Additions to the Museum’s Collection – 025, 14 August 2022

Here’s the latest additions to the Public Galleries Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde (BA/SIA) in 1/144 by Airfix Bell P-39 Airacobra in 1/72 by Academy Boeing 747-100 (Pan American) in 1/144 by Revell Boeing 747SP (Australia Asia) in 1/144 by Welsh Models Boeing B-29 in 1/72 by Airfix DeHavillanbd DH-82A Tiger Moth in 1/72 by Airfix DeHavilland Vampire…

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The Curator’s Choice 024 – Military Flying Boats

Military Flying Boats Short Sunderland – Consolidated PBY Catalina – Kawanishi H8K2 A couple of months ago I took you to galleries to look at three floatplanes and promised you we would come back and look at flying boats. So its about time we did. Flying boats were a big thing in the 1930s as…

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Additions to the Museum’s Collection – 024, 7 August 2022

Additions to the public galleries Curtiss P-40K in 1/32 by Hasegawa Grumman XF5F in 1/72 by MPM Grumman F8F-1 (South Vietnam) in 1/72 by Monogram Grumman F9F-8 in 1/72 by Hasegawa Grumman F11F-1 in 1/72 by Hasegawa Hindustan Aeronautics HF-24 Marut in 1/72 by Alliance Models Messerchmitt Bf109G-6 in 1/32 by Hasegawa Payen 222 in…

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The Curator’s Choice 023 – Dive Bombers

Dive Bombers Blackburn Skua – Loire-Nieuport LN411 – Curtiss SB2C I was thinking about dive bombers the other day and went to look for them in the gallery of bomber and patrol aircraft. To my surprise I couldn’t find there some that I definitely remembered had been added to the collection. After a while I…

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The Curator’s Choice 022 – Attractive Trainers

Attractive Trainers Dassault Mirage IIID – North American T-28C – SAN Jodel D.140 This week’s Curator’s Choice has been particularly difficult. I thought it was about time I had a wander around the Gallery of Sundry Aircraft which combines a few different kinds of military aeroplanes that aren’t numerous enough to have their own galleries.…

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The Curator’s Choice 021 – Biplane Fighters

Biplane fighters Fokker D.VII – Hawker Fury – Fiat CR.42 Even into the 1930s almost all fighter aircraft were biplanes, but things have changed a lot since then. We now have more than a hundred fighters in our collection but only a handful of them are biplanes. Let’s have a look at three of them.…

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Additions to the Museum’s Collection – 021, 18 July 2022

Here’s the latest additions to the collection: Avro 618 ‘Ten’ in 1/72 by Valom Dassault Mirage III V0-1 in 1/72 by Modelsvit DeHavailland Canada DHC-8-100 in 1/72 by Hobbycraft Douglas DC-9-100 in 1/72 by Aurora The latest addition to The Wayne Gallery is: Messerchmitt Bf109G-14 in 1/32 by Hasegawa The revisions to the Workbench Notes…

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The Curator’s Choice 020 – Big Cargo Aircraft

Big Cargo Aircraft Lockheed C–5A – Antonov An-124 – Boeing 747-8F Carrying freight is not one of the most exciting or attractive of human pursuit, but it is vital for our way of life. With this thought in mind I went along to have a look in the Gallery of Cargo Aircraft. There are some…

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