PZL-50 in 1/72 scale by KPL

[anton ryzbak]

A rarity as a kit and even more so as a real aircraft. The PZL-50 was supposed to replace the PZL-11 but events moved faster than the Polish goverment. A quick review of the kit and more photos here: https://antonswargame.blogspot.com/2024/10/172-pzl-50-jasztrzab-by-kpl.html

[bluewillow]

Nice work

[SJWi]

Beautiful.  Seeing this has reminded me that I have two Heller kits of a PZLP11C and a P23Karas lurking somewhere in my shed. They date back to the late '80s/early '90s when I fell out of love with gaming and thought I would get back into aircraft modelling. I decided to focus on "aircraft of the 1930s" as I find the transition from biplane to monoplane fascinating, plus there are some truly weird and wonderful designs. I think I also have a Heinkel He51.  The love affair with modelling didn't last ...... 

[anton ryzbak]

SJWi, those are all excellent kits (assuming that the HE-51 is the Hasegawa kit) I have always been a big fan of the 1930's "Age of Transition" aircraft. I'm still working through my air-combat rules for the period, they have made it to the Beta version. If you are interested you can find them under the "My Own Rules and other wacky ideas " tab on my blog. I originally started doing aircraft for the Nomohan Incident but things rapidly got out of control and I now possess aircraft for most major and many smaller air forces of the 1930's

[SJWi]

Anton, I'll need to check the make of kit but could well be Hasegawa. Many years since I looked in the box. I'm currently starting to game the Spanish Civil War so lots of interesting aircraft types there.  Can you supply a link to your blog?

Thanks.

[anton ryzbak]

The main page is https://antonswargame.blogspot.com/

the tab for the aircraft models is https://antonswargame.blogspot.com/p/those-magnificent-flying-machines.html

and my rules can be found here https://antonswargame.blogspot.com/2021/09/more-dangerous-ramblings-while-writing.html

scratchbuilding magnetic flight stands  https://antonswargame.blogspot.com/2021/06/adjustable-flight-stands-for-172-scale.html

The SCW is a rich field to game/model. So many off-casts and civilian aircraft ended up fighting on both sides.