Model Building - Military

First Flying in 1939, the Focke-Wulf Fw190 proved to be an immediate threat to RAF fighters when introduced in late 1941, being faster and more ma...

The definitive variant of the Beaufighter and certainly the one most heavily produced, the TF.X was a two seat torpedo strike fighter, known collo...

Scheme: Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Ia N3290 GR-U 92 Squadron 1940 The first production Spitfire Mk.I was delivered to RAF No.19 Squadron at Duxford on...

IIllustrating the strength and adaptability of its basic design, the Supermarine Spitfire saw constant development throughout the Second World War,...

Due to shortage of Rolls-Royce Merlin engines, some 300 Lancasters were built with Bristol Hercules radial engines, becoming the BII Variant. Some ...

The North American P51 Mustang is viewed as one of the iconic American fighters of the Second World War.  Designed to an RAF specification, the Mus...

Britain’s most pressing need was for aircraft and in 1940, the British Purchasing Commission approached US aircraft manufacturer North American A...

Scheme: Bf 109E-4 ‘Yellow 13’ 9./JG54 Hollande When the diminutive Messerschmitt Bf109 entered service in February 1935, it was one of the most adv...

The British named the M3 "General Stuart" upon receipt of the tank under the Lend-Lease program in June of 1941. The tank's ability to "shoot and...

Described by famous British test pilot Eric 'Winkle' brown as the most formidable aircraft of WWII, the Messerschmitt me 262 was a Quantum leap i...

Scheme 1: De Havilland DH.82a Tiger Moth Royal Naval Air Station Abbotsinch, Paisley, Scotland, 1962Scheme 2: De Havilland DH.82a Tiger Moth No,12 ...

With the Hurricanes and Spitfires of the RAF being needed for home defence duties, the arrival of large numbers of American Curtiss Tomahawk fighte...

The best known of all the American Tanks, the M4 Sherman was designed in 1941 as an improvement on the earlier Lee and Grant meduim tanks, and embo...

The P40, in its various incarnations, served in the United States Army Air Force throughout the Second World War, fighting in Europe, across Asia a...

Description The Mosquito earned the reputation of being one of the most outstanding aircraft of World War II.  Constant success in its variou...

The agile and reliable BAe Hawk T.1 has been providing the Royal Air Force with an effective advanced jet pilot training platform for over 40 years...

Airfix: 1:72 Hawker Hurricane Mk.I The Hawker Hurricane Mk1 was developed as a replacement for the RAFs pre-war bi-plane fighters, such as the Hawk...

Airfix: 1:72 Messerschmitt Bf109G-6 Over 12,000 of the 'Gustav' G-6 were built from 1943 to 1944 and were armed with two formidable 13mm machine gu...

Initially designed to replace the Hawker Hurricane as the complimentary high-altitude fighter to the Supermarine Spitfire, the Typhoon instead foun...

Airfix Starter Set: 1:72 Hawker Hurricane Mk1 The Hurricane was developed as a replacement for the RAFs pre-war bi-plane fighters, such as the Hawk...

Representing two iconic British aircraft designs of the 20th century, the Supermarine Spitfire and BAe Hawk may have been developed during diff...

After the fall of France in 1940, the two great air arms of the day, Great Britain's RAF and Germany's Luftwaffe, faced each other in large numbe...

The GR9A entered service in October 2006 as an updated and improved version of the already very successful Harrier GR7. Boasting an improved avion...

Continuing the wartime development of the famous Supermarine Spitfire, the Mk.XIV saw the classic shape of Mitchells celebrated fighter paired with...