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Aircraft Modeling / Heinkel He 111 K, Lindberg, 164
« on: December 03, 2018, 10:02:17 AM »
Hello all :-salut

Here is a new vintage kit that I built some months ago and finally finished in April 2018.
The scale is 1/64. It's impossible to tell what real version it is and it's the reason why I called it He 111 K K=Krieg or war in English). It must be said that at the beginning of the hidden Luftwaffe, military versions of "civil" aircraft were called "K version".
The kit is not very accurate and although appearing after 1958 in the Lindberg's catalogs I think it's older because compared to kits of 1958 it appears not to be "modern".
Wingspan is to the announced 1/64 scale but the too long glazed nose makes the fuselage to be at 1/60 scale ; the fuselage itself without the glazed nose is actually to 1/64 scale !
Apart of being in white, markings are accurate for the 9,/KG 1 Hindenburg. Old unuseable decals have been changed against modern ones.












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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Heinkel He 177 Greif Revell 1/72
« on: December 02, 2018, 09:42:09 AM »
Hello Mate,

It look like it was able to carry three guided bombs?

Yes, it was.
Jicéhem :-wave

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Heinkel He 177 Greif Revell 1/72
« on: December 01, 2018, 10:58:56 PM »
Hi mate, :-salut

Very beautiful job. Bravo !

Another very interesting "Greif", a photo of which I sent you where it is seen before becoming French ans now with new identity :
www.letletlet-warplanes.com/forum/makete-aviona-aircraft-modeling/heinkel-he-177-a-5-by-airfix-(172)/msg44899/#msg44899

Jicéhem :-wave

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Vought F4U-5N Corsair, Lindberg, 1/48
« on: December 01, 2018, 10:52:43 PM »
I think that the oldest kit here is the Vought F7U-1 Cutlass also by Lindberg :
www.letletlet-warplanes.com/forum/makete-aviona-aircraft-modeling/chance-vought-f7u-1-cutlass/msg36026/#msg36026

Jicéhem :-wave

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Aircraft Modeling / Vought F4U-5N Corsair, Lindberg, 1/48
« on: December 01, 2018, 06:29:29 PM »
Hello mates,

Here is a very old kit from Lindberg (Copyright date 1952 Inside the fuselage) that I first built between 1956 and 1960.

I present you the "motorized" version that I never got when I was a teenager and that I found without instructions ans decals...
Here is the result.

Markings are probably not very accurate but could have likely existed.

Artwork by Ray Gaedke :


With this kit, not only the plane must be built but also the electric motor :





Some pictures have been retouched to hide electric wires.









Jicéhem :-wave




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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Handley Page Halifax VII, Airfix, 1/72
« on: April 24, 2018, 10:45:35 AM »
Hello :-salut

Great work! It's so good to see a Halifax built--an unsung machine along with the Stirling.

Thank you Second Air Force. I've an Airfix Stirling in the making but far from being finished...

huh, lot of work ! fell out really nice, like it a lot !

Thank you modellius.

Jicéhem :_wave

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Hawker Tempest V, Heller 1/72
« on: April 22, 2018, 07:22:14 AM »
Hello mate,

I think I have seen photo of SD J but never know story behind it- great story and build  :-clap :-clap :-clap

Two tempest Vs of Régis Deleuze have been photographed : EJ589 SD°J and EJ599 SD°W. Some Tempests of 501 Sqn had been stripped of all camouflage paints to gain mph and wore black codes on natural metal.
http://www.letletlet-warplanes.com/forum/makete-aviona-aircraft-modeling/bare-metal-hawker-tempest-v/msg8808/#msg8808

Jicéhem :-wave

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Aircraft Modeling / Hawker Tempest V, Heller 1/72
« on: April 21, 2018, 11:12:09 PM »
Hello :-salut

Hawker Tempest V, EJ589, coded SD°J, was flown by Régis Deleuze, a French pilot fighting against buzz bombs when belonging to RAF 501 Squadron.
This pilot was never registered in the Free French Air Forces for the unique reason he was "too much young" when he tried to join FAFL (Forces aérienne françaises libres) on 23 June 1940 (He was born on 1 July 1922). So he joined the RAF Volunteer Reserves ans after his training, he was graduated Flight Lieutenant and joined the RAF 501 Sqn on 4 June 1943 where he flew Spitfire VBs in company of at least four other French pilots (from FAFL). When 501 Sqn was equipped with Tempest Vs its new rôle was to fight the V1 flying bombs. Between 7 August and 18 December 1944, Régis Deleuze won the distinction of shooting down eight "Malignant Robots" seven of which by night including two in the night of 14-15 October 1944 ! On 22 February 1945, Deleuze joined 274 Squadron based on continental Europe at B80 Volkel in Holland. The glorious career of Régis Deleuze sadly ended on 25 February 1945 when he was KIA, beeing shot down by Flak over Werkhoven, near Bunnik in the Netherlands. Although he was never an "FAFL" I think his place is among them... Since the end of the war he rests in Brussels.
His plane at RAF 501 Squadron :








Jicéhem :-wave


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I added the walkways... that I forgot to paint.


Jicéhem :-wave

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Messerschmitt Me 209 V1 (Special Hobby 1/72)
« on: April 21, 2018, 04:22:50 PM »
Hello :-salut

A great finished model.  :-clap :-clap

Cheers, :-wave

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Hawker Typhoon Ib, Airfix, 1/72
« on: April 20, 2018, 12:12:26 PM »
Thank you, Second Air Force.

Jicéhem :-wave

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Spitfire XIV (Fujimi 1/72)
« on: April 20, 2018, 09:40:22 AM »
Hello,

Nice work with great care to details.

Jicéhem :-wave

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Eduard Bf 109G Weekend Edition
« on: April 20, 2018, 09:36:39 AM »
Hi,

Beautiful work.

Jicéhem :-wave

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Handley Page Halifax VII, Airfix, 1/72
« on: April 20, 2018, 09:30:56 AM »
I simply rebuilt the missing plastic around the windows.

Jicéhem :-wave

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