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VOLUME 18 ISSUE 10
So Much To SEE
H
ot on the heels of our MCAS
Yuma Airshow feature, we begin
the irst of our regular UK show
commentaries with our own roving
reporter Chris Ayre, guiding us
through the delights of RAF Cosford’s
2019 event. Look out for more of the
same from RNAS Yeovilton and RIAT
over the coming issues. It’s also good
to have an airshow performer in scale,
and that’s exactly what we have in the
shape of the Belgian Air Force’s F-16AM
‘Dark Falcon, as lown by Stefan ‘Vador’ Darte,
with great aplomb. Plus, the aircraft is superbly
marked, and brought to life in miniature by
Fabian Flemming with his 1:48 Kinetic build!
It’s also good to report on a new RAF type
being on show for the irst time amid much Morrisey to the MAM thing you can rely on in MAM
anticipation and excitement with the F-35B team with his ‘Midway is a wide variety of subject, top
Lightning – and in the hover too! More on that Warrior’ build of the Czech Models quality builds and plenty of
coming soon. Elsewhere this month assistant Brewster Bufalo. Also look out for inspiration. So, all that remains
editor Jezz Coleman takes a look at the recent a colourful Ethiopian Firely form for me to say is……
Airix Spitire FR Mk.XIV, and Ian Gaskell leads Jeroen Burger and take some ‘Greek
the way with his Supersonic SAAB as he builds Lessons’ with Rene Van Der Hart Happy Modelling
the Tarangus Viggen. We also welcome Rafe and his Hellenic T-2 Buckeye. One

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6 SUPERSONIC SAAB
JA 37 Viggen
Supersonic SAAB
Ian Gaskell details the 1:48 Tarangus JA 37 Viggen
T
his particular Viggen is
the JA-37, this example
being a test aircraft
for the JA-37Di’s
development. The kit
itself is the Tarangus 1:48 JA-37 to
which I added lots of aftermarket
goodies, especially resin bits.
One of the irst things I noticed
was a lack of rivet detail. Looking at
reference photographs
of both the natural
metal and grey
schemes, that detail is
quite noticeable. So,
using those images
as a guide, I added
some rivet detailing
some riveting tools.
But to begin I worked
in the cockpit. This was assembled, primed,
and painted light grey. The Maestro Models
etched cockpit set looked very nice and with
some careful painting, the instrument panels
I ADDED LOTS OF
AFTERMARKET GOODIES,
ESPECIALLY RESIN BITS
6 Supersonic SAAB
Ian Gaskell details the 1:48 Tarangus JA 37 Viggen
50 F2A-3 BREWSTER BUFFALO
Buffalo Soldier
Building Czech Model’s 1:32 F2A-3 Midway Warrior by Rafe Morrissey
T
he Brewster F2A-3 Bufalo is one of
the most maligned US Navy aircraft
of World War II. The Marine pilots
lying it sufered crippling losses
in the Battle of Midway in June
1942 losing thirteen of the nineteen aircraft
engaged. The type was quickly withdrawn
from combat service and relegated to training
units. I have come to believe, however,
that the poor reputation of the aircraft was
more a function of the lack of experience
of the nonetheless brave pilots who lew
it at Midway and, perhaps, the work of the
Grumman public relations department whose
competing design, the F4F-3 Wildcat, is now
viewed as the plane that held the line against
the Japanese onslaught. A comparison of the
performance statistics and armament of the
50 Lockheed PV-1Bufalo Soldier
Building Czech Model’s 1:32 F2A-3 Midway
Warrior by Rafe Morrissey
35 MODEL AIRCRAFT MANUAL
- Brazilian Jet Trainer
Mario Serelle guides you through building
and painting the 1:48 Esci AT-26 Xavante
matched up well. Once itted, a coat
of Gloss was applied, followed
by a wash, to bring out the
details. A matt coat was then
sprayed on, and the last thing
was some light dry-brushing.
Moving onto the seat, I used a
superb example from CMK. The
detail was extremely crisp, dare I
say better than Aires and Quickboost?
The main seat colour
was light grey, and the
details were picked out
with Hataka Blue Line
acrylics. The completed
cockpit was then itted
two types reveals that they were very close
in most of the key areas. On the other hand,
most of the Marine pilots at Midway lacked
combat experience having been posted to
what was assumed to have been a rear area for
training and many of the more experienced
pilots transferred to other units shortly before
the battle. Few were equipped to match the
irst team of Japanese naval aviators who
had amassed years of experience or had the
beneit of the tactical recommendations by
the US Navy’s Jimmy Thatch in team tactics
and avoiding dogights that played to the
strengths of the superior A6M zero. The Bufalo
design saw great success by the Finnish Air
Force, but Brewster was plagued by labour and
production issues that limited its potential.
That is not to say that the Bufalo, or the
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Manufacturer: Tarangus
Scale: 1:48
Kit Type: Plastic injection moulded
Kit Number: 48003
into the fuselage halves, along with engine.
Next came the wheels. These were Reskit resin
parts, which are just fantastic. Each wheel
comes as three-pieces, the tyre, and either
side of the hubs. These were all painted and
weathered separately before assembling.
The undercarriage legs were also given some
extra detailing, by way of some lead wire, to
represent the hoses. These were then painted,
weathered and put to one side for later.
Coming back to the fuselage, I itted the
windshield and then attached some CMK
resin canards and itted their control surfaces
slightly drooped. The canards are great, but the
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Wildcat for that matter, were world beaters,
but it would be interesting to see how it might
have fared with the types of slashing attacks
and beam defence tactics that allowed the F4F-
3 to put up a respectable ight.
The Czech Model F2A-3 is a derivative of the
Bufalo kits boxed by Special Hobby marketed
in partnership with Squadron and contains
parts to build either the F2A-3 or the RAAF/
USAAF Model 339-23. It is a multi-media kit
with a mixture of plastic, resin and photo-etch
(non-pre-painted) parts. Overall, the kit is
well engineered with relatively crisp surface
engraving. Most of the internal assemblies rely
on a fairly equal mixture of resin, photo-etch
and plastic details while injected plastic parts
comprise the basic airframe. There is a lot of
detail provided for the radio area behind the
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downside is that they are band of orange, around the nose, just forward
very fragile on the leading of the canopy. When dry, the band was masked
edge. Then the moulded of, and the exposed orange was given a coat
control surfaces, on the of primer. On the underside, the speed brakes
wings, were removed and were sprayed red, and again, masked of. Now I
replaced with a Maestro could put some colour down. For the underside
Models resin set. Also, the I used Light Gull Grey and the upper surfaces,
vertical stabiliser was itted at Dark Ghost Grey. This was followed by some
I used a superb this point. Next, the wheel bays post-shading, by adding a small amount of white
seat from CMK were painted Aluminium, and to each of the respective greys. The port side
then along with the insides of of the tail in was painted mid to light blue and
the intakes, they were masked similarly post shaded. I wanted to achieve the
of and then the fuselage was well weathered look of this particular Viggen,
primed with UMP Black. When the so I added some black to the grey’s shades. This
primer was fully dried, I sprayed a mix was also thinned out to around 20:80, in
favour of thinner. A low pressure of about 10psi
was used too, as I didn’t want to overdo the
efect. Then, using my reference photographs,
I set about ‘dirtying’ up the airframe. On the
undersides, various shades of brown were
misted-on, trailing from some of the panel joints
where the engine was. Once dry, a Gloss coat
was added to seal this in.
I then stated on the various pods, which
were all resin items from Maestro Models. They
include a jamming pod, along range camera,
a night reconnaissance pod, and chaf pods.
There was also a centre line fuel tank and a pair
of AIM-9P Sidewinder’s from one of Meng-
Models excellent weapons sets, and the detail
on these was just fantastic. Both the camera
and recce pods had their pylons cast with the
pod itself and were mounted either side of the
fuel tank. Whilst this seemed like a good idea,
the pylons were the wrong shape, so I again
turned to Maestro Models, however, these
had a straight mounting surface, again
incorrect! The kit ones, obviously, have
the correct contoured mounting surface,
to match the shape of the fuselage, so
the answer was to rescribe the kit pylons
and add the rivet detail. They were then
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I recommend joining the tail to the
fuselage as the irst order of business
Multiple paint layers and liquid
masking applied with a sponge
creates a realistic chipped efect on the
seat. (Note: I had the control column on
F2A-3 Brewster Buffalo
Manufacturer: Czech Models
Scale: 1:32
backwards at irst but turned it around Kit Type: Plastic injection moulded
180 degrees before inal assembly) Kit Number: 3201
The instrument panel is
composed of a laminate
of plastic, clear ilm and
photo-etch. With careful
dry brushing, oil washes
and applications of
pigments, the cockpit
really comes to life
I used Ammo by MIG Engine Grime
and a toothpick to lick it over the
surface of the gear bay bulkhead
and details to replicate oil and
grease thrown from the engine
and accessory components
7 12 COMBAT ZONE – THE YAK-130
r
Advanced Traine
0
The Yak-13
T
he Yakovlev Yak-130 (NATO reporting
name ’Mitten’) is a subsonic two-
seat advanced jet trainer and light
ighter originally developed
by Yakovlev and Aermacchi. It
has also been marketed as a potential light
attack aircraft. Development began in 1991
and the maiden light was conducted on
25 April 1996, and in 2002, it won a Russian
government tender for training aircraft, and
in 2009 the aircraft entered service with
the Russian Air Force. As an advanced training
aircraft, the Yak-130 is able to replicate the
characteristics of several 4+ generation
ighters as well as the ifth-generation Sukhoi
Su-57 and can also perform light-attack and
reconnaissance duties. In the early 1990s,
the Soviet government asked the industry
to develop a new aircraft to replace the
Czech-made Aero L-29 Delfín and Aero L-39
IN ADDITION TO ITS TRAINING ROLE, THE AIRCRAFT IS
CAPABLE OF CARRYING A COMBAT LOAD OF 6,600 POUNDS
12 Combat Zone - The Yak-130
Advanced Trainer
Snorre Sandviken builds the 1:48 Kitty Hawk
Yak-130
51 56 F-16AM NATO VIPER
‘Dark Falcon’
Fabian Flemming builds the
Belgian Air Force’s F-16 display bird
using the 1:48 Kinetic F-16AM
O
ne of the most spectacular airshow
performers of the past few years has
been the Belgian F-16 ‘Dark Falcon’,
lown by Stefan ‘Vador’ Darte, a great
pilot and all-round nice guy as well.
I really wanted to build this aircraft and at the
end of 2018 the Syhart Decals announced they
were releasing a 1:48 set for the ‘Dark Falcon’
and I pre-ordered before its release! On arrival I
was really stunned by the quality the decals, and
they came with a very nice masking set for the
underside of the airplane, and being printed by
Cartograph in Italy, they were really excellent.
My kit choice was the 1:48 Kinetic F-16AM for
two reasons. First is that it is the most detailed
F-16AM in that scale and the second reason was
that I had already built this model several times
before, so I knew the mistakes, and what to look
out for. I also decided to use an Eduard coloured
etch set for the cockpit and seat, as although
F-16AM NATO Viper
Manufacturer: Kinetic
Scale: 1:48
Kit Type: Plastic injection moulded
Kit Number: 48002
Syhart F-16 Dark Falcon Decals #48-110
COMBAT ZONE
FIGHTING COLO U R S
Albatros jet trainers. Five design bureaus
put forward proposals, among them were
the Sukhoi S-54, Myasishchev M-200, Mikoyan
MiG-AT, and Yakovlev Yak-UTS. Development
of Yak-UTS started in 1991 and the design
was completed in September 1993. However,
I would be showing the cockpit closed, the
canopy still allows a good view
inside. However, Eduard
does not do a cockpit
set for the AM model,
nor for the Kinetic kit.
But the layout of the
Kinetic kit is pretty similar
to the Tamiya one, and the
cockpit is optical very similar
to the F-16C. I asked ‘Vador’ if
the cockpit layout of the F-16C
was the same as in the actual
Block of the F-16AM, and he told
me that the layout is optically
the same, and that I could use an
F-16C cockpit set, which included the
harness for the ejection seat.
56 Dark Falcon
Fabian Flemming builds the
Belgian Air Force’s F-16 display bird
using the 1:48 Kinetic F-16AM
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with the collapse of the Soviet Union,
Yakovlev was compelled to look for a foreign
partner. In 1993 it agreed with the Italian
company Aermacchi to jointly develop the
plane, which now became Yak/AEM-130,
with Aermacchi being responsible for the
project’s inancial and technical support.
The irst prototype, dubbed Yak-130D, was
built by Sokol at Nizhny Novgorod, Russia,
and was publicly unveiled in June 1995. In
2000, diferences in priorities between the
two irms had brought about an end to
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the partnership, with each developing the
aircraft independently. The Italian version was
named M-346, Soviet version became the
YAK-130
As already noted, Yak-is able to replicate
characteristics of Russian 4th and 5th
generation ighters through the use of open
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I WAS REALLY STUNNED BY THE QUALITY THE SYHART
DECALS
The build began unsurprisingly with the
cockpit, where all of the raised detail was
removed and replaced with Eduard set. When
this was done the cockpit was ixed into the
fuselage. Here it is maybe worth mentioning
that the it of the Kinetic kit has a few issues, but
nothing to drastic, but a little iller is needed
here and there. At the same time, I set about
COMBAT ZONE
FIGHTING COLO U R S
architecture digital avionics compliant with
a 1553 Databus, a full digital glass cockpit,
four-channel digital ly-by-wire system
(FBWS) and instructor controlled and
variable FBWS, handling characteristics
and embedded simulation. The type also
has a Head-up display (HUD) and a Helmet-
I asked ‘Vador’ if the cockpit
layout of the F-16C was the same
as in the actual Block of the
F-16AM, and he told me that the
layout is optically the same….
… which included
the harness for the
removing the seamlines from the canopy, and
after polishing, I dipped both parts in Johnson’s
‘Future’ and once dry I used an Eduard mask to
prepare them for painting.
Now for the in. In the Kinetic kit there are all
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COMBAT ZONE – THE YAK-130
Greek Lessons
Rene Van Der Hart builds the 1:48 Special Hobby T-2E Buckeye
T
he North American T-2 Buckeye was
a jet trainer, designed for the US
Navy and hailing from the late 1950’s.
Because it was used to train new
pilots the art of carrier launches and
landings, the airframe and undercarriage had
to be stronger than other jet trainers. Also, an
arrester hook to catch the wires on the carrier
deck was installed. Not only the US Navy but
also the Air forces of Venezuela and Greece
used the Buckeye to train their ighter pilots.
Special Hobby’s 1:48
ofering of this aircraft
is a so-called ‘short run’
kit. The main parts are
injection moulded plastic,
but other parts, mainly in
Mounted-Sighting-System (HMSS), with a
double GPS/GLONASS receiver updating
an Inertial Reference System (IRS) for highly
accurate navigation and precision targeting.
In addition to its training role, the aircraft is
capable of carrying a combat load of 6,600
pounds, consisting of various guided and
20 Greek Lessons
Rene Van Der Hart builds the 1:48 Special Hobby
T-2E Buckeye
57 60 KI44-I TYPE 2 FIGHTER
‘DARK FALCON’
ejection seat
Tackling a
‘Tojo’
Mark Casiglia builds the 1:32 Hasegawa Ki44-I Type 2 Fighter
I
’ve been actively model building for
almost three-years now, after an almost
thirty-year layof that came as a result of
study, establishing a family and building
a business. I completed a 1:48 Hasegawa
Ki-44 as one of my irst models upon my return
to the hobby, and just fell in love with the look
of this little Japanese ighter. Once I became
hooked on 1:32 aircraft, I made it a mission to
go back and do another Ki44. Enter the ever-
reliable Hasegawa, the maker of good quality,
60 Tackling a ‘Tojo’
Mark Casiglia builds the 1:32 Hasegawa Ki44-I
Type 2 Fighter
the cockpit, are made from nicely cast resin.
Also, a nice fret of coloured etch is included,
and the canopy is vacformed, which was a irst
for me.
The plastic parts are a little thick, but the
surface details are very nice with sharply
engraved panel lines and some other details.
On the real aircraft the rivets are quite visible so,
I decided to add them using a rivet wheel tool
from Petr Dusek, called ‘Rosie The Riveter’, and
I used both 0.75 and 1mm spacing wheels. The
cockpit is built up from a mix of
plastic and resin parts, and the
it is remarkably good. Some
parts needed a bit of sanding
to make them it lush, but no
major surgery was needed. All
low parts-count kits that seem to cover almost
every subject. There were a few to choose
from, but I was captivated with the box art
showing a challenging and highly attractive
camoulage pattern of the subject of this
build from the Imperial Japanese Army Akeno
Flying School. The Ki44 is characterised by its
bold nose and short wings. The nose section
houses a fourteen-cylinder, double-row radial
Nakajima Ha-41 engine with annular oil cooler.
This 1250hp engine quickly propelled the Ki44
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T-2 Buckeye Camouflaged Trainer
Manufacturer: Special Hobby
Scale: 1:48
Kit Type: Short run injection moulded
Kit Number: 48129
cockpit parts, including the separate instrument
panels and ejection seats were primed with
black and then airbrushed grey, followed by a
coat of Alclad Aquagloss and a grey wash. The
details were then brush painted and the etched
parts were glued into place.
Next, the inished cockpit was ixed into the
fuselage and, after some lead had been glued
into front of the cockpit. The fuselage halves
were then glued together. Again, the it was
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Ki44-I Type 2 Fighter
Manufacturer: Hasegawa
Scale: 1:32
Kit Type: Plastic injection moulded
Kit Number: 08255
to a top speed of 580kph.
The short wings made this aircraft much
less manoeuvrable than other aircraft and
as such, had a pair of ‘butterly’ combat laps
itted to improve control in the air. But the short
wings were intentionally designed to make
the Ki44 climb and reach maximum speed
much faster than larger-winged aircraft, which
was the goal for this aircraft, being conceived
purely as an interceptor. Whilst these goals
of excellent speed, climbing and diving were
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GREEK LESSONS
The cockpit is mainly resin…….
….and paints up
very well
SPECIAL HOBBY’S 1:48 OFFERING OF THIS
AIRCRAFT IS A SO-CALLED ‘SHORT RUN’ KIT
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TACKLING A ‘TOJO’
….and the inished item
ready for installation
The cockpit under
construction……
THIS HASEGAWA KIT HAS A LOW PARTS COUNT WITH SOME
EXCELLENT CRISP MOULDINGS
The engine beneits from some careful painting
Working on the cockpit side walls
efectively achieved by designing small wings,
the compromises apart from severely reduced The engine now
control were high wing loading and a fast installed in the
fuselage
landing speed, which made the Ki44 a daunting
prospect for inexperienced pilots. As we know,
good pilots were hard to ind by the end of the
war and the diiculty of lying this aircraft made
it easy pickings. Unfortunately, there are no
surviving examples of the Ki44.
So on with the job of bringing the Ki44 to
life. This Hasegawa kit has a low parts count
with some excellent, crisp moulding with
generally nicely engineered and well-itting
parts. Like many of the Hasegawa 1:32 aircraft,
this kit was a little sparse on detail, particularly
in the cockpit. A minor annoyance which I’ve
encountered before is the kit is intended to
be built with a pilot igure but there are no
harnesses provided for completing the build
without a pilot. I generally try to avoid including
igures if possible because I feel they too easily
break the illusion of reality. I managed to get
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Now operating under the Navy Wings

