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I've always liked the looks of the massive “Jug”, i.e. the barrel-shaped Republic Thunderbolt P-47D, and prefer its bubbletop version to the razorback one. The painting of the USAF Thunderbolts was very colorful at the end of the war, and the well-known "Tarheel Hal" is an excellent example of that. There is still an airworthy one in the USA, painted in that colourful “camo”. Tarheel Hal was the personal mount of Lt. Davis in the 9th Air Force, on the European theatre. Tar heel is the nickname given to the residents of North Carolina, and it is also used for students at the University of North Carolina. I built my model from the Academy kit, but I got the decals from the USA through one of the international model forums. The decals are probably from an old Hasegawa P-47D model that I believe is no longer available. For the modeI also used photoetch parts from Eduard. The kit was of good quality and I didn’t encoungter any problems in the assembly. I painted the metal colour fuselage and wings with Alclad aluminium after having primed the areas with Tamiya black rattle-can spray.
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The Renault FT-17 was a successful and innovative French tank of the WWI. It had a pioneering design in that the armament for the first time was housed in a fully rotating turret, These tanks were produced in great numbers at the end of the Great War and during the 1920's. Some 3.000 FT-17's were manufactured by French industry and the tank was also license built in many other countries. The Finnish army ordered the first FT-17's in 1919 and in total they operated 32 tanks (14 of the "male-type" with guns and 18 of the "female-type" with a machine guns in the turret). My 1/35 scale model depicts an unknown female-type French FT-17 of the Western Front. I built the tank 15 years ago from a Polish RPM kit. Its quality was awful. The fit of the parts poor and the plastic very brittle and the icing on the cake were the unclear instructions. Well, since at that time there were no other alternatives around and as I anyway wanted to model that tank type I was ready for the battle. Finally I made it but nearly threw in the towel a couple of times. From the aftermarket I also bought Eduard photoetches and Friulmodel tracks to enhance the beast. Luckily enough there are nowadays newer kits of the FT-17 with better quality on the market .
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The three engined Junkers Ju-52 nicknamed in German "Tante Ju" or Aunt Ju was in production between 1931 and -52. The very special feature of the plane was the corrugated duralumin skin that was used to strengthen the fuselage. In addition to the military transport operations of the Luftwaffe the plane type also flew with over 12 international airlines, one of them being the Finnish Aero Oy (nowadays Finnair). The company had five Ju-52's in their fleet. I built the plane named Kaleva (OH-ALL) from the Eduard 1/144 scale kit. This particular plane had a tragic history. On June 14, 1940, during peace time with the Soviet Union, it was en route from Tallinn to Helsinki when two Soviet DB-3 bombers approached it, opened fire and shot down the plane to the Gulf of Finland. All five passengers and two crew members were killed. Rumour has it that the plane was probably downed because of the confidential mail that the French diplomats carried on board. A Soviet submarine came to collect the documents from the debris. I built my model from an Eduard 1/144 scale kit that was of good quality and quite simple to build. I additionally bought an Eduard photoetch set to increase the detailing of the model. The decals for the Kaleva plane are from the Finnish Kuivalainen decals. The kit also contained masks for the complex cockpit windows. I painted clear gray curtains to the cabin windows and the extra thin antenna wire is a shingle of hair donated by my wife 🙂 I primed the model with Humbrol gloss black enamel and covered it then with Extreme metal's dark aluminium. OH-ALL at the newly inaugurated Helsinki-Malmi airport- 25 replies
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Good day all! Another one from the past when GWH kit did not exist and Monogram was the only game in town. Rescribing panel lines, a Falcon canopy and the Eduard photo etch did help to up grade the kit. A plane from the VT-6 from the Enterprise equipped with two eggs for the raid on Wake on the 24 Feb 42. Best regards. C49EA80D-D153-49EC-928F-50F14787F8AB by jean Barby, sur Flickr DD4B8E8A-458E-428A-BA48-0A5812390FFA by jean Barby, sur Flickr 0F8E0CC3-D85C-49AA-AE01-6702C89EF7A5 by jean Barby, sur Flickr BE1DA953-137E-4560-A533-A98C017F6685 by jean Barby, sur Flickr 1DAD6DB2-8549-439F-B180-BA84974E5D28 by jean Barby, sur Flickr
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This is my 1/48 scale Royal Canadian Air Force Piasecki H21C Shawnee or more commonly known as "the Flying Banana" A couple of years ago I had a period of interest in helicopter models and I wanted to build the Flying banana because of its curious looks and the colourful Canadian scheme. This helicopter type was widely used in the 1950's by the US army, and especially at the beginning the 1960's in the Vietnam war. This chopper was introduced in the maple leaf country in 1954 and its special assignments were search and rescue missions and special tasks in the Arctic areas. Because of the winterization of the chopper it could operate in sub-zero temperatures as low as -54 degrees centigrade. I built the model from a 1/48 scale Italeri kit which was quite ok, but not reaching tamigawa quality, though. There were some fit issues and quite a bit of sink marks and some flash. The RCAF decals for the colourful helicopter are from Belcher bits and I also used an Eduard photoetch set to enhance the details.
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I built this 1/35 scale Königstiger a couple of years ago from an old but a very detailed and high quality Tamiya kit. The model depicts the tank number 008 that belonged to the Kampfgruppe Peiper in the battle of the Ardennes. On December 20, 1944 the tank hit a land mine and had to be abandoned near the village of Trois Ponts. The kit was very detailed and the fit was perfect. I applied additional details to the model, e.g. Friulmodel tracks, an aluminium barrel and two photoetch detail sets from Eduard. I painted the camo with Vallejo acrylics and weathered the tank with oil colours, Mig pigments and Tamiya weathering sets.
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Hi all, good afternoon. This may be my last posting for a few weeks. I have been drafted in to redesign a kitchen and produce a foam core model. You know what women are like, don't know what they want until they see it........ So I'll be knee deep in paper and board for some time. Packed my model equipment away, for hot glue gun and tape..... But before my interim distraction, thought I'd pop this up. This one was languishing for some time. May 6+ years, but as I have no painting capabilities at present I persevered and got it to virtual primer state. All I have to fit are the two tools on the front, but that were misplaced in the recent clean up. The are somewhere in a tub or box somewhere...... Overall, quite a tough one to do the PE on. Rain channels were a real tough bend. And the hinges I realised mid pint when carving off the old one's, to leave the hinge level with the door etc; or they were difficult to sit, as bending them to met the change in door to body level was near impossible. So lesson learned for the future. My mini orbital sander was a god send to remove at the moulded detail before adding the PE upgrade. Stayed with the kit barrel, and drilled it out, along with the front and rear horn. My only negative are the vision ports and their fit into the main hull - really rough, but it is a kit from the 70's so not complaining too much. Anyway, here she is until the kitchen is done.......... See you soon..... Simon.
