Fighting the wrong enemy

[Mike1158]

These micro airframes are great, how you do it I do not know. Very glad to see that you do. Ta mate.

[Rata]

Another amazing creation Pablo.
It's frustrating enough dropping a part and not being able to find it. Imagine dropping a whole model and having the same problem!

[gomidefilho]

Great (tiny) PZL-11 my friend! Nice turn of subjects.

[wireandpaper]

Dear Mike1158, Rata, and Gomidefilho,

Thank you so much for stopping by and your encouraging words!
I had a big detour from East Africa to East Europe. Hopefully soon I will build a PZL-23.

And Mike, Tatasam who has not posted anything recently, had an excellent tread on micromodels. I encourage you to have a look. His models are amazing. Check his construction of the B-17 in page 29.

Ps, Dear Rata, that’s why I print extra copies, just in case to prevent my wife hear me whining, although she always gets me for staying late at night doing my models!

My micro world

[wireandpaper]

As I mentioned before, here it is a quick and dirty design with strong inspiration by Maty Modelarz, Marek and Bruno with simplified parts. The PZL-23 Karas is another plane that I always liked due to its odd beauty, in 1/400 and raster. I hope you like it.

Ps, later, I might attempt a better design, but for now, this one is ready to destroy all those columns of panzers.

[tigertony100]

I like very much your nano-models.

[wireandpaper]

Thank you for stopping by Tony.

Returning to East Africa, I have a Hawker Fury in the livery of the SAAF although it came out very dark. From Bruno reduced from 1/100 to /400, nevertheless at this scale, the most difficult thing is to get the propeller cones right (mine leave a lot to be desired).

During their tour in Kenya and surroundings, Furies had at least two air-to-air victories against Caproni bombers. They ended its campaign in East Africa working in the ground attack supplementing the Hartbessts on army co-operation and ground-attack duties, as more modern fighters became available.

One incident worth mentioning from Håkans Aviation page:

“Three 2 SAAF Squadron Furies came close to shooting down two SAAF Ju86 bomber/transports carrying the South African Prime Minister General Smuts, Sir Pierre van Ryneveld, Major General Alan Cunningham and Major General Galmen-Austen. The aircraft, which had not followed specified procedures, passed over Archer’s Post without the normal recognition signal, which consisted of lowering the undercarriage and waggling the wings. Under the impression that the formation was Italian, three Furies of 2 SAAF Squadron’s ‘D’ detachment, led by Captain J. Meaker, were scrambled, and intercepted the formation. Lieutenant D. D. Pannell initially failed to recognize the aircraft as friendly and opened fire on the leading Ju86. Fortunately, no damage was done.”

Ps: What, high ranking commanders not following protocol?