Search the Community

I started building 1/72 German WW2 jet & rocket models years ago and when I started building kits a few years back I got a Revell Messerschmitt P1099B kit. I saw some Luft 46 sketches of the P1099 built with just the upper rear facing guns and since the kit came with a rounded nose option I built it that way. I went on to start a Horton Go 229 kit as that aircraft always fascinated me. About half way through I started building 1/48 Cold War jets and the Go 229 got shifted to the shelf of doom. About 5 or more years ago I guess. Then recently @The Spadgent started his multi build project and I thought the Go 229 needed to be finished. So here they both are. Not the greatest builds, thing I would do differently now, but I like them, hope you do too.

Hi everybody, hope that everyone is fine and safe. While I'm slowly slowly crawling towards the finishing line with my current project (Zvezda Tiger M w/Arbalet) I will start this little thingie, just to stay in the flow. It's one of the newer kits of Ace and I really look forward to building it, I really like the Ace kits. Before I begin let's have a look what's inside the box: Typical for Ace kits are the very small and delicate detail parts - this is going to be fun! Most likely I will build the Northern Ireland version. Hope to show you some progress soon! Have a nice day Nick

Introducing my build of Franz Von Werra's Bf109E, courtesy of the Airfix kit - that's been seen before. Parts, some pre-painted. The starter version of this kit cost me £5.50 at The Works in 2013, then swapped kits with @Hepster - I received this one. This being the only decal option, I've got and watched the DVD of his story. And I found the book by Kendall Burt and James Leasor - whilst at school. Oh where is that copy now? Franz Von Werra was a colourful character - as described in Valkyrie's thread. Prone to exageration? - that's one way of describing his character. As I remember from the book: There was an attempt to run away to Amerika, and being returned to Germany. Then the flamboyant fighter pilot with a pet lion-cub, wonder what became of that. A lot of drawing attention to himself, like being towed around his airfield in a bath-tub - towed by a friend's sports car. His picture, with the lion, and a broken finger, was on the cover of Signal Magazine. It was then used by RAF interrogators to identify Von Werra, following his capture. There was also a controversial incident of falsifying RAF kills, and subsequent discrediting at interrogation - covered in the film. As I recall, this was to move himself up the scoreboards, putting him in consideration for medals. . . . . . and holders of those high medals were promised estates in the occupied territories. Thus exageration with the purpose of self-gain. For FvW's first escape he detached from a exercise-party, and was on the run in the Lake District for a few days. His second attempt was a tunnel. He got away to Hucknall, where he impersonated a downed Dutch airman - and almost stole a brand new Hurricane II for his return to Europe. The third successful escape was by jumping from a train window, after being transported to Canada. The film stops when FvW steals a boat, and crosses the frozen St Lawrence Seaway to the USA. This is the start of another aspect of the story. FvW makes his way to New York, where the German Embassy is under constant surveillance by the FBI. The USA is still neutral at the time, but it's just a matter of time . . . And Canada has lodged an extradition order over that stolen rowing-boat! Germans have few friends in North America. In avoidance of a kidnap, and him being returned against his will to Canada, FvW is instructed to visit a specific cafe, where an envelope full of cash is secreted in the cistern of a toilet. Then to disappear and make his way to Brazil, and then return to Germany. Wiki is probably correct that this help came from the German Embassy, saying the Vice-Consulate. I remember he had to obtain very used clothes, and impersonate a farmhand as he crossed into Mexico. Returning to neutral Spain on the final TransAtlantic flying-boat service from Brazil, he then made his way to Italy, and finally Germany. An exciting read - certainly it was that.

Introducing this kit, that cost me £2.50 at FAAM show in 2003. The boxart option is 1941, thus ineligable for this GB. Parts. this kit was borrowed by another IPMS club member for some measurements, hence the fuselage parts are taped together. These are the two options applicable for this GB - I'm currently undecided.

Here is my first attempt at the excellent Airfix 1/72 Phantom FGR2. After a lot of iffing and butting, I decided to finish it as XV406/CK of 228 OCU, 64(R) Sqn from RAF Leuchars in 1987. (Mainly as I was going to do a 29 Sqn jet from 1981 but on further investigation I realised the pylons and under wing tanks as well as a few other bits were in the wrong colours and I couldn't be bothered repainting it.) Used the Xtradcal set X72294 with the addition of a Flightpath ladder for a bit of extra detailing but apart from that was built OOB. Used Xtraclor enamels with Vallejo model wash, finished with the usual Humbrol Matt Cote. Canna beat a fully loaded Phantom.

