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44-13691, G4-A "Passion Wagon". Pilot: 1st Lt. Arval J. "Robby" Roberson (6 kills), 362 Fighter Squadron, 357 Fighter Group, September 1944. Aircraft painted with British paints Dark Green and Medium Sea Grey. After Roberson left 357 FG "Passion Wagon" was flown by his wingman, 1st Lt. Charles E. "Chuck" Weaver, who added another two kill markings to the fuselage side. Later the airplane got a fin fillet and was reassigned to 364 FS and coded C5-V with name changed to "Gypsy", but still with Roberson's pin-up girl. Kit: Airfix, 1/72. Fin fillet removed. Drop tanks from Revell P-51C, decals:

My Airfix P-51D is ready for take-off: I will upload full gallery in the next few days. I need better weather to take photos.

Yes, but later she got the fillet. No problem at all. I did it about week ago on my "Passion Wagon" (soon now in the gallery). The Airfix fillet is full of plastic, so you can remove it without making a hole. I cut the fillet before I joined fuselage halves (for easier compare to drawings), but you can also do it afterwards. Then you just need to create correct shape (I did it with sand paper), fill some panel lines on the fin and create two new lines on each side.

i don't know if "clearly visible" is "obvious enough" for you. It is about the rear wall of wheel bay in the outer part of it. The wall is the front side of the wing spar and should be straight as is in Airfix kit. The spar should "disappear" deep inside the wing as it goes near the leg. Tamiya made it along the edge of the wing skin where it is clearly visible when you look inside the wheel bay. Who says Tamiya is horrible? I don't think so. Airfix is better in shape of MLG bay and that's all. Tamiya is still better in details of the bay.

I'm building it these days (airframe completed, today I'm closing the canopy and probably tomorrow I will start painting). I like the kit, although Tamiya is much better in details, panel lines and fit accuracy. On the other hand, Airfix is the only P-51 in 1/72 with correct shape of wheel bays. I have the "Red Tails" version, but I cut the dorsal fillet (there is enough plastic inside, so I didn't cut a hole doing it) and I will paint it DG/MSG as the "Passion Wagon". Dark camouflage should make the heavy panels less visible. BTW, I removed most of wing panel lines and the ones on the fabric

The larger stabs were retrofitted on older blocks too, but not on the J-252. It had small stabs until it's crash on October 4th, 1983.

Check the ventral fins. They should be tilted 10 deg from vertical. BTW., be careful when you will attach horizontal tailplanes (the bigger version). If you leave them as they are, you will get them about 3 mm too far forward.

Yes, Tamiya was wrong in many features of the FB387 scheme: White nose - missing White bands on wings and tailplane - missing Yellow bands on the leading edge - should reach to the fuselage White bomb markings - should be yellow Polish chessboard - should be on both sides Upper row of crosses - one cross is missing V-1 kill markings - totally wrong Wrong position of "PK-G" and roundel - should me more aft, with "G" touching the roundel and the Sky band Correct decal set for FB387 is produced by Techmod. They also have decals for FB382 with D-Day stripes.

My first Phantom I made from Novo (ex-Frog) kit in late 1980s: The kit is F-4K/M and I painted it as F-4B, but I didn't care much about such details those days. It had no decals, so I took stars and bars from other kit and painted the rest directly on the model. I had no authentic colours for the scheme. Modelling paints were hardly available in Poland, so I took the paint I had: the white was from a big can used to paint window frames in my house. The light grey was the same white paint with a few drops of black. All brush-painted. The fuel tank I turned using big lathe in my technical s

it is always nice to see Polish markings on a foreign model. Thank you for the pleasure. I also appreciate your build, especially knowing the kit's poor quality. But FYI - Poland never used MiG-19S. We had radar versions: MiG-19P and MiG-19PM.

The first test aircraft, no. 46-062, famous of the first supersonic flight (piloted by Charles 'Chuck' Yeager, 1947.10.14). Named "Glamorous Glennis" for Yeager's wife. The aircraft flown 80 times taking off with B-29, but she also made one ground take off (1949.01.05, Ma=1,03). 46-062's top speed was Ma=1,45, achieved in diving. The other pilots of the aircraft were: Jack Woolams, Chalmers Goodlin, James Fitzgerald, Gustav Lundquist, Jack Ridley, Albert Boyd, Frank Everest, Patrick Fleming and Richard Johnson. The last flight (1950.05.12) was made for the "Jet Pilot" movie. Currently the X-1

Here is page 2 for you. And below (click the photo) is my Monogram SCAMP corrected according to the article.

I think you can say so. I have 9 F-16s finished, 2 on my workbench (they will be Polish F-16C and D) and 5 in stash (and probably will be more).

