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Advancing from D.II to D.III, Albatros’ engineer Robert Thelen kept good fuselage of D.II and had changed wings to known Nieuports’ sesquiplane style with V-struts. Unfortunately he coppied also weakness of this wing form, and it required careful piloting to avoid the risk of wing failures… When in beginning of 1917. D.III type became obsolete [...]

One little big thing released in the November from Eduard was small masks for the Messerschmitt Bf109G-6 fighter in 1/72 scale. This mask are intended to be used for the latest Airfix kit of this plane and they have stock number CX247. Masks are made from the well known yellow self adhesive material and precisely [...]

The Blaník entered production in 1958 and quickly gained popularity as an inexpensive, rugged and durable type, which was easy to fly and operate. It was widely adopted in the Eastern bloc and was exported in large numbers to Western Europe and North America. Total production was in excess of 2650, or more than 3000 [...]

The Boulton Paul P.111 was a British experimental delta-wing aircraft built for the Air Ministry in order to confirm, investigate and develop the design ideas captured from the Germans at the end of the Second World War. The P.111 was designed as the smallest airframe which could couple Rolls-Royce Nene jet engine and Martin Baker [...]

The Ikarus IK-2 was a high-wing, all-metal, single seat, monoplane fighter aircraft designed as a private venture by Kosta Sivčev and Ljubomir Ilić. The prototype, designated the IK-L1, of the design was ordered from Ikarus A.D. in 1934, and was delivered for test in 1935. Captain Leonid Bajdak, a biplane advocate, tested the IK-1 in [...]

Corsair quick mask CX182 1/72
Standard feature of all “Eduard” scale kit is the small sheet of protective mask. For a years modelers search for the best solution to protect most sensitive area of their kit- plastic transparencies. The same protection is not problem during the same stage of assembly but becoming more critical in the [...]

“Il Gobo” is the nick for the one of the most famous Italian combat plane Savoia Marcheti SM. 79 Sparviero [Hawk]. This bomber starts its operational carrier just some before the World War 2 and briefly performs first line combat action until the capitulation of Italy. For the many researchers and historian this is still [...]

Airacuda

This 1:72 Airacuda is built from the Rareplanes vacform kit, long out of production. The shapes are quite accurate and the moulding was covered in fine raised detail. However, this had to be removed due to the large amounts of filler and sanding required to blend the shapes in, especially around the wing roots. The [...]