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https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/Specifikit/Alabama40/Resize_20251105_081152_2612.jpg Napier Field, Alabama, late 1943 Even here, in the humid air of the southern United States, thousands of miles from the nearest hostile force, the raging conflagration has an impact - thousands of young pilots take their ...

https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/Specifikit/Mig28/Resize_20251104_222501_1847.jpg Summer 1985, the Naval Air Station in Miramar, California and site of the little known Top Gun training academy for Navy fliers. Two of the pilot trainers are walking down the flight line towards their F-14 when they pass thi...

https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/Specifikit/FM2-Iwo/Resize_20251104_213643_3294.jpg March 1st, 1945 - the battle for Iwo Jima rages, only 11 days since the first landings. Navy pilot Lt (jg). Noah B. Butt, Jr. of VC-76 is forced to make an emergency landing on the US held South Field after issues with a fu...

https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/Specifikit/Lith%20L39/Resize_20251104_202618_8153.jpg Šiauliai Air Base, Lithuania 2016 - ground crew prepare a Czech built L-39ZA Osprey for a training flight. https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/Specifikit/Lith%20L39/Resize_20251104_202615_5443.jpg This build has its origins in the ...

https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/Specifikit/CommonwealthP40s/Resize_20251104_090713_3394.jpg Early 1945, Ohakea, a peaceful corner of New Zealand seems a world away from the brutal combat raging across most of the world. One of the instructors of No. 4 OTU is preparing to take up a Kittyhawk for a combat e...

https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/Specifikit/BerlinTempest/Resize_20251104_073834_4770.jpg Berlin, early 1946 - the phrase Cold War might have been born on freezing mornings like these; already the dividing lines between East and West were becoming obvious across the ruins of Berlin and it was clear to all ...

https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/Specifikit/Resize_20251103_221738_8761.jpg In the cool of the morning, before another long, hot day in Guangxi Province in southern China. Two pilots of the Flying Tigers 23rd Fighter Group wait by one of their tired Mustangs to see what action the day will bring... https:/...

https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/Show2025/Resize_20251014_090853_3496.jpg A new venue for the Lincoln Show this year into a lovely, well lit hall at the county show grounds. Good access and parking with a handy food van too. Myself, Emma Jane, Huw and Davids Hart and Ferrari made the trip through thick Ang...

https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/Show2025/Resize_20251006_085753_3186.jpg Brampton is probably our longest haul on the circuit aside from Telford, but definitely worth the round trip. A very well organised event with good facilities, lots of trade and exhibitors. Being a more southern event it attracts a l...

https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/Show2025/Resize_20251002_072811_1293.jpg It was a really enjoyable show day. https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/Show2025/Resize_20251002_072812_2960.jpg https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/Show2025/Resize_20251002_072813_3198.jpg Saturday was a bit more fraught with lots of tables and chairs to...