Aircraft built by Fokker as F-16B Block 15 80-3692 for Royal Norwegian Air Force (RNoAF). Served in skvadrons 334, 331 i 332, and currently in 338. In the 90-ties it was upgraded to Block 20 MLU. Since 2007 is painted as "Arctic Tiger" and is frequently seen at "Tiger Meets" and other air shows. Model captures F-16BM no. 692 with AMRAAM and IRIS-T missiles and Pantera/Sniper pod - as it was shown at Royal International Air Tattoo at Fairford, July 2010. Kit: Revell 1/72. Decals: Model Alliance Decals. AMRAAMs: Hasegawa Aircraft Weapons V. IRIS-T missiles from Revell's Eurofighter. Pantera/

Second prototype of F-16 (72-1568), winner of LWF (Lightweight Fighter) program. First flown on May 9th, 1974 by Neal Anderson. Initially painted in Cloud scheme (off-wite and light blue), in March 1975 repainted in two-tone gray Ghost scheme. It was used for stores tests. On May 8th 1975 YF-16 #2 had landing gear failure and belly landed on grass area. It was rebuilt, but never flown again. Kit: Design (Academy/Hasegawa) 1/72. Fin: Revell. Fuel tanks: Monogram (from F-16XL kit). Mavericks: Hasegawa (Aircraft Weapons IV).

Yeah, me too. Currently I'm finishing the second prototype. Here it is photographed a few days ago: Currently it has decals, flat finish and weapons attached. Will be completed tomorrow, I think. Yes, here it is: But be careful - some editions of the kit had decals for second prototype in "cloud" scheme only: Both decals can be used also for "ghost gray" scheme.

The FS36375 and FS36270 are OK for camouflage. Radome is painted FS36270 too, but the colour varies in time - it usually gets darker. FS36118 is OK for 40XX numbers and stencils. There is also an issue of dark "outlines" around camouflage areas. I'm not sure how they were created, but I suppose that the airframes were painted FS36375 overall, then darker areas were painted with a thin layer of FS36270 with soft edges, and finally the outlines were painted with the same colour, but a bit harder edges and less translucent layer (maybe with narrower nozzle, closer to the surface, with slower mov

I tried to replicate the photo using my model and two ECM pods: a "noname" from Academy YF-16 kit (shorter) and AN/ALQ-119 from Hasegawa Weapons IV (longer): My YF-16 with Academy pod: ...and with Hasegawa pod: And detailed comparison: Do you still think it is AN/ALQ-119? Sure, I know this site. -119 is visible under FSD aircraft and YF-16 mounted on a pylon and you can clearly see that it is longer than the one above.

Hello, I'm working on second prototype of YF-16 (Academy 1/72) in this variant: My question is: what is the ECM pod under the fuselage? It looks like AN/ALQ-101 or early AN/ALQ-119, but is shorter (it ends close behind MLG wells, as full lenght 101/119 would end between ventral fins). Was such shorter version of the pods really existing or maybe it is something else? Additional question: what kind of centerline pylon could be used for the ECM pod here? Standard fuel pylon or a smaller one, as for present F-16s with AN/ALQ-131? Any info, especially photos of two-tone grey YF-16 with weapo

I built this model a few years ago, but it needed some corrections. This is how it was looking about month ago: The fin base had wrong shape - it was clearly visible when the base was painted blue. The nose was canted up a little - my mistake. The prototype was standing in the back of my display cabinet. Finally I decided to correct the fin. I bent it a few times until it fell off, cut the base from the upper part and added some plastic between them to get correct angles. Then I realized that the new shape is almost the same as fin of the production F-16A/B. I found a statement in the net t

Yes, it is. I just had to change the painting scheme, because for me the early Zeros should be grey and I should not have three Zeros painted the same way. I don't understand why Airfix gave only one, a little strange scheme in its new kit. Thank you and all other guys commenting the model. Some Techmod set are hard to fit into surface, but I had no case of total failure. You can check how many times I used Techmod decals and see the results on my website (enter "techmod" in the search field). I use Gunze decal fluid Mr. Mark Setter and usually (also in case of A6M2) it was enough. If is

It's not a 'look like effect', it's a reality. I put the model onto a stand (a "crocodile" attached to a wingtip), camera was on tripod with self-timer set to 10 sec. After 8 sec camera beeps and I start to blow into the propeller. That's all.

D-ACFA, Eurowings airline. On December 21st, 2009 I was traveling onboard of D-ACFA on route Frankfurt-Wroclaw.

03-09, 203 Kokutai, pilot: Takeo Tanimizu (32 air victories). Kiusiu, Japan, June 1945. Kit: HobbyBoss (1/72). Hinomarus painted with templates.