Me262 B1 another Heller example...

This is another example of Heller product in 1/72 scale... of course, it shows the age of the molds, but in this case, it's not a great problem to do a satisfactory model because the poor standards used to construct the Me262 in the final stages of war...the real plane don't looks better than the Heller molds at all. I don't remember if I did this project first or the Ouragan was the first one... any case, a lot of fun indeed.

Dassault 450 Ouragan...

Why I did this project? because it was a Heller kit. An old fashion Heller kit indeed. When I was a boy, Heller was perceived as a better kit maker than Airfix or Revell (no good reasons at all)... and I got a lot of them. This Ouragan is one of the survivors of many home movings... this model has 25 years old app. Really, I couldn't say any more about that except to thanks Heller for the myriad of French planes offered to us.
I'll never stop to cry my old "Arc en Ciel"... I lost this kit 40 years ago and never see again!!
 

 

Henschel 129...

This is the Italeri 1/72 scale kit of this obscure aircraft. Why I did this model at all?...because all we modeler are obsessive and compulsive maniacs. Henschel 129 was an frustrated attempt to find a modern substitute of Ju87 as a close air support aircraft, resulting in an under-powered machine and plagued by teething problems...this specific subject is a well documented plane: an experimental cannon was put under the aircraft belly designed to kill the most powerful soviet tank of that times, the IS2. But the experiment results in an exceedingly heavy plane, still more underpowered and slow...definitively not a better substitute of cannon armed Ju87.

But, finally, a very good looking subject in the shelf...