Kayaba Ka-Go...autogiro La Cierva in japanese hands

Juan La Cierva is the most prominent spanish aircraft designer, famous for design and construct the first practical rotary wing aircraft. This singular device was licenced all over the world with great success in the thirties.  This model represent the japanese licensed version. The initial batch was powered by an air cooled star engine and the later replaced by the extraordinary german Argus As10c in line engine.
Too small and light for transport duties, all La Cierva auto-gyros saw very limited use in its operational lives...at those times, rotary wing devices needs a quantum leap of development to became the versatile and useful airship of today.
The kit is a little gem in 1/72 scale by Fine Molds. I remember that this small kit costs me a little fortune, but the quality of the molds reduced the pain in my wallet.
  

RWD-5 a little globetrotter...

Today, we'll see a little known monoplane designed and constructed in Poland in the thirties. This specific subject "SP-AJU" was conditioned to travel across the Atlantic, being the smallest plane to do that. The front of the plane has the classic shape due to the Gipsy Mayor engine, the ubiquitous British motor found in almost all the small planes of the period. Is easy to found a lot of paint schemes for this little bird. This subject wore a bore natural metal finish, but won the right to be represented by this nice model pricing her historic flight.
 The kit is delicate and very good presented in 1/72 scale by a polish company ZTS.

  

Me-109 G6... my tribute to the top one fighter pilot

Surely, this aircraft model is one of the most common places in any site in the web. The profusion of schemes that Luftwaffe fighter planes wore is a fatal attraction to any modeller.
I was one of those who one time said "never more another Messer or Spit or Mustang", but is inevitable...the eternal beauty of this machine will catch our attention again and again.

This time, I succumbed to Academy kit 1/48 that brings me the possibility to make a model of a mount of the greatest top fighter pilot of all times...the young Erich Hartmann.

This specific model was used by Hartmann in 1943 when he was just the new star arising and shining in the Luftwaffe constellation, with just 21 years old.

There are some pictures of "Bubi" Hartmann resting alongside this aircraft in Internet, so is not difficult to replicate the camo scheme of this "yellow 1" G6 (Werke Nr 20499).

       

SPAD A2 Amodel 1/72 scale...

This monstrosity was a solution for obtain a maximum clean field to shot to enemy planes or balloons, in times when shooting a gun inside the propeller arc was not yet developed.
One can imagine the feelings of the gunner/observer flying in a cage just centimeter in front of the rotating engine in this fragile structure. Well, the French Command was not convinced with this machine and this model was finally soled to Russian Army...

 

Tupolev TB-3

This machine is a monster by any standard...further in the thirties. Several technologies in those times was in its infancy or not developed yet, like retractable landing gear. This was a huge machine by its times considering the little power of the aviation engines and the use of fixed gear wooden propellers. Still, this device was a tremendous success and allowed the Russians to create a long range attacking air force...moreover, this aircraft allowed to start experimenting with a new concept of warfare: the use of parachuters as a combat force far inside the enemy territories.

This is the 1/72 ICM kit, a magnificent rendition to this significant plane. Difficult to assemble, but the final result is gorgeous...