A TANK WITH WINGS

PHOTO-FIGHTER
A Tank with Wings

PHOTO RECCE – RAF COSFORD 2019

Green and all the smaller details, like the banner, Hawker Sea Fury T.20 VX281
instrument panels and sidewall controls were (G-RNHF) is always a sight to behold.

Photo-Fighter
The aircraft returned to light in 2017
all hand-painted in their particular colours. following its emergency landing accident
A panel wash was then applied just at RNAS Culdrose three years earlier
to enhance the details to
inish of. The completed
cockpit was then simply James Ashton builds the 1:32
slotted into place between Trumpeter Il-2M3 ‘Sturmovik’
the two fuselage halves,
Jezz Colman builds the recent 1:48 Spitire FR.XIV and a few elastic bands
were wrapped around
the fuselage to hold Always a irm
Supermarine Spitfire Mk.XIV

A
irix kits have always had a place in large sprues and a rather nice crystal-clear it irmly while the glue favourite with air
Manufacturer: Airix my heart from the very irst model sprue containing the canopy, some wing tips was drying.  show aicionados,
Scale: 1:48 I ever built as a young child to ends, and a rather nicely printed decal sheet Next up was to install the cover directly the Westland WAH-64
Kit Type: plastic injection moulded Apache was the Army’s
present day, and I have mostly had with two available options. over the fuel tank area, and this was the only contribution to Cosford
Kit Number: A05135 at least one or two Airix kits in my So, with tools at the ready I began. First up part I feel let the kit down, as it was not the 2019. Spectacular
stash. So, when the new Airix Spitire Mk.XIV was the assembly of the cockpit, which was best itting piece, but with some carful gluing pyrotechnics Ready to add some decals…
was announced I was quite intrigued to see if made up of two sides with and a little persuasion I got a reasonable it. I accompanied the
this new ofering cut the nicely moulded details, a seat then attached that, along with the lower wing helicopter’s battleield
attack demonstration
mustard as I have heard and associated bulkheads, portion, followed by the starboard and port
people giving somewhat which were assembled as upper wing halves. Care should be taken, and
mixed reviews on this per the instructions. All of I did several dry it runs before committing to
kit. On opening the box, I the components were then gluing the upper wing sections into place. You
was presented with three painted using Tamiya Cockpit will also need to do some careful sanding to get
both surfaces to meet up at the wing root. Next,
was the rear elevators and rudder, which itted
YOU GET A NICE CRYSTAL-CLEAR SPRUE CONTAINING THE CANOPY like a glove with just a small amount of Tamiya
Extra Thin run along the mating surfaces. All
Photo Recce THE ENGINEERING OF THE MODEL IS OF A HIGH STANDARD
AND YOU ARE IMMEDIATELY STRUCK BY THE SURFACE
DETAILING

RAF Cosford Air Show 2019

Intrepid I felt that the static displays were particularly
photographer Chis well thought out this year and, whilst the
availability of airframes from the Defence
Ayre reports School of Engineering and the RAF Museum
may be considered a bonus or a drawback -
depending upon your viewpoint - there is no
denying that this allows for some imaginative
parked alongside each other made for an
impressive line-up, with plenty of space to
allow photography of the individual airframes.
I was slightly frustrated that I couldn’t get a
decent group shot but I suppose I can’t have
everything! Other groups represented the Gulf
War, with desert pink Tornado, Buccaneer and
wings to the fuselage. The overall look of the Il-2
is one of rugged purpose and stability which is
exactly what it was designed for as suggested
by its designation ‘Sturmovik’ (Ground Attack).
The broad thick wings and armour plating all
bristling with heavy cannon, machine guns,
rockets and bombs gave rise to its other title,
the ‘Flying Tank’. A role that it proved to be
very efective in against German armour
and ground forces. Just thinking back to
RAF Cosford did the Jet Provost proud with a celebration of the 65th
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hilst 2019 may not have been
a ‘vintage’ year for the RAF
Cosford Air Show, the day
certainly didn’t disappoint.
groupings. In 2019, these group displays
included the 65th anniversary of the irst light
of the Hunting Jet Provost. The six aircraft
Jaguar (only two of which are actually Gulf
War veterans…), and a very attractive Harrier
line. This comprised three marks of Harrier
diferent marks, ranging from a T.1 to a Strikemaster Mk.80A - alongside
the piston powered progenitor, Percival Provost T.1
….and Montex Masks were used here
Il-2M3 ‘Sturmovik’

Dawning bright and sunny,
following several days of almost incessant
rain, this was an event to please families and
aviation enthusiasts alike. The lying display
was varied and included a number of items
representing the show themes of ‘The 70th
Anniversary of NATO’ and ‘Women in Defence’.
There was a smattering of foreign participation
and some creative choices in the programme.
Although the rain did threaten at one point
during the afternoon and the temperature
dropped a few degrees for a while [note
to self: NEVER leave that ‘extra layer’ in
the car], sunshine prevailed over all. Aerial
contributions to the NATO theme ranged from
a German Navy P-3C Orion to the Royal Danish
Air Force team of SAAB T-17 Supporter training
aircraft ‘Baby Blue’.
A
lthough sporting the Trumpeter
The German Navy Orion (60+01) operated from badge, this kit is actually a re-boxing
RAF Shawbury, some 20 miles from Cosford, of the 2010 HobbyBoss kit, which
where there is a considerably longer runway
was conirmed by the HobbyBoss
branding on the etched parts. I have
always enjoyed the way in which companies
such as Trumpeter and HobbyBoss produce
some often-overlooked subjects in what is my
favoured scale. Even though it has taken me
nine years to get around to it, this kit has been
on my radar since it was irst released. There
is something about this aircraft that appeals
to me that I cannot quite put my inger on,
this may seem like an irrelevant statement for
a kit review. However, I am just musing over
what motivates any of us to build a particular
kit and subject matter. Many diferent things
RAF Cosford is now very much the home of the RAF Jaguar, with much of the leet in use for teaching I suppose, but that is a discussion for another
ground trades. It’s good to see that many of the old squadron markings still adorn the various
airframes. This is GR.1 XX825/BN, formerly with No.17 Squadron at RAF Brüggen, West Germany
time. The engineering of the model is of a
high standard and you are immediately struck
by the surface detailing with recessed panel
lines and ine riveting. This is complimented
by some appropriate raised panels which all
serves to capture the rugged construction of
the real aircraft.
There are also some nice etched details for
the cockpit and bomb bay doors if you choose
to have them open, and a set of robust metal
undercarriage as an option over the plastic
parts. Love them or loathe them the tyres are
vinyl and that is all I will say on that subject. I
do have to comment on one or two potential
problem areas that you will need to be careful
of. The biggest of which is that of the engine
cowls, which are made of clear plastic and are
not designed to be removable. I found they did
Manufacturer: Trumpeter
Scale: 1:32
Kit Type: plastic injection moulded with etch
Kit Number: 83204
present a it problem over the superbly detailed
engine and they did require fettling into place.
It is a shame that they did not just make them
removable as I have never used clear parts to
display an aircraft interior and have only seen a
handful of modellers that have. The other much
less signiicant one are the vague instructions
when it came to the positioning of some of the
parts.
The rest of the airframe its together
beautifully of particular note is the it of the

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Jezz Colman builds the recent 1:48 Spitire FR.XIV Show 2019 James Ashton builds the 1:32 Trumpeter Il-2M3
Intrepid photographer Chis Ayre reports ‘Sturmovik’

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VENTURING WITH A VENTURA

AN ETHIOPIAN FIREFLY
Jeroen Burger builds and then
repaints AZ Models Fairey Mk.1
Mission Models Masterclass
James Bamford uses Mission Models paints to detail the
Eduard FW190A-2 in the colours of the famous Luftwafe ace

Fairey Firefly Mk.1

Dawid Branski builds
a ‘bargain’ 1:48 Revell
Lockheed PV-1
I started assembling the interior parts, and for
the main interior colour I made a mix of Tamiya
XF-5 Flat Green and X-8 Lemon Yellow. I then
I WAS ATTRACTED TO THE MODEL BY THE SIZE OF THE BOX,
brush painted the smaller details such as the
Manufacturer: AZ Models
Scale: 1:48
Kit Type: Plastic injection moulded
Kit Number: 4863 THE MISSION MODELS PAINTS ARE, IN MY OPINION
PROBABLY SOME OF THE BEST ACRYLICS OUT THERE TO
AIRBRUSH WITH
cooling slits on the engine cowling which is wing version or the slightly later four-gun wing
just forward of the wing. The second being version. The sprues were all incredibly neat
the replacement of the wing root weaponry. with no lash whatsoever. The glass pieces were
This being updated from the 7.62mm machine also lash free and were warp free. I was able to
guns to 20mm MG151/20E canons which also read text through them perfectly ine! As this
meant the addition of a new gunsight. The is a ProiPACK kit, it also came with a nice set of
Fw190A-2 marked the beginning of a shift canopy masks, photo etch for the cockpit, and
in air supremacy from the British back to the to my surprise, resin inner gear bay doors!
Germans as the 190 was now having a more The cockpit assembly was fairly
Fw 190A-2 dominating efect over the Spitire Mk.Vs straightforward. You get a one-piece cockpit
Manufacturer: Eduard
THE ARTWORK AND THE PRICE – A REAL BARGAIN! Scale: 1:48
patrolling the skies.
The kit is a brand-new tooling from Eduard
tub with two instrument side panels, which
were either lat or raised with detail, depending

Venturing with a
control columns and instrument panels, inishing and randomly faded this with a lighter shade Kit Type: Plastic injection moulded with etch continues their bid to re-tool all of their on if you used the etch or not. This was the
of with a black wash. Next, I ixed the two of that colour. When done I marked the Kit Number: 82146 previously released Fw 190 series. Currently in same for the main instrument panels. These
fuselage halves together along with the wings camoulage pattern with Blu Tac and masked the new tool line up we have the A2, A3, A4,
and tail. I then used Eduard masks and a little bit it of and repeated the painting process with A5, A8 and A8/R2. Let’s hope they bring the

Ventura
of Humbrol Maskol to cover all the clear parts. ‘For the lighter colour which I again lightened, this for reduction in temperature to the bottom rest through too! On opening the box, I was

F An Ethiopian
rom the outset I must admit that I the primer I again used a mix of Tamiya XF-5 Flat time with white. Then I painted the undersides cylinders and thus went a long way to ixing met with six dark grey plastic sprues and one
knew little about this aircraft when Green and X-8 Lime Yellow, but this time I focused with Gunze H74 Sky and also faded this as the problem. As for changes to what the transparent sprue. There are two sets of wings
I got the kit. To be honest, I was more on achieving Zinc Chromate primer colour, well. Then I sealed everything in with a coat of aircraft looked like visually, the only two real in the box for weather you build a two-gun
attracted to the model by the size of as it was used on the real aircraft in World War II. Alclad Aquagloss and then I was ready for some diference to be noted are the three vertical
the box, the artwork and the price – a Don’t worry too much about getting the ‘right washes. Here I used two diferent washes from
real bargain! When I looked inside, I saw some shade’, as there were multiple manufacturers Mig Productions, one for each colour on the

Firefly
really beautifully detailed parts, however, I producing Zinc Chromate primers, and the all top-sides and another for the undersides.
was a bit concerned as some Revell kits had had diferent shades. Next, I took and old spare
a history of itting issues, but these concerns brush and used it to apply more Humbrol Maskol,
were about to vanish as soon as I began to put dabbing on the areas where I wanted to show
the kit together. This has to be one of the nicest some chipping.
and easiest builds I have ever done, and I can

Josef Priller’s I
highly recommend this kit to modellers of all
abilities!

