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Dear fellow Britmodellers, may I present my latest work, AZ Model's Bf-109 K4, built with addition of Brengun photo etch and Master Model pitot tube. Decals from the box, representing an aircraft of 9./JG53, based in Reichenbach/Saxony, in May 1945. I painted according to kit instructions, using Gunze/Mr.Hobby acrylics. All photographs by Wolfgang Rabel (of IGM Cars & Bikes). The AZ Model Bf-109s have received some criticism regarding the shape of the nose. In case you are interested, please have a look here: I built without modifications, and in my humble opinion, the kit does look like a Bf-109. Here's the only orginal photograph of "White 16" that I found: Wing colors are speculative as they are missing on the original picture. I followed AZ Model's instructions and painted the upper sides RLM 75/83 and the lower sides natural metal. This is a scheme common to JG53 aircraft of that period. The cockpit section was painted RLM66. Fuel lines from stretched sprue added to the starboard console. All photo-etch pieces from brengun. The spinner spiral is not included on the kit's decal sheet. I bough an aftermarket add-on from AZ Model, containing various styles of spirals. It's a challenge to get them to conform to the curvature of the spinner. Brengun photo-etch flaps add a little realism to small scale, as does the photo-etch DF loop and morane mast. For weathering, I used Winsor & Newton artist oils. Thanks for your interest, best greetings from Vienna!

Dear fellow Britmodellers, this is RS Models 1/72 F-5A Lightning, the recce version of the P-38G. I added Brengun photo-etch and painted with Gunze/Mr.Hobby acrylics, weathering with artists oils. I found this kit pretty challenging, with fit issues galore. It can only be recommended to experienced modelers. According to the kit instructions, this particular aircraft belonged to 12th PRS, based in Florennes, Belgium in October 1944. This information cannot be confirmed, as the 12th PRS flew F-6 Mustangs at that time (not Lightnings) and was never based in Belgium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_Reconnaissance_Squadron If anyone can provide further details about this aircraft, infos are most welcome. All photographs by Wolfgang Rabel. Thanks for your interest, best greetings from Vienna! Roman

Source: http://armahobbynews.pl/en/blog/2018/03/22/attack-squadron-co-dalej-z-modelami-zywicznymi/ V.P.

Brengun has just released a 1/144th Messerschmitt Me.163 Komet "War Prize" kit - ref. BRP144009 Source: http://www.hauler.cz/e-shop/1-144-plastic-kits-32/me-163b-komet-„war-prizes“-1427 And PE set - ref. BRL144134 http://www.hauler.cz/e-shop/1-144-accessories-19/me-163b-komet-2pcs-(brengun-kit)-1431 V.P.

Brengun ( http://www.hauler.cz/) is to release a 1/72nd Zlín Z-50LS kit - ref.72018 Source: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=487567791401874&id=440180076140646 V.P.

Hello Here is my last finished build with this 1/72 Brengun North American A-36A in USAAF colors. This A-36A 42-83830 was at the time within the 86th Fighter Bomber Group based at Tafraoui Airfield in French Algeria during summer 1943. She was destroyed beyond repair during a wheels up belly landing on 6th August 1943 at Tunis El Aouina Airfield due to mechanical failure but the pilot survived (joebaugher.com). The kit Brengun BRP72025, which I was given by Redboost, was easy to assemble and paints are from Gunze. The markings came from my spare box because I wanted to build an A-36A based in North Africa. In the original decal sheet there were only Italian based aircraft. Patrick

New Brengun 1/144th Yakovlev Yak-1 "1941"- ref. BRP144008 Source: http://www.hauler.cz/e-shop/1-144-plastic-kits-32/yak-1-1941-1396 V.P.

I'm going to assemble this: (It's the old AZ MkVB with extra bits.) I'll post some sprue shots later.

Dear fellow Britmodellers, this is AZ Model's "Limited Edition" boxing (AZ7488) in "Romanian Air Force" markings. I added Brengun photo etch, Master pitot tube and resin wheels from AML. Painted with Gunze/Mr.Hobby acrylics. Photographs by Wolfgang Rabel. Greetings from Vienna.

