Scale modeling blog
De Havilland DH-80A Puss Moth was an aircraft that was a part of the Baťa Company’s air fleet in the 1930s. The company bought three of them (OK-ATG, OK-ATF and OK-ATU), and they were used for business trips as far as to India.
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Fouga Magister, one of the famous trainers and competitor of Czechoslovak L-29 Dolphin. The kit is one of the first Special Hobby kits made by standard technology of iron mould. For my initial OOB build I selected a plane obtained by Irish Air Corps.
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This kit caught my eye at the ModellBrno event while I came around a seller from Ukraine. I haven’t known this particular aircraft until that moment, neither the kit producer.
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Saiman 200 was a relatively insignificant trainer plane, serving in the Italian air force from 1940 to 1947.
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This Bf-109 G6 flown by Arnold Döring belonged to 2/JG-300 Wilde Sau based in Germany in 1943. Due to the unit’s deployment in night fighter operations, the standard day camouflage was adopted by spraying black colour onto fuselage sides and over the white crosses.
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In the past, there were not many choices to build that nice 5th generation training plane in 1/72. Therefore it was a must-have for me, when Zvezda released the YAK-130 kit.
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B.534 fighter was the backbone of the Czechoslovak Air Force during the second half of the 1930s. Contrary to my usual routine, I built two pieces simultaneously this time.
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Lately, Polish manufacturers started to fill a market gap of WWII Polish aircraft subjects in 1/72 scale. Availability of quite nice kits inspired me to build a small Polish aircraft collection. The PZL-37 Łoś must not be excluded.
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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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My traditional visit of one modeller’s shop before Christmas time turned out as usual with at least three kits in my hands 🙂 One of them was a quite attractive F-2A, a prototype with some strange coloured weapons. In the past, I was convinced this is Japanese 1:1 F-16. I was really wrong. The Mitsubishi F2 is different and a bit bigger than F-16 in order to fulfil Japanese Defence Force requirements.
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On the 2nd of April, 1982, at 16:00 four Pucarás from Grupo 3. de Ataque landed on BAM Malvinas. The plane A-529 piloted by Tenientes Daniel Lukic was a part of that small force.
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“The best resin kits around” – this is a simple definition of SBS models. Tiny Caudron C.600 is one of their superstars, currently offered in four boxes. Spanish, French military, civilian and Hungarian. I chose single-seat C.600 flown by French aviatress Suzanne Kohn during her flight from Orly to Madagascar in May 1939.
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When I was a teenager, the first book I ever read about aircraft was a story of a very successful Czech aerobatic pilot Petr Jirmus. 30 years after, Brengun released a kit of Z-50LS including one marking of Jirmus’s mount.
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