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Hello Britmodellers, This 'easy assembly' kit was entered in the ww2gb hosted by Rob Arnehov. Mostly built out of the box, with a few detail improvements and new decals. Thanks for watching! Luka

Hello everyone! This one has been languishing in my stash since I bought it back in 2011, waiting for the day I had the tools and skills to build it. I started work on it last year along with a 1/72 Airfix Bf 109E kit that represents another Royal Bulgarian Air Force (VnVV) airplane. Whereas I went into the 109 build with the aim of super detailing it, the Dewoitine was something of a relaxed out of the box build. Funnily enough, it probably ended up the better model! The RSModels kit is a new tool short run from 2011 that comes in several boxings with different decals. Apparently typical of the company, it was very accurate compared to the drawings I had, very fine engraved panel lines, lots of details, no attachment pins, some flash, and generally quite difficult to assemble. I added only minor improvements - seatbelts and some detail in the cockpit, replaced the pitot tube and antenna mast with brass and steel pieces respectively, drilled out the exhausts. As noted, assembling the fuselage turned out to be a bit of a pain and I had quite a bit of sanding to do to get a flush seam - unfortunately, it's still noticeable just in front of the canopy when seen under bright light... I bought this boxing that contains two, generally correct, paint schemes for VnVV aircraft but I wanted something more unusual, so I went for the excellent paint scheme in Denes Bernad' "Bulgarian Fighter Colors, 1919-1948, Vol. II" depicting Green 4 from 652 yato, 2/6 orlyak flown by poruchik Hristo Petrov in October 1944 - rather shamefully, photographed from several angles overturned on its propeller blades after a botched landing! Bulgaria received 100 newly built D.520s in the late summer of 1943. There's quite a debate on whether these were painted in French or German camouflage or something in between. Given that the planes were produced in 1943 and the plethora of available photos of Bulgarian D.520s, I went for the typical Luftwaffe mid-war colors RLM 74/75/76 but in a camo pattern typical of the Armee de L'Air D.520s from 1940 with added mottling. Spinner is painted Black Green RLM 70 and the blades are bare metal. I hand painted the service numeral with a mix trying to match the somewhat teal tinted green on the Bulgarian flag - there's no documentation what the exact shade of green that 652 yato used on their planes was but it's clearly a lot brighter than RLM 70. As the planes were new, I went for somewhat subdued weathering - Green 4 wasn't seriously damaged when overturned and returned to service a week later. Poruchik Hristo Petrov would fly against the USAAF strategic bombers over Bulgaria in 1943 - 1944 on the D.520, later the Bf 109G, and finally against the German after September 1944. He participated in numerous air engagements and is credited with one seriously damaged enemy a/c. To my honest surprise, this little fella took third place last week during the XVIth Scale Model Expo organized by the Bulgarian Scale Model Club! Cockpit WIP - forgot to take photos of the completed thing before I closed the canopy! He's a photo from the expo (where that nasty seam line in front of the canopy is visible, sigh😞

Hello everyone … I am finally able to throw a build into the mix. I will be using the Hasegawa D.520 that was re-popped by Hobby2000 recently. Of all the pre-war/early war French fighters these are the most Attractive to my eyes. I will be doing this scheme as its been on my wants list forever. Please feel free to ask questions, post comments or add thoughts. Dennis

My other finished build after the Beaufighter. Its the re-boxing of Hasegawa’s Dewoitine D.520 by Hobby2000. It was completed as part of the French Fancy group build. Ive opted to go with the scheme used by one in Syria circa 1942. Please feel free to ask questions, post comments or visit my build thread. Dennis