Darko Mladenovic I am 31 years old and live in Belgrade, Serbia. I've been modeling for about 15 years, on and off. While I'm happy to build anything, my interests lie primarily in 1/48 scale aircraft. I concentrate on WW2 subjects, although I'm also interested in WW1, early Jet Age and commercial aviation. Since my early days I have build over 150 models but also had a break for about 7 years without modeling. Before my break I was attending all the modeling contests in Serbia and won a quiet few prizes, I was also a referee on modeling competitions in Serbia. Currently I am working on my diploma at the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering at the University of Belgrade at the department of Air Transport and Traffic Engineering.

The work on construction of Airport Batajnica begun back in 1947 and lasted until 1951, when the airport became operational. The airport was projected to have one grass and two asphalt runways. Traditionaly this airport is a base for the units in-charge for the defending of Belgrade. Batajnica airbase suffered heavy [...]

The Polikarpov I-16 was a Soviet fighter aircraft of revolutionary design; it was the world’s first all- metal cantilever-winged monoplane fighter with retractable landing gear. I-16 was introduced in the mid 1930s and formed the backbone of the Soviet Air force at the beginning of WW II. I-16 had a surprisingly long career from its [...]

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The newest kit in Eduard’s 1/48 scale weekend edition is the beautiful Fw-190A-5 kit no 8430 released during the March 2008. Kit is presented in a beautiful box with simple but effective illustration of 5/JG 54 aircraft from the Eastern front in summer 1943. But it is when you open the box when a great [...]

The first time you see new Eduard’s F6F-3 Hellcat kit in 1/48 scale all you can say is Wow, excellent kit that Eduard provided with everything it needs. But Eduard went one step further and released the new 49411 self adhesive set. Set contains two photo etched fret with total of 122 parts and a [...]