have a massive fascination of the Fw

190 series, and I have now pretty much
acquired almost every major production

Mount
variant of the aircraft (radial and inline
engine versions), only currently missing
the A-1 and A-0 pre-production, which should

T
his shortrun kit was a challenge to
build to say the least, however, it does
come with some of the best resin
that I have ever seen. After putting all
the efort in to building and painting
Lockheed PV-1 Ventura the kit, I wasn’t happy with the inish. In my
Manufacturer: Revell opinion I used the wrong colours, I didn’t do
Scale: 1:48
Kit Type: Plastic injection moulded
enough paint fading and the wash I used was
too heavy. So, I put it on the shelf and didn’t
Kit Number: 04662 really know what to do with it for a long time.
One day I came by a Montex Canopy Masking
Set and that was the trigger for me that pushed
me into doing a full repaint! So, I pulled of the be fairly easy to back date from this very kit.
landing gear, propeller, antenna and wheel The Fw 190A-2 is the second full production
doors began work. example in the Fw190 radial engine series
Once I had prepared the surfaces I sprayed and irst appeared in the skies, combat
on a coat of Alclad Black Primer, which did the ready, in October 1941. The most major
job perfectly. After that I selected the colours diference between the A1 and the A2 was
the introduction of the newer BMW 801 C-2
that I felt would be much better match than
the ones I initially used. The shades I chose
AT THE FIRST ATTEMPT, IN MY OPINION engine which ixed issues with overheating.
were Gunze H37 Wood Brown and H79 Sand I USED THE WRONG COLOURS The thirteen exhausts were re-routed allowing
Yellow. So, I started with the darkest colour,

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Dawid Branski builds a ‘bargain’ 1:48 Revell Jeroen Burger builds and then repaints AZ Josef Priller’s Mount
Models Fairey Mk.1 James Bamford uses Mission Models paints to
detail the Eduard FW190A-2 in the colours of the
famous Luftwafe ace

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JA 37 Viggen
Supersonic SAAB
Ian Gaskell details the 1:48 Tarangus JA 37 Viggen
SAAB JA 37 Viggen

T
his particular Viggen is matched up well. Once itted, a coat
the JA-37, with this of Gloss was applied, followed Manufacturer: Tarangus
example being a test by a wash, to bring out the Scale: 1:48
aircraft for the JA-37Di’s details. A matt coat was then Kit Type: Plastic injection moulded
development. The kit sprayed on, and the last thing Kit Number: 48003
itself is the Tarangus 1:48 JA-37 to was some light dry-brushing.
which I added lots of aftermarket Moving onto the seat, I used a
goodies, especially resin bits. superb example from CMK. The into the fuselage halves, along with engine.
One of the irst things I noticed detail was extremely crisp, dare I Next came the wheels. These were Reskit resin
was a lack of rivet detail. Looking at say better than Aires and Quickboost? parts, which are just fantastic. Each wheel
reference photographs The main seat colour comes as three-pieces, the tyre, and either
of both the natural was light grey, and the side of the hubs. These were all painted and
metal and grey details were picked out weathered separately before assembling.
schemes, that detail is with Hataka Blue Line The undercarriage legs were also given some
quite noticeable. So, acrylics. The completed extra detailing, by way of some lead wire, to
using those images cockpit was then itted represent the hoses. These were then painted,
as a guide, I added weathered and put to one side for later.
some rivet detailing Coming back to the fuselage, I itted the
some riveting tools. windshield and then attached some CMK
But to begin I worked resin canards and itted their control surfaces
in the cockpit. This was assembled, primed, slightly drooped. The canards are great, but the
and painted light grey. The Maestro Models
etched cockpit set looked very nice and with
some careful painting, the instrument panels

I ADDED LOTS OF
AFTERMARKET GOODIES,
ESPECIALLY RESIN BITS
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downside is that they are
very fragile on the leading
edge. Then the moulded
control surfaces, on the
wings, were removed and
replaced with a Maestro
Models resin set. Also, the
vertical stabiliser was itted at
I used a superb this point. Next, the wheel bays
seat from CMK were painted Aluminium, and
then along with the insides of
the intakes, they were masked
of and then the fuselage was
primed with UMP Black. When the
primer was fully dried, I sprayed a
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band of orange, around the nose, just forward
of the canopy. When dry, the band was masked
of, and the exposed orange was given a coat
of primer. On the underside, the speed brakes
were sprayed red, and again, masked of. Now I
could put some colour down. For the underside
I used Light Gull Grey and for the upper surfaces,
Dark Ghost Grey. This was followed by some
post-shading, by adding a small amount of white
to each of the respective greys. The port side
of the tail in was painted mid to light blue and
similarly post shaded. I wanted to achieve the
well weathered look of this particular Viggen,
so I added some black to the grey’s shades. This
mix was also thinned out to around 20:80, in
favour of thinner. A low pressure of about 10psi
was used too, as I didn’t want to overdo the
efect. Then, using my reference photographs,
I set about ‘dirtying’ up the airframe. On the
undersides, various shades of brown were
misted-on, trailing from some of the panel joints
where the engine was. Once dry, a Gloss coat
was added to seal this in.
I then stated on the various pods, which
were all resin items from Maestro Models. They
include a jamming pod, along range camera,
a night reconnaissance pod, and chaf pods.
There was also a centre line fuel tank and a pair
of AIM-9P Sidewinder’s from one of Meng-
Models excellent weapons sets, and the detail
on these was just fantastic. Both the camera
and recce pods had their pylons cast with the
pod itself and were mounted either side of the
fuel tank. Whilst this seemed like a good idea,
the pylons were the wrong shape, so I again
turned to Maestro Models, however, these
had a straight mounting surface, again
incorrect! The kit ones, obviously, have
the correct contoured mounting surface,
to match the shape of the fuselage, so
the answer was to rescribe the kit pylons
and add the rivet detail. They were then
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The undercarriage legs were

given some extra detailing

The completed cockpit really looks the part

Adding the
orange band on
the nose

I drooped the control surfaces

painted, detailed and weathered, before a inal

Matt coat. Coming back to the fuselage, I now
started on the decals. The set used I used was
from Moose Republic, and they are very nice.
One thing I was concerned about was the large
red wing number, and the tail decals. I felt these
would look obviously like decals and obscure a
lot of the surface detail. So, using some Tamiya
masking sheets, I made up some templates, and
airbrushed the numbers on. The colour was a
mix of red, and a little orange. The result was
better than I had expected. The rest of the decals
themselves went down very well and conformed
to the surfaces easily. I sealed the decals a Gloss
coat to give a good surface for the panel line
washes to come.
I could now move onto start the weathering
process. For the panel lines, I used a Dark Grey
wash, from Mig Productions. On the underside,
some Fuel Stain and Oil Stain washes were used
around the engine areas, and these washes
were then sealed with a Matt coat. When
that had dried, I used pastels to create some
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You get a nice The undersides were
selection of stores painted Light Gull
Grey……

….and the upper ….and

surfaces in Dark blue on the
Ghost Grey…. tail

I added some post-

shading to show a
well-used aircraft
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I masked and
painted the orange
numbers….

items from Maestro Models and were pre-

coloured but didn’t come with any handles.
grime and muck, around the airframe. Special These were made from wire and painted
attention was paid to the area forward of the black, weathered and sealed with Matt
exhaust openings, under the tail in. This was coat. I enjoyed this build, and the kit
stained to represent the jet exited, where the was pretty good for a small volume
thrust reversers were used. An additional Matt producer, however, a bit more surface
coat was then sprayed on to seal the pastels detail would have been nice. But
and pigments. Now the undercarriage was with care, and the right tools, this is
assembled and itted into their respective easily rectiied. Overall,
wheelbays, and the undercarriage doors though, a great kit!
attached. The pods, Sidewinders, and fuel tank MA
were then added to their respective pylons.
Next, the seat was dropped into the cockpit
and the canopy added. A Master Models pitot
also used on the nose, and a small piece of
wire was added to the forward edge of the tail,
for the probe that sits. All of the smaller clear
parts were then itted, such as navigation and
landing lights, and the masking was
removed from the canopy, and
intakes. Following this I added
the etched canopy mirrors
and the FOD covers onto
the intake openings.
These were etched ….and weathered
the undersides
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The Yak-1
T
he Yakovlev Yak-130 (NATO reporting
name ’Mitten’) is a subsonic two-
seat advanced jet trainer and light
ighter originally developed
by Yakovlev and Aermacchi. It
has also been marketed as a potential light
attack aircraft. Development began in 1991
and the maiden light was conducted on
25 April 1996, and in 2002, it won a Russian
government tender for training aircraft, and
in 2009 the aircraft entered service with
the Russian Air Force. As an advanced training
aircraft, the Yak-130 is able to replicate the
characteristics of several 4+ generation
ighters as well as the ifth-generation Sukhoi Albatros jet trainers. Five design bureaus with the collapse of the Soviet Union,
Su-57 and can also perform light-attack and put forward proposals, among them were Yakovlev was compelled to look for a foreign
reconnaissance duties. In the early 1990s, the Sukhoi S-54, Myasishchev M-200, Mikoyan partner. In 1993 it agreed with the Italian
the Soviet government asked the industry MiG-AT, and Yakovlev Yak-UTS. Development company Aermacchi to jointly develop the
to develop a new aircraft to replace the of Yak-UTS started in 1991 and the design plane, which now became Yak/AEM-130,
Czech-made Aero L-29 Delfín and Aero L-39 was completed in September 1993. However, with Aermacchi being responsible for the
project’s inancial and technical support.
The irst prototype, dubbed Yak-130D, was
IN ADDITION TO ITS TRAINING ROLE, THE AIRCRAFT IS built by Sokol at Nizhny Novgorod, Russia,
and was publicly unveiled in June 1995. In
CAPABLE OF CARRYING A COMBAT LOAD OF 6,600 POUNDS 2000, diferences in priorities between the
two irms had brought about an end to
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the partnership, with each developing the
aircraft independently. The Italian version was
named M-346, Soviet version became the
YAK-130
As already noted, Yak-is able to replicate
characteristics of Russian 4th and 5th
generation ighters through the use of open
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architecture digital avionics compliant with
a 1553 Databus, a full digital glass cockpit,
four-channel digital ly-by-wire system
(FBWS) and instructor controlled and
variable FBWS, handling characteristics
and embedded simulation. The type also
has a Head-up display (HUD) and a Helmet-
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Mounted-Sighting-System (HMSS), with a
double GPS/GLONASS receiver updating
an Inertial Reference System (IRS) for highly
accurate navigation and precision targeting.
In addition to its training role, the aircraft is
capable of carrying a combat load of 6,600
pounds, consisting of various guided and
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un-guided weapons, auxiliary fuel tanks and
electronic pods. The Yak-130 has nine hard
points, two wingtip rails, six under-wing
and one under-fuselage. The aircraft’s twin
engines are mounted under extended wing
roots, which reach as far forward as the
windscreen, and the combat training suite
includes simulated and real iring systems
with air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles,
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bomb dropping, gun iring and on-board
self-protection systems.
The Russian Air Force intends to buy at least
seventy-two Yak-130s, enough to equip four
training regiment, and the irst serial aircraft
was handed to a training centre in Lipetsk on
19 February 2010, and the Russian Air Force
only took delivery of the irst Yak-130s in
October 2012. A second contract for ten
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aircraft was issued for the Russian Naval
Aviation. In December 2012, Government of
Belarus signed an agreement with Russia to
provide four Yak-130, Libya placed an order for
six aircraft, however, this was later cancelled.
Syria agreed to purchase thirty-six aircraft,
and in January 2014, Bangladesh ordered
twenty-four Yak-130s, later reduced to sixteen.
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Russian Yak-130
Manufacturer: Kitty Hawk
Scale: 1:48

Next Generation Trainer

Kit Type: Plastic injection moulded
Kit Number: KH80157

Russian Yak-130
Snorre Sandviken builds the 1:48 Kitty
Hawk Yak-130

K
itty Hawk has gained a reputation
as a manufacturer and producer of
over engineered, highly detailed,
complicated kits that
are hard to build,
and have lots of errors.
Well at least that is the
rumour. But I prefer to ind
out things the hard way,
so I set out to build the
Yak-130 as my irst Kitty
Hawk kit. A quick look at
the sprues told me that one
part of the rumour was true.
The model is highly detailed, but
not overly complicated, and is far
from over engineered. The kit consists
of eight sprues, of which four are for
missiles and bombs, so plenty of irepower

THE KIT IS HIGHLY DETAILED,

BUT NOT OVERLY COMPLICATED
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for such a small aircraft. Construction started to glue the wheel well into the lower part, and
with the cockpit and seats. There is plenty the cockpit tub into the top part and then sand
of detail here, and lots of raised knobs and them down where they meet.
switches. The cockpit has three MFDs and an The next step was assembling the air intakes
array of instruments in every position. All the and mounting them into the lower part of the
instruments, knobs and dials can be painted, fuselage. The it here is tight but
but it’s easier to use the decals that come with should not cause major
the kit. The cockpit is supposed to be glued problems. The rear
together with the front wheel well and then part of the fuselage
placed into the lower part of the fuselage was then glued
before gluing the top and bottom part of the together, and the
front fuselage together. This leads way the kit is designed
to a problem, as there is this will leave seam-
actually not enough room lines that will need
inside the fuselage for sanding, but in
both the cockpit and
the wheel well the way
they are, as this will
prevent the top and the
bottom from meeting
completely, leaving a gap
that needs to be illed. The
better choice here is probably
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array of colour schemes, and for
this build I decided on a ‘future’
Soviet aircraft, ‘White 63’. This has
an all over ‘eggplant-colour’, and
here I used the Hataka Su-34 set.
I gave it a diferent coloured right
wing, using the Su-27 colours from
Akan. I also masked and sprayed a
few of the access-panels with MR
Paint Lemon Grey-Russian Primer to
simulate newly changed panels
that hadn’t been painted
the middle of panels instead of following the yet. The visible rear
panel-lines. It is possible to show the wings with parts of the engine
the laps and slats up or down, and I opted for and the immediate
laps down and slats up. After the wings were surrounding areas
ixed, the instructions call for the installation were painted using
of the landing gear, but I suggest you wait a mix of Pale Burnt
as long as possible as this will probably give Metal and Burnt Iron.
you more trouble when masking later. The The entire airframe was
canopy can be either open or closed and the then covered in Aqua Gloss
kit comes with two cast resin crew. I chose in preparation for the decals. The
to go for open canopy, but since I took decals, for the most part were easy to apply,
quite some time iguring out how to but a couple of spots were a little
install the etched harnesses on the more diicult. These being the
seats, putting a pilot in there didn’t places where the diferent
feel right! The kit comes with an paint jobs meet,
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requiring diferent sets of decals to be adapted,

cut to match and aligned. After the decals had
been applied a healthy dose of Ammo by MIG
Decal Fluid was applied and the decals left to
set overnight before being covered with more
Aqua Gloss.
I chose to go with a medium grey wash to
enhance the panel lines and rivet details on
the dark surfaces, and a light grey wash on
the lighter areas. The entire aircraft was then
sprayed with Hataka Matt. To inish of the
build the undercarriage and gear bay-doors
were installed, and the pylons and weapons
added. I chose to arm it lightly and with only
the cannon pod and an R-73, in addition to
the drop tanks. MA
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Greek Lessons
Rene Van Der Hart builds the 1:48 Special Hobby T-2E Buckeye
T
he North American T-2 Buckeye was
a jet trainer, designed for the US
Navy and hailing from the late 1950’s.
Because it was used to train new
pilots the art of carrier launches and
landings, the airframe and undercarriage had
to be stronger than other jet trainers. Also, an
arrester hook to catch the wires on the carrier
deck was installed. Not only the US Navy but
also the Air forces of Venezuela and Greece
used the Buckeye to train their ighter pilots.
Special Hobby’s 1:48
ofering of this aircraft
is a so-called ‘short run’
kit. The main parts are
injection moulded plastic,
but other parts, mainly in
the cockpit, are made from nicely cast resin.
Also, a nice fret of coloured etch is included,
and the canopy is vacformed, which was a irst
for me.
The plastic parts are a little thick, but the
surface details are very nice with sharply
engraved panel lines and some other details.
On the real aircraft the rivets are quite visible so,
I decided to add them using a rivet wheel tool
from Petr Dusek, called ‘Rosie The Riveter’, and
I used both 0.75 and 1mm spacing wheels. The
cockpit is built up from a mix of
plastic and resin parts, and the
it is remarkably good. Some
parts needed a bit of sanding
to make them it lush, but no
major surgery was needed. All
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T-2 Buckeye Camouflaged Trainer
Manufacturer: Special Hobby
Scale: 1:48
Kit Type: Short run injection moulded
Kit Number: 48129
cockpit parts, including the separate instrument
panels and ejection seats were primed with
black and then airbrushed grey, followed by a
coat of Alclad Aquagloss and a grey wash. The
details were then brush painted and the etched
parts were glued into place.
Next, the inished cockpit was ixed into the
fuselage and, after some lead had been glued
into front of the cockpit. The fuselage halves
were then glued together. Again, the it was
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The cockpit is mainly resin…….

