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by DH106
Sat Dec 04, 2021 10:04 am
Forum: Aviation
Topic: A Belgian Pioneer
Replies: 7
Views: 3217

Re: A Belgian Pioneer

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.
by DH106
Mon Nov 08, 2021 10:25 am
Forum: Aviation
Topic: Adolf Galland's Bf-109E - France 1940 (Armory kit)
Replies: 1
Views: 1327

Re: Adolf Galland's Bf-109E - France 1940 (Armory kit)

Herr Hauptmann, will one bottle of Vallejo 70.995 be enough for this tank?
by DH106
Mon Nov 08, 2021 10:19 am
Forum: Aviation
Topic: Yak-1b (Armory) somewhere in Russia, 1943
Replies: 1
Views: 1240

Re: Yak-1b (Armory) somewhere in Russia, 1943

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...
by DH106
Wed Oct 20, 2021 3:38 pm
Forum: Aviation
Topic: Five projects
Replies: 6
Views: 2318

Re: Five projects

This is the finest work I've ever seen in 1/144 scale. We need you to hold a master class!
by DH106
Wed Jul 07, 2021 11:07 am
Forum: Aviation
Topic: SO.4000
Replies: 2
Views: 1710

SO.4000

Rather unusually, this early 50s French prototype didn't crash on its first flight, and never killed anyone, although it was only flown once. This probably related to a realisation that it was a lot of airframe, with a lot of rear-facing structure, for two early Nenes. The front fuselage of this air...
by DH106
Sat Jun 26, 2021 12:07 pm
Forum: Aviation
Topic: Why no UAP models in our scale?
Replies: 1
Views: 1537

Why no UAP models in our scale?

Apologies for posting an item about 1/72nd scale. Good to see this in Forthcoming Releases, though, following the publication yesterday of the following: https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf (Main aircraft image mostly USN believed to be in publi...
by DH106
Mon Jun 14, 2021 4:52 pm
Forum: Aviation
Topic: A Belgian Pioneer
Replies: 7
Views: 3217

A Belgian Pioneer

The world's first pressurised airliner, the Renard R.35. Unfortunately it crashed early in its first flight, fatally for the pilot and the project. The cutaway in an 80s Air international does not show provision for a toilet, so there may have been multiple pressures had it entered service.
by DH106
Mon Jun 14, 2021 12:27 pm
Forum: Aviation
Topic: SF.260 and MiG-21 - Tobruk, 2017
Replies: 3
Views: 1992

Re: SF.260 and MiG-21 - Tobruk, 2017

I'm very taken with these!
I wasn't really aware of Heroes Models but they appear to do some useful stuff.
by DH106
Thu May 27, 2021 6:25 pm
Forum: Aviation
Topic: Clark GA-43
Replies: 2
Views: 1571

Re: Clark GA-43

Lovely model: had this on my build list in my 30s airliner phase but then the kit came out. Hope the kit is a good enough seller to persuade WM to do more. Power loading was only a little poorer than the contemporary He70 and as Rolls selected one of those as a high performance tested the GA43 was p...
by DH106
Tue May 11, 2021 8:46 pm
Forum: Aviation
Topic: A prototype for David : Bernard 260
Replies: 4
Views: 2251

Re: A prototype for David : Bernard 260

I have noticed the Bernard aircraft and I really like your model. I suspect that if I started on French 1930s fighter prototypes I would never stop! There was a good series of articles on the 1930s French fighter programmes in Air Enthusiast magazine in the 80s. My current projects are a postwar Fre...