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Miniatures Adventure => The Second World War => Topic started by: Blackwolf on June 12, 2010, 03:56:42 AM
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Almost nicking a thread here;
Westland Whirlwind (could have been a contender)
Focke Wulfs (all of them ,from 190s to Huckbiens,K. Tank genius)
Spitfire XIV (Malcom hood)
Spits in general
Typhoon and Tempest
Mossies
Bristol Beaufighter
Anything the Finn's flew
Horten flying wing
Grumman Skyrocket (could have been a contender part II)
and finally the Hurricane,if only for the Red Crayolas song 'Hurricane Fighter 'Plane'
Edit;
Dornier 335
Westland Lysander
All seaplanes and flying boats
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The B17 in all her guises is my favorite plane in the big WWII.
Brian
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It has to be the Stuka, because there is no plane that resembles more a bird of prey (Junkers Ju 87B - the one with the bigger canopy):
(http://www.allmystery.de/dateien/uh60626,1267447340,ju87_97gabt_lecce.jpg)
...and of course the Boeing B-17!
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Griffon engined Spits, had privelege of sitting in BBMF PRXIX.....cool!
Mosquito, any version
Late 109's, G14, K
Lancaster, a great bomber with a 'proper' bomb load!
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Me 109 and all variants.
Beautiful plane !
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Big fan of 109's, Tempests, Typhoons & Mossies - have built dozens in all scales over the years but have a soft spot for both Mig and LAGG 3's
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Il-2, the russian armoured storm plane.
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A rather obvious choice but the Spitfire, in almost any of its versions. My late papa flew one although he also flew a Mustang IV for a brief spell and said it was a marvelous aircraft.
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P-40 Warhawk
F4U Corsair
A6M Zero
FW 190D (that looooooong nose)
Me-262
The Mistel flying bomb combinations (I remember the first time I saw a picture of one in a magazine, I had to immediately read the article to reassure myself it was actually a real thing)
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Just the fighters/attack...
RAF - Hawker Hurricane
USAAF - Curtiss P-40B/C
USN - Grumman Hellcat
Luftwaffe - FW190A/F (radial engine types - the 'Butcher Bird') and Bf109G-6 (the 'kitchen sink' variant - it carried everything!)
IJN - Mitsubishi A6M1 Reisen (the early variant 'Zero')
IJAAF - Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate ('Frank')
VVS - Ilyushin Il-2m3 (the one with the turret)
Regia Aeronautica - Macchi C.202
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Mustang.
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A Greek PZL P.24 F/G, 1940 and Italian CR42
http://www.wwiireenacting.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=16083&sid=8ba12c8a136560c90064fa3dd3db639a&start=16
now if i could only find one in 1/48 scale lol lol lol
David
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A Greek PZL P.24 F/G, 1940
http://www.wwiireenacting.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=16083&sid=8ba12c8a136560c90064fa3dd3db639a&start=16
now if i could only find one in 1/48 scale lol lol lol
David
Seem to remember a 1/48 kit being available a few years ago, possibly made by Mirage?
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Oooooo just got one of ebay ::)
Thanks
David
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A Greek PZL P.24 F/G, 1940 and Italion CR42
http://www.wwiireenacting.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=16083&sid=8ba12c8a136560c90064fa3dd3db639a&start=16
now if i could only find one in 1/48 scale lol lol lol
David
Mirage make various PZLs in 1/48. IIRC they are a Polish manufacturer. Never seen their aircraft but they made some incredibly detailed 1/72 tanks.
Apart from Italeri, you'll find that Classic Airframes do a number of CR42s in 1/48.
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I love the JU-88, just for its lines and I have a special fondness for the ME-410 which was one of the first Airfix models I assembled.
The Spitfire and Hurricane obviously as well as the Blenheim and Beaufort bombers.
The A-26 marauder also gets a special mention. It looks mean and nasty as does the P-60 Black Widow. A nasty looking aircraft all round.
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For me the Heinkel 111 Tankbuster and JU-87 G/D and JU88P-1 Tank Busters.
The Horten HO-229.
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I guess it's the Mustang D and the FW 190 longnose. Both absolutely beautiful planes. Actually some of the Russian planes looked really good two.
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I guess it's the Mustang D and the FW 190 longnose. Both absolutely beautiful planes. Actually some of the Russian planes looked really good two.
