1/144 scale, Imperial Japan, Mitsubishi A5M, Models & History, Pacific Theater, Type96

Four Mitsubishi Navy Type 96 Carrier-based Fighters (Mitsubishi A5M4 “Claude”) of the Soryu Fighter Group (Imperial Japanese Navy) break away from their formation. In their colourful schemes, with sleek, gleaming silver wings, elegant lines, and innocently curved inverted gull wings, they appear almost like a motion study of a single aircraft, demonstrating all the beauty of a machine in flight. But it is the summer of 1939 in Japan, and these Claudes are training for a far darker purpose: to bring terror to the people of China and, soon, to spread war across the entire Pacific. –144 scale display

1/144 scale, Allied, Civilain, Emil and Mammoth, European Theatre, Luftwaffe, Messerschmitt Bf-109E (Emil), Models & History, Vehicle

Battle of Britain: On 24 August at 15:45, Luftwaffe pilot Herbert Bischoff, 1st/JG52, crash-lands his Bf-109 E-1 “white 9” near Margate, Kent due to engine failure. The pilot is taken prisoner of war, the wreckage of his Emil is transported away on the flatbed of a civilian AEC Mammoth Major – 1/144 scratch-built AEC Mammoth Major 6 Mk II and the Beacon Models Messerschmitt Bf 109 E-1.

1/144 scale, Aircraft, Axis, European Theatre, Fiat G.50bis Freccia, Models & History, Regia Aeronautica, Regia Aeronautica Italiana, Small Scale History, WW2

Heavily chipped Fiat G.50bis Freccia of the °20 Gruppo are maintained in Ursel, Belgium, in November 1940 to take part in the Battle of Britain. However, with little impact – 1/144 scale vignette.

1/144 scale, Aircraft, Akutan Zero, Imperial Japan, Modelling & Kits

in 1/144th scale from the wonderful Sweet A6M2b kit …

1/144 scale, Aircraft, Axis, Eastern Front, Luftwaffe, Models & History, WW2

Bf-109F-4 of Gruenherzgeschwader, belly landed at Eastern Front in 1942 – 1/144 scale Vignette

1/144 scale, Aircraft, Allied, Axis, Imperial Japan, Models & History, Pacific Theater, USNavy, WW2

November 1943: The USS Saratoga, together with the USS Princeton, attacks the city of Rabaul, an important stronghold of the IJN forces, several times – 1/144 scale Models