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Plastic Model Kits, Paints, Books and Accessories

At Models For Sale we stock most of the main manufacturers plus some of the not so well known ones. Second-hand items are frequently added as and when we get them. We run live stock levels, you can view exactly what we have View full article »

BOOKS & MEDIA

Jet Provost. The Little Plane with the Big History

Jagdbomber Geschwader 43 in Oldenburg

Another fascinating unit history tracing the origins of Oldenburg airfield, and its subsequent use by JaboG View full article »

BOOKS & MEDIA

MAY 2009

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Polish Wings 8 – Poland^s View full article »

Events

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airliner models , nitro rc airplanes

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THE EAST View full article »

Brass Tactics

I have just finished reading Colin Whitehouse’s build of the EAR Thanks for covering scratch builds. Colin mentioned that he used brass sheet for the undercarriage doors, but can he provide a little more detail on how he did it? Besides creating a paper pattern, View full article »

a time, over the basic sand colour. I used Humbroi enamels for the basic colour scheme, 94 Brown Yellow, 80 Grass Green and 76 Uniform Green although these original colours were later modified by weathering with oil paint and pastels. Once I had sprayed the lighter green 1 removed all the masking, placed pieces View full article »

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As the crew View full article »

The SM.79 Sparviero would probably not win many prizes in a beauty competition, looking as it does like the product of a union between a Ju 52/3 and a Strlngbag. But beauty isn’t everything and for my money it has character. I have had the old Smer kit in my loft for years but the production of the Trumpeter View full article »

middle section met the fuselage. It is known that the arrestor hooks were removed from the Irish Seafires, but it is unclear how the resulting hollow space was dealt with. I chose to simulate this by simply making a cover for the recess it would have left.

Painting and Markings

jet model airplanes , model jets

The colour View full article »

stainless steel mesh. The oil radiator needed to be corrected as well, and while working on the radiators I was also working slowly on the landing gear.

The main gear doors were detailed with Plasticard on the inside. The landing gears provided both in the kit and in the Airwaves detail set are too thin and I decided View full article »