Tag: French aircraft

• Potez 63-11 – Part One – Smooth Potez

  

  As opposed to lumpy Potez. The designs of interwar and early-war French aircraft form a fascinating subdivision of aeronautical insanity. From the angular designs of the late twenties and early thirties to the sleek over-designs of the forties, they seem to have decided to over-run the buffer stops every time they drew up to the…

  Dick Stein

  October 5, 2024

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, Czech models, Decals, French aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models

  design, French aircraft, Potez

• LeO 45 – Part Four – Art Deco Bomber

  

  People who google images of this French early-war bomber may see something stuck underneath it. There is a dust-bin turret that drops down from a position just aft of the cockpit to allow an unfortunate crew member to fire a single short machine gun at attackers under the plane. It is included in the kit,…

  Dick Stein

  August 28, 2024

  1:72 scale, camouflage, Colour Schemes, French aircraft, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models

  camouflage pattern, French aircraft

• Mureaux 117 – Part One – The Bargain Heller

  

  Again a good opportunity to build a by-gone kit has come my way – a legacy kit being cleared out at a very low price. Part of that may have been prompted by the appearance of the box – squashed and scuffed, and of a Heller era that seems crude to our eyes. It debuted…

  Dick Stein

  June 6, 2024

  1:72 scale, Box Art, Colour Schemes, Decals, French aircraft, frugality, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  French aircraft, old kits, paint schemes