Rata Rumble

Two pairs of I-16 fighters for the Eastern front, made of plasticard and balsa. They are about 1/144 scale to suit to the other planes we have. I built them using plans found online, probably not perfect but they're only there to be shot down by the aces of the Luftwaffe. The bases will be finished at some point, right now they can hold a d6 to indicate altitude in Bag the Hun and that's it.

WW2 1/144 aircraft

Four Luftwaffe planes and a lonely Soviet Airacobra.

Zvezda 1/144 Me Bf-