Hi, This is a project that has been at the back of my mind for well over 20 years, and now the moderators have kindly cleared it, then it might, stress might get done, and then again maybe not as you will see from my later posts as I seem to have aquired a second kit that might not need much work doing! I bought this 1986 kit back in the early 1990's, and it went into my stash. A few years later I saw the Film BAT*21 with Gene Hackman and got the kit back out with a view to building an EW one as seen in the film, but then found that the Airwaves conversion set was out of stock and put it back in the stash where it has remained until now. I recently discovered that Italeri had actually reboxed it as the EB-66E version in 1998 but that has been out of production for a while, as have the various conversion sets so it looks like I am going to have to do this the hard way - proper modelling for once! The problem is deciding exactly which one to build. The B-66B pure bomber never really did much and at an early stage the USAF seem to have decided it would be more useful in other roles, so they bought 5 or so RB-66A photo recce versions, followed by a much larger batch of RB-66B also initially photo recce, but later converted, and this was followed by a batch of RB-66C Electronic recce planes. Later these were redesignated EB-66B and C and joined by the EB-66E which seem to have been conversions of redundant B-66B. Over the years many were rebuilt and lost the guns in the short rear tail, replacing it with a longer tail mounting sensors. and because the EW equipment in those days was pretty crude, the "black boxes" and their relevant aerials, blisters and "canoes" were regularly reconfigured to meet specific threats so it is going to be darned nigh impossible to say that the version I end up with is exacly accurate for a particular machine on a particular day, but the as Craig has pointed out, it is equally unlikely anybody will be able to emphatically say that it is wrong - let's just call it representative of the planes that were used to considerable effect during the war in Vietnam for quite a few years! Incidentally there was a WB-66 version as well, alledgedly for weather observations though I suspect it may have done a bit of "snooping" around the Russian borders as well. I am currently researching the sensor fit from the limited information I have available ie the Aerofax book on the B-66 - if anybody has any drawings or pics that could be helpful I would welcome them. This should make an interesting comparison with its "half sister" the EKA-3B Skywarrior I am building at the moment, but more on that later. Incidentally, at the start of this GB I built Italeri's B-57G which is a repackaged version of the B-57B they released in 1985, a year before the B-66B, but that kit is somewhat better detailed than this one - for example Italeri have not bothered to include jetpipes in the Destroyer so the back of the nacelles are see-through. The plastic is a bit patchy too - some flash and the bottom of one of the fuselage halves seemed to be "de-laminating" with a thin skin peeling off like an onion - never come across that before so I could have fun. Also the box art shows the triangular "flap actuator" thingys or whatever they are under the wing like in my Whale, but they are not provided, so it was never going to be a straight OOB build anyway. Cheers Pete

