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F4F-4 Wildcat 1/72 Arma Hobby

David Hényk 17. 3. 2023 1 Comment

The Grumman F4F Wildcat is an American carrier-based fighter aircraft that entered service in 1940 with the United States Navy/US Marines, and the British Royal Navy where it was initially known as the Martlet. First used by the British in the North Atlantic, the Wildcat was the only effective fighter available to the United States Navy and Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater during the early part of the Second World War. Until the arrival of its successors, the F6F Hellcat and the F4U Corsair in 1943, it was the only machine in the arsenal of the US Navy and Marine Corps Air Forces that could at least match the Japanese Zeros.

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Bedford QLT 1/76 Airfix

Pavel Šenk 14. 3. 2023 0 Comments

The Bedford QL was a series of three-ton 4×4 trucks produced by Bedford for the British Armed Forces between 1941 and 1945. More than 3,300 units of the QLT “Troop Carrier” infantry transport variant alone were produced.

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Mitsubishi Ka-14 1/72 FineMolds

Vladimír Kafka 10. 3. 202311. 3. 2023 1 Comment

The Mitsubishi Ka-14 was a prototype of the famous A5M Claude, a predecessor to the even more famous A6M Zero. Its most distinctive visual feature is the inverted gull wing with beautiful elliptical wingtips (however, the inverted gull shape was abandoned in the production version of the A5M), and in the case of this particular prototype version, the interesting modified engine cowling.

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Nakajima Ki-43-I Hayabusa (Oscar) 1/72 FineMolds

Vladimír Kafka 24. 1. 202324. 1. 2023 1 Comment

The Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa (Oscar) was one of the most numerous Japanese WW2 fighters, a land-based contemporary of the more famous Mitsubishi A6M Zero.

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Avia CS-199 1/72 Eduard

David Koktavý 18. 1. 202318. 1. 2023 0 Comments

The Avia CS-199 was one of the first standard post-war trainer plane of the newly built Czechoslovak Air Force. Combined with the quite simple camouflage, the Eduard kit offers very nice and easy kit for building.

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Avia BH-1 1/72 ViZi models

Dušan Vrážel 7. 1. 202327. 1. 2023 1 Comment

In 1919 Ing. Beneš and Ing. Hajn designed and in 1920 built the BH-1 Exp (Experimental) low-wing, experimental monoplane concept under the banner of the new Avia factory. And thanks to previous attempts on models, the work was successful the first time and the concept proved itself. It was a pioneering concept for its time, which fully proved itself in the category of training and sports aircraft.

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Thousand Sons: Rubric Marines (Warhammer 40.000)

Vladimír Kafka 2. 1. 20233. 1. 2023 1 Comment

These Games Workshop miniatures are the rubric marines, regular troops of the Thousand Sons. They were formerly known as the XVth space marine legion, loyal to the Emperor of Mankind, but now they worship Tzeentch, a chaos god of time, constant change, knowledge, and also of lies, manipulations, and madness.

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Letov S-20J 1/72 Kovozávody Prostějov

Dušan Vrážel 21. 12. 202227. 1. 2023 1 Comment

In 1927, the Letov factory modified the Š-20 fighter plane of designer Alois Šmolík with a Škoda H-S 8Fb in-line engine for a Walter Jupiter radial engine (Ghone-Rhone license according to Bristol Jupiter) with an output of 480 HP (353 kW). This is how the unique Š-20J was created.

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Star Wars 1:121 & 1:112 Revell

Pavel Šenk 21. 12. 202220. 12. 2022 1 Comment

Almost everyone knows the Star Wars movie series. Someone like them, someone doesn’t. Some people are fans of the original series from the 70s and 80s of the 20th century, some people prefer the new ones. I’ll admit that the new series is a bit beyond me just because I have never watched them completely, they didn’t just attract me these times. However, almost all my peers just “lived” by the original trilogy while we were attending a basic school…

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M8 Greyhound 1/72 Extratech

Pavel Šenk 15. 12. 2022 1 Comment

The M8 Greyhound was a six-wheeled light armored car that attempted service in the United States Army in 1942, the first production vehicles rolled off the Ford production line in early 1943. The command and liaison variant of this vehicle without a turret was designated the M20.

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Mirage III EA 1/72 Modelsvit

David Koktavý 27. 11. 202228. 11. 2022 0 Comments

Mirage III EA is an export version of the famous Mirage III used by the Argentine Air Force FAA. For my kit I have chosen the plane with number I-015 of 1st Lt Carlos Perona of the 8th Brigade Aérea detached at base Rio Gallegos. Perona together with his fellow Cpt. Garcia Cuerva encountered on 1.5.1982 two Sea Harriers from 801. NAS. During this event, both Mirages were lost.

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MiG-17F 1/72 Airfix

Zdeněk Uj 13. 11. 202215. 11. 2022 1 Comment

I bought the Mig-17F as hot news in January 2020. The camouflage was clear from the beginning. A North Vietnamese Air Force MiG-17F with the red number 3020 and kills on the nose, supposedly piloted by the legendary Colonel Thomb.

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Ryan NYP “Spirit of Saint Louis” 1/72 RS Models

Pavel Šenk 3. 11. 20224. 11. 2022 1 Comment

Spirit of St. Louis was the plane that Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic in May 1927. Originally designated Ryan NYP, the high-wing, strut-braced monoplane was designed by Donald Hall of Ryan Airlines based on the Ryan M-2 and was named after the city of St. Louis, because the city participated financially in its construction. For my model, I chose the appearance of the machine from Charles Lindbergh’s promotional tour of the States and Latin America in 1927-1928.

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