Brengun has just released a 1/48th Chester Jeep (wikipedia) race plane resin kit - ref. BRS48005 Source: http://www.hauler.cz/e-shop/1-48-construction-kits-30/chester-jeep-race-plane-1381 V.P.

Brengun-Hauler is to release in 2017 a 1/72nd North American A-36 Apache kit - ref. BRP72025 Source: https://www.facebook.com/HaulerBrengun/photos/a.459886544169999.1073741832.440180076140646/711185289040122/?type=3&theater V.P.

BRP144003 He-162A 1/144 will be in stock at EDAY Model show, Prague ( www.eday.cz ) boxart: source: http://ipmsnymburk.com/forum/viewtema.php?ID_tema=39445

Next one to be built is this, the Airfix Hawker Typhoon. Will be using the kit decal as I thought the kit ones supplied with my Spitfire went on fairly well, but will be using the Brengun photo etch for cockpit and flaps, Master barrel set, Aviaeology stencil data decals, quick boost resin exhaust and Aires resin tail plains and wheels IMGA0931 by neil Connor, on Flickr Yay figured out Flickr IMGA0930 by neil Connor, on Flickr IMGA0932 by neil Connor, on Flickr IMGA0933 by neil Connor, on Flickr That's all the pictures I had taken before the photobucket situation started, needless to say its now at the start of the painting process.

Finished this recently, it's the Brengun 1/72 Zlin Z-50 aerobatic aircraft. The complex colour-scheme was simplified by the use of Brengun's masking set, and their vac canopy and PE set were also used. It's a tiny little thing when finished.

Hello again, Here is my Hawker Typhoon 1B, Its the Brengun kit, which looked really nice on the sprues. Good subtle recessed external detail, and great internal details in the pit and wheel wells. Unfortunately it didn't fit as well as it looked! Most parts needed sanding to fit within their component settings. That is the wheel wells and the cockpit structures both needed lots of dry fitting sanding before committing glue anywhere near the respective parts. It was a real battle to get this little beast together. Having said that it turned out not too badly, and in the hands of a better modeler could be a fine looking example. Anyway heres the pictures, thanks for looking. Cheers Greg All comments welcolme

Hello, this is Czech manufacturer Brengun's new-ish 1/72 Yakolew Yak-1, Series 2, 1942 production. This kit is a little bit more expensive then your average short-run model - you'll find out why as soon as you open the box. It contains a very nice photo etch fret with finely detailed parts for the interior, the landing gear covers as well as lower wing surface panels. The box offers three decal options, all of them in the usual (and rather unspectacular) Green/Dark Grey scheme. I used Gunze/Mr.Hobby acrylics for painting, choosing H303 for the Green and H331 for the darker colour. According to the 'scale effect', I used H331 Dark Grey (with a drop of White added for the faded effect) instead of Black. The fit is unproblematic, all the interior bits go into the fuselage without extra work. You'll have to sand down the wing roots a little bit, to make the upper wings click into place without tension. While the Yak-1 is a rather unspectacular aircraft, I'm quite happy that Brengun provide us with an up-to-date rendition. All photographs by Wolfgang Rabel (IGM Cars & Bikes). Cheers from Vienna!

Brengun is to release in 2016 1/144th Bachem Ba-349 Natter kits. - ref.BRP144001 - Bachem Ba-349A Natter - ref.BRP144002 - Bachem Ba-349 M52/M58 Natter Source: http://www.detailscaleview.com/2016/02/plus-model-and-brengun-stand-on.html V.P.