My F-100F is close to completion and I will be starting on my F-105G soon, but I thought that after 3 USAF planes in SEA camo, a big gray and white USN one would be nice, so if I have time I will have a shot at this, though it might not get started for a while. If you thought that my story of the B-57G was a bit long, then this will probably be even worse as the development of the Skywarrior aka Whale was perhaps even more complicated and I thought I needed to start with a bit of political history to set the scene for what was to become the heaviest and largest aircraft to operate from US carriers though the later Vigilante ran it close – sorry about that! At the end of WWII, an at times rather heated argument developed between the USAAF, soon to become the USAF, and the US Navy over the subject of nuclear weapons. The Air Force said they already had the B-29 as a means of delivery but the USN pointed out it did not have intercontinental range and would need to use bases in friendly countries, whilst they could use carriers to get in close. The Air Force replied that the longer ranged B-36 would solve this problem but the Navy disagreed, pointing out that the B-36 would need fighter escorts and they would still have to use friendly bases due to lack of range.. From the naval point of view, the problem was that the current generation of atom bombs were very big and heavy, and it was calculated that to carry them a suitable distance would need a plane weighing in at over 100,000lb when loaded, far too heavy for any existing carrier such as the Midway Class just entering service. The long term solution was a new class of much bigger carriers, and after much bitter argument they managed to force through funding for the 5 ships of the "United States" class. To give you some idea of the size, the Midway class as originally built were 1001ft long and displaced 45000 tons, whilst the United States would be 1090ft long and displace 65000 tons rising to over 80000 tons fully loaded. By comparison the Nimitz is the same length but displaces 100,000 tons or more – all figures dependent on where you measure the length and how you measure the displacement as is of course usual when dealing with ships! As the lead ship USS United States would not enter service until 1952 at the earliest, it was proposed to use the Lockheed PCV-3C Neptune as a stop gap. Operating from the Midway class carriers, they would be craned on board and stay on deck as they could neither land on a carrier or fit on a lift to be taken down to the hangar. Using JATO bottles for take of they would make a one way trip wave hopping to the target, with the crew ditching after dropping their weapon in the hopes of being picked up by picket submarines off the enemy coast. 12 were assigned to VC-5 but thankfully were never used in anger. At the same time an order was placed in June 1946 for the North American AJ Savage powered by 2 piston engines, with a jet engine in the tail, which weighed around 45000lb and could just about operate with an A-Bomb off the Midway class and the converted Essex class coming into service. 55 AJ-1 were ordered, entering service in September 1949, and a further 55 improved AJ-2 and 30 AJ-2P photo planes followed. The Savage was always going to be an interim design and so in August 1948 the BuAer sent out an invitation for bids for a 100,000lb bomber for the new carrier to 14 companies of which 6 submitted designs, including Douglas, who submitted their design model 593-7 in March 1949, and received a letter of intent for 2 “X” model prototypes on March 31st. Unfortunately, on April 23rd 1949, just 5 days after the keel of the USS United States was laid, the administration decided to cancel the program as part of a cost saving exercise, leaving the USAF as apparent winners of the argument, and the resulting “Revolt of the Admirals” and the consequent political “firestorm” ended up with the Secretary of the Navy and numerous Admirals either retiring or being fired. However 6 months later the Korean War broke out, and the Navy suddenly became popular again, and in 1951 they issued a contract for 12 A3D-1 Skywarriors. To be continued............................................... Cheers, Pete

Here I present my recently completed Mustang that was built as part of the P-51 Mustang STGB but first a little detail. 'Thunderbird' was purchased from James M. Stewart for "$1 with other considerations" by Jackie Cochran. This aircraft was made from salvaged parts from other aircraft of the same type and was given a civil registration of NX5528N. Between 1949 and 1953, two more speed records were made and in 1953, 'Thunderbird' was sold back to Jimmy Stewart...for "$1 with other considerations". The build uses the second Mustang from Hasegawa's 'dual' kit and was built primarily OOB. Images showed that this racer had its propeller blades replaced with HS uncuffed 'paddle' blades and these were not included in the kit, so a resin replacement from Quickboost was obtained although the blade tips needed 'rounding off'. The instructions detail what needs to be deleted/ filled for a racer but like most/ all Mustang kits, they omit the requirement to fill the wing panel lines to 40% chord due the laminar wing, so this was also done. After being primed with Halfords Primer, the model was painted using Vallejo and Tamiya Acrylics and finished off with the kit decals. Build log here: Thanks for looking Stay safe. Stuart

Hello, two years ago i started this conversion of the well known Italeri kit of the ubiquitous Bell 47 just for fun: we had an internal group build at our modelling club based on the Italian armed forces theme and, not liking any of the run of the mill subjects, I tackled this one with only a general idea of the task involved. A great help came from my brother who, being even more into helos than me, owns a precious 1/48 resin kit and lent it to me as a guidance. While I progressed researching the subject I got more and more submerged by the many subtly different configurations the real subject had, so in the end I got stuck more from information overflow and incapacity to choose a specific airframe than by the actual difficulties in the conversion. When I shelved this project I had scratchbuilt the tailboom, the main cabin floor and rear wall, the fuel tank fairings (to be completed) and vacuum molded an acceptable acetate transparent cabin. I had already intended to take the GB opportunity to finish this model, but now that LF models announced a full kit of the 47J https://www.lfmodels.com/ I have no choice, otherwise it will go in the dustbin... It seems just a matter of assembling everything but there's much more to do before shooting paint and I am really grateful to the Moderators for alllowing this entry. My final goal is now to complete the kit as one of the patrol units used by Guardia di Finanza (the Italian Tax Police) from the early sixties to the late seventies, with inflatable pontoons as a bonus since this is the most recognizable configuration you could see from the summer beaches, here below is a preserved airframe at the GdF museum but with skid undercarriage. As agreed I will enter another build of a pristine kit as a penance, just need some time to make a choice as I have way too many helicopters in my stash 🤫 Image courtesy of http://www.elicotteriweb.it/

Recently completed as part of the P-51 Mustang STGB is my interpretation of a Mustang III using the 1/72 KP kit. Built mainly OOB with the addition of some DIY belts and a DIY vac canopy as I like my subjects to have the canopy open. Painted with a mixture Tamiya, AK paints with the main scheme being Colourcoats enamels. Kit decals with the markings of 133 (Polish) Squadron, RAF, Coolham, 1944. Build log here: Stuart

Joining with this T28 Trojan. This kit cost me £4 at IPMS Avon show in 2017. Holding until my Tornados are completed. Researching a colourful Trojan to build as I've built this one before.

