Single Engine Aircraft - WW II - 1/72

The new tool Spitfire Mk I. Detailed cockpit. Panel lines are a bit deep, but after the paint job they look nice. Decals by Cartograf are easy to apply and look as if they were painted on.  

I airbrushed it with Humbrol and Hobby Color paints (RLM70, 71, 65, 24, 04), This is an A6 version. 

Academy/Minicraft (2120) Focke-Wulf Fw190A6/8 - 1/72. Nice kit, very detailed for 1/72. The only problem was the decals, which simply disintegrated when I tried to apply them. I had to buy a new set from Eagle Cals. I airbrushed it with Humbrol and Hobby  

 

Heavy weathering. I did that deliberately to try out the method of painting the plane aluminum, then applying Maskol imitating chipping and finally removing the masking fluid with blue tack. 

 

 

 

Jo-Han Republic Thunderbolt P-47-D - 1/72. Jo-Han manufactured mostly car models. This kit is from 1973 and it is surprisingly detailed with recessed panel lines and you can build either the razorback or the bubbletop version. The cockpit is pretty poor though and the landing gear area too, so I had to improve them by scratch building some parts.  

 

The Airfix Hawker Hurricane Mk.I 1/72. Having built the old SBD Dauntless, the Hurricane was a pleasure to build. The details are outstanding for a 1/72 model, details we used to find only in 1/32 models 30 years ago. The cockpit, the landing gear, the fuselage are awesome. The fit is perfect. 

I have only added the landing lights, which were scratch built.  

Tooling is from 2014. This is a gift set version, so only one aircraft version is available. It comes with the paints and cement as usual in this kind of kit. The color scheme is early RAF, i. e., 29 flat dark earth, 30 flat dark green and 90 beige green on the underside. It's definitely a Battle of Britain aircraft, responsible for many kills throughout the battle.  

Westland Lysander Mk.3 "Spy Plane" by Frog. Initial release is from 1968. I bought this one from a guy who is a kit collector in my opinion. He has hundreds of kits which he has bought thru his life and has never built them, so he has a stash of boxes. The kit was in perfect condition (I mean kit and box). After Frog went out of business the molds were sold to countries in Eastern Europe where the kits are still manufactured under the brand "Ark Models". 

I had previously built a model like this when I was 10, so the build brought me good childhood memories. In those days I didn't use to paint the models so they were monochromatic, in this case grey. I started painting them when I was a teen. Color scheme is flat black on the underside and flat dark green and grey on the upper side.  

There are two versions available: the Mk.1 and the Mk.3. I built the Mk.3, which is a spy plane, dropping spies behind enemy lines at night. The Lysander performed these tasks very well since it was a short take off and landing airplane. The canopy is very thick and the headlights have been scratch built since there was none included in the kit. The decals were in bad conditions so I had to buy a new sheet. A company called Dora Wings released a new tool Lysander 1/72 some years ago which is a gem, according to the youtuber from Flory Models. 

Airfix SBD-5 Dauntless 1/72. It's an old kit. It was initially tooled back in 1967. My kit is a rebox from 1973, so old that the instructions sheet has yellowed. The build was a challenge. From time to time I like to build an old kit. I'm not sure whether the kit is still being marketed by Airfix. The last rebox was released in 2012, according to Scalemates. 

There are two versions available. I've built the SBD-5 flown by Captain Bell of the Ace of Spades (VMSB-231), Marshal
Islands in 1944. The model is pretty basic, devoid of many details, so I had to scratch build some parts such as the
improvement of the wheel wells (you could see the cockpit thru them), added two machine guns and also added the PE
dive brakes by Airwaves. The exhaust pipes were small an had no details, so I scratch built new ones.
 

The color scheme is flat white on the underside, flat non specular blue grey on the fuselage and rudder, and flat non specular sea blue on the wings and stabilizers (top only), and on the upper part of the fuselage. There aren't many Dauntesses available on 1/72. This one and one by Testors.