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This is the Display Case. To be eligable for a prize you must post your completed model in this thread.

There's only a couple of rules;

1 - Please post between 2-5 pictures of your build.

2 - Please state the kit manufacturer, scale, aircraft type and operator in your post (e.g. Eduard 1/48 MiG-21 of the Ethiopian Air Force).

Vince

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Here's my 1/144th Attack L-39 in Nigerian AF markings.

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EDIT. Since finishing this build, I decided to go back and add scratch built pitot tubes (?) to the wings, which are very prominent on the L-39.

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John

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Nice job on all your aircraft! Very productive start to this group build! Do you have any specific books you use as refrerence material? I just picked up "Soviet and Russian Military aircraft in Africa" and I quite like it.

Anything else you've got planned? Again, nice job on all.

Paul

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SAAF Mirage F.1CZ #213, some time after Johan Rankin's first air to air kill in 1981 (thus the Angolan roundel kill marking on the nose), with a typical CAP loadout used during the Border War (2x R550, centreline drop tank). 1/72 Airfix kit with MAV Decals decals.

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Finally done! The decals gave me all my days! I made them myself and after 4 reprints I am happy with the results. I bought the springbok castles at a hobby shop in Johannesburg a few weeks ago. They are quite old but still looks good!

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Also did not add enough weight in the nose so she's a tail sitter :bandhead2:/> !

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Neall's Chariot.....Mi-24V Hind-E SL-202 of the Seirra Leone Air Force, as flown by Neall Ellis during contra-RUF operations, 2001.

This is the Hobbyboss 1/72 scale kit with decals from the HobbyCraft "War on Terror" Hind kit. The pilot's door came from the Italeri kit after I modified the kit canopy and fuselage to display the pilot's door open. The door piston was scratch-built. The rear mounted flare dispenser box came from the Hasegawa Mi-24 Hind-E kit (it's actually a Hind-F, not an E). The flare box straps are pieces of painted tape.

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Sir, I love your Hind. Tres Bien.

Ok.. I have scraped in by the skin of my teeth!

My Eduard 1/144 Mig21MF with JBRDecals of Somalia that I have tried to get looking forlorn and faded/weathered. I hope I got close... :)

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yes, I know.. i would rather take photographs during the day instead of lit with a single 54W bulb. ugh

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Hi, she could be the last to enter the extended period !

So she is a 1/72 Airfix De Havilland Vampire T Mk. 11 from No.2 Squadron Rhodesian Air Force in 1968. Decals came from Xtracolor X72-174 sheet and paints are Gunze.

Patrick

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