Here I present my recently completed Mustang that was built as part of the P-51 Mustang STGB but first a little detail. This particular 'Pony' was owned by Jackie Cochran and was originally built as a P-51B-15-NA, serial 43-24760 and given a civil registration of NX28388. Between 1946 and 1948, Jackie raced NX28388 in the Bendix Race three times and used the aircraft to set four world speed records. The build uses the Hasegawa kit and was built primarily OOB. Images showed that this racer had its propellers replaced and these were not included in the kit, so Martin ( @RidgeRunner ) kindly donated his spare prop from an F-51 kit. The instructions detail what needs to be deleted/ filled for a racer but like most/ all Mustang kits, they omit the requirement to fill the wing panel lines to 40% chord due the laminar wing, so this was also done. After being primed with Halfords Primer, the model was painted using Vallejo and Tamiya Acrylics and finished off with the kit decals. Build log here: Stuart

Well, thought I would start my first build thread on Britmodeller. I've been gathering together a few kits of 1/72 vehicles suitable for Eighth Air Force airfields, to display amongst my model aircraft, and a few years ago I picked up this off eBay; 003 by Dan Hardy, on Flickr I'd no idea that any kits had ever been sold under the Humbrol name. Its not the most inspiring of box lids, but the model itself looks nice enough, though clearly it is sitting too high, so will see what I can do about that. Here's a look at the sprues. They look nicely moulded, and there is a reasonable amount of parts for such a small kit. Oddly, you get two canvas tops, one whole piece, and one in several parts. 004 by Dan Hardy, on Flickr 005 by Dan Hardy, on Flickr I won't be using the kit decals, as firstly, they are pretty old, and secondly because I want to mark it up in Eighth Air Force bomber or fighter group markings (I haven't decided which group yet). I've got the Airfix USAAF bomber resupply set, and you get a lot of options in that for marking up vehicles from various groups, so I contacted Airfix, and got another set of these decals. 006 by Dan Hardy, on Flickr So, last night was spent assembling bits of the body ready for painting. I've never primed a kit before, but I do have some Tamiya primer, which I'm using on repainting/customising some diecast vehicles, so I may give it a go. Body went together well, just a bit of cleaning up needed. There are a few ejector pin marks on this kit though, some I can deal with, others not so much. The wheels are one of the worst areas, and trying to remove the marks will damage them too much. Thankfully, they are at least on the back of the wheels, so won't be too visible. 007 by Dan Hardy, on Flickr I've not glued the tailgate, so I have the option of having it open or closed. I quite like the idea of having the vehicle festooned with aircrew being taken to the flightline, with a couple perched on the lowered tailgate, but I've not seen any suitable figures. 008 by Dan Hardy, on Flickr 009 by Dan Hardy, on Flickr Not started on the chassis yet, as I need to see what alterations are required to make the body sit lower.

