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The Fieseler Storch (or stork in English) must be familiar to all modellers of WWII aircraft. She was the German liaison plane at practically all the theatres of operation. Fieseler Storch was a real stol plane. With its high-lift wings and fixed slots, it could take-off in about 50 m land within 20 m. In a strong headwind it could almost hover. The Storch was used by many air forces, including the neutral ones like Sweden. Some of their planes were used for rescue operations in Swedish Lapland during the winter of 1944-45. There were a number of refugees that tried to flee from the German troops over the mountains from Norway and Finland. In the freezing conditions and in the almost total darkness of the north they needed to be helped rapidly. I built my Fieseler Storch from an excellent Tamiya kit in 1/48 scale. Building the plane was straightforward and without any problems. The kit provided decals for various German planes including the one that was used to free Mussolini from captivity in Gran Sasso. However, I decided to model one of the above mentioned Swedish rescue planes that the Swedes called Fjällstorkarna or Mountain Storks. I ordered the decals from "Moose republic decals" and the resin skis are from Kora models. Additionally, I used Eduard's photoetches and masks for the multiple windows of the plane. The Swedish camouflage was olive green top and light blue grey bottom. For them I used Tamiya's XF-61 and XF-66 respectively. After having airbrushed the colors I covered the model for the decals with WMS's gloss varnish. Finally, I sprayed it with WMS's satin varnish. For many details I also used Vallejo's and Revell's colours.

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The Convair Coronado CV 990 was manufactured by the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation and its maiden flight took place in 1961, It is still today one of the fastest subsonic aircraft that has been in commercial traffic. Its maximum speed was about 1000 km/h. The CV 990 was an extended and faster version of the CV 880. A special feature of the Coronado were the large anti-shock bodies on the trailing edges of the wings. They reduced air resistance and increased the speed of the plane.. On top of the fuselage there’s a dorsal extension which housed two ADF antennas and one VHF antenna. The aircraft was powered by General Electric CJ-805 jet engines. These were non-afterburner fighter jet engines designed for civilian use. They smoked heavily and were quite noisy so that the Coronado was recognized from afar by a loud roar and four black smoke trails. Nearly 20 airlines used the aircraft mainly on long-haul routes but in total only 37 Coronados were produced. The largest user were the American Airlines. The Coronado has always been one of my favourite airliners and I already have two models of this bird on my shelf in Swissair's and Spantax's livery. I now decided to build a third one in the smart looking all-metal "AstroJet" livery of the American Airlines. The 1/144 scale resin kit is from Authentic Airliners and the decals from F-RSIN. The quality of the Authentic Airliner kits is excellent and since I chose to build the kit in flight mode the assembly was quick and problem free. I first primed the plane with Mr. Surfacer 1000 and then sprayed it with Tamiya's gloss black from rattle can. The shiny metal was air brushed with A-stand's chrome (the former Alclad). After having attatched the decals I covered the whole model with AK's intermediate gauzy agent which protected the chrome paint and increased the sheen of the metal.

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Hello and Happy New Year to everybody from a wintery Finland I'm in the process of finishing my all-metal American Airlines' Convair Cv 990 Coronado in 1/144 scale. The thing that puzzles me are the details of the jet engines. In some pictures there only are narrow dark lines in the rear part of the engines. On the other hand there are photos where the whole rear part is totally smoke dark. Since I'm going to finish the model in flight mode I wonder which one of those modes should be applied. The thing is that I'm not familiar with the functioning of the reverse and other modes of the engines. Could someone give more light to the matter. Cheers, Einar Here are some pictures from my scrap book of the different modes of the engines.

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