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Author: David Koktavý

1/72 aircraft 

Hawker Hurricane Mk.I 1/72 Arma Hobby

David Koktavý 1. 1. 20244. 1. 2024 2 Comments

I managed to finish another Hurricane in 1/72 scale. Arma Hobby is really the best kit of this famous plane in 72 scale. The camouflage represents one of the twelve Hurricanes delivered to Romania operating by the famous Escadrille 53.

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Mitsubishi A6M3 Zero 1/72 Tamiya

David Koktavý 14. 6. 2023 2 Comments

Building the Tamiya A6M3 is really a pleasure. I consider it as the best 1/72 kit ever. The marking depicts Zero V-187, Houkoku 870, Tainan Kokutai found at the Buna Airport scrapyard, in 1942.

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Cessna A-37B Dragonfly 1/72 Academy

David Koktavý 14. 4. 202314. 4. 2023 0 Comments

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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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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Mirage III EA 1/72 Modelsvit

David Koktavý 27. 11. 202228. 11. 2022 1 Comment

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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Republic P-47M Thunderbolt 1/72 Tamiya

David Koktavý 22. 9. 202226. 9. 2022 1 Comment

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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Leopard 2 A4 1/72 Dragon

David Koktavý 15. 9. 202226. 9. 2022 0 Comments

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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Chance Vought F4U-1 Corsair 1/72 Tamiya

David Koktavý 29. 8. 2022 2 Comments

Simply build straight out of the box.

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Messerschmitt Me 109E 1/72 dual build Special Hobby and Tamiya

David Koktavý 13. 6. 2022 5 Comments

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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1/72 vehicles 

PzKpfw VI B Königstiger 1/72 Dragon

David Koktavý 13. 2. 202213. 2. 2022 1 Comment

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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Curtiss P-40 K 1/72 Special Hobby

David Koktavý 30. 10. 202130. 10. 2021 2 Comments

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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McDonnell Douglas F-4F Phantom 1/72 Fujimi

David Koktavý 19. 9. 202120. 9. 2021 1 Comment

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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Arado Ar 396 1/72 RS Models

David Koktavý 16. 5. 2021 3 Comments

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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