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Aircraft Modeling / Asymetric bird...

« on: September 10, 2008, 03:27:00 PM »

Hi,

This is the Airfix kit in 1/72 scale.
I had already built this kit in 1970 and this one was made more recently and finished in April 2002 after I had written a article in the Aéro-Journal reviw... Thanks to the documents I had gathered.
I like this airplane and I never found the kit in 1/48 scale...

Cheers,
Jicehem

212

Aircraft Modeling / Fw 190 D-9 from Airfix

« on: September 10, 2008, 03:18:22 PM »

Hi,

I had already made very old Airfix's and the Lindberg's ones (both not very accurate) before the year of 1969... There has been also the not very accurate Hasegawa's.
This one from Airfix is a new moulding from the year 1978 and it's accurate enough to be built from the box. The only improvement is a sliding canopy.
This one has been made in 1989.

Cheers,
Jicehem

213

Aircraft Modeling / Grumman F9F-9 Tiger

« on: September 10, 2008, 03:05:55 PM »

Hi,

The second prototype of the Grumman Tiger, which, at the time was still called F9F-9... before becoming the F11F.
The kit is from Lindberg in 1/48 scale of the 1950's. It's a very accurate kit in shape and dimensions, a fact seldom to be seen at this time...

Cheers,
Jicehem

214

Aircraft Modeling / Heinkel He 162 A-2 Spatz from Frog

« on: September 10, 2008, 03:01:16 PM »

Hi,

The very old Frog kit of the "Spatz".

Cheers,
Jicehem

215

Aircraft Modeling / The first turbojet plane to fly...

« on: September 10, 2008, 02:55:58 PM »

Hi,

The Heinkel He 178 V1 from 12 Square models in 1/72 scale.

Natural metal (alu and steel made with Humbrol Metalcoat)

Cheers, Jicehem

216

Aircraft Modeling / Focke Wulf Fw 190 D-9s

« on: September 08, 2008, 10:06:31 PM »

Hi,

Cheers,
Jicehem

217

Aircraft Modeling / Focke Wulf Fw 190 A-8/R2 in 1/72 scale

« on: September 08, 2008, 10:01:27 PM »

Hi,

This the Airfix Fw 190 A-8/F-8 kit improved with a sliding canopy and a lot of refined details.
The model has been hand-painted.
The plane belonged to II./JG 300.

Cheers,
Jicehem

218

Aircraft Modeling / French Spitfire XVI

« on: September 08, 2008, 09:56:55 PM »

Hi,

A Spitfire XVI from the French GC 2/2 Berry.
This the Otaki's Spitfire VIII modified into a Spitfire XVI with the all-around canopy and the fuselage back of the Airfix's Spitfire 24.

Unfortunately,I've only one picture of this model...

Cheers,
Jicehem

219

Aircraft Modeling / French Spitfire Vc

« on: September 08, 2008, 09:50:51 PM »

Hi,

A Spitfire Mk Vc from GC 2/7.

Jicehem

220

Aircraft Modeling / Aboukir Spifire

« on: September 08, 2008, 09:46:09 PM »

Hi,

Now, the "Aboulir Spitfire" from Airfix in 1/48 scale.

I have to say that all my models are hand-painted.

Cheers,
Jicehem

221

Aircraft Modeling / The world's first vacu-formed kit...

« on: September 08, 2008, 06:23:24 PM »

Hi,

Here is a kit which was part of a series of six vacu-formed kits from the French manufacturer Ventax of Paris and issued in December 1959/January 1960.
I show you the SO 9050 Trident II in about 1/100 scale.
I found five of those kits some years ago and built only this one. Decals were unusable...

The finished model :

Cheers,
Jicehem

222

Aircraft Modeling / Yakovlev Yak 3 of Normandie-Niemen Squadron

« on: September 08, 2008, 06:03:21 PM »

Hi,

The Eduard's kit in 1/48 scale.
This is the plane of Ltt Marchi, the "stunt flyer" of Normandie Niemen...
Markings were made from photos.

Cheers,
Jicehem

223

Aircraft Modeling / Republic XF-91 Thunderceptor

« on: September 08, 2008, 05:47:24 PM »

This is the very old Lindberg's kit issued in the early 1950s...
Two kits have been necessary to improve accuracy and to modify into the Butterfly Tail model.

Bare metal finish has been obtained thanks to Humbrol "Polished aluminium" itself polished with aluminium powder.

Cheers,
Jicehem

224

Aircraft Modeling / Another ANR's plane...

« on: September 08, 2008, 03:27:03 PM »

Hi,

A Bf 109 G-10 (Erla production) of the ANR.
This is the old Revell's Bf 109 G-10 issued in 1978...

Cheers,
Jicehem

225

Aircraft Modeling / Macchi MC 205 Veltro 1/48

« on: September 08, 2008, 12:26:50 AM »

Hi,

An old kit from Tauro, not very easy to buid... and made in April 1994.

Cheers,
Jicehem