Posts by Leigh Edmonds
The Little Aviation Museum Newsletter 8
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Read MoreThe Curator’s Choice 027 – Ground Attack Aircraft
Ground Attack Aircraft Henschel Hs123 – HAL HF-24 Marut – Dassault Etendard IVM There are some pretty nasty looking aircraft in the gallery of strike aircraft, all of them intended to do damage to people and property on the ground or at sea. Let’s take the opportunity to look at three that specialized in the…
Read MoreAdditions to the Museum’s Collection – 027, 28 August 2022
Here are the latest additions to the Public Galleries Apollo-Saturn 1B in 1/144 by Airfix Boeing 787-8 (LOT) in 1/144 by Revell Boeing PB-1W in 1/72 by Hasegawa with Uncle Les parts Char Bi bis in 1/72 by Matchbox Char D2 in 1/72 by Sparrow Casting DeHavilland Vampire F.1 in 1/72 by Amodel Dewoitine 9…
Read MoreERC-90 F1 Lynx and Panhard M3 in 1/72 by Ace
I known why Zim makes little model tanks, they aren’t the great fuss that little model aeroplanes are. In my youth I built up quite a collection of little tank models and even more of those lovely Bandi 1/48 AFVs that started coming out in the mid 1970s but have now totally disappeared. However, I…
Read MoreDouglas DC-10-30 in 1/144 by Accurate Airliners and McDonnell Douglas MD-11 in 1/144 by Mikro Mir
Douglas had been the world’s leading manufacturer of commercial airliners since the 1930s but had lost that lead to Boeing with its 707s, 727s, 737s and 747s. There was a gap in the potential airliner market for something between the long range 707 and the new 747 Jumbo Jet, that could carry over 300 passengers…
Read MoreDouglas DC-1 in 1/144 converted from CMR kit
In 1933 the Boeing 247 revolutionized air transport. It is said to be the first modern airliner and it demonstrated what the future of air transport could be like. It immediately drew the attention of America’s airliners who wanted them, but the production of 247 was reserved for United Airlines, which was part of the…
Read MoreChar B1 bis & Renault FT in 1/72 by Matchbox
The Char B1 was almost certainly the most capable tank in the inventory of any army at the beginning of World War II. However, the history of its development and the way in which it was deployed meant that capability had little effect on the outcome of the Battle of France in May and June…
Read MoreBoeing PB-1W in 1/72 by Hasegawa with Uncle Les parts
One of the things I like about swap ‘n’ sells is that you never know what you are going to come away with. At one of the IPMS events we attended I thought I was buying a Hasegawa B-17 kit but found it came with additional resin parts for a PB-1W. This was alright with…
Read MoreThe Curator’s Choice 026 – Final Piston Engined Fighters
Final piston engined fighters Arsenal VB 10 – Doflug D.3802 – Martin Baker MB5 One of the things that you can’t help but notice as you wander through the gallery of 1940s aircraft is the number of exotic looking piston and jet engined aircraft. This is because it was the decade when many thought the…
Read MoreAdditions to the Museum’s Collection – 026, 21 August 2022
Additions to the Public Galleries AMX-13/75 in 1/72 by Model Miniature AMX-13/105 in 1/72 by Heller AMX-13DCA in 1/72 by Heller AMX-30 in 1/72 by Heller AMX-30B2 in 1/72 by Model Miniature AMX-30DCA in 1/72 by WSW Armstrong Whitowrth Siskin IIIA in 1/72 by Matchbox Bernard 20 in 1/72 by Adrian Roy Bloch 220 (Air…
Read MoreBoeing 747-300 in 1/144 by Kepuyan
Boeing took a great risk with the 747. It had bid for the contract to build the very heavy freighter for the United States Air Force but that was won by Lockheed with what become the C-5. Even so, Boeing went ahead with the project, development costs exceeded $16 million and Boeing had to build…
Read MoreBoeing 747-200 in 1/144 by Airfix
It would be no exaggeration to say that Boeing’s 747 revolutionised air transport. The huge airliner, designed to carry around 400 passengers, was more than double the capacity of the second generations of jet powered airliners such as the Boeing 707 and the Douglas DC-8. This high capacity offered new operational economies but also forced…
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