Category Archives: Airplanes

Diego Quijano’s blog & Basic modelling guide by Ricardo Rodrígues

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Meres

Hi everybody! Finding Diego Quijano’s interesting blog and especially the Basic modelling guide by Ricardo Rodrígues within – I decided to post this link here. Although it is defined as Basic modelling guide I think the experienced modellers can find some … Continue reading →

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Grumman F-14A Tomcat, Hasegawa 1/48

Posted on December 4, 2011 by Meres

F-14A Tomcat by Juraj Bojkovský Here is my Tomcat I finished literally hours before the Plastic Winter 2011 modelling contest opening. I used the BlackBox interior and many scratchbuilt items upgrading the original kit. I hope you will like it.

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Sukhoi Su-25 in our “kitchen” (Kuchyna Air Base, Slovakia) Pt. VI. Details from Hangar

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Meres

Here you can find the rest of my photographs depicting the weapons cerried by Slovak Su-25s. This post is a completion of my article, which you can find here. As I am a modeller and really NO expert on weapons I … Continue reading →

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Sukhoi Su-25 in our “kitchen” (Kuchyna Air Base, Slovakia) Pt. V. Details from Hangar

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Meres

Some of my photographs I considered lost suddenly emerged somehow. There were other interesting details of Slovak Su-25K airplanes and their armament among them. All those photographs were shot in 2002 inside the hangars of Kuchyna Air Base while it was opened up for … Continue reading →

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Building the FLITZER, part II.

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Meres

The kit building process can be found in my previous post called Building the FLITZER, part I., while in this second part I wrote about the finishing work on this nice Revell kit (colouring, decals, patina) and also posted more completed … Continue reading →

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Building the FLITZER, part I.

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Meres

First of all I have to say that the Focke Wulf FLITZER is one of the German WW II. projects. So this Revell 1/72 scale model kit is only some kind of a “what if” airplane – which was neither … Continue reading →

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F4U-4 Corsair I., Academy 1/48

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Meres

F4U-4 Corsair I. by Juraj Bojkovský

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MiG-21 MA (MF) in our “kitchen” (Kuchyna Air Base, Slovakia) Pt. III.

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Meres

This is the third part of my MiG-21 walkaround documenting Slovak retired planes. The undercarriage details of  No. 1208 are all here. Please note: some of the colors may vary with different airplanes.

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Hawker Sea Fury, Trumpeter 1/48

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Meres

Hawker Sea Fury FB. 11, VX691, T/130, FAA by Peter Jankovič

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MiG-21 MA (MF) in our “kitchen” (Kuchyna Air Base, Slovakia) Pt. II.

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Meres

Here is the follow-up of my previous article depicting the Slovak MiG-21 MA (MF) planes in Kuchyna Air Base. I photographed one of these planes – No. 1208, standing alone and engineless earlier in 2001. I made several close-ups shooting the … Continue reading →

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