Oh, if you are asking for *good looking* then I have to go with... well, any Italian aircraft of the war:
(http://hsfeatures.com/features04/images/C202_icr04.jpg)
Macchi C.202
(http://digilander.libero.it/torpedoclub/RA6.jpg)
Reggiane Re.2005
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/it/8/88/Savoia-Marchetti_S.M.84_torpedo.jpg)
Savoia-Marchetti SM.84
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Any Italian aircraft Hammers?
Breda 65?
Ro 37?
And almost anything with one of those clunking great radial engines their designers were forced to use.
So some pretty planes from Italy but they made some dogs as well
Them to! I used to collect all the Italian 1/72 kits I could find. There is something in Italian aircraft which is immediately identifiable, and I like it!
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I'm a fan of the Fiat CR32 it's very 'now' and 'happening' if you're in the 1930's. I include it in WW2 as the Italians used it briefly.
(http://kits.kitreview.com/images/ca4107_box.jpg)
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I'm a fan of the Fiat CR32 it's very 'now' and 'happening' if you're in the 1930's. I include it in WW2 as the Italians used it briefly.
(http://kits.kitreview.com/images/ca4107_box.jpg)
Right. The "it" plane of 1938. :)
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Don't be a hater, it's what the cool kids were flying... ::)
Okay, 2nd place goes to the P40 Warhawk
(http://www.markkarvon.com/images/P-40%20Warhawk%20Karvon%2016x24%20Print3%20700.jpg)
Flying Tigers, John Wayne, Ben Affleck & a Matt Damon stand-in ... and 'shark's mouth' nose art, beat that!
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I'd go with the emblematic Ju-87 too,
and yes, all italian planes looked best
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It has to be the Stuka, because there is no plane that resembles more a bird of prey (Junkers Ju 87B - the one with the bigger canopy):
(http://www.allmystery.de/dateien/uh60626,1267447340,ju87_97gabt_lecce.jpg)
...and of course the Boeing B-17!
Yep,I'm right with you on this and add to that the Fokker Dr.I triplane.
Christopher
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Do try and keep up... Fokker Dr.1 as favourite WW2 aircraft? ;)
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and SM 79 in the early stages of construction
I bet it's the Airfix kit with the open canopy and swivelling MG. I loved that kit as a youngster.
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Right. The "it" plane of 1938. :)
Hmm.... well it might have vied for the 'it' plane of 1932 but seriously gents nothing gets close to the Hawker Fury as the stylish biplane of the 1930s, except maybe something else from the Hawker stable, like a Hart or a Hind.
http://www.aviation-history.com/hawker/fury-8a.jpg
But back on track, I've always found the Westland Whirlwind a sexy beast.
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I've been looking at your forum here for some weeks now and was finally drawn to post by this thread.
Glad to see people liking the Italian planes, but where is the love for the P-38 Lightning?
And what about the F6-F Hellcat? Kind of weird looking, but it has its own charm!
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I've been looking at your forum here for some weeks now and was finally drawn to post by this thread.
Glad to see people liking the Italian planes, but where is the love for the P-38 Lightning?
And what about the F6-F Hellcat? Kind of weird looking, but it has its own charm!
Saying you like American aircraft is a bit like saying you like dining at McDonalds. ;)
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Hammers
"dining" and "McDonalds" are not compatible terms.
Consuming processsed meat-filth-entrail burgers and McDonalds, yeah that works. Dining is a word we use for food.
You are not entirely familiar with the concept of wicked and contrary metaphors, are you? ;)
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The russian Polikarpov Po-2 Kukuruznik, a multipurpose biplane, among them the deployment in the 588th Taman Guard Night Bomber Regiment. It had also the record for largest production run of a biplane for decades.
link 1 (http://einestages.spiegel.de/static/entry/stalins_himmelstuermerinnen/37427/doppeldecker_po_2.html?o=position-ASCENDING&s=5&r=1&a=5522&c=1)
link 2 (http://www.rmk-models.com/polikarpov_po-2.php)
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Saying you like American aircraft is a bit like saying you like dining at McDonalds.
Oh come now- sometimes a hamburger is all one wants. No need to haul one's-self all the way to the Hoffbrau Haus for some Focke-Schnitzel, or somewhere else for some Zero-Role.
Hamburgers get the job done man.
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I`ve always been a fan of the Italian Fiat 50b Bis, due to a conbination of always having had an intrest in the italian ww2 army, and the fact that was the very first plastic kit I ever (tried to) build. I found it an elegant plane and the yellow fuselage on the old Airfix kits picture kind of `did it` for me
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Do try and keep up... Fokker Dr.1 as favourite WW2 aircraft? Wink
Ooops,sorry about that as I got a bit excited and added more to the topic then asked! :-X
Christopher