A6M5c | Hobby Boss | 1/72 W.O. Takeo Tanimizu, Pilot, Imperial Japanese Navy, 203rd Flying Group, 1945 I finished this on 10/13/2020. This is the Hobby Boss A6M5c, which I built to replace the Hasegawa boxing of Tanimizu's aircraft which I built in late High School and whose molds date to 1972 (according to scalemates). I love the double cannons in the wings, it just looks dangerous! Although in reality the extra weight without a more powerful engine made it a dog. But it looked cool. Of the 1/72 offerings of the 5c, the Hobby Boss was the one that had very few negative comments. As is typical with Hobby Boss there are some glaring omissions. I found they forgot a headrest, which I had to fabricate, the loop antenna in the cockpit, and missed the fourth exhaust stack on the starboard side. The exhaust stack I noticed in the 11th hour, but was able to make a new one that is reasonable. HB provided a cut out in the cowling for a 4th stack, except they provided it on both sides. If I'd noticed earlier, I would've tried to fix that. On the plus side, this was one of the better HB kits I've done in terms of fit and also had very few raised mold lines to sand off. Comparing it with the Hasegawa, the wing guns are longer, the pitot tube is shorter and the canopy doesn't stick up as high. All of these are not very noticeable when the model is sitting by itself. Takeo Tanimizu had 18 victories. He is known for his regrets later in life, praying nightly at his in-home Buddhist altar for the men he killed. He is equally known for an incident where he flew low over a US pilot he downed in the sea to throw him his life preserver. He lived through the war and into the late 1990s. Paints: Mr. Color C15 (Top) > Mr. Color C35 (bottom) > cowl was Hataka RLM 66 (black gray) dusted with black until it looked about right > aotake in wheel wells was 3 parts Testors Model Master metallic blue with 1 part Testors green. Decals: Kit decals WIP is here. The cockpit had more detail than typical HB kits, but it was pretty inaccurate. I tried to make it at least a little more accurate, even though it is very hard to see through the somewhat opaque canopy. Here's the headrest I made and the loop antenna, which I later painted silver: And here it is next to the Hasegawa I made a long time ago: As always, questions, comments and constructive criticism welcomed!

Setting a marker in the sand for this kit. I've built an Airfix Wildcat previously. I'll be aiming for this option, masquerading as an American As I'd built this Academy FM-1 in 2013. Won't be starting until my Tornados are completed

Hi Guys, We are pleased to announce that in partnership with Cozmic Scale Models ,we are now exclusively stocking a cool range of 1/72 Star Trek Work bee resin kits, plus a Shuttle Pod and Travel Pod You can check out the range here - https://abovebeyondretail.co.uk/latest-arrivals/ we have a limited stock in but more available soon so Preorders are being taken.

These are three builds I began over the last couple of years, all of which halted at that stage in a build I like to call 'putting off dealing with the @%&##*% clear bits', which is something I really do not much like to do. They are beginning to stare at me accusingly, and I really ought to bite the bullet and at least proceed with the canopies, especially since I have the write-ups done for two of them.... This is an old Matchbox Wellesley, one of the first second-hand kits I bought (from Mr. Garrity at Rare Plane Detective). It is marked as an early service machine of 76 Sqdn. Being red with a yellow pinstripe surround, the '76' doesn't show up well in the picture. I was intending a 'nostalgia build' of three types that were part of the original RAF expansion scheme for bombers using only vintage kits, with but one or two small corrections allowed, and with crew figures. In this case the correction is the deck and headrest behind the pilot. The kit leaves a big gap instead. This is a Mohawk IV (Cyclone powered Hawk 75), as employed by 155 Sqdn in late 1943 on the Burma front. I attribute powers of witchery to the wife, because I dropped the instrument panel, with glue on, into the fuselage maw, and some weeks later, when she had just come into the room, I had the thing in my hand, gave it an idle shake, and damn if the panel did not fall right out the cockpit opening. The model also managed some airborne time (not a toss, something got moved under it quite carelessly) at the end of which it shed tailplanes, and took a few scrapes and dents. There has been considerable tromp l'oeil correction to get the cowling to at least appear correct. I am a little proud of the yellow and Sky identity markings. They are not masked, but done free-hand, with the aid of a lightly scribed line, which stops the flow of paint, and fills as it does. This is an old Heller Spitfire V, laid in for possible use of its nose in converting an old-tool Airfix Defiant. That kit got built OOB, and afterwards I was struck by some pictures of bare metal Spitfire Vs in Australia. This one is from a training unit, and has a quite odd back-story, regarding both its origins and its eventual fate.. Not my best foiling effort, but the camera is kind, and it's certainly a novel finish for an early-ish Spitfire. I took it up after doing an old-tool Airfix Spitfire I, in a 'let's play two!' spirit. I still have a new-tool Airfix Spitfire I on the shelves. As you can see, these all need a canopy, and I really ought to take a session and get that done for all three of these, then see what's what once they're over that hump. Not to be viewed as lapsing from 'El Sonora', mind. That still continues, and there ought to be something fresh up on it next week....

