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When I think about Great War, my second thought is "artillery". Indeed Great War saw a birth of tanks, combat aircraft or submarines, or last days of cavalry, to name a few, but artillery reached a peak of importance exactly that time. So I have already hands full of projects in "Brits abroad", but I couldn't miss a opportunity here. I have pick up a Roden kit in 1/72. With closer look it have a typical Roden quality - some flashes here and there, some sink holes, and brittle plastic, which isn't a easiest to work with. I think quality even dropped a little in comparison to older kits like Nieuport's. Still, company found a nice niche, maybe they had stopped making a new WWI aircraft in 1/72 scale, but instead went after land vehicles, and contribute something more than just a some famous tanks. I have already started working on limber.

Another PZL.37 box art: Simply astonishing, Source: http://kroghul.pl/language/pl/pzl-p-37-los-3/

Baltic ones would be simple to make. Latvian Sopwith Strutter from 1919 had first version of national air markings, simple dark red/white/dark red bands on wings/tail. Other is Lithuanian one. More can be read in Lithuanian and with online translator on this forum. Topis is also covered a bit in books published by Blue Rider Publishing.

When Great War ended, Western front went silent and hell of trenches was over. But in Central and Eastern Europe peace was still far, far away, on the graves of Empires dozens of a new nations emerges and immediately clashed in border conflicts with each other, and with revolutions, counter-revolutions and uprisings. From North Africa to Vladivostok and from Middle East up to Finland people keep fighting. I was really surprised when I found out how many conflict had place immediately after WWI, these days those are mostly forgotten, overshadowed by both World Wars. Masterbox Austin 3rd series is a nice kit of this Great War armoured car, but it have serious problem. Too many interesting camouflages, German Freikorps, Austro-Hungarian, Ukrainian, Bolsheviks, Russian White movements, Finnish... from the other hand, there is no description aside a flag, so I had made some research. Finaaly I decided to go with "Атаман Богаевский" - "Ataman Bogaevskiy" car from 1919, belonging to the the Don Army of Don Republic, also know as Almighty Don Host, created by Don Cossacks. In 1919 it become a part of Armed Forces of South Russia, which also included the Volunteer Army (which was renamed the Caucasian Volunteer Army), the Crimean-Azov Army, the Forces of Northern Caucasus and the Army of Turkestan. Those were White forces during Russian Civil War. It it worth to know, that Imperial Russia had second place in number of armoured car in service, with United Kingdom being first. Photo, according to wikipedia description, is in public domain. I will wrote about symbol and name of this particular car and Austin cars in Russia, but in later posts.

I had a hard choice between many ideas for this GB, so I have picked a quite simple model in order to finish it in time... I am going to make a Miles Magister from Estonian Õhukaitse (Air Defence), Aviaton Regiment, 3. lennuväedivisjon (3rd Aviaton Division), Tallinn, 1938-1940. It was single aircraft of this type acquired by Estonia. It was Miles M.14A , construction number 639, equipped with 130 h.p. De Havilland Gipsy Major Mk I engine, delivered in 1938 and given Estonian number "159". In Estonia all aircraft during inter-war period were numbered consecutively, so it was 159th Estonian aircraft. I didn't found out why exactly this one was purchased, but around that time Estonian aviation industry started to producing similar design, PTO-4, so maybe there were no need for more. I found those information on Estonian forum http://www.militaar.net During it service in 1939 it participated with two mentioned above PTO-4's in trip to Latvia. In 1940 Estonia was "asked" to join USSR, so service of Magister in Estonia was quite short. Apparently Miles Magister, maybe that one, served later in Sonderstaffel Buschmann. It was a coastal patrol unit formed sometime on 12 February 1942 around a core of Estonian volunteers following the German occupation of the Baltic States. The unit was under the command of an ethnic German from Tallin; Oberleutnant Gerhard Buschmann. Oh, and photo of unassembled model.

I doubt about this one, Hungary had only one P.11a, not "c". I think IBG will include that one.

Hey, I got some rule for you. What about at least short history how machine ended in foreign country and how its service went. Basically it can be shortened to just explaining why model is eligible for this GB.

Arma Hobby is bringing out PZL P.11c very soon on market. Anyway, looking at Airfix panel lines, I doubt they could make acceptable corrugated duralumin metal skin, which in this case were very, very petite. Also two companies are bringing put PZL.37 Łoś simultaneously (Fly and IBG), IBG already made PZL,23 Karaś and will make their P.11c too, looks like this theme is pretty well covered, when it comes to main Polish fighters and bombers.

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Polish model distributor is going to rebox Hasegawa Hawker Hurricane with decals made by Techmod. Price in Polish shops is going to be around 56 pln, so around 11 pounds.

Hopefully some Eastern European companies (Hobby 2000 in Poland and Fly in Czechia) now reboxed Hurricane Mk. I with a bit more reasonable prices (Hobby 2000 for almost 11 pounds). Maybe more will follow?

Also Romania bought some from Portugal not a long time ago.

Marcin Górecki (an author) makes astonishing drawings. For those interested in his works, a link to internet site: kroghul.pl and Facebook page: KroghulFactory Marcin Górecki Art

Most of them, probably all, were available on Blackbird Models site for a few years. I'm talking about 1/72.

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According to Hannats, Roden will release a new Great War model, Type B WWI Omnibus Ole Bill kit, in 1/72 (no 732). It is nice they are slowly but steadily add new kits to WWI ground range in 1/72 scale.

Fair point, I was referring to a decals in 1/72: Xtradecal X72214 International Hawker Hunters

I have noticed something strange. In fact Hannats list 5 x 2 schemes so 10, but HI-Decals on their site put such description : Which means 6 schemas in total for 5 countries, so only one get two schemes.

Heh, I got tunnel vision after seeing a 1/72 scale sheet, I will update first post about. Anyway, doesn't (6) refers to number of countries? On Hannats it's 6 x 2 = 12 schemes on both sheets. Exactly.

Looks like re-release of Revell's Hawker Hunter brings more decals to market, tis time from company HI-Decal line. From Hannats: And same in 1/48 scale - HD48029 Just in case if Xtradecals have not enough foreign schemes. ---------------------------------- update:

Some Romanian PZL.23 had German MG 81Z mounted on back, if IBG really wants to cover literary every variant, maybe they add those.

Thank You very much, this is exactly for what I have been looking for.

Thanks for correction.

Hello Is the any photo or source, which confirm a existence of "chevron" style Ukrainian air force markings, which appeared briefly after gaining independence? Those are covered in Authentic Decals MiG-29 (9-13) Fulcrum C Part I (Nr. 72-03) sheet (link, no. 21 and 37), but unfortunately instruction do not shown roundels positions on wings. I can only assume they will be in place of Soviet stars, and with acute angle aiming back.

Youtube video. Model will include camouflage as decals. Those are separate set.