Tag: Sword

  • 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…

  • Another Batch Build in the works

    Spitfires, what else? My queue is sitting pretty big right now. Before the batch build I’ve got 3 Spitfires, a Swordfish, Wildcat, Walrus, Fortress, Tomahawk and a Saturn V in the works. I’ve agreed to build out of scale and make the Monogram He-111 for a local museum as part of a “Bomber Bash” challenge…

  • East Indies Seafire

    Seafire LF.IIc, LR792/K, 834 Squadron, HMS Battler, East Indies Fleet, 1944 This was an easy conversion, one of the first I did using a resin plug that represents the retracted a-frame hook of the Seafire. The rest of the conversion is just some plastic sheet. This is another 2010 completion. The Subject Seafires began showing…