Thursday, 2 January 2025

Dornier Do 217 M-1 KG 2 - archive photo scan #35

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  Scanned by this blogger from an image in an album previously owned by Ulf Balke, author of a two-volume history of KG 2, this photo shows ...
Tuesday, 24 December 2024

Hptm. Rolf Hermichen, 3./JG 26 Fw 190 A-5 'yellow 5' - and a new magazine from Eduard, " Eduard Modeller's Den "

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I recently responded to a request for images of the Fw 190 A-5 'yellow 5' flown by 3./JG 26 StaKa Oblt. Rolf Hermichen as featured b...
Wednesday, 18 December 2024

Kriegsweihnachten 1944 - Letzte Weihnacht während des Zweiten Weltkrieges

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  JG 54 pilots Thyben and Pahl in Courland, December 1944 By Christmas 1944, the war was going extremely badly for the Germans. Since the Al...
Tuesday, 17 December 2024

Gotha Go 242 reference photos for the new IBG Models 1:72 scale kits

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Following on from their announcement last Friday (see below), IBG Models are releasing a pdf on Facebook featuring an illustrated history of...
Saturday, 14 December 2024

Romanian I.A.R 80/81 IBG models 1:72 - the 10 June 1944 Ploesti raid (1)

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  IBG Models IAR 81 C 'Great Air Battles of 1944' box-art depicting  IAR- 81 C no. 320 flown by Slt. Av. Mircea Dumitrescu, commande...
Friday, 13 December 2024

new tool Gotha Go.244 from IBG Models - 3D renders revealed today - release in late January 2025

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  announced today by IBG Models - a new-tool Gotha Go 244. Due in 1/72nd and to be released in late January 2025, 3D-renders unveiled on t...
Saturday, 7 December 2024

Maj. Karl-Heinz Schomann, Gruppenkommandeur I./LG 1 - PK Berichter Hans Gross

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   Seen here supervising the mechanics working on his Ju 88 A-4, Maj. Karl-Heinz Schomann was a 'veteran' of the campaign in the Wes...