….and paints up
very well

SPECIAL HOBBY’S 1:48 OFFERING OF THIS

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I used a riveting tool to

enhance the detail on
the fusealge…..

….and wings I began with a

black base……

….followed by the
camoulage using
Gunze colours

I masked of the tip tanks….

….with red
and white
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I applied a wash to
bring out the details

The decals settled nicely

quite good and the panel lines line up perfectly.

Some small amount of iller was needed in a
few places, but no big gaps had to be illed.
The wing halves were then brought together
and after sanding the edges smooth, the wings
were attached to the fuselage. The it is again
good, but the dihedral of the wings had to
be checked using images of the real plane.
I glued the wings into place and supported strips along the edges of the inside the canopy landing gear and laps were painted separately
the wingtips at the correct angle and let the irst. This not only gave the thin plastic some to be installed later.
assembly cure for a day. body, but also gave a straight edge to cut Gunze Aqueous paints were used to
The next parts installed were the horizontal along. This method worked surprisingly well. airbrush the camoulage. The demarcations
stabilisers, wing tip tanks and windscreen. The windscreen didn’t it really well, and I had between colours were masked with small
As mentioned earlier, I never before had the use iller to make the joints lush. After the clear rolls of Blu Tac to achieve a slightly feathered
pleasure to use a vacformed clear plastic parts were masked of, everything received a line. The slightly lighter shades of the base
canopy. I was not sure how to cut the thin coat of Alclad Black Primer. Some parts, like the colours were used to make subtle variations.
plastic accurately, so I glued plastic
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The white and red stripes on the tip tanks
and rudder were masked and airbrushed
too. Next, a coat of Alclad Aqua Gloss was
airbrushed over all the painted parts. I added
a Dark Wash from Mig Productions. This was
wiped of after about ifteen minutes, and
hard to reach places were cleaned with a
brush damp with White Spirit. The wash not
only made all recessed details pop out but
also weathered the paint a touch.
Another Gloss coat was airbrushed on
next, and the decals were added. These were
nicely printed and went into place without
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a problem. A inal coat of Aqua Gloss was
airbrushed from a distance to get a semi-
gloss inish. The pre-painted landing gear,
laps, wheel bay doors and arrester hook
were then glued into place with a few drops
of CA glue. The inal job was removing
the masking tape from the clear parts and
ixing the canopy into place. This was a
very enjoyable build with only some minor
issues with the clear parts, which can partly
be blamed to my lack of experience with
vacformed parts! MA
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he iconic McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II was

T originally developed for the US Navy and entered

service in 1960. Proving highly adaptable, it was soon
adopted by the US Marine Corps and the US Air Force,
and by the mid-1960s had become a major part of their
air arms. The Phantom is a large ighter with a top speed
of over Mach 2.2, and can carry more than 18,000lb of
weapons on nine external hardpoints, including air-to-air
missiles, air-to-ground missiles, and various bombs. The
F-4 was used extensively during the Vietnam War, where it
served as the principal air superiority ighter for the US Air
Force, Navy, and Marine Corps and became important in
the ground-attack and aerial reconnaissance roles later in
the war. The aircraft continued to form a major part of US
military air power throughout the 1970s and 1980s, being
gradually replaced by more modern aircraft such as the F-15
Eagle, F-16 Fighting Falcon F-14 Tomcat and the F/A-18
Hornet. The F-4 Phantom II remained in use by the US
forces in the reconnaissance and Wild Weasel roles in the
1991 Gulf War, inally leaving service in 1996. It was also the
only aircraft used by both the USAF Thunderbirds (F-4E)
and the US Navy Blue Angels (F-4J). The Phantom was also
operated by the armed forces of eleven other nations, and
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while Iran used its large leet of Phantoms, acquired before
the fall of the Shah, in the Iran–Iraq War, and both the Royal
Air Force and Royal Navy used the FG.1 and FGR.2 versions
using Rolls-Royce Spey engines . Phantom production
ran from 1958 to 1981, with a total of 5,195 built, making it
F-4 Phantom
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As of 2018, sixty years after its irst light, the F-4 remains in
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Photo-Fighter
Jezz Colman builds the recent 1:48 Spitire FR.XIV

Supermarine Spitfire Mk.XIV

A
irix kits have always had a place in large sprues and a rather nice crystal-clear
Manufacturer: Airix my heart from the very irst model sprue containing the canopy, some wing tips
Scale: 1:48 I ever built as a young child to ends, and a rather nicely printed decal sheet
Kit Type: plastic injection moulded present day, and I have mostly had with two available options.
Kit Number: A05135 at least one or two Airix kits in my So, with tools at the ready I began. First up
stash. So, when the new Airix Spitire Mk.XIV was the assembly of the cockpit, which was
was announced I was quite intrigued to see if made up of two sides with
this new ofering cut the nicely moulded details, a seat
mustard as I have heard and associated bulkheads,
people giving somewhat which were assembled as
mixed reviews on this per the instructions. All of
kit. On opening the box, I the components were then
was presented with three painted using Tamiya Cockpit

YOU GET A NICE CRYSTAL-CLEAR SPRUE CONTAINING THE CANOPY

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Green and all the smaller details, like the
instrument panels and sidewall controls were
all hand-painted in their particular colours.
A panel wash was then applied just
to enhance the details to
inish of. The completed
cockpit was then simply
slotted into place between
the two fuselage halves,
and a few elastic bands
were wrapped around
the fuselage to hold
it irmly while the glue
was drying. 
Next up was to install the cover directly
over the fuel tank area, and this was the only
part I feel let the kit down, as it was not the
best itting piece, but with some carful gluing
and a little persuasion I got a reasonable it. I
then attached that, along with the lower wing
portion, followed by the starboard and port
upper wing halves. Care should be taken, and
I did several dry it runs before committing to
gluing the upper wing sections into place. You
will also need to do some careful sanding to get
both surfaces to meet up at the wing root. Next,
was the rear elevators and rudder, which itted
like a glove with just a small amount of Tamiya
Extra Thin run along the mating surfaces. All
the other parts that adorned the airframe were
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attached as necessary prior to painting. I left of I also masked up and painted the yellow
the slipper tank of to be attached at the inal stripes on the leading edge of the wings, and
stages of the build, to ensure ease of painting the nose cone also received a coat of yellow.
later on. Once all the various joints and seams Everything was then given coat of Alclad Aqua
have been sanded smooth, just a few panel Gloss prior to applying the decals, which went
lines needed to be rescribed back in.  down very nicely with a little decal solution. A
The entire model and a number of smaller second coat of Alclad Aqua Gloss was then
parts, such as the undercarriage legs, wheels added to protect the decals from the panel
and gear doors were given a coat of Black wash to come, and here I used my trusty
Primer, which also served as the basis for the home-made oil paint panel mix. This was them
‘black basing’ technique I was going to use. applied along the many engraved panel lines,
I then followed that with a ‘marble coat’ of left to dry for a short while and then any excess
White, applied to the entire airframe. This was removed using cotton buds and some
would then give me a more tonal inish. Once
dry, I applied freehand with my airbrush some
Tamiya XF-81 RAF Dark Green 2, and following
that I made a few more passes, picking out
various panels with a highly thinned lightened
version of Tamiya Dark Green 1. I then used
Blu-Tac to mask of the airframe for second
colour Tamiya XF-82 RAF Ocean Grey 2,
which was also highlighted. The upper areas
were masked up ready for application of
Tamiya XF-19 Sky Grey undersides, and again
suitably highlighted. With the main paintwork
complete it was onto the iner details which
were painted in their respective colours, the
canopy was also masked up and painted to be
attached at the inal he inal stages of the build. 
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paper towels. The model was now in its inal stages, but irst
various other parts like the undercarriage legs, wheels, gear
doors and the slipper tank needed to be glued into place. I did
this using a small amount of superglue. I inally applied a coat
of Matt to the airframe to seal everything in, then glued on the
spinner and propeller, removed the masking and attached the
canopy with some PVA to complete the model. I really enjoyed
this build and despite some reviews all I can say is that you get
out of a kit what you put into it! MA
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Now operating under the Navy Wings

banner, Hawker Sea Fury T.20 VX281
(G-RNHF) is always a sight to behold.
The aircraft returned to light in 2017
following its emergency landing accident
at RNAS Culdrose three years earlier

Photo Recce
RAF Cosford Air Show 2019
Intrepid I felt that the static displays were particularly
well thought out this year and, whilst the
parked alongside each other made for an
impressive line-up, with plenty of space to
photographer Chis
availability of airframes from the Defence allow photography of the individual airframes.
Ayre reports School of Engineering and the RAF Museum I was slightly frustrated that I couldn’t get a
may be considered a bonus or a drawback - decent group shot but I suppose I can’t have
depending upon your viewpoint - there is no everything! Other groups represented the Gulf
denying that this allows for some imaginative War, with desert pink Tornado, Buccaneer and

W
hilst 2019 may not have been groupings. In 2019, these group displays Jaguar (only two of which are actually Gulf
a ‘vintage’ year for the RAF included the 65th anniversary of the irst light War veterans…), and a very attractive Harrier
Cosford Air Show, the day of the Hunting Jet Provost. The six aircraft line. This comprised three marks of Harrier
certainly didn’t disappoint.
Dawning bright and sunny,
following several days of almost incessant
rain, this was an event to please families and
aviation enthusiasts alike. The lying display
was varied and included a number of items
representing the show themes of ‘The 70th
Anniversary of NATO’ and ‘Women in Defence’.
There was a smattering of foreign participation
and some creative choices in the programme.
Although the rain did threaten at one point
during the afternoon and the temperature
dropped a few degrees for a while [note
to self: NEVER leave that ‘extra layer’ in
the car], sunshine prevailed over all. Aerial
contributions to the NATO theme ranged from
a German Navy P-3C Orion to the Royal Danish
Air Force team of SAAB T-17 Supporter training RAF Cosford is now very much the home of the RAF Jaguar, with much of the leet in use for teaching
aircraft ‘Baby Blue’. ground trades. It’s good to see that many of the old squadron markings still adorn the various
airframes. This GR.1 XX825/BN, was formerly with No.17 Squadron at RAF Brüggen, West Germany
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Always a irm
favourite with air
show aicionados,
the Westland WAH-64
Apache was the Army’s
contribution to Cosford
2019. Spectacular
pyrotechnics
accompanied the
helicopter’s battleield
attack demonstration

RAF Cosford did the Jet Provost proud with a celebration of the 65th anniversary of the JP’s irst light. A
unique static line-up included 5 diferent marks, ranging from a T.1 to a Strikemaster Mk.80A - alongside
the piston powered progenitor, Percival Provost T.1. The lying display featured a three-ship of
Strikemaster, T.5 and, perhaps the most charismatic, this T.3A in Red Pelicans colour scheme

The German Navy Orion (60+01) operated from

RAF Shawbury, some twenty miles from Cosford,
where there is a considerably longer runway
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A very nice inclusion in the static

line was this Slovak Air Force
Let L-410UVP. Serving with 1.
Dopravná letka at Malacky-
Kuchyña, this was the sole Slovak
aircraft at Cosford

with a Royal Navy Sea Harrier F/A.2 thrown in

The RAF Cosford Air Show ofers some great opportunities
to photograph RAF Museum exhibits in less crowded
circumstances - hence this lovely shot of Boulton-Paul Sea
Balliol T.21, which has been resident since 1979
for good measure and just around the corner
of the hangar was a second GR.3 (XZ991)
surrounded by some of the paraphernalia of
the Cold War period. Elsewhere, a selection of
the many SEPECAT Jaguars now at Cosford was
arranged to represent the squadrons of the
strike wing previously based at RAF Brüggen
in West Germany, very much a part of NATO
until replaced by Tornados from 1984. Other
than the opportunity to photograph some
of the static display aircraft in the (very) early
morning sunlight, highlights of the show
for me included the Swiss F/A-18C Hornet
display and perhaps surprisingly, given that
I’ve probably seen them display on several
hundred occasions, the Red Arrows. I’d like to
thank all of the Media Team at RAF Cosford for
the invitation and the hospitality.

Falklands veteran Harrier GR.3A XZ997, previously

at RAF Museum Hendon, led a line-up of Harriers
as part of the NATO 70th anniversary theme
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Sea Harrier FA.2 ZH796/001, despite

having been retired from service since
2006, looked particularly business-like
in the morning sunlight

07644 Gift Set - KISS Tour Truck, 1:32

00456 Imperial Star Destroyer – Technik, 1:2700

The Belgian Air Component was represented once again by the very agile and versatile
Agusta A109. Confusingly, the aircraft (H24) is still marked with Belgian Air Force titles and
the Grifon colour scheme somehow manages to be both subtle and spectacular

The German Navy supported the air show with an MFG3 P-3C Orion in the
lying display and this Super Lynx Mk.88A, from MFG5, on the ground

03882 Airbus A380-800 Emirates ‘Wild Life’, 1:144

05166 German Submarine Type IX C, 1:72

05429 English Man O’War, 1:96

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The Swiss Air Force F/A-18C solo display is

popular on the UK air show scene and, at
Cosford, performed a very dynamic show
with plenty of the ever popular ‘luf’.
However, I decided that a nice clean top
shot would make a change!

