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Painting windows black or another colour is a convention that currently runs at its strongest in airliner modelling. Opinions vary but many civil aviation modellers prefer the appearance of black or dark grey windows to that of glazed passenger cabin windows, which often resemble little lenses rathe...

I'd like to make this but it's at the extreme of my range!
David

There is a picture at https://www.flickr.com/photos/harryclaggers/30753196574 of this Constellation which ended up as a bar in Malta. This article https://www.guidememalta.com/en/throwba ... lation-bar refers.

I love to see a coherent thread from aviation history!

The General Electric Fusormak of 1952 made space flight practical, but the Douglas Space Craft 2 of 1959 made it economical. These are episodes in the long career to date (2/26/2035) of the 42nd DSC-2 spaceframe, USAF serial 60-21577. She entered service in 1963 as a VCSF-2, working regularly on fla...

Fantastic display in a perfect setting, Terry.

I saw some samples of this firm's work at a model railway exhibition. He can produce fine lettering down to fractions of a millimetre in colours and, importantly, in white. He can do solid colours by overprinting white. The samples I saw of lettering on railway subjects were impressive and he has do...

The Belphégor is wonderful. Really my sort of aircraft. You wonder about the design process that led to using what was essentially a He177 power plant. The look of the front end suggests the engineers thought they could always add another air intake but ran out of space.

Herr Hauptmann, will one bottle of Vallejo 70.995 be enough for this tank?

That photographer certainly gets around. He is taking a picture in one of my Arctic doramas, too. A small correction is needed to the North Star figure; he appears to be using a Fed-1, whereas a captured Leica III would be more likely at that stage in the Great Patriotic War. Some might think this a...