Andrew's 1/48 Eduard Avia B.534 iv ProfiPack
Dec 29, 2023 18:17:35 GMT -5
406 Silverado, deafpanzer, and 2 more like this
Post by adt70hk on Dec 29, 2023 18:17:35 GMT -5
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 over on the other forum I'm on we're have a biplane GB starting on the 1st January and so I thought I'd share it with you too, 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 over on the other forum I'm on we're have a biplane GB starting on the 1st January and so I thought I'd share it with you too, 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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