Megablitz and more

Here then is the completed Javelin. I added the Firestreak AAMs on which I was unable (as usual) to resist adding red noses. It’s a striking...

Build complete - on with the paint! A quick spray all over of pale grey, then more grey brushed on with come olive camo.

  Once the glue dried it was time to press on.  Off came all the tape.  Sadly some of the gaps were such - wing roots and base of tail - tha...

For my first kit of 2023 I dug this out for a game I have in mind.  I believe it’s an incarnation of the old (1975) FROG kit   Not too many ...

Hot on the heels of the Canberra , next to emerge from the pile of dust and plastic is this rather fetching Sea Vixen.  It's respecta...

The latest survivor of the celebrated Partizan ‘plane purchase is this rather tidy looking Canberra. I think it’s the FROG kit. Under the ...

 This cutting-edge (c1938) bomber is now complete and resplendent in Spanish Republican colours. My Nationalist AA gunners are already ...

Paintwork is now complete. I opted for a simple overall green with pale blue underside. Once that was dry I masked and painted on the red ...

Behold the contents of the box. Despite the kit’s antiquity the parts were pretty free of flash. Fit was another matter, though if i...

 After last summer’s Ebro game  my Nationalist AA gunners complained of a lack of large targets. As I have been prevailed upon to run a si...

Remember the ghastly ex-Frog Canberra ?  Here it is in flight, so to speak and wearing South African colours. Given its unpromising beginnin...

They say you should never judge a book by it's cover.  The same rule should apply to kits and their boxes, but sometimes a crappy box ...

A fitting follow-up to the Blenheim , latest to emerge from the Partizan 'plane purchase pile is this Beaufort.  Never having owned or...

I'll let you into a secret.  For a long time I have wanted a one of these.  I'm not entirely sure why - possibly because it is tha...

Strictly speaking this is last Tuesday's Tupolev but I didn't get round to posting it then. It's the old FROG kit of the SB.2...

Sorry - not a CASEVAC helicopter in sight. The post title relates to the main job carried out during the refurb of these wobbly-winged wond...