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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/...

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 ...

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...

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,...

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...

https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/Specifikit/A24/Resize_20250626_091601_1495.jpg Nomandie, France - late 1944. While the bulk of Allied forces have pressed on East towards the Low Countries and the German homeland, French forces have been left to deal with bastions of resistance, particularly in the fortifi...

https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/Folderians/Tanks%20for%20Telford/Resize_20250624_091108_8278.jpg 16th September 1939, near Łuków Poland - the leading vehicles of Panzer Division Kempf stop to exchange information with a horse mounted reconnaissance unit. This gives the panzer crew a chance to admire the m...

https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/Folderians/Tanks%20for%20Telford/Resize_20250624_091109_9391.jpg Stalingrad, December 1942, the shattered remains of the great city on the Volga are covered by a thick layer of snow. The largely encircled survivors of the 6th Army make desperate attempts to punch through th...

https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/Specifikit/Konrad/Resize_20250604_080003_3171.jpg January 17th, 1945 - Hungary - the German forces around Lake Balaton lead by IV SS Panzer, prepare to launch Operation Konrad III - a desperate attempt to relieve the beseiged Axis forces holding Budapest and reclaim the cit...

https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/Show2025/Resize_20250602_201651_1130.jpg The Northern Show, held in North Shields, Tyneside, is always a good day out. A nice big venue with plenty of display space provided, which we managed to fill with a grand array of models. https://r-t-c.co.uk/kits/Show2025/Resize_202...