Good evening all
I hope you're all having a good break over the holiday period and most importantly are getting some decent bench time!
So with 1st January looming and like some of you have already done, I thought I'd start my thread although I won't start the build process until I have finished my Jagdpanthers.
So this is the first biplane I have built since coming back to the hobby, although I am sure I built one back in my youth - a Hawker Fury I think - of no doubt dubious quality! I chose this because I thought it had not rigging which turns out to be wrong but it's not that much.
As for the plane itself, from what I can gather this plane appears to be a contemporary of the like of Britain's Gloster Gladiator (apparently both first flew in 1933/1934) and the slightly later Fiat CR.42 (first flight 1938). And of course like them was virtually obsolete even before it took to the air.
As such it's a pre-war design, although like it's contemporaries it did see combat in WWII. Somewhat ironically, although this is a Czech fighter, according to the instructions and a number of online sources, it only ever saw combat with Axis forces, in particular the fascist Slovak State Airforce whose squadrons took part in both the invasion of Poland in 1939 and Operation Barbarossa in June 1941. It also apparently holds the record for the last know biplane kill of WWII, when one shooting down a Hungarian Ju 52/3m during the 1944 National Slovak Uprising.
As you can see, I'm continuing with 1/48 scale for this build. According to Scalemates this was first released in 2007, albeit I have it in one of their new design boxes (date unknown) and it is in the newer dark grey plastic, unlike my recent Yak. The reviews of this kit and it's closely related versions are all unfailingly good, so I'm hoping for good thing from this build. I certainly can't see any obvious flash on the sprues, despite the age of the moulds.
Below is the usual set of pre-build taster pics.
ACW as usual
Andrew
Useful links:
www.scalemates.com/kits/eduard-8192-avia-b534-iv-serie--115338
www.hyperscale.com/2007/reviews/kits/eduard8192reviewbg_1.htm
modelingmadness.com/review/axis/previews/534p.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avia_B-534
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I hope you're all having a good break over the holiday period and most importantly are getting some decent bench time!
So with 1st January looming and like some of you have already done, I thought I'd start my thread although I won't start the build process until I have finished my Jagdpanthers.
So this is the first biplane I have built since coming back to the hobby, although I am sure I built one back in my youth - a Hawker Fury I think - of no doubt dubious quality! I chose this because I thought it had not rigging which turns out to be wrong but it's not that much.
As for the plane itself, from what I can gather this plane appears to be a contemporary of the like of Britain's Gloster Gladiator (apparently both first flew in 1933/1934) and the slightly later Fiat CR.42 (first flight 1938). And of course like them was virtually obsolete even before it took to the air.
As such it's a pre-war design, although like it's contemporaries it did see combat in WWII. Somewhat ironically, although this is a Czech fighter, according to the instructions and a number of online sources, it only ever saw combat with Axis forces, in particular the fascist Slovak State Airforce whose squadrons took part in both the invasion of Poland in 1939 and Operation Barbarossa in June 1941. It also apparently holds the record for the last know biplane kill of WWII, when one shooting down a Hungarian Ju 52/3m during the 1944 National Slovak Uprising.
As you can see, I'm continuing with 1/48 scale for this build. According to Scalemates this was first released in 2007, albeit I have it in one of their new design boxes (date unknown) and it is in the newer dark grey plastic, unlike my recent Yak. The reviews of this kit and it's closely related versions are all unfailingly good, so I'm hoping for good thing from this build. I certainly can't see any obvious flash on the sprues, despite the age of the moulds.
Below is the usual set of pre-build taster pics.
ACW as usual
Andrew
Useful links:
www.scalemates.com/kits/eduard-8192-avia-b534-iv-serie--115338
www.hyperscale.com/2007/reviews/kits/eduard8192reviewbg_1.htm
modelingmadness.com/review/axis/previews/534p.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avia_B-534
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