Hello, and thanks for your interest in this topic. Here's my rendition of AZ Model's latest release of the 109 Series - this is the G-14AS. As far as I am aware this type has never been available as an injection molded kit before. I added Brengun phot-etch for various details, such as antennas, flaps and interior pieces. The pitot tube is from Master Models. The model was painted with Gunze/Mr.Hobby acrylics. This patricular aircraft is well documented. There are a number of period photographs. Some of the technical details visible are: - missing cover of the tail wheel well - T3 rudder without trim tabs (these were removed from the plastic) The aircraft patricipated in "Operation Bodenplatte" in January 1945. Piloted by Uffz. Herbert Maxis, White 13 was shot down by an American AA battery. Herbert Maxis' tragic faith is documented here: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=97812831 "White 13" was buried in a trench and re-discovered in 1987. The remaining parts of the airframe were restored with parts from other German aircraft and is currently on display in the AVIATICUM Museum in Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria. Creating the characteristic "sawtooth pattern" on the leading edges of the wings is quite a challenge, in this scale. The rudder has some light colored blotches over the RLM75/83 camoflage. To replicate this, I painted the entire rudder RLM76 (Light Blue) first. Then, small pieces of Blu Tac were applied to cover those places to remain in light color. Then, the other colors were sprayed over. The fuselage has a different tone of RLM76. This seems to be the greenish variant, sometimes referred to as "RLM84". This color was mixed using RLM02 (Grey/Green) and pure White. The undersides are natural metal, I used Alclad paints here. Note the black Balkenkreuze without outlines. All photographs: Wolfgang Rabel, IGM Cars & Bikes Vienna. Thanks for lookin'! Have a good day! Roman

Hello, here's another 1/72 AZ Model Bf-109 from my workbench, finished in late April. I used Brengun photo etch for various details and Master Model gun barrels and pitot tube. Decals are from AZ's boxing, the model was painted with Gunze/Mr.Hobby acrylics. Weathering with artists' oils. Photographs by Mr. Wofgang Rabel of IGM Cars & Bikes, thank you! The fuselage crosses, as supplied by AZ Model, already have colored insides; these colors never match with my paints. Therefore, I spray my own color and use hollow white crosses as replacement: Thanks for lookin'. Have a good day!

As I am building a car door Tiffy in 1/48, I thought some bubble canopy Typhoons will be a nice addition. Build two and three for this GB are therefor two 1/72 Typhoons with D-day markings (or what's left of it). The first of the duo is Typhoon Mk.IB PR-M from No.609 Squadron operated from Thorney Island on 6 June 1944. It is interesting that in the Osprey book it has the serial MR131 and on the Xtradecal sheet MR130 - what is correct? Unfortunately the only picture I found is of rather poor quality - but better than nothing. But it shows that the D-day stripes are crudely painted on by brush or broom! I will use the Brengun kit for MR131. It is the late type boxing, but the plastic also contains a three bladed prop and short chord Typhoon tail plane which is correct for MR131. This will be a OOB build as I build in 1/72 scale mainly to show camouflage and marking variations using the markings from Xtradecal 179. The second in the duo is a late production Tiffy Mk.IB MN716 F3-A from No.438 Squadron (RCAF) operated from Eindhoven during mid-October 1944 There is an excellent picture available for this aircraft. The Airfix kit will provide the parts for this build - a four bladed prop and the Tempest large tail plane. I also build it OOB with decals from Aviaeology 143 Wing decal sheet. I started this kit two years ago, but very little was done on it. It will be interesting to see how the Brengun and Airfix kit compare. Cheers, Peter

