Scale aircraft modeling blog
The Cessna A-37 Dragonfly was developed from a trainer version of the T-37 Tweet. Since 1967, trials and testing have been conducted on the Vietnam battlefield. This kit is something like a kick-off for the planned collection of US Air Force types participating in the Vietnam war.
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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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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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The P-47 M was the fastest subversion of the famous Thunderbolt plane. I picked a very nice Tamiya kit and did a little conversion there.
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The 1/72 armor is an appropriate subject especially if you make it in a detached place on the vacation in a hotel where you don’t have all the necessary tools.
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Special Hobby Me-109E-1 red 16 is the plane of 2/JG-26 by Obrlt. Fritz Losigkeit. Tamiya is the Me-109E-4 from III/JG-3 assigned to Lt. Egon Troha, the pilot with Austrian roots. The plane was named “Grace” according to a daughter of a general consul of Santa Domingo who worked in Vienna.
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One of the best documented Königstigers in the Ardennes operation is vehicle number 222 of Oberscharführer Kurt Sowa from the elite unit SS-Pz.Abt.501. I started building this diorama in the year 2008!
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The well known WWII fighter P-40 was deployed beyond common theatre also in Latin America. The country there which used P-40 was Brazil.
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I have nostalgic memories of F-4F from aviation days I visited as a youngster, with a lot of jet planes including awesome, weathered Luftwaffe Phantoms.
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Every year in May we commemorate the anniversary of the Prague uprising and the end of World War Two in Europe. This year I managed to finish the Arado Ar 396 from the uprising in 1945, which became the first Czechoslovak plane flying over the Czech country after a long occupation.
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The type F-104G was widely used by NATO members in the seventies. It was also manufactured under license in some of those countries. The biggest number of planes was used by the German Luftwaffe. However, my choice is the F-104G of Koninklijke Luchtmacht. Netherlands had 139 Starfighters in total, mostly from their own manufacturing (Fokker). Their duty was quite boring, but I found one interesting event: the 322 squadron participated in an anti-terrorist action.
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With the first snow of a cold Russian winter in 1941/42, a new white camouflage was implemented on Luftwaffe planes. This white Bf 109F-2 from I/JG-54 is a typical example. Let’s take a look, how I managed to render this kind of camouflage in 1/72 scale.
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