Conceived as a day fighter with first flight happening in 1946, F-84’s early career was plagued with a bunch of problems typical of early jets like underpowered engines and construction problems. Only the definitive F-84G version solved most of the problems. Thunderjet was extensively used during the Korean war, shooting down eight MiGs and destroying 60% of all the ground targets. F-84 was also the first fighter equipped with in flight refuelling probe, the first to carry nuclear bomb and the first aircraft, USAF demonstration team Thunderbirds flew. More than 7500 F-84s were built and of tha ..read more

Those of you, that are following my work probably know, that F-14 is one of my favourite aircraft. Getting my hands on the GWH’s new kit a few years ago, I just had to build it, though my followers on Facebook and Instagram poll chose the MiG-29SMT instead and the Tomcat had to wait for a little while. I’ve decided to build this Tomcat in the colours of RAG (replacement air group) squadron VF-101 Grim Reapers. In the early days of Tomcat career, there were two training squadrons – VF-124 Gunfighters based at NAS Miramar, California and VF-101 Grim Reapers at NAS Oceana, Virginia. When the Tom ..read more

MiG-23 is a Soviet third generation jet fighter. It was one of the first Soviet fighters equipped with ‘beyond visual range’ missiles (R-23 and R-24) and its RP-23 radar was capable of ‘look down-shoot down’ mode. Production started in 1969 and with over 5.000 aircraft built, it is the most produced variable-sweep wing aircraft in history. It was designed in the early ’60s as the successor to the hugely popular MiG-21 ‘Fishbed’; the main focus to improve was the better radar and longer ranged missiles, but retaining the dogfighting agility of its predecessor. Like so many projects, the -23 had ..read more

I was very intrigued when Clearprop announced their new tool MiG-23 kit in 1:72 and with its release in early April, I managed to get one at Moson show in Hungary. Since there’s very few builds or reviews that I’ve seen so far, I’ve decided to do a build review of the kit. Starting with the cockpit, the kit uses a combination of Photo-etched and plastic parts combined with decals. It requires some time to build all the layers but the end result is a really cool looking and busy cockpit. For example – the instrument panel is a basic shape, to which you apply instrument faces decals then glue th ..read more

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Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched to Earth’s elliptical low orbit by Soviet Union on 4 October 1957. This significant event marks the beginning of the space race between Soviet Union and USA, which eventually landed a man on the moon and beyond. Sputnik was a 58cm diameter polished steel sphere with four antennas. It was broadcasting a radio signal towards Earth until its three silver-zinc batteries ran out in 3 weeks. Sputnik continued its orbit for two months until it dropped into atmosphere, burning up on reentry on 4 January 1958. During its travel, the Sp ..read more

I was a rock music fan since my childhood and during my late teen years “fell” into the world of heavy metal, which I enjoy for more than a quarter of century now. I have a very diverse musical taste, listening to most subgenres, but there’s no denying going back to the roots, is always a special thing – the bands being for me Metallica and Iron Maiden. So when I found out, board game company CMON is releasing several Iron Maiden figure packs for their Zombicide game, I jumped onto the pre-order hype train and ordered the 66.6$ bundle off all the Eddie figures and thus also received a bonus bu ..read more

After years and years of wanting to visit the largest scale modelling competition in the world, I finally made it this year. And I just caught the jubilee 25th edition of it! More than 3000 models by around 800 modellers coming from 80 countries, you are not far of the mark if you call Moson, the Olympic games of scale modelling. Competition is held in the town of Mosonmagyaróvár im the NorthWestern part of the country, really close to Slovakian capital Bratislava and Austrian Vienna. It is a two-day show located in the UFM (sport) arena, with additional space for vendors in the nearby hall ..read more

BMPT or Tank Support Fighting Vehicle is a type of heavily armored tracked vehicle intended to support tanks and other armor vehicles in either urban or mountainous terrain. Due to the limitations in barrel travel of main battle tanks, both types of fighting proved rather costly for Soviet and Russian troops in Afghanistan and first Chechen wars. BMPT is developed on the chassis of T-72 tank and is equipped with wide array of weapons including Ataka anti-tank missiles, 30mm 2A42 guns, 7.62mm machine gun as well as 40mm grenade launchers. There are three versions of Terminator, as the vehicle i ..read more

BIC, Ljubljana, Slovenia; 19th November 2022 Aircraft Juniors all scales Twins and collections Dioramas Helicopters (all ..read more