Hawker Hurricane Mk.I P3717 had a ‘brief

encounter’ during the Battle of Britain before
being sent to Russia, from where it was recovered
during the 1990s. Based at Old Warden, it is
painted in the colours of 253 Squadron RAF
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MODEL AIRCRAFT MANUAL

Brazilian Jet Trainer

Xavante
Mario Serelle guides
you through building
and painting the 1:48
Esci AT-26 Xavante

Aermacchi MB.326
Manufacturer: Esci
Scale: 1:48
Kit Type: Plastic injection moulded

T
he Embraer EMB-326 is a version of seats were replaced by resin parts and was all. Kit Number: 4063
the Italian Aermacchi trainer built Painting the cockpit started with a coat of FCM Decals Sheet #48037 AT-26
under license in Brazil, where it was Ammo by MIG One Shot Grey primer which was Xavante
given the military designation AT-26 followed by Grey FS 36231 and Flat Black on
Xavante. A total of 182 Xavantes the seats. The details were brush painted and
were built by Embraer between 1971 and 1981, the instrument panels replicated using decals
mostly for the Brazilian Air Force, but sixteen from my ‘spares-box, as the original decal
were also exported to Togo and Paraguay, and sheet from the kit was missing.
eleven surplus aircraft were sold to Argentina
in 1982. The Brazilian Xavante lew from 1971
until 2010 when was inally replaced by the
A-29 Super Tucano. The cockpit
Despite being reissued by was painted in
FS 36231 Grey
Italeri more recently, this Esci and the seats
kit was irst released in 1981 received a coat
and it was a nice model for that of Black
time, presenting some ine recessed
panel lines and a good overall shape. The
major problem is the cockpit, which is
quite basic. So, to improve the interior
a little I decided to add a few details
using plastic card and create some
volume to the side consoles. The
crude Martin Baker Mk.4 ejection
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The laps were cut of to be posed
in dropped position
Thinning down the trailing edges of the wings…..
Before closing the fuselage halves, I had to
deal with the small exhaust pipe, and this time
I decided to use pigments on it. First, I applied
a coat of Flat Black and then I rubbed on some
Gun Metal pigments using a stif brush. Yes, it’s
all that simple and the result is a great metallic
representation.
Now with the cockpit and exhaust complete
they were glued into one side of the fuselage
and the other half mated together. To add a
little more interest to this simple kit I decided
to cut of the laps to reposition them on
‘dropped’ position. The trailing edge of the
wings were thinned down with a ile for a better
representation of the real thing and the ‘new’
laps were built from some plastic card and
reshaped with sandpaper. The interior of the air
intakes were painted at this point and the three-
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…..for a better appearance
piece wings built up. The it of the wings to the
fuselage was great and use of iller was minimal.
This original kit from Esci was devoid of
any underwing stores, so I used Duarte’s
resin pylons, drop tanks and machine gun
pods. The tip tanks provided in the kit are the
originals used by the MB.326, but the Brazilian
EMB-326 used a larger version, and again I
had to rely on Duarte parts to have the correct
representation. The resin parts needed some
adjustments to it properly on the wings, so
I decided to glue them in place at this stage.
DESPITE THEIR LONG CAREER IN BRAZILIAN AIR FORCE,
MOST AT-26S WERE USUALLY KEPT IN VERY GOOD
CONDITION
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A coat of One Shot Black
Resin tip tanks, pylons and Primer was airbrushed
gun pods were secured in over the entire model
place with slow drying CA glue

Painting started by with The SEA standard camoulage was

Light Grey FS 36622 being airbrushed freehand using Mr
applied to the undersides Hobby Aqueous colours

….as you can see

The FCM decals reacted very well to

ixing and setting solutions…
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Green/Brown and Deep

A Neutral Wash was used to Brown washes were used to
accent the recessed details on the accent the panel lines on the
underside and a Deep Grey colour camoulaged area
was used to add more contrast to
the control surfaces

…. and Black and Brown Prismacolor pencils were used to add the inal
A Green Prismacolor pencil was used to add some small scratches on access touches for leaking luids
doors on the wings…..
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A small VHF antenna was also made
from plastic card and glued on the
spine prior to start painting.
Painting began with a coat
of Grey FS 36231, airbrushed
onto the canopy frames to
match the interior colour, which
was followed by a One Shot Black
Primer coat over the entire model.
Brazilian Xavantes were painted
in the standard SEA scheme and,
starting from the lighter
shade, the irst colour to be
applied was the Ammo
by MIG Light Grey FS
36622 on the underside.
The Tan, Green and Dark
Green camoulage was
done using Mr. Hobby
Aqueous Hobby Color
(Gunze) colours, airbrushed
freehand to create a soft edge
transition between the shades. The
landing gear and airbrake wells
were masked and painted with
Alclad Aluminium and a coat
of Aqua Gloss sealed in the
paint work.
A decal sheet for the Brazilian Xavantes
is available from FCM Decals. These are
printed by MicroScale and worked nicely
with Decal Set and Decal Fix solutions. The

The landing gear and external

stores were secured in place
using Slow Drying CA glue and
Extra Thin cement
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aircraft I have depicted was a AT-26 Xavante
from 1st Squadron of the 4th Aviation Group
(1º/4º GAv) based in Fortaleza in 2005. A
second coat of Aqua Gloss was used to
seal the decals and protect them from the
weathering products to come.
Despite their long career in Brazilian Air
Force, most AT-26s were usually kept in very
good condition regarding weathering, and I
decided to keep this look in my model. Using
Ammo by MIG Panel Line Washes, the recessed
details were accented using a Neutral Wash for
the Light Grey undersides, with control surfaces
highlighted with a Deep Grey. On the
upper sides a Green Brown
wash was used on the
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Tan and Green surfaces while a Deep Brown
one was my choice for the Dark Green areas.
Some dirt and leaking streaks were added to
the underside, mostly concentrated around
the engine and landing gear areas, using three
diferent shades of Streaking products. Then
a Matt coat was added the efects were then
complemented using Prismacolor pencils. The
landing gear and drop tanks were secured in
place using slow dry CA glue and the model
was completed in a matter of minutes.
This was a very enjoyable building from the
very beginning. The MB.326 is not the most
popular aircraft among modellers but it’s a
very important machine in both Embraer
and the Brazilian Air Force history. MA
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arrying an American dive-bomber design and a British

M engine, the North American P-51 Mustang became one of

the greatest ighters of World War II. The iconic P-51 was a
World War II single-seat ighter and ighter-bomber that also saw
service in the Korean War and other conlicts. The Mustang was
designed in 1940 by North American Aviation (NAA) in response to a
requirement of the British Purchasing Commission. The Purchasing
Commission approached North American Aviation to build Curtiss
P-40 ighters under license for the Royal Air Force (RAF). Rather than
build an old design from another company, North American Aviation
proposed the design and production of a more modern ighter. The
prototype NA-73X airframe was rolled out on 9 September 1940, 102
days after the contract was signed, and irst lew on 26 October. The
Mustang was designed to use the Allison V-1710 engine, which had
limited high-altitude performance in its earlier variants. The aircraft
was irst lown operationally by the RAF as a tactical-reconnaissance
aircraft and ighter-bomber (Mustang Mk I). Replacing the Allison
with a Rolls-Royce Merlin resulted in the P-51B/C (Mustang Mk III)
model and transformed the aircraft’s performance at altitudes
above 15,000ft, without sacriicing range, allowing it to compete
with the Luftwaffe’s ighters. The deinitive version, the P-51D, was
powered by the Packard V-1650-7, a license-built version of the
two-speed two-stage-supercharged Merlin 66 and was armed with
six .50 calibre M2/AN Browning machine guns. From late 1943, P-51Bs
and P-51Cs (supplemented by P-51Ds from mid-1944) were used by
the USAAF’s Eighth Air Force to escort bombers in raids over Germany,
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while the RAF’s Second Tactical Air Force and the USAAF’s Ninth
Air Force used the Merlin-powered Mustangs as ighter-bombers,
roles in which the Mustang helped ensure Allied air superiority in
1944. The P-51 was also used by Allied air forces in the North African,
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Mediterranean, Italian and Paciic theatres, and during World War II,
Mustang pilots claimed to have destroyed some 4,950-enemy aircraft.
At the start of the Korean War, the Mustang, by then redesignated
F-51, was the main ighter of the United Nations until jet ighters,
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then became a specialised ighter-bomber. Despite the advent of jet
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A Tank with Wings
A
lthough sporting the Trumpeter
badge, this kit is actually a re-boxing
of the 2010 HobbyBoss kit, which
was conirmed by the HobbyBoss
branding on the etched parts. I have
always enjoyed the way in which companies
such as Trumpeter and HobbyBoss produce
some often-overlooked subjects in what is my
favoured scale. Even though it has taken me
nine years to get around to it, this kit has been
on my radar since it was irst released. There
is something about this aircraft that appeals
to me that I cannot quite put my inger on,
this may seem like an irrelevant statement for
a kit review. However, I am just musing over
what motivates any of us to build a particular
kit and subject matter. Many diferent things
I suppose, but that is a discussion for another
James Ashton builds the 1:32
Trumpeter Il-2M3 ‘Sturmovik’
time. The engineering of the model is of a
high standard and you are immediately struck
by the surface detailing with recessed panel
lines and ine riveting. This is complimented
by some appropriate raised panels which all
serves to capture the rugged construction of
the real aircraft.
There are also some nice etched details for
the cockpit and bomb bay doors if you choose
to have them open, and a set of robust metal
undercarriage as an option over the plastic
parts. Love them or loathe them the tyres are
vinyl and that is all I will say on that subject. I
do have to comment on one or two potential
problem areas that you will need to be careful
of. The biggest of which is that of the engine
cowls, which are made of clear plastic and are
not designed to be removable. I found they did
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Il-2M3 ‘Sturmovik’
Manufacturer: Trumpeter
Scale: 1:32
Kit Type: plastic injection moulded with etch
Kit Number: 83204
present a it problem over the superbly detailed
engine and they did require fettling into place.
It is a shame that they did not just make them
removable as I have never used clear parts to
display an aircraft interior and have only seen a
handful of modellers that have. The other much
less signiicant one are the vague instructions
when it came to the positioning of some of the
parts.
The rest of the airframe its together
beautifully of particular note is the it of the
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A TANK WITH WINGS

Ready to add some decals…

THE ENGINEERING OF THE MODEL IS OF A HIGH STANDARD

AND YOU ARE IMMEDIATELY STRUCK BY THE SURFACE
DETAILING
wings to the fuselage. The overall look of the Il-2
is one of rugged purpose and stability which is
exactly what it was designed for as suggested
by its designation ‘Sturmovik’ (Ground Attack).
The broad thick wings and armour plating all
bristling with heavy cannon, machine guns,
rockets and bombs gave rise to its other title,
the ‘Flying Tank’. A role that it proved to be
very efective in against German armour
and ground forces. Just thinking back to

….and Montex Masks were used here

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my former comment on what motivates us Adding a wash to pick out the panel
to build a particular subject one of the main lines and iner details….
reasons for myself is the opportunity
to weather a model. Especially if I
get a chance to go all armour on
it with mud, dust, chipping, faded
paintwork and heavy wear and
tear. The modeller now has a large
arsenal of products at his disposal
and the methods for achieving
unique and spectacular results
are readily available in print
and video.
The most expensive
but invaluable tool you
could get has to be an
airbrush. Not only does it give
you an unbeatable inish to your
paintwork it also opens up a number
of very efective weathering methods
such as pre and post shading. It also
enables the use of paint masks for the
markings which are easier to weather
alongside the airframe than decals
alone. Although I have used and still do

…which is very efective

Oil paints are an ideal

option for weathering….
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A TANK WITH WINGS

…easily applied, and can
be subtly blended

use enamel, acrylic and clay-based washes I

always ind myself gravitating back to oils. By
thinning them to diferent consistencies all
manner of efects can be achieved from a heavy
wash that gives an overall patina to the paint
inish through to a panel line wash, oil streaks
and stains and highlights and shading of the
existing paint work and panels. Because of the
extended drying time oils can be worked until
you achieve the desired efect and it can be
removed if you get it wrong as long as you work
on a glossy smooth surface.
The other go too method of weathering,
which is ideal for dust and mud efects are
pigments. These can be applied wet with some
White Spirit for thicker mud, or dry for a dusty
appearance. If you apply too much wet, it will
brush of when dry to tone the efect down. By
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Pigments are also a very

efective tool…..

techniques at our disposal. I highly

recommend picking one up and
getting all armour on an aircraft
subject. It is great fun and is one
of my main motivating factors in
continuing to enjoy this wonderful
hobby. Thank you, Trumpeter, and
keep on producing these interesting
and diferent subjects. MA

….as you can see

licking wet pigment with a brush or blowing

it on with an airbrush efective mud spatter
can be achieved. Given that the Il-2 operated
from rough airields on the frontline which
could be very dusty in summer and muddy
when wet I employed these methods to good
efect. Consideration is also given to the fact
that this model will be placed into a
diorama so as a standalone it may
look overdone in the pictures
but will not when placed in
context. This was a nice kit
to build and a great subject
for using all the weathering
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50 F2A-3 BREWSTER BUFFALO
Buffalo Soldier
Building Czech Model’s 1:32 F2A-3 Midway Warrior by Rafe Morrissey
T
he Brewster F2A-3 Bufalo is one of
the most maligned US Navy aircraft
of World War II. The Marine pilots
lying it sufered crippling losses
in the Battle of Midway in June
1942 losing thirteen of the nineteen aircraft
engaged. The type was quickly withdrawn
from combat service and relegated to training
units. I have come to believe, however,
that the poor reputation of the aircraft was
more a function of the lack of experience
of the nonetheless brave pilots who lew
it at Midway and, perhaps, the work of the
Grumman public relations department whose
competing design, the F4F-3 Wildcat, is now
viewed as the plane that held the line against
the Japanese onslaught. A comparison of the
performance statistics and armament of the
two types reveals that they were very close
in most of the key areas. On the other hand,
most of the Marine pilots at Midway lacked
combat experience having been posted to
what was assumed to have been a rear area for
training and many of the more experienced
pilots transferred to other units shortly before
the battle. Few were equipped to match the
irst team of Japanese naval aviators who
had amassed years of experience or had the
beneit of the tactical recommendations by
the US Navy’s Jimmy Thatch in team tactics
and avoiding dogights that played to the
strengths of the superior A6M zero. The Bufalo
design saw great success by the Finnish Air
Force, but Brewster was plagued by labour and
production issues that limited its potential.
That is not to say that the Bufalo, or the
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Wildcat for that matter, were world beaters,
but it would be interesting to see how it might
have fared with the types of slashing attacks
and beam defence tactics that allowed the F4F-
3 to put up a respectable ight.
The Czech Model F2A-3 is a derivative of the
Bufalo kits boxed by Special Hobby marketed
in partnership with Squadron and contains
parts to build either the F2A-3 or the RAAF/
USAAF Model 339-23. It is a multi-media kit
with a mixture of plastic, resin and photo-etch
(non-pre-painted) parts. Overall, the kit is
well engineered with relatively crisp surface
engraving. Most of the internal assemblies rely
on a fairly equal mixture of resin, photo-etch
and plastic details while injected plastic parts
comprise the basic airframe. There is a lot of
detail provided for the radio area behind the
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I recommend joining the tail to the
fuselage as the irst order of business

Multiple paint layers and liquid F2A-3 Brewster Buffalo

masking applied with a sponge Manufacturer: Czech Models
creates a realistic chipped efect on the Scale: 1:32
seat. (Note: I had the control column on
backwards at irst but turned it around Kit Type: Plastic injection moulded
180 degrees before inal assembly) Kit Number: 3201

The instrument panel is

composed of a laminate
of plastic, clear ilm and
photo-etch. With careful
dry brushing, oil washes
and applications of
pigments, the cockpit
really comes to life

I used Ammo by MIG Engine Grime

and a toothpick to lick it over the
surface of the gear bay bulkhead
and details to replicate oil and
grease thrown from the engine
and accessory components
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It is also necessary to
With careful assembly, painting modify the tail strut
and weathering, the kit engine assembly to relect the
looks very convincing modiications made to the
Marine Bufalos to operate
from land bases

a coat of Neutral Gray, the same color as the

THE CZECH MODEL F2A-3 IS A DERIVATIVE OF THE BUFFALO
KITS BOXED BY SPECIAL HOBBY
cockpit and the fuselage mounted machine
guns that will not be visible after the fuselage
halves are closed but there is a good bit of
detail on the engine accessory compartment
visible through the wheel well. Markings are
provided for four aircraft- one Midway-based
Marine aircraft, one US Navy training scheme,
one RAAF Model 339-23 and one USAAF Model
339-23. In order to accommodate later versions,
Czech Model molded the tail as a separate
insert to the fuselage. I recommend joining the
tail to the fuselage as the irst order of business.
On my example the it was not ideal, and I
ended up trimming and adjusting to optimize
the it at the join iguring the seam between
the two halves would be relatively easy to deal
with. As with most kits, I began by building and
painting the cockpit. The process is a little bit
more laborious than with a standard kit in that
you have to detach and clean up a fair amount
of resin and photo-etch parts before you can
begin assembly. Be sure to clean the resin parts
with a good cleaner/degreaser to remove any
left-over mold release agent. I use a product
called Simple Green that works very well. I used
three colors for the interior. I sprayed Tamiya
XF-4 Yellow Green in the rear fuselage. I used
Tamiya XF-11 J.N Green to approximate the
color in the cockpit area. The landing gear area
and engine accessory compartment received
underside of the fuselage. I applied oil washes
of Raw Umber and dry brushed the internal
structure with lightened shades of the base
color. Frankly, all of the detail work behind the
cockpit including adding the resin radios was
unnecessary as none of it is visible after the
fuselage is closed up.
You certainly won’t need to spend any
money on aftermarket detail parts for the
cockpit. The combination of multi-media
pieces is quite convincing and just requires
careful painting and weathering. I wanted to
show a bit of wear in the cockpit as
the Midway Bufaloes were cast-ofs
from the Navy. I replicated this on
the seat by irst painting it with Alclad
II aluminum over a coat of their grey primer.
Next, I dabbed on masking luid with a sponge
and painted the seat with Tamiya XF-4, Yellow
Green. I dabbed on more masking luid and
then painted the seat in the inal XF-11 colour.
I used a ine sanding stick to remove the dried
masking luid revealing a chipped efect going
all the way down to bare metal on the seat.