I started a build of a KC-135A on another forum for a GB and while I was tinkering with bits ended up with 3 on the go... So I decide one would be an RC-135V or W since you don't see many (any?) of these completed. There are a couple of things I need to sort out before progressing. I am thinking about a take off config for this build and need to decide if I start chopping open nose gear doors. If not then some nose weight has to go in. The other issue is; will I use the kit TF-33s or steal some CFMs from another kit to make it a current config jet? I have some Wolfpak decals for a USAF machine along with the Spectre Resins cheeks to add to the build.

https://www.scalemates.com/kits/das-werk-dw72001-wwi-german-u-boat-sm-u-9--1311705

DFS Olympia was a glider projected for Olympics 1940. Unfortunately due to IIWW this type was used rather for training new pilots than for sport competition. After IIWW some of gliders were abandoned by Germans on territory of Poland. 21 of them were restored and used. SP-390 was restored in Gdansk and flew in Malbork. As a basis I used an AZ model kit in 1/72 scale. I've added few parts in cockpit (invisible at the end), aerial brakes and printed own set of decals. Enjoy watching

Seeing as this is the Helicopter and Gyrocopter GB I though I would enter with both a helicopter and also an autogryro. And as I have 2 Cierva C30's I might as well build two at once! So we have Merlin Models plastic and white metal kit and Azur plastic and resin kit - building two at once - yeah that will make sense when we have a few different model materials! Also to incorporate into one of the kits will be the Aeroclub engine. I am a big fan of Spanish Civil War aircraft so one will be the Republican machine shown and not sure what the other will be. British civil is a posibility - cant beat the colours from the1930's Obligatory sprue/box shots. Not much to either kit really especially the Merlin version. Its smaller than you might imagine but sure two decent models can be made from what we have here. Comparing the two kits.... staple through the fuselage.... painful! Did I say the Merlin Models kit was basic???? Azur -close up camera shot never looks good. Decal options from Azur. I normally paint the 3 colours on the tail of any SCW aircraft, as its easier than trying to wrapping decals around a tail.... Hoping these kits will be something different. Will be making them alongside my other GB entry the Mil-4 Hound.

I decided I needed to get out of my rut of Spitfire/Bf-109/Fw-190... I was set to do yet another FW, but decided to head to the Pacific instead. I've only done 2 Zeros in my life; the first was a 1/32 Revell that I snatched from my Dad's stash when I was 13 (Sorry!), and the second was a Hasegawa 1/72 A6M5c that is still on my shelf and seen below: You know you're in trouble when spiders are nesting in your landing gear wells (sorry for the bad pic) My guess is that I did this in late High School. I hadn't learned to do weathering yet, nor how to do decals properly. I was paying more attention to my painting (being more careful), and decals (getting them straight). This is after I gave up on the Badger 150 but before my Dad got our first Aztek, so I'm pretty sure this is late High School. So, this build is going to be a replacement build. About a year ago I did some research to find a more modern kit of the A6M5c. I love the double cannons in the wings, it just looks dangerous! Although in reality the extra weight without a more powerful engine made it a dog. But it looked cool. Of the 1/72 offerings of the 5c, the Hobby Boss was the one that had very few negative comments. Plus it had Takeo Tanimizu's marking, which I really wanted to do anyway. I did some reading and one resource said that all the 5c's were made by Mitsubishi. The aviation of Japan website shows the Mitsubishi cockpit color to be darker than I thought and the closest match I could find was Model master enamel FS34087 (Olive Green). The cockpit has more detail than many other Hobby Boss kits, and probably more than my original Hasegawa. The seat is wrong, however, so I will start by trying to make it look a little more accurate. Although, I'm not sure how much effort to put in it because the Hobby Boss canopies are usually a little opaque, making it hard to see details! More later...

Re-enlisting with the Navy, with this Academy Helldiver Bought in 2006 for £10.99. Parts Building an overall blue option

Well my original plan was to paint an complete this model during a 3-way overlap with A kit that I built as a kid GB (Dauntless), and Corsair STGB, all similar scheme. Opening another thread for this 1/72 SK Helldiver. Dramatic artwork 😀 Containing a copy of the Airfix Helldiver. SK is a Polish compamy with an address in Gdansk. Costing me £4 at IPMS Gloucester show in 2019. Closed bomb-bay option, but I've just realised where that bomb mechanism can be put to use. I'm planning to build a 3-tone aircraft this time, here are the decals, with plan B of reverting to leftover decals from my Academy build. Here is my Airfix Helldiver, a post-war SB2C-5. Edited in after completion of this build. Tidied-up, and walkways added.

https://www.scalemates.com/kits/das-werk-dw72001-wwi-german-u-boat-sm-u-9--1311705