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, Aircraft, Allied, Models & History, Pacific Theater, USNavy, WW2

Afternoon of June 4, 1942: This Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless, coming from USS Yorktown, is about to attack IJN carrier Hiryū. It’s the famous Battle of Midway – 1/144 scale vignette

Aircraft, 1/144 scale, Allied, Models & History, P-47 Thunderbolt, Pacific Theater, USAAF, WW2

Saipan, 1944: Ground personell of 19th Fighter Squadron, 318th Fighter Group, 7th Air Force during gun harmonisation prozess on Republic P-47D-15-RA Thunderbolt 42-23289 “Lady Ruth” – 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

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

March 1945: two Corsairs of USS Shangri-la – 1/144 scale models