Category: Aircraft

  • Air-Sea Rescue Defiant

    Air-Sea Rescue Defiant

    Boulton-Paul Defiant ASR Mk I, V1121/BA*O, 277 Squadron, RAF, August 1942 The Subject The Defiant was expected to intercept bombers and with it’s 4x .303 Brownings easily get close enough to…oh who am I kidding. It was a really dumb idea regardless what it was designed for. Strap a heavy turret onto a fighter and…

  • Aussie Kittyhawk IIA

    Aussie Kittyhawk IIA

    Curtiss Kittyhawk Ia, serial unknown/U, Sqn Ldr Richard Cresswell, 77th Squadron RAAF, New Guinea, 1942 This is another one of those “started over a decade ago, not sure when, but pulled off the shelf and finished!” Completed in December 2018. The Subject Before knowing Squadron Leader Cresswell’s history, I chose to model this subject because…

  • Delta

    Delta

    Kfir C7, 543 Zohar, Arava Guardians Squadron, IAF, 1990 I have a thing for delta aircraft. While my blog doesn’t show it, yet, this is my third delta winged aircraft. Completed back in January 2018. The Subject I’ll paraphrase this wrong but as I understand it, the Isreali Air Force procured some French made Mirage…