JWM Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 (edited) Hi, From a deep part of my archive shelves - a set of two Romanian and two Yugoslavian fighters: IAR 80 is a vacu by Formaplane, I made it about 1980. Markings of 1st Air Corps of Royal Romanian AF, UKraine 1943 Heinkel He 122 B1 is a Heller kit, Royal Romanian AF, Bessarabia, 1941. I made it also about 1980. Rogozarski IK 3 is also a vacu by Formaplane, I made it also about 1980, markings are of pilot D.Borcic, 51st Fighter Group RYAF, Zemun n. Beograd, 1941 Ikarus IK 2 is a scratch build, I made it about 1990, markings are from 34th Fighter Group RYAF, Bosanski Alexandrovac, 1941 They are far from modern standards, but just to share with some rare objects... Comments welcome Regards Jerzy-Wojtek IAR 80 He 112 B1 IK 3 And IK 2 Thank you or watching Edited August 9, 2017 by JWM Switch to Flickr 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commontsar Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 These are awesome. I actually really need to do a few of these myself. Brilliant work! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BerndM Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Nice builds, your display cabinet is full of "exotic" types, very nice. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiton Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Very interesting models! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch K Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Smashing. I will have to add builds of all of these types myself - one day! In the mean time, thanks for the inspiration! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire31 Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 A very interesting range of models there! The IAR 80 with it's air of deady competence, the shapely but not very successful Heinkel 112, the IK-3 that looks vaguely like a French design and, a favourite, the graceful IK-2. I wouldn't mind an Eduard 1:48 kit of the IK-2… ;-) Excellent modelling, especially considering most of them are vacforms or scratch built. Thanks for showing them! Kind regards, Joachim 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted March 7, 2015 Author Share Posted March 7, 2015 Thank you Gentelmen for very nice comments. I considered some of them the one of most interesting models in my collection due to their rarity - but now IAR is produced by A-model and both IKs by Czech companies. BTW - the IK2 model from Azur-Fromm has one important flaw (despite the fact, that generally looks better then my scratch...) - the wings are too flat. Since the chord of the wind is very different, and the profile is constant, the thickness of wing change also a lot, with the maximum on some distance from fuselage. And this is not reproduced in this kit - the wing is almost flat, at least in models I've seen posted on photos. I agree with Joachim, that IK-3 (but also IK-2) looks a bit like a French designs. Perhaps it is partially due to Hispano-Suiza engines. By the way - I hope that the relation between IAR-80 and Polish PZL-24 is well known (if not - the IAR was developed from PZL fighter in this sense that used complete rear part of fuselage with all tail and the same engine) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fin Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Cool subject and an awesome collection! I`ve really enjoyed watching them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted March 11, 2015 Author Share Posted March 11, 2015 Thank you Fin J-W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevej60 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Some beautifully built rare birds there! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted March 12, 2015 Author Share Posted March 12, 2015 Thank you Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winenut Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Thank you for posting these builds. It's really great to see the kits that we built in our youth (not many survived!) and the interesting subjects and schemes make it even better. My favourite is the He 112 B1...very nice winter camo and some lovely weathering as well. Cheers Bruce 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted March 12, 2015 Author Share Posted March 12, 2015 Thank you Winenut - I think so also - the He 112 looks much better - more tidy then other. The Heller kit, even with rised but very fine lines is much subtle in details than Formaplane's vacus or my scratch. I like it still also. But the others were much more challanging, so even if the results is not excellent I have good feelings about them... Cheers - and thanks again J-W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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