Greenshirt Modeler

Category: World War II

  • Airfix Do17Z-2

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    Last year Airfix announced a new tool Do17Z to be released in 2014, aligned to the 75th anniversary of the start of World War II. The Do17Z was the principle bomber for the first 18 months of the war, eventually replaced by the Ju88 and later variants of the Do17; the Do215 and Do217. At…

  • PR XI PL776/Y

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    Supermarine Spitfire PR Mk XI, PL776/Y, 681 Squadron RAF, Alipore, India 1944/45 This is another of those early passionate builds of Spitfires.  This time I wanted a PR bird but didn’t want to make the typical PR XIX.  This was my second attempt at a PRU Blue aircraft, the first being the Mosquito PR XVI,…

  • Hasegawa Spitfire Ia

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    This is a kit I purchased back in the early ’90’s and started shortly after, but didn’t finish until 2009. When I started it I thought it was a good kit. Well, okay the definition of “good” meant “easy to build” and “bad” meant “impossible to build”. At the time this was a good kit,…