This model represents an Arado Ar234B-2 of III/KG 76 which was flown in attacks on the Ludendorf bridge at Remagen in early March 1945. It used the Dragon kit and Aeromaster decals. I made this kit as part of my education in using these modern acrylic paints. I had bought the Hataka late Luftwaffe paint…

I’ve never been in an ATR but I’ve been in a Dash-8 more times than I care to remember and, if travelling in one of those is any indication, flying in an ATR would not be enjoyable. They stick you in a tiny seat jammed in with too many other seats in a long, narrow…

I didn’t plan for it to happen, it just sort of grew like Topsy. As you may have noticed, I have an interest in French aeroplanes and the little Morane Saulnier 406 fighter was one of the most important with around 1000 in service by the beginning of the Battle of France in May 1940.…

The Boeing 720 was a shorter, simpler and lighter version of the Boeing 707-120. The fuselage was shortened by five frames and the wings were simplified and lightened. This created an airliner which suited the American domestic market rather than the international airline market. It was originally going to be called the Boeing 707-020 but…

As World War II came to an end United States airlines started looking towards the post-war world and the development of new airline routes using new airline equipment that had been developed during the war. One of the major airlines, then known as Transcontinental and Western Airlines but later renames Trans World Airlines, planned to…

This is a model that I’ve been wanting to make for many years but which hasn’t existed until this year. The Boeing 247 is a historically important aircraft which many call the first modern airliner. There had been other significant airlines before, such as the Fokker and Ford trimotors, but the Boeing 247 combined a…

This model was made from the Azmodel 1/72 kit using kit decals and represents a Vanguard in RAF colours and markings in 1942. I made this mode for the whimsical purpose of making all the kits of Vultee aeroplanes that I have in my Treasure. It is a totally unremarkable fighter, hardly worth noticing apart…

There comes a time in the life every modeller who sets out to make a model of every airliner ever made (particularly the French ones) that he has to confront the prospect of making the late model Lockheed airliners. Sure, they look great, but they are also a bugger to make. The first step in…

At a swap-n-sell I managed to pick up a 1/144 kit of the Ilyushin Il-96 airliner. Never heard of it? I’m not surprised. It was a Russian attempt to develop a long range airliner in the class of the A.340 and Boeing 777 but the company soon discovered that it could not compete with the…

Perhaps I should ask people to find a name for the kind of animal the C-124 reminds them of. To me it looks, well, like a big fat hippopotamus (how do you spell that again?) wearing one of those plastic charity red noses. Which might be the reason why I’ve had the desire to make…

One thing is for sure, the Convair B-58 looked like it was doing mach 2 when it was just sitting on the tarmac. It was one of those aeroplanes that looked just perfect for the job it was designed to do, to deliver atomic weapons into the USSR at high altitude and high speed. I…

The Convair XB-46 was one of those thought experiments that took place towards the end of World War II and into the early 1950s. All the aerodynamic experiments and developments in jet engines combined with the lessons of the war led to all kinds of experiments into how to make effective warplanes in this new…