Desert Fox
I’ve always liked the look of the T-28.
This is one of my first Heller kits, which back in the early 80s when I hit a real hobby shop for the first time impressed me with its “next level” detail when compared to the Revell kits that had been my mainstay up to then.
Fi 156C3, 5F+YK, Luftwaffe, North Africa, ca 1941 This is the first Heller kit I was able to buy, I think from about 1980, but maybe earlier. It has the hallmarks of my building preferences from 1975-1980: hand painted with enamels, OOB decals, and a bit overzealous with the glue. The Subject I know little
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TD231, MN-J, 350th Squadron Belgian Air Force, Fassburg 1946 The last of my Heller XVI kits. The Subject With the war over, many squadrons were allowed to revert their RAF roundels to their home country colors as liberated countries re-constituted their air forces from their RAF organizations. In the case of Belgium, red, yellow and
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Spitfire XVI, TB702/GW-Y, 340 (French) Squadron, G/C 4/2, Ile de France 145 Wing, Drope, Germany, 1945 I chose this subject for three simple reasons: no fuselage stripe, no yellow leading edges, and it’s French. An easy build made even easier, and with a bit of unique color. The Subject From photos it appear that as
Spitfire XVI TE199, Air Officer Commanding 21 Group, RAF, Swinderby, 1948 This is next in my batch build of the Heller Spitfire XVI. The Subject TE199 was a Mk XVI completed on 23 April 1945, going to 412 Squadron post-war where after only a few days it went to the Staff College at White Waltham.
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