Posts by Leigh Edmonds
A Decent Lightning, At Last
The BAC Lightning we’ve been waiting for (October 2008) Many years ago, before many fine MoBsters were even born, I got this fixation on the English Electric Lightning. If there was ever an aeroplane that looked like it meant business with a capital B it was the Lightning. Nothing more than a couple of huge,…
Read MoreThe Mystery that is ADC Grey
With the Matchbox McDonnell F-101, the Hasegawa Convair F-102 and F-106, lots of head scratching and lashings of grey paint (March 2008) Back in the mists of time when Hasegawa first released their Convair F-106 kit I thought it was the most magnificent looking aeroplane ever made. With its delta wing and slick fuselage it…
Read MoreNorth American F-100s in 1/72 by Revell and AMT
Many, many years ago I made the old Hasegawa F-100D that was marketed in the shops I went to as a Frog kit. Even then I was showing my Frankish interests and made it up in the markings of the Armee de l’Air. However, over the decades the kit started to show its age, the…
Read MoreBloch 131 in 1/72 by Mach 2
This aeroplane was one of those that gave thee Armee de l’Air the bad reputation it had at the end of the Battle of France. It had been designed in the early 1930s as a multi-role aeroplane to fill reconnaissance and bombing roles and went on to equip seven reconnaissance groups at the beginning of…
Read MoreBAC Lightning F.1 in 1/72 by Trumpeter
I’m amazed to realize that after only a few months I’m almost half way through my project to make 22 Lightning models (although the plan has now puffed out to 23 or perhaps 24). I’m now starting to get the hang of how to overcome or ignore all the little problems with this Trumpeter kit…
Read MoreAvro Canada C-102 Jetliner in 1/144 by F-Rsin
The Canadians must have a thing for noses. When you go to the Canadian Aviation Museum just outside Ottawa you will find all kinds of interesting thing including the only surviving parts of two of the country’s most intriguing aeroplanes, a CF-105 nose mounted on a wall and a C-102 nose sitting quietly on the…
Read MoreThe Curator’s Choice 029 – Italian Aircraft
Italian Aircraft Fiat CR.42 – Regianni Re.2000 – Aermacchi MB-326H Let’s take a wander around the gallery of aircraft of sundry nations. The idea of this gallery is to house the aircraft not made in the big aircraft manufacturing nations and the general rule is that if we get to more than about twenty aircraft…
Read MoreAdditions to the Museum’s Collection – 029, 11 September 2022
Here are the latest additions to the Public Galleries Fiat G.91Y in 1/72 by Matchbox General Atomics RQ-1L in 1/72 by Italeri Gloster E.28/39 in 1/72 by High Planes Gloster Gladiator I in 1/72 by Matchbox Hawker Tempest II in 1/72 by Matchbox Hawker Tempest VI in 1/72 by Matchbox Hughes XF-11 in 1/144 by…
Read MoreNorth American XB-70 in 1/72 by AMT
The battle between bombers and fighters defending their territory during World War II and in the early days of the Cold War led to rapid technological developments. During the war both sides had learned to their great cost that bombers could not fight off attacking fighters with guns (though they often discouraged attacks being presses…
Read MoreLockheed Martin X-35A
For some reason that evades me and many other people the Australian Government has decided that the RAAF is going to be equipped with the Lockheed Martin F-35 when it finally enters service. If the government were to ask me – which seems unlikely – I’d tell them that the F-35 has been designed by…
Read MoreLeclerc in 1/72 by Revell
By the 1970s the French AMX-30 Main Battle Tank was becoming obsolete and in 1977 the French Army drafted requirements for a new Engine Principal de Combat to replace it. New tanks like the M1 Abrams, Leopard 2 and Merkava were studied to see if they could fill the role but were rejected. Then a…
Read MoreHotchkiss H35 in 1/72 by RPM & Panzerkampfwagen III Ausf F in 1/72 by Attack
You know that conceptual game; which one would win if Godzilla fought Mothra or a shark fought a polar bear? Not so conceptual in 1940 was the question of what would happen if a French Hotchkiss H35 fought a German PzKpfw III, The last time I made a model of a German tank was back…
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