NOTE TO VISITORS FROM THE FUTURE: Build notes can be found in this post. MRS. TATE [Mavis Tate, MP for Frome]: We were told yesterday that our Air Force was superior to the German air force, and I very much hope that is the case. But I am told there are Focke Wulf machines flying in German squadrons which are said to be in some respects superior to our fighters. I understand that our reply to the Focke Wulf is the Typhoon. I may be misinformed, but I should like to ask the Minister whether we have Typhoons flying in our fighter squadrons and whether they are over their teething troubles. -- Hansard, "Production", 15 July 1942 On 30 May 1943, twenty-two Fw 190s made a low-level raid on Torquay, dropping 21 bombs, killing or seriously wounding 125 people and destroying fifty buildings. One of the raiders collided with the steeple of a Roman Catholic church and then crashed into a house, and three more were brought down by anti-aircraft guns. Reginald Palk, then a schoolboy, was digging through the rubble of St Marychurch, demolished by a bomb, when "I heard the sound of more aircraft approaching...I looked up to see the fantastic sight of RAF fighters in pursuit." These were Typhoons from 257 (Burma) Squadron scrambled too late to intercept the Jabos, but now roaring after the escaping German fighters. The lead two Typhoons of the squadron's Yellow Section sighted a Fw 190 at five miles distance making for France at a speed in excess of 320 MPH. The British fighters now went to full War Emergency Power, and the big Typhoons surged after the Fw190, closing the gap from 10,000 yards to 150, whereupon the section leader fired a one and one-half second burst from his Typhoon's four 20mm cannon. The Fw190 shuddered, flipped on its back, and crashed into a cliff on the isle of Guernsey. I've always been fond of the Typhoon, something of an also-ran as far as RAF fighters go; it was unreliable and suffered from defects for almost the whole of its brief operational life, and it never really came into its own as the hoped-for Focke-Wulf killer, those laurels instead reposing upon the infinitely more beautiful Spitfire IX and the Typhoon's own younger sister, the Tempest. But in everything the Typhoon did there is for me an element of dignity and protectiveness, the air of a big man of infinite patience rolling up his sleeves as he steps forward, be it roaring after fleeing low-level raiders at speeds no German aircraft could escape or appearing out of the murk of a June morning above the 21st Panzer, confidently pushing towards the beaches of Normandy. There is a reassuring solidity to her; you know she may not be agile enough to land the hit, but you also know that when she hits, it will be hard, there'll be meaning in the blow. I was originally going to build some Eduard Fw 190s, but that seemed a bad way to start off, and begin as you mean to continue, I always say. Plus Beard seemed to want to know how the Brengun kit goes together, and I'd just gotten another one, so it seemed like fate was telling me to do what I really wanted to do anyway. I'm for once unsure what markings the aircraft will have. The kit has decals for the Typhoon of R T P "Bob" Davidson, a rather swashbuckling Canadian ace (after being shot down, he joined a Maquis group and fought with them as a private for sometime, in addition to teaching them to play poker -- but not very well, apparently, as he won 5000 francs off of them) who also flew Blenheims over Crete and Hurricanes over Ceylon and had a remarkable set of two Italian, two Japanese, and one German aircraft claimed destroyed. He later flew Sabres on exchange with the USAF over Korea and claimed several MiG-15s damaged. I also have markings from a Techmod sheet for the white-nosed Typhoon R8781, in which several pilots scored claims totalling two and one shared Bf 109. I like this one just because I think the white nose is kind of novel, and will be interesting to paint. It's also an early enough Typhoon that I wouldn't need to add the tricky-looking photoetched fishplates that Brengun thoughtfully sells seperately from the kit at a rather premium price. Photos to come.

After the Mk.V floatplane (http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234947642-172-supermarine-spitfire-mkv-floatplane-by-brengun-released/), Brengun/Hauler (http://www.brengun.cz/) is to release a 1/72nd Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IXb Floatplane kit - ref.BRP72019 Source: https://www.facebook.com/440180076140646/photos/a.443370235821630.1073741831.440180076140646/465876970237623/?type=1&theater Box art V.P.

Hello and welcome to 2016! My last build from 2015, the first to be presented in the new year. Sword 1/72 Spitfire XVIe with photo etch from Brengun, Vacu canopy from Squadron and Decals from Xtradecals. Represents SM309/AU-H, “Panama Bound” of 421(Royal Canadian Air Force) Squadron in 1945. Flown by Flt.Lt. Richard “Hap” Beal. Painted with acrylics from Gunze/Mr.Hobby. Main Inspiration for this build was the model by Mr. Jekl, as seen on Britmodeller: http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234949348-supermarine-spitfire-mkxvi-172-sword/ Pictures by Wolfgang Rabel of IGM Cars & Bikes. Thanks for your interest, have a good start into the new year! Cheers from Vienna Roman

This is AZmodel's 72nd scale Boeing P-26. Brengun PE detail was added (mainly intererior), and resin Wasp engine from RADIAL ENGINES &WHEELS. This is a 'whif' (what if) project, story is: ... with the Canadian economy finally recovering from the Great Depression, the RCAF began pressing the government for the need to modernize their air force. Looking to their neighbours to the south, a deal was struck to procure a single aircraft for testing purposes. In exchange for the Peashooter, an undisclosed amount of beer, bacon and maple syrup was shipped across the border. regards, Jack

RS Model's 1/72 Regginae 2005 "Saggitarrio" in ANR Markings, 1944. Built with the addition of Brengun photo etch set. An attractive little short run kit. Thanks for your interest! Photographs: Wolfgang Rabel, IGM Cars & Bikes