The kit interior is elaborate

and looks great but the detail
behind the cockpit bulkhead
will not be seen
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Glue these parts together aligning
the lower edges of the stub and
the gear bay parts and you have an
integrated spar assembly

The rear landing gear bulkhead (part A4) has small stubs that it
through the fuselage sides that meet up with parts G5 and G6 that
form the rear bulkhead of the landing gear bay in each wing

Other cockpit areas received dry brushing with
Model Master Afrika DunkelGrau 42. This is
a good highlight color for dark greens. I also
applied a raw umber oil wash and dusted sand
pigments from Tamiya’s weathering pastel
Set A over the seat and lower areas to relect
the dirt from pilots entering the aircraft from
the sandy revetments. The instrument panel
is composed of a laminate of plastic, clear ilm
and etch. You have to paint white on the rear
of the acetate ilm. With careful dry brushing
and applications of pigments the cockpit really
comes to life.
The next step was to build up the engine.
Similar to the cockpit, the engine is composed
of a mixture of plastic and resin pieces. With
careful assembly, painting and weathering, it
looks very convincing. I added ignition wires
from thin copper wire into holes carefully
drilled into the ignition harness and cylinders.
I dry brushed the engine crankcase and
accessory section with Testors Dark Anodonic
Gray metallizer which gives a nice worn metal
appearance. A raw umber wash added a bit of
grime and brought out the cylinder in detail.
The landing gear/ engine accessory section is a
complex assembly and care and
tweaking is necessary to
get everything put
together. Sadly, none
of the machine gun
breech detail will
be seen either
but you can see
the bottom of
the ammo cans
through the wheel well,
so be sure to paint them. I
used Alclad II aluminum. The
accessory section is painted in the
neutral gray underside colour. I once
again used Raw Umber washes to bring out
detail and also used Ammo by MIG engine
grime and used a toothpick to lick it over the
surface of the gear bay bulkhead and details to
replicate oil and grease thrown from the engine
and accessory components. It is also necessary

The assembled wings will slip

over the spar assembly ensuring
a more positive it
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There will still be seams to ill at the wing root, no

matter what, so for added strength, I elected to I applied a pre-shade over
use thin strips of plastic to shim the seams on the the panel lines with Tamiya
upper side and used a mixture of talcum powder XF-1 Flat Black
and Gorilla glue to ill any remaining gaps

to modify the tail strut assembly to relect the to further aid positioning. The combination of
modiications made to the Marine Bufalos these techniques should provide a much easier and engine openings. I like to apply a primer
to operate from land bases. All of the parts system for attaching the wings to the fuselage. coat on my models to spot any unilled seams
needed are provided in the kit and it is only a I conirmed that the detail parts for the inside or other construction laws. My favorite go-to
question of combining the right parts to relect of the landing gear strut bay can be installed product for priming is Alclad II Grey Micro-Filler
the larger pneumatic tail wheels used by the after the assembled wings are attached to the and Primer. It sprays well and dries in minutes
Marine and Army aircraft. With all the internal fuselage. No matter what you do, there will still
areas built and painted, I closed the fuselage be work to do to eliminate the seam at the
and worked the seams. wing root. Since the wings bear so much
Up until this point the build process was weight on the model and there was no
pretty straightforward. It is when it came time positive attachment, I elected to use thin
to attach the wings to the fuselage that the strips of plastic to shim the seams on the
kit betrays its limited-run heritage. According upper side and used a mixture of talcum
to the instructions, the wings are a simple powder and Gorilla brand super glue to
butt-join to the fuselage. There are no tabs or ill any remaining gaps. Both methods
structures to aid in correctly positioning the provide a strong bond while at the same
wing or stabilising it while the glue sets. This is time providing a iller that is easy to sand.
clearly not practical. I used a process outlined With the airframe complete I was able
by Ian Robinson that I found in an online to begin the painting process. I used a
article using plastic rod to create large pins for combination of paper, tape and Mr
attaching the wings into holes drilled into the Masking Sol liquid to mask the cockpit
fuselage. While this did work,
I realized there is a diferent
method that I think will work
even better, so I am going to
say ‘do as I say – not as I did’ here.
I did test my theory on a second kit and
will show the process I will follow for the next
build. As I added the wings, I realized that the
rear landing gear bulkhead (part A4) has small
stubs that it through the fuselage sides that
meet up with parts G5 and G6 that form the
rear bulkhead of the landing gear bay in each
wing. I realized that if these had been molded
as a single part, they would form an integrated
bulkhead/wing spar assembly. It is possible to
glue the three parts together creating spars
that each wing can be slipped over making for
a much easier assembly. Be sure to align the
lower edge of parts G5 and G6 with the lower
edge of the spar stub on Part A4 as shown
in the photograph. I would also recommend
drilling a small hole from the inside of the
fuselage half that would meet up with the rear
portion of the mating surface of the wing so
that you can mark the location for a small pin
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the Burnt Aluminum as a base coat and then
over-sprayed with successive light applications
of the heavily thinned mixture building it up
slowly and with greater emphasis at the tips
of the exhausts. I then applied a mix of black
and brown pastels on the inside which sooted
things up nicely.
The early Navy schemes lend After adding the detail parts for the landing
themselves really well to pre- gear and antenna using EZ-line, my Midway
shading to add some variety
and depth to panel lines and warrior was complete. Limited run multi-media
the fabric recesses on the kits like these are a bit more of a challenge than
control surfaces the state-of -the-art Tamiya and Hasegawa kits,
but provide the opportunity to add interesting
subjects to your display shelf and stretch
your capabilities. With care and patience, the
results can equal anything from mainstream
manufacturers. MA

so I can go back and ix any laws, sand and Flat Black and XF-54 Red Brown
re-prime in the same session. It also sands to to post-shade panel lines
a feathered edge very well. After conirming around the engine
all the seams were illed and tight, I applied access panels
a pre-shade over the panel lines with Tamiya and a heavier
XF-1 Flat Black. I use a variety of weathering application to
techniques, but the early US Navy schemes lend relect staining
themselves really well to pre-shading to add behind the
some variety and depth to panel lines and the cowling and on the
fabric recesses on the control surfaces. I applied underside of the fuselage.
the base camoulage colors using an old bottle I also used this mix in
of PollyScale Blue Gray and ModelMaster Acryl combination with Alclad II
Neutral Gray. Following the decaling process, I Burnt Aluminum to paint the
used a 50:50 mix of heavily thinned Tamiya XF-1 resin exhaust stubs. I applied

I used Alclad II Burnt Aluminum overcoated with a thin black-

brown mix, heaviest at the tip, to paint the resin exhaust stubs.
A mix of black and brown pastel chalks completed the efect
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‘Dark Falcon’
Fabian Flemming builds the
Belgian Air Force’s F-16 display bird
using the 1:48 Kinetic F-16AM

O
ne of the most spectacular airshow
performers of the past few years has
been the Belgian F-16 ‘Dark Falcon’,
lown by Stefan ‘Vador’ Darte, a great
pilot and all-round nice guy as well.
I really wanted to build this aircraft and at the
end of 2018 the Syhart Decals announced they
were releasing a 1:48 set for the ‘Dark Falcon’
and I pre-ordered before its release! On arrival I
was really stunned by the quality the decals, and
they came with a very nice masking set for the
underside of the airplane, and being printed by
Cartograph in Italy, they were really excellent.
My kit choice was the 1:48 Kinetic F-16AM for
two reasons. First is that it is the most detailed
F-16AM in that scale and the second reason was
that I had already built this model several times
before, so I knew the mistakes, and what to look
out for. I also decided to use an Eduard coloured
etch set for the cockpit and seat, as although
I would be showing the cockpit closed, the
canopy still allows a good view
inside. However, Eduard
does not do a cockpit
set for the AM model,
nor for the Kinetic kit.
But the layout of the
Kinetic kit is pretty similar
to the Tamiya one, and the
cockpit is optical very similar
to the F-16C. I asked ‘Vador’ if
the cockpit layout of the F-16C
was the same as in the actual
Block of the F-16AM, and he told
me that the layout is optically
the same, and that I could use an
F-16C cockpit set, which included the
harness for the ejection seat.

F-16AM NATO Viper

Manufacturer: Kinetic
Scale: 1:48
Kit Type: Plastic injection moulded
Kit Number: 48002
Syhart F-16 Dark Falcon Decals #48-110
MODEL AIRCRAFT OCTOBER 2019
I WAS REALLY STUNNED BY THE QUALITY THE SYHART
DECALS
The build began unsurprisingly with the
cockpit, where all of the raised detail was
removed and replaced with Eduard set. When
this was done the cockpit was ixed into the
fuselage. Here it is maybe worth mentioning
that the it of the Kinetic kit has a few issues, but
nothing to drastic, but a little iller is needed
here and there. At the same time, I set about
57
‘DARK FALCON’
I asked ‘Vador’ if the cockpit
layout of the F-16C was the same
as in the actual Block of the
F-16AM, and he told me that the
layout is optically the same….
… which included
the harness for the
ejection seat
removing the seamlines from the canopy, and
after polishing, I dipped both parts in Johnson’s
‘Future’ and once dry I used an Eduard mask to
prepare them for painting.
Now for the in. In the Kinetic kit there are all
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the necessary parts, to build the AM variant of

the F-16, but the instructions are a bit confusing.
So, I would suggest you refer to some images of
the real aircraft to igure out which parts to use.
Also, you might want to check out what lights
to use on the sides of the air intake. In some

In some of the Kinetic kits there are

some very nice etched parts for the
reinforcement plates on the fuselage
as on the real F-16AM

of the Kinetic kits there are some very nice

etched parts for the reinforcement plates on
the fuselage as on the real F-16AM. This lifts the
detail of the inished model.
Finally, it was time for some primer, and here
I used used Alclad II, as I do in the most cases on
my models. As some parts of the lower fuselage
white, I used a grey primer for here and a black
primer for the upper surfaces. Then the fun
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‘DARK FALCON’
began – masking of the black, white and grey
areas of the airframe.! This took a little time
and patience! Then I added a coat of Alclad II
Aquagloss ready for the decals, and there were
a lot of them. After putting the decals on, it
was time to add another coat of ‘Future’ and
afterwards a light wash to accentuate the panel
lines and some depth.
Once I was happy, I added the undercarriage,
and any smaller details. I also asked the guys at
Coastal Kits to make me a bespoke display base,
and later I took the model to the Koszalin Model
Show in Poland and I took the 3rd place in the
1:48 senior class! So, I hope you like my version
of the famous ‘Dark Falcon’ as much as I do. MA

I asked Coastal Kits to

make me a bespoke
display base
60 KI44-I TYPE 2 FIGHTER
Tackling a
‘Tojo’
Mark Casiglia builds the 1:32 Hasegawa Ki44-I Type 2 Fighter
I
’ve been actively model building for
almost three-years now, after an almost
thirty-year layof that came as a result of
study, establishing a family and building
a business. I completed a 1:48 Hasegawa
Ki-44 as one of my irst models upon my return
to the hobby, and just fell in love with the look
of this little Japanese ighter. Once I became
hooked on 1:32 aircraft, I made it a mission to
go back and do another Ki44. Enter the ever-
reliable Hasegawa, the maker of good quality,
low parts-count kits that seem to cover almost
every subject. There were a few to choose
from, but I was captivated with the box art
showing a challenging and highly attractive
camoulage pattern of the subject of this
build from the Imperial Japanese Army Akeno
Flying School. The Ki44 is characterised by its
bold nose and short wings. The nose section
houses a fourteen-cylinder, double-row radial
Nakajima Ha-41 engine with annular oil cooler.
This 1250hp engine quickly propelled the Ki44
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Ki44-I Type 2 Fighter
Manufacturer: Hasegawa
Scale: 1:32
Kit Type: Plastic injection moulded
Kit Number: 08255
to a top speed of 580kph.
The short wings made this aircraft much
less manoeuvrable than other aircraft and
as such, had a pair of ‘butterly’ combat laps
itted to improve control in the air. But the short
wings were intentionally designed to make
the Ki44 climb and reach maximum speed
much faster than larger-winged aircraft, which
was the goal for this aircraft, being conceived
purely as an interceptor. Whilst these goals
of excellent speed, climbing and diving were
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….and the inished item
ready for installation

