsequently Douglas quickly delivered a prototype to Anacostia US Naval Air Station for the evaluation and performance trials. The prototype performed well with only a slight alteration to enlarge the canopy to increase visibility. The US Navy BuAir placed an order on 3rd February 1936 for 114 TBD-1s. The first production aircraft was evaluated for testing purposes and was modified as the type's only seaplane variant when it was fitted with floats as the TBD-1A. The TBD was powered by the 850 horsepower Pratt & Whitney R-1830-64 Twin Wasp radial engine.

Laser Bomber Over Libya

Mirage F.1CT Tail Number 223, 118-QX, October 2011.

A Look Over The Fence

Trumpeter’s Sukhoi Su-24MR Fencer-E in 1/72.

Pickett's Charge

For me modelling has been a way of life since the time, as a six year old, I was given the old Air fix Folland Gnat as a gift.

N1K2-J Model 21 Shiden Kai (George)

This photo essay focuses on the details and internal colours of the N1K2-J Model 21 aircraft at the now defunct Champlin Fighter Museum in Arizona in and around 1998 and 2000.

Wimpey Revisited

Wellington Mk 1C.

Harrogate Model Club Something for the Weekend

As the Honourable Member for East Lancashire has covered the Bolton show elsewhere I will add little beyond the thanks and congratulations of all the Harrogate Model Club members for a cracking day out.

Star Of The Sea

Great Wall’s Trainer as a TV2

Platz - MiG-15UTI Finnish Air Force

Platz - MiG-15UTI Finnish Air Force

Mark I - P & Q Class Zeppelin Night Intruders

Mark I - P & Q Class Zeppelin Night Intruders

Brand New Scooter

Hobby Boss Douglas A-4E Skyhawk

Killer Bee

Gee Bee Super Sportster R-2