Tag: Airfix
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Airfix Vintage Val – Part Three – Well Wrap My Rice Roll
And call me sushi – the Airfix Aichi Val is looking pretty good. The top and bottom colours have gone on the AIrfix Val and I have taken the precaution of glossing them into place with Mr. Color No. 46. It is a cool day and there are travelling showers – I do not want…
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Airfix Vintage Val – Part Two – So Far, So Good
The last couple of plague days were very productive – and the Airfix Aichi Val was coming along splendidly. Fuselage seams needed progressive assembly but in the end little filler would be needed – so little that it would probably be only thickened undercoat. So far a victory over the Fujimi product. Wings needed no…
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Airfix Vintage Val – Part One – Comparisons
It is said that comparisons are odious – or in the case of British cinema chains, Odeons. Be that as it may, I intend to contrast and compare the Airfix vintage classic kit of the Aichi Val dive bomber with the Fujimi example that I built earlier. The prices are rather similar, so it was…
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Henschel Hs 123A-1 – Part Three – Lt. Yuen
Lieutenant Yuen* has command of his aircraft. He’s joined the 15th Squadron flying Henschel dive bombers. Let’s hope he is successful. Lt. Yuen was a bit of a handful to sandwich into the cockpit. I had originally thought to follow normal practice and finish the fuselage before cementing the pilot in. Not on the Hs…
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Henschel Hs 123A-1 – Part Two – After Dinner
I washed the kit parts for the Henschel before dinner – they sat drying as I browsed and sluiced, and were ready for a start as soon as the coffee was served. What you see in the heading image is less than two hours later – all the major parts de-burred, edge-cleaned, and assembled. Tomorrow…
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Henschel Hs 123A-1 – Part One – 15th Squadron
Well here we go again with the Airfix Classics. And this one is destined to be quite different from what Airfix envisaged. The plane is intriguing – one of the last of the serving biplanes…or this might even be considered a sesquiplane. It is deceptively fighter-like but in actuality is a dive bomber. When the…
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Beaufighter TFX – Part Three – Lights, Camera, Ection Already
The Israeli Beaufighter you see here – D 171 – was part of a group of five planes that were purchased in the UK in the 40’s by Israeli agents. They were supposed to be used by a film company in Scotland to make a documentary on Coastal Command. They were given permission to fly…
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Beaufighter TFX – Part Two – The 50’s Revisited
The quality of the Airfix Beaufighter is actually quite good when you get to the cut and glue stage. You must imagine the insides, but then you do that when you study anatomy as well and at least the kit doesn’t smell of formalin. All seams fit well, though I suspect the silver plastic used…
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Beaufighter TFX – Part One – The Alternate Version
I built an Airfix Beaufighter model a year or so ago – the modern kit – and was extremely pleased with the result. It was completed as an RCAF model with a famous pilot in it. This Beau is a very much older version of the plane from Airfix. Scalemates tells me it is a…
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Short Sunderland – Part Two – Like Painting A Fish
Well, that’s what it reminded me of…as well it might – being a flying boat. If it was to go on water, a fish shape would be most a appropriate. The insides are bare, but at least they are decorated. And the windows will not fall inward. I’ve seen that trick too often not be…
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