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by Tim R-T-C
Thu Sep 04, 2025 9:53 pm
Forum: Dates of Shows and Places
Topic: KEIGHLEY MODEL SHOW 2025, Sunday September 21
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Re: KEIGHLEY MODEL SHOW 2025, Sunday September 21

SIG144 stand on the poster and Malcolm's award winning (if not 144th scale!) lifeboat too. Its becoming the SIG144 home show :D
by Tim R-T-C
Mon Sep 01, 2025 7:26 am
Forum: Reports & Photographic archives
Topic: Stoke on Trent show report - 31.8.25
Replies: 3
Views: 51

Stoke on Trent show report - 31.8.25

https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/Show2025/Resize_20250901_081244_4409.jpg Another good day out for the SIG. The Stoke show is a long term fixture on the circuit and marks the start of the autumn season. https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/Show2025/Resize_20250901_081244_4668.jpg I brought a selection of aircraft and ...
by Tim R-T-C
Tue Aug 26, 2025 1:11 pm
Forum: Reports & Photographic archives
Topic: SIG sees vintage aircraft
Replies: 3
Views: 112

Re: SIG sees vintage aircraft

A few pics from my collection too. A really fun day out and hopefully we will attend next year as well. https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/Folderians/Breighton/An%20amazing%20day%20at%20the%20G%20George%201940s%20themed%20fly%20in%20at%20@realaeroplaneclub%20Breighton%20Airfield.Fea.jpg https://r-t-c.co.uk/ki...
by Tim R-T-C
Mon Aug 18, 2025 9:28 pm
Forum: Reports & Photographic archives
Topic: NELSAM (Sunderland Air Museum) August 2025
Replies: 1
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NELSAM (Sunderland Air Museum) August 2025

https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/Show2025/Resize_20250818_192317_7730.jpg A new event to us and only in its second year of running, the model show at the North East Land Sea Air Museum (NELSAM) near Sunderland. This is the first time we have displayed in an air museum and it was great fun being alongside m...
by Tim R-T-C
Mon Jul 07, 2025 8:16 am
Forum: Reports & Photographic archives
Topic: Skipton - July 6th 2025
Replies: 0
Views: 426

Skipton - July 6th 2025

https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/Show2025/Resize_20250707_082249_9150.jpg Definitely one of the classiest venues on the show circuit. The town hall of Skipton, North Yorkshire, made for pleasant, if somewhat tight surroundings. https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/Show2025/Resize_20250707_082249_9392.jpg The town cent...
by Tim R-T-C
Sat Jul 05, 2025 7:28 am
Forum: Aviation
Topic: Lachovkin La-15 test flight - Moscow, 1949
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Views: 148

Lachovkin La-15 test flight - Moscow, 1949

https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/Specifikit/La15/Resize_20250704_222922_2602.jpg December 1949 at the Khodynka Airfield near Moscow, one of the new, first generation Soviet jet fighters - the Lavochkin La-15 - is prepared for a trial flight from a compacted snow runway. https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/Specifikit/...
by Tim R-T-C
Fri Jul 04, 2025 8:13 pm
Forum: Aviation
Topic: Spitfire LF.Mk.IXc of 337 Sqn Hellenic AF
Replies: 1
Views: 543

Spitfire LF.Mk.IXc of 337 Sqn Hellenic AF

https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/Specifikit/HellSpit/Resize_20250704_091054_4545.jpg The baking heat of a Greek summer. The playful dance of midsummer fairies near Athens is interrupted by the infernal brutality of the fratricidal civil war that erupted between Communist and Nationalist Hellenes after the ...
by Tim R-T-C
Thu Jul 03, 2025 5:18 pm
Forum: Aviation
Topic: Avia C2 (Arado 96B) in Czech service 1949
Replies: 0
Views: 157

Avia C2 (Arado 96B) in Czech service 1949

https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/Specifikit/Arado/Resize_20250703_091048_8995.jpg A clear spring morning in the Czechoslovak Republic 1949. A Czech pilot who flew Soviet types against the Luftwaffe in '45, then flew former RAF Spitfires with the post-war air force is, in a strange quirk of fate, now flying...
by Tim R-T-C
Wed Jul 02, 2025 8:05 am
Forum: Aviation
Topic: MiG-21 F-13 (F-Toys) in North Korean service 2014
Replies: 0
Views: 168

MiG-21 F-13 (F-Toys) in North Korean service 2014

https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/Specifikit/MigF13/Resize_20250702_090714_4431.jpg In the secretive Democratic People's Republic of Korea, a vintage 1960s MiG-21 F-13 is still flown by the country's Air Force. https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/Specifikit/mig21f13%201.jpg Sometimes when other builds get bogged down,...
by Tim R-T-C
Tue Jul 01, 2025 6:47 pm
Forum: Aviation
Topic: Aero-102 in Polish Service (Eduard x Shelf Oddity)
Replies: 0
Views: 147

Aero-102 in Polish Service (Eduard x Shelf Oddity)

https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/Specifikit/Resize_20250701_090243_3433.jpg Wrocław, Poland, 1954. The tenuous relationship between the Soviet Union and their western neighbour has been strained by attempted and successful defections to the West with the new MiG-15 jet, leading to a reluctance to supply Mi...