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Another High Flyer
Spitfire HF VII, MD114/DUoG, No 312 (Czechoslovak) Squadron, RAF, Skeabrae, 1943. I hadn’t yet built a Hasegawa Spitfire, and since I didn’t yet have a Mk VII on my shelf decided I’d do this one. The Subject I’ve come to understand that frontline squadrons would rotate on occasion to airfields in the North and East,…
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Pearl Harbor Attacker
A6M2 Zero, Lt Sumio Nono, Hiryu air wing, 7th December 1941 I finally built this newly tooled A6M from Airfix and used many of Nick Millman’s recommendations for colors just to see how it would look. The Subject Lt Nono led the second wave of 9 A6M2 Zero fighter escorts from Hiryu, escorting 18 B5N2…
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South African Spitifire
Spitfire Vc(T), No. 2 Squadron SAAF, Palata, Italy, 1944 I like the Vc as it affords the most unique paint schemes of all Spitfire marks; and appears to have been used by more countries during the war than any other single variant. This one I particularly like because No. 2 Squadron was likely the only…