The cockpit under

construction……

THIS HASEGAWA KIT HAS A LOW PARTS COUNT WITH SOME

EXCELLENT CRISP MOULDINGS

The engine beneits from some careful painting

Working on the cockpit side walls

efectively achieved by designing small wings,

the compromises apart from severely reduced The engine now
control were high wing loading and a fast installed in the
fuselage
landing speed, which made the Ki44 a daunting
prospect for inexperienced pilots. As we know,
good pilots were hard to ind by the end of the
war and the diiculty of lying this aircraft made
it easy pickings. Unfortunately, there are no
surviving examples of the Ki44.
So on with the job of bringing the Ki44 to
life. This Hasegawa kit has a low parts count
with some excellent, crisp moulding with
generally nicely engineered and well-itting
parts. Like many of the Hasegawa 1:32 aircraft,
this kit was a little sparse on detail, particularly
in the cockpit. A minor annoyance which I’ve
encountered before is the kit is intended to
be built with a pilot igure but there are no
harnesses provided for completing the build
without a pilot. I generally try to avoid including
igures if possible because I feel they too easily
break the illusion of reality. I managed to get
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my hands on an Eduard Big Ed detail set, which

provided masks for clear parts, coloured etch
interior detail and etched exterior detail. As
usual with detail sets, I picked and chose what
I thought was worthwhile and what I thought
was more efort than reward.
As is most of the case, the build started
in the cockpit. I improved the pilot’s seat
simply by drilling out the holes and generally
thinning the proile. The colour call out in
the instructions was for a green cockpit, but
references vary between green and blue, and
since the Eduard chose blue, I followed suit and
found an excellent match in Tamiya XF-50. The
Eduard instrument panels showed excellent
detail and once bonded into place I applied a
layer of liquid mask protection and sprayed the
cockpit and side walls in AK Interactive Xtreme
Metal White Aluminium followed by a coat of
hairspray. I then removed the liquid mask and
reapplied it only over the dials while I blended
the XF-50 into the preprinted parts to create a
seamless efect. I then proceeded to remove the
liquid mask and chip the blue topcoat, trying to
follow natural wear patterns where possible. I
then inished the job with UMP Dark Dirt Wash
and application of coloured etched harnesses.
These were lat coated with AK Interactive Ultra
Matte then had some Tamiya Brown Panel Line
Wash added to give them an authentic worn
and slightly dirty appearance.
It was then onto buttoning up the fuselage
as well as adding the wings and stabilisers.
The it was excellent, with only some minor
seems needing revision. The lower wing of the dihedral. Once the left and right upper was applied. As expected, this highlighted
assembly is moulded as one unit, making it halves of the wings were bonded onto the imperfections that needed to be addressed
easy to avoid the problem of misalignment lower wing assembly, the fuselage and this was duly done. I would estimate I
was dropped into place. The probably repaired and re-primed eight to ten
After a primer coat I applied AK wing roots at this point showed times before I was happy enough with the
Interactive Xtreme Metal White some very slight misalignments seams and joints to go on with the process.
Aluminium, mottled with Dark
Aluminium in height which meant a In the meantime, the engine was assembled,
combination of building up which was a very quick and easy process.
and reducing was done, I added some lead wire to the engine for
followed by re-scribing of authenticity but so little is visible I’m not sure
panel lines and rivet detail. Once why I bothered!
the basic airframe was complete, the cockpit It was painted with AK Interactive Xtreme
was masked and a layer of Mr Surfacer 500 Metal White Aluminium and a wash of UMP
thinned 50:50 with Mr Levelling Thinner Dark Dirt was applied to lift the detail and add
some grime. The engine was then bonded
to the fuselage and locked away behind the
cowling. The kit provides options for open
or close cowling laps. I went with open, just
because it looks that little bit more interesting.
Various pieces of Eduard external etched

I used masks to paint …and on the fuselage

the Hinomarus on the
wings…..
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TACKLING A ‘TOJO’
…then applied
the camoulage
colours…..

To get the camoulage

pattern I wanted, I used
liquid mask…..

details were then added where I thought they components and propeller assembly the same
might lift the end result, and the priming and way. The inward facing surfaces of the gear
checking process continued. The etch was bay covers, the gear bays themselves and the
most useful around the landing gear, as the beds of the butterly laps were painted in Mr
kit lacked a little detail here. I also added some Color 57 Metallic Blue Green, to mimic Aotake.
lead wire, again to further boost realism. The The propeller and spinner were given a coat
tail wheel was a solid moulding between
the top of the wheel and the support.
I opened this up with careful drilling
and inally reaming with a root canal
ile to create some separation. All the
while I went on and made the drop tanks and
propeller assembly and put these all aside with
the landing gear for painting later. Back to the
fuselage. Once I was inally happy with the
primed main assembly, I gave it a inal coat of …and then removed
UMP Grey Primer and then an overall coat of the masking and
added a little more
AK Interactive Xtreme Metal White Aluminium, chipping
mottled with Dark Aluminium around panel
edges as well as wing, tail and stabiliser
roots. I primed and painted the landing gear
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of hairspray before painting with Mr Color 131,
imaginatively named ‘Propeller Color’. Soon
after painting, the surface was wetted, and the
paint slowly chipped to reveal the metal colour
beneath.
The next step was to coat the laps and
rudder in AK Interactive Ultra Matte, followed
by painting the insignias. Rather than using the
kit’s decals, I just used a circle cutter at the right
diameter and masked the easiest insignias of all.
Having said that, the fuselage Hinomarus has a
white border which created a slight challenge
with concentric circle masking. I decided to
apply the hairspray chipping method to the
white border, but not the red Hinomarus as
they were always meticulously maintained
over and above other paintwork on Japanese
aircraft. I followed this process by painting the
black anti-glare upper fuselage section, again
using hairspray chipping. Once again, this
was instead of using the kits decals. Next, the
yellow leading edges, and again, hairspray and
chipped paint was used instead of the
kit decals. Now, the interesting
part, the camoulage. This
was a pattern of Mr Color 129,
Nakajima Dark Green, over the metal
base. I tossed up various ideas but settled
on using liquid mask. So, once I masked
everything I’d already painted (except the
silver) I applied Mr Marking Sol Neo
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with a disposable microbrush applicator. Once
I realised the detail was too rounded, I went
back over it with Humbrol Maskol, which is
more runny and able to be placed in sharper
detail. Once the liquid mask has set, it was an
overall coat of hairspray followed by the dark
green. I mixed a few drops of black into the next
layer and mottled the green in areas. Once the
green was dry, I rubbed of all the liquid mask,
using a soft rubber tipped instrument artists
use to sculpt clay. It’s very good for getting rid wasn’t realistic. I then completed the project
of all the masking agent without damaging the by bonding the exhausts into place and giving
paintwork beneath or around it. Once again, the entire models and accessories a coat of
I wet everything down and started chipping UMP Dark Dirt. Once this was dry it was wiped
the paint with an old paintbrush to create an away, leaving it heavier in areas of accumulated
authentic appearance. grime, I added exhaust staining with Tamiya
I then painted and chipped the black pilot’s Weathering Master colours, and used the same
walkway and repainted aspects of the anti-glare products around the wheels and wheel covers.
upper section as I felt the chipping pattern I rigged an antenna with Ammo by MIG elastic
rigging and with that, this most interesting little
project was complete. MA
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Dawid Branski builds

a ‘bargain’ 1:48 Revell
Lockheed PV-1

Venturing with a
F Ventura
rom the outset I must admit that I
knew little about this aircraft when
I got the kit. To be honest, I was
attracted to the model by the size of
the box, the artwork and the price – a
real bargain! When I looked inside, I saw some
really beautifully detailed parts, however, I
was a bit concerned as some Revell kits had
a history of itting issues, but these concerns
were about to vanish as soon as I began to put
the kit together. This has to be one of the nicest
and easiest builds I have ever done, and I can
highly recommend this kit to modellers of all
abilities!

Lockheed PV-1 Ventura

Manufacturer: Revell
Scale: 1:48
Kit Type: Plastic injection moulded
Kit Number: 04662
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I started assembling the interior parts, and for
the main interior colour I made a mix of Tamiya
XF-5 Flat Green and X-8 Lemon Yellow. I then
I WAS ATTRACTED TO THE MODEL BY THE SIZE OF THE BOX,
brush painted the smaller details such as the THE ARTWORK AND THE PRICE – A REAL BARGAIN!
control columns and instrument panels, inishing
of with a black wash. Next, I ixed the two
fuselage halves together along with the wings
and tail. I then used Eduard masks and a little bit
of Humbrol Maskol to cover all the clear parts. ‘For
the primer I again used a mix of Tamiya XF-5 Flat
Green and X-8 Lime Yellow, but this time I focused
more on achieving Zinc Chromate primer colour,
as it was used on the real aircraft in World War II.
Don’t worry too much about getting the ‘right
shade’, as there were multiple manufacturers
producing Zinc Chromate primers, and the all
had diferent shades. Next, I took and old spare
brush and used it to apply more Humbrol Maskol,
dabbing on the areas where I wanted to show
some chipping.
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Then when dry the salt was removed using

dry brush, or one moistened in water. Next, I
removed Maskol, to show the chipping efects,
but I thought I had over done it a little bit and it
looked to bright, but this was easily remedied
by spraying on another thinned coat of the base
colour.
Next, I gave the model a coat of Hataka XP09
Gloss and added the decals using Mr Mark
Setter NEO. For panel lines I used Tamiya Panel
Line Accent Black. I also added some colour
fading efects here and there by applying a
small drop of Ammo by MIG Oilbrushers - Grey
and Rust on top of the engines and using a
dry brush to unify these with the base colour.
Later I added some oil streaking efects on the
wings using Ammo by MIG Streaking Grime.
Once I was happy, I sealed model with Tamiya
X-35 Satin. I then removed the glazing masks
and added the antenna wires using Ammo MIG
.02mm Rigging Line. MA

For three-tone camoulage scheme I chose

Hataka, paints. On the upper surfaces I used
Hataka C001 Dark Sea Blue, for the mid-colour
I used C027 Intermediate Blue, and for the
lower surfaces I used C049 Insignia White. On
the upper part of the fuselage and wings I also
used the ‘rock salt technique’. Which is done by
moistening model with brush dipped in water
and then scattering rock salt over surfaces.
When water is dry, the rock salt sticks to the
surfaces so it won’t be easily blown by the air
from an airbrush. Then I sprayed a lightly a little
brighter and a more diluted mix of the base
colours for a more weathered aircraft look.
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Exciting Times Ahead! EMB-312 (T-27) Tucano

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irstly, can I say a huge
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contacted both myself
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enjoyed the irst issue of MAM
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said last month, we had made a
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added a couple of new regular
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look out for more details on
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Publications.
For this month’s issue,
well I’ve said it many times
before, but we are once again
packed to the rafters with
superb modelling projects.,
and it’s my pleasure to
welcome back Chad Summers
to our pages with his sublime Pucara build, and
I look forward to bringing you more of Chad’s
builds in forthcoming issues. If you like your jets
fast, then Alan Kelley’s English Electric Lightning
is a show-stopper, and if that’s not enough then
check out is Colourful Claude which is our lead
feature this month. Our Model Aircraft Manual
this month has another excellent ‘how to’ build
from Mario Serelle with his Mirage IIID, as lown
in by racing driver Ayrton Senna no less! We
also have a great build of the Heinkel He 219
from Michael Franz, plus a set of scale plans as a
reference. So, without further ado…….
Happy Modelling
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Airfix’s 1:48 Treble One

Fast Fighter

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ONE He 219 ‘Uhu’
Lightning Amazon Bird
T
he Embraer EMB-312 Tucano, military Grey primer, the cockpit was covered in Ammo
known as T-27, is a very important by MIG FS 36231 Grey. Then adding a few drops
aircraft in both Brazilian Air Force and of White to the base colour, the upper parts of

Model Aircraft Manual aerospace industry history. Brazilian

modellers have waited too long from a
nice Tucano kit in 1:48 and this inally happened
the cockpit were highlighted, before the panel
and side consoles details were carefully brush
painted. The seats received their etched harness

Mirage IIID
in 2017 when HobbyBoss released this kit. The
kit is everything you expect from HobbyBoss,
simple engineering, a good level of detail and a
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and a coat of Black before cushions and seat
belts were picked-out by brush. A Deep Grey
wash then added the desired depth efect, and

few mistakes. Some items such as the cockpit,
seats and wheels were clearly inspired by their
A-29 Super Tucano kit, and that makes them
MAY 2019
then some Neutral Grey dry brushing helped to
highlight the corners and raised details. Despite
being completely wrong for a T-27, the cockpit EMB-312 (T-27) Tucano
Manufacturer: HobbyBoss

completely wrong for the T-27! So, for this reason is good enough.
I decided to use a few resin parts from Brazilian Just like every Tucano or Super Tucano kit Scale: 1:48
Printed in UK

company Duarte Models. in any scale, you will need a lot of weight on Kit Type: Plastic injection moulded
Except for the corrected resin parts, this was the nose to prevent a tail sitter. In this case Kit Number: 81763
a straight-from-the-box build. After a coat of the instructions indicate 25 grams and that’s
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An Ethiopian
Firefly
T
his shortrun kit was a challenge to
build to say the least, however, it does
come with some of the best resin
that I have ever seen. After putting all
the efort in to building and painting
the kit, I wasn’t happy with the inish. In my
opinion I used the wrong colours, I didn’t do
enough paint fading and the wash I used was
too heavy. So, I put it on the shelf and didn’t
really know what to do with it for a long time.
One day I came by a Montex Canopy Masking
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Jeroen Burger builds and then
repaints AZ Models Fairey Mk.1
Set and that was the trigger for me that pushed
me into doing a full repaint! So, I pulled of the
landing gear, propeller, antenna and wheel
doors began work.
Once I had prepared the surfaces I sprayed
on a coat of Alclad Black Primer, which did the
job perfectly. After that I selected the colours
that I felt would be much better match than
the ones I initially used. The shades I chose
were Gunze H37 Wood Brown and H79 Sand
Yellow. So, I started with the darkest colour,
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AN ETHIOPIAN FIREFLY
Fairey Firefly Mk.1
Manufacturer: AZ Models
Scale: 1:48
Kit Type: Plastic injection moulded
Kit Number: 4863

and randomly faded this with a lighter shade

of that colour. When done I marked the
camoulage pattern with Blu Tac and masked
it of and repeated the painting process with
the lighter colour which I again lightened, this
time with white. Then I painted the undersides
with Gunze H74 Sky and also faded this as
well. Then I sealed everything in with a coat of
Alclad Aquagloss and then I was ready for some
washes. Here I used two diferent washes from
Mig Productions, one for each colour on the
top-sides and another for the undersides.

AT THE FIRST ATTEMPT, IN MY OPINION

I USED THE WRONG COLOURS
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Then the decals were applied, and these

were sealed in with another coat of Aquagloss.
Then on top of that I added more weathering
using a mixture of black and brown pastel
powders. I then re-attached all of the smaller
details using a 50:50 mix of Hataka Matt and
Satin, which has now become my new go to
inishing product. Last thing I added were the
exhaust stains which I airbrushed freehand with
some Mr. Paint NATO Black. I must say I was
really am really pleased with how this turned
out and I think it is a great improvement to what
it used to be! MA
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Mission Models Masterclass

James Bamford uses Mission Models paints to detail the
Eduard FW190A-2 in the colours of the famous Luftwafe ace

Josef Priller’s I have a massive fascination of the Fw

190 series, and I have now pretty much
acquired almost every major production

Mount
variant of the aircraft (radial and inline
engine versions), only currently missing
the A-1 and A-0 pre-production, which should
be fairly easy to back date from this very kit.
The Fw 190A-2 is the second full production
example in the Fw190 radial engine series
and irst appeared in the skies, combat
ready, in October 1941. The most major
diference between the A1 and the A2 was
the introduction of the newer BMW 801 C-2
engine which ixed issues with overheating.
The thirteen exhausts were re-routed allowing
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Fw 190A-2
Manufacturer: Eduard
Scale: 1:48
Kit Type: Plastic injection moulded with etch
Kit Number: 82146
for reduction in temperature to the bottom
cylinders and thus went a long way to ixing
the problem. As for changes to what the
aircraft looked like visually, the only two real
diference to be noted are the three vertical
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cooling slits on the engine cowling which is
just forward of the wing. The second being
the replacement of the wing root weaponry.
This being updated from the 7.62mm machine
guns to 20mm MG151/20E canons which also
meant the addition of a new gunsight. The
Fw190A-2 marked the beginning of a shift
in air supremacy from the British back to the
Germans as the 190 was now having a more
dominating efect over the Spitire Mk.Vs
patrolling the skies.
The kit is a brand-new tooling from Eduard
continues their bid to re-tool all of their
previously released Fw 190 series. Currently in
the new tool line up we have the A2, A3, A4,
A5, A8 and A8/R2. Let’s hope they bring the
rest through too! On opening the box, I was
met with six dark grey plastic sprues and one
transparent sprue. There are two sets of wings
in the box for weather you build a two-gun
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wing version or the slightly later four-gun wing
version. The sprues were all incredibly neat
with no lash whatsoever. The glass pieces were
also lash free and were warp free. I was able to
read text through them perfectly ine! As this
is a ProiPACK kit, it also came with a nice set of
canopy masks, photo etch for the cockpit, and
to my surprise, resin inner gear bay doors!
The cockpit assembly was fairly
straightforward. You get a one-piece cockpit
tub with two instrument side panels, which
were either lat or raised with detail, depending
on if you used the etch or not. This was the
same for the main instrument panels. These
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were all glued in place along with
the bucket seat and it was given an
undercoat of matte black. Once this
was dry, RLM66 black-grey was applied
with small highlighting was a slightly lighter
coat sprayed straight down to try to create a
few shadows and raised the details. The seat
was the brushed a wood/leather colour and
once dry the lovely Eduard photo etch seat
belts were glued and bent into place. This along
with the photo etch for the instrument panels
brought the interior to life. A small dark colour
black/brown wash was gently applied over
the top and left in the crevices to for shadows
and pick the details out that were not already
accentuated. This especially helped lift the
detail on the photo etched belts! All this was
inally sealed in with a coat of Mission Models
Matt, which brought it all together.
The fuselage halves were also painted in the
same fashion as the cockpit. The smaller side
wall etched pieces were also applied along with
the top instrument panel which was glued in
place on one side of the fuselage as the top. The
cockpit tub was then aligned with the fuselage
sides, the engine bulkhead and engine piece
were also inserted and glued together and set
aside to dry. These went together without a
single problem and required no illing, just a
small amount of sanding to get the halves lat
with each other and not look out of place. As
I had decided to build Josef Priller’s machine,
this required me to use the set of wings with
only the two-wing root mounted MG151/20s,
rather than the four gun wing option. The
entire under wing section came as one-piece,
which made it very easy for lining everything
up. The irst things to go in was the wing spare,
which also acted as the back wall of the wheel
bays. The smaller structural pieces were added
in alongside the mid exhaust ports and the
mains wheel bays inally inserted from the
top. The MG151/20s were then inserted into
place ready for the top wing halves to be glue
into place. Once again, the it of the wings was
perfect with no troubling issues and only a
small amount of sanding on the leading edge
to unite the two pieces perfectly. Any lost panel
lines over the leading edge were then also re-
scribed. Once the main wings were inished, the
ailerons were attached along with the building
and attachment of the elevators to the rear of
the fuselage. I left the vertical stabiliser of as
this would aid me in the painting stage later on
as it was to be all in RLM04 Yellow. Other pieces
such as the engine/fuselage gun covers and
engine cowlings were stuck in place and inally,
I masked the front canopy and main canopy
parts and glued them in their necessary places.
I decided to do this machine closed up as I
wanted the main focus to be the paint job itself
and not the cockpit. The landing gear and three
blade propeller was assembled separately to
aid at the painting stage. This meant I didn’t risk
breaking any parts unnecessarily.
The irst stage of painting in my books is a
black base. This is easily achieved, with Mission
Models Black. Once the black had dried, which
only took half an hour or so, it was time to give
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the aircraft a white mottle. This would be my
irst long experience of Mission Models paints
and it did not disappoint! I thinned it 50:50
with their dedicated thinners and from there
started to do random squiggled in each panel
area. I had to ill the cup twice to cover the
whole aircraft efectively but each time I didn’t
have any problems with drying tips or feed
problems. Once the white mottle had been left
for twenty-four hours or so, it was time for the
main colours. The main camoulage on early
Fw 190s was the standard RLM76 undersides
and fuselage with RLM74/75. The RLM76 was
the irst colour to go down in lovely thin coats,
being careful to let the white marble show
through enough to be visible but also not hide
all the work with too many coats. The Mission
Models paints can be thinned to your absolute
desire meaning the layer was built up easily as
I thinned it to roughly 70:30 thinner to paint.
The camoulage was up next and out came the
lighter RLM75. This was free hand painted along
the top edge of the fuselage to distinguish
between the fuselage colour and the top
colour. The same was also done on the wings,
so what was left was an RLM camoulaged
area, with a black and white based area ready
for RLM74. Said colour was then applied in all
the areas left blank, again free hand airbrushed
to give a soft yet sharp enough edge to the
pattern. The Germans were known for their
schemes not being as hard edged as the British
examples, and that’s what I aimed to recreate
in this case. Again, the basing was carefully
left for enough to show through but not too
much. The camoulage colour was sprayed in a
slightly high consistency of about 60:40 thinner
to paint.
All this left was the lovely RLM04 to be
added to the underside for the identiication
area under the engine and the tail. The tail was
left separate earlier in the build so that was
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taken of and sprayed separately and the paint
gave a lovely inish and a fairly bright colour
was achieved without being overdone. With the
main camo colours having been laid, it was time
for a few light coats Mission Models Gloss. This
meant it was time for the decals to be applied.
Eduard’s decals are always very good and did
not disappoint here either! All the main, larger
decals went down without a problem and
conformed to the rivets and the smaller stencil
data were also applied with relative ease. Apart
from some of them being almost too small to
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Models Aircraft’s monthly look at new books
Lockheed F-104 Starfighter
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Author: Martin Bowman
ISBN: 9781473863262
Format: Hardback
Price: £24.00
T
he F-104 Starighter is
quite possibly one of
the most photographed
aircraft of all time. It is certainly
one of the most iconic. Here,
Martin Bowman ofers up a well-
researched, comprehensive and
thoroughly entertaining history
of this impressive interceptor
aircraft and ighter bomber.
First-hand insights gathered
from pilots who have lown
the Starighter in a variety of
international contexts make
for a rich and diverse narrative,
interspersed throughout with
a good selection of black and
white and colour illustrations
that really bring the story to life.
Over the course of an eventful
history, the Starighter has
been caught up in an extensive
variety of conlicts across the
world. This book not only
acquaints us with the landmark
milestones of a widely utilised
aircraft type, it also illuminates
our understanding of the
dynamic history of aviation in
the second half of the twentieth
century.
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Battle of Berlin
1943-44
Publisher: Osprey
Author: Richard Worrall
ISBN: 9781472835222
Format: Softback
Price: £14.99
T T
hroughout late-1943 into
early-1944, an epic struggle
raged over the skies of
Germany between RAF Bomber
Command and the Luftwafe. This
campaign had been undertaken by
the Commander-in-Chief Bomber
Command, Air Chief Marshal Sir
Arthur Harris, and was baptized
‘The Battle of Berlin’. The Berlin
campaign was a hard, desperate
slog. Struggling against dreadful
and bitter winter weather, Bomber
Command ‘went’ to Berlin a total of
sixteen times, sufering increasingly
severe losses throughout the
winter of 1943/44 in the face of a
revitalized German air-defence. The
campaign remains controversial
and the jury, even today, is
ultimately undecided as to what
it realistically achieved. Illustrated
throughout with full-colour
artwork depicting the enormous
scale of the campaign, this is the
story of the RAF’s much debated
attempt to win the war through
bombing alone.
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Douglas D-558
Publisher: Osprey
Author: Peter E Davies
ISBN: 9781472826212
Format: Softback
Price: £13.99
he six Douglas D-558
research aircraft, built
as two variants, were
produced for a US Navy and
NACA collaborative project
to investigate light in the
high subsonic and supersonic
regimes and to develop means
of coping with the dangerous
phenomena of compressibility
and pitch-up which had
caused many accidents to early
jets. Wind tunnels could not
provide the necessary data, so
pilots had to risk their safety in
experimental aircraft which, for
their time, achieved phenomenal
performance. Supported by full-
colour artwork including three-
view plates of the two D-558
models and a technical view of
the D-2 cockpit, this authoritative
text ofers a comprehensive
guide to the record-breaking
Navy research craft.
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Atlas of the
Blitzkrieg
Publisher: Osprey
Author: Robert Kirchubel
ISBN: 9781472834997
Format: Hardback
Price: £45.00
I
n August 1939, Nazi
Germany launched its
infamous Blitzkrieg invasion
of Poland, bringing about
the outbreak of World War II.
Faced with highly tactical and
accelerated attacks aimed at
disrupting the line of defence
and encircling vulnerable
troops, Allied forces broke under
pressure. Within the space of a
year, France had been invaded
and occupied, while the forces
of Great Britain had retreated
headlong back across the
Channel. Further campaigns
in the air and at sea sought to
subdue the British Isles, while
more lightning-fast attacks in
1941 overran Yugoslavia and
Greece, leaving the bulk of
Continental Europe under Nazi
control. Though the dominance
of the Blitzkrieg method was to
be challenged in the latter part
of the war, as Allied forces found
methods of disrupting the attacks
and dominating the battleields,
its unparalleled success in the
early years of the conlict brought
Europe to its knees.  expert author to tell the full
Featuring 107 detailed maps,
this impressive atlas shows, in
intricate detail, the ighting and
physical challenges faced by
the German attackers and Allied
defenders. This will be a treasure
for World War II enthusiasts and
collectors alike.
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Dornier Do.17
Units of World
War II
Publisher: Osprey
Author: Chris Gross
ISBN: 9781472839634
Format: Softback
Price: £14.99
I
nitially designed as a high-
speed mail aeroplane and
airliner, the Do 17 irst made
an appearance as a military
aircraft in the Spanish Civil
War, both as a bomber and in
reconnaissance roles. In the
early stages of World War II, it,
together with the Heinkel He
111, formed the backbone of
the German bomber arm over
Poland, France, Belgium and the
Low Countries, and saw action
in almost every major campaign
in this period. However, by the
start of the Battle of Britain, the
Do 17’s limited range and small
bomb load meant that it was
ripe for replacement by the Ju
88. Though it performed well
at lower altitudes, the model
sufered heavy losses during
raids, particularly during the Blitz
and were increasingly phased
out. This fully illustrated study
uses detailed full-colour artwork
and authoritative text from an
operation story of one of Nazi
Germany’s best light bombers
from the early years of World
War II.
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Jet Prototypes
of World War II
Publisher: Osprey
Author: Tony Buttler
ISBN: 9781472835987
Format: Softback
Price: £13.99
W A
hile World War II raged,
pioneering aircraft and
engine designers were
busy developing the world’s irst
practical jet-powered research
aircraft to test and prove the
new technology. This book
examines the aircraft that paved
the way for Germany’s Me 262
and Britain’s Meteor - the world’s
irst jet ighters. Throughout
the war, Germany, Italy and
Britain engaged in top-secret
jet programmes as they raced
to develop the airpower of the
future. Various experimental
aircraft were trialled in order to
achieve the goal of producing an
efective engine and ighter that
could harness the potential of
the jet power. These included the
German Heinkel He 178 research
aircraft and Heinkel He 280 jet
ighter prototype, the famed
British E.28/39 research aircraft
built by Gloster Aircraft as well
as the stillborn E.5/42 ighter and
E.1/44 Ace ighter prototype,
and inally the remarkable
Italian Caproni-Campini N.1/CC
2 research aircraft. Illustrated
throughout with full-colour
artwork and rare photographs,
this fascinating study examines
the fore-runners to the military
jet age.
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Tempest V vs Fw
190D-9
Publisher: Osprey
Author: Robert Forsyth
ISBN: 9781472829252
Format: Softback
Price: £13.99
rguably two of the inest
piston-engined ighters
ever built, the Tempest
V and Fw 190D-9 raised the bar
in terms of aircraft design and
operational capability during
World War II. The long-nosed
‘Dora 9’, designed by Kurt Tank,
irst appeared in the skies over
the Western and Eastern Fronts
in the late summer of 1944. Fast,
and with an exceptional rate of
climb, it quickly bettered almost
every ighter that the RAF, USAAF
and Soviet Red Air Force could
ield. The Hawker Tempest V
entered service in early 1944,
initially proving itself a stalwart
performer when it was deployed
to intercept V1 lying bombs
over southern England. From the
autumn of 1944, the Tempest V
also equipped squadrons of the
2nd Tactical Air Force, operating
in support of the Allied armies
advancing across north-west
Europe. It became a potent
ground-attack aircraft, armed
with underwing rockets, but also
a irst-class interceptor when
pitted against the Luftwafe’s
advanced Fw 190D-9 and Me
262. Featuring full colour artwork,
this book describes in fascinating
detail combats between the
Tempest Vs of No 274 Squadron
and the Fw 190D-9s of I. and III./
JG 26 between February and
April 1945.
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RAF Harrier –
Ground Attack in
the Falklands
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Author: Jerry Pook
ISBN: 9781473865565
Format: Softback
Price: £14.99
D
uring the Falklands war
Jerry Pook, a pilot in No.
1(F) Squadron RAF, lew
air interdiction, armed recce,
close-air-support and airield
attack as well as pure photo-
recce missions. Most weapons
were delivered from extreme
low-level attacks because of the
lack of navigation aids and in the
absence of Smart weapons. The
only way he could achieve results
was to get low down and close-in
to the targets and, if necessary,
carry out re-attacks to destroy
high-value targets. Apart from
brief carrier trials carried out
many years previously there had
been no RAF Harriers deployed at
sea. The RAF pilots were treated
with ill-disguised contempt
by their naval masters, their
professional opinions ignored in
spite of the fact that the RN knew
next to nothing about ground-
attack and recce operations. Very
soon after starting operations
from the aircraft carrier HMS
Hermes the squadron realised
that they were considered
as more or less expendable
ordnance.  www.pen-and-sword.co.uk
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Test Pilots of the
Jet Age
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Author: Colin Higgins and Bruce
Vigar
ISBN: 9781473847754
Format: Hardback
Price: £25.00
T
oday, as we board our
lights to Adelaide, Zurich,
and all points in between,
we give little thought to the jet
power that will take us there. But
this is only possible because just
over 70 years ago a select band of
British test pilots was prepared to
risk all in the quest to ly further,
faster and higher than ever
before. Their quest was fraught
with danger; disaster and death
were never far away. This book
captures eleven of those stories
as told by the pilots themselves
– their words as to how they took
British aviation to the forefront of
a new era, the ‘Jet Age’. Britain’s
aircraft industry was booming in
the years immediately after the
end of the Second World War
and the demand for test pilots
seemingly limitless as new aircraft
types rolled of the drawing
boards. Meteors, Vampires,
Hunters, Comets, Victors, Vulcans
and Harriers were some of the
aircraft that became world-
beaters. Today, these names and
the role played by the test pilots
in bringing these projects to
fruition are all but forgotten.
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The Men Who Flew The
English Electric Lightning
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Author: Martin Bowman of the Lightning in detail using
ISBN: 9781473805648 irst-hand accounts of what
Format: Hardback it was like to ly and service
Price: £25.00 this thoroughbred. Illustrated
with over 200 colour and b/w
T
he early 1950s were a photographs, appendices
boom time for British listing Lightning squadrons,
aviation. The lessons production totals and individual
of six years of war had been aircraft histories, alongside the
learned and much of the irst in-depth analysis into why a
research into jet engines, third of all Lightnings were lost,
radar and aerodynamics had The Men Who Flew the English
begun to reach fruition. In Electric Lightning is a ine record
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transonic research programme
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the success of their Canberra
jet bomber and rose to the
challenge of providing a high-
speed interceptor for the RAF.
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