article P-47D Thunderbolt “Naughty Nadine” – John S. Lolos and the Thunderbolt That Flew Over the Pacific Some models start with a photo. Others with a historical event. But there are also those that start…
article US Air Force/Air National Guard 1968-1980 U.S. Air Force/Air National Guard. From 1968 onwards, it was a special command of the USAF charged with the defense of continental U.S. airspace, and existed between 1946…
article Tactical Air Command Camouflage 1947-1964 The Tactical Air Command was formed on 21 March 1946, a year before the USAF was established, and encompassed fighters, fighter-bombers, ground attackers, and other non-combat aircraft that could…
article Brewster F2A Buffalo Brewster Buffalo in 1/32 scale Marcel du Long This kit from Special Hobby isn’t unfortunately that special at all.The engineering, the panel-lines, the details etc… are pretty bad.Didn’t had much fun building this…
article Workbench & Hobby Room WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION / BASIC PACKAGE for your start Basic list of Necessary materials and tools for the initial but also necessary organization and equipment of your workshop as a first…
article Photo-Reconnaissance Camouflage In the period 1942-1945, the USAAF was approached by a Boston paint manufacturer known as Samuel Cabot with a proposal for a new white Haze paint that allegedly rendered aircraft close to…
article Tactical Paint Camouflage.US Navy 1980 Concerns over the detectability of the LGG/IW scheme resulted in the development of so-called Tactical Paint Schemes from 1976, a process that took various years with final evaluations taking…
article Aegean Ghost Camouflage Inspired by the camouflage of the USN F-16N Aggressors, Ghost Gray or “Aegean Ghost” developed in the late 1980s, is the variant worn by all Greek F-16 Vipers, F-4E AUP Phantom…
article Heater-Ferris U.S. NAVY Camouflage In 1983-84 another experimental camouflage based on the Ferris scheme was developed by Lt. Cmdr. Chuck ‘Heater’ Heatley of the Naval Fighter Weapons School. The new scheme (popularly called Heater-Ferris)…
article Tactical Paint Schemes Camouflage 1976 In 1976, Tactical Paint Schemes were adopted, an ambitious new camouflage technique proposed by Keith Ferris, a noted aviation artist. This so-called Ferris Scheme featured high-contrast fragment patterns as…
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