Vladimír Kafka, Autor na 72insight.com

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

Vladimír Kafka 24. 1. 202324. 1. 2023 0 Comments

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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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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Curtiss BFC-2 Goshawk 1/72 RS Models

Vladimír Kafka 2. 3. 2022 1 Comment

The Curtiss BFC-2 was basically a fighter-bomber version of the Curtiss F11C Goshawk. It was the last of the Curtiss naval fighters, outliving its planned replacement, the unfortunate BF2C. This particular machine served on USS Saratoga with the VB-3B “High Hat” squadron in 1937.

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Saurus Warrior (Warhammer: Age of Sigmar)

Vladimír Kafka 26. 12. 202026. 12. 2020 1 Comment

“And now for something completely different.” However, instead of Monty Python’s man with three buttocks, all I have to offer is a Warhammer miniature. This officially makes our modeling blog cross-genre 🙂

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Polikarpov I-16 (type 10) 1/72 ICM

Vladimír Kafka 18. 11. 202029. 11. 2020 5 Comments

Polikarpov I-16 type 10, also known as Mosca (Fly), flown in 1938 during the Spanish Civil War by Eduardo Claudín Moncada. If you want to build a decent model of a Spanish I-16 in 1/72, you need to backdate a later version. I don’t mind, as I enjoy such conversions.

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Hawker Hurricane Mk.I 1/72 Arma Hobby

Vladimír Kafka 28. 10. 202019. 11. 2020 3 Comments

My model depicts a No. 310 Sqn RAF machine, flown during Autumn 1940 by P/O Emil Fechtner, DFC. On October 29, 1940, he collided mid-air with one of his fellow pilots, Jaroslav Maly. While Maly managed to belly land his damaged plane, Fechtner crashed into the ground.

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Saiman 200 1/72 Jach

Vladimír Kafka 11. 9. 202011. 9. 2020 2 Comments

Saiman 200 was a relatively insignificant trainer plane, serving in the Italian air force from 1940 to 1947.

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Messerschmitt Bf 108B Taifun 1/72 Fly

Vladimír Kafka 16. 5. 202018. 5. 2020 1 Comment

Bf 108 Taifun of the Kondor Legion, Spain, 1937 (?). This is an earlier appearance of this particular aircraft – all in RLM 24 blue (it was later repainted in RLM 02 grey). This cute little toy car with wings is a first model of a German airplane since my childhood 🙂 Also, a first model of a completely non-combat plane (although I made a few PRU or training versions of combat planes earlier).

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Fiat G.55 Centauro 1/72 Sword

Vladimír Kafka 18. 2. 20207. 12. 2020 2 Comments

My most recent work and the opener for this new blog (ta-da!) is a machine of the 1st Gruppo ANR, stationed in Vicenza, northeast Italy in summer 1944. I already published this article on iModeler earlier, but this is a slightly updated version with new photos – I had to fix the national markings (more on this below).

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Polikarpov I-5 VT-12 1/72 ICM

Vladimír Kafka 1. 1. 202029. 4. 2020 2 Comments

I uploaded a couple of my older models as well, for better testing of some features of this new blog. This one I built in October 2018. It’s the second prototype of I-5, in its former configuration without a hump behind the cockpit.

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Polikarpov I-153 1/72 ICM

Vladimír Kafka 1. 1. 202029. 4. 2020 2 Comments

I uploaded a couple of my older models as well, for better testing of some features of this new blog. This one I built in September 2018. It’s a I-153 of an unknown unit based near the city of Lutsk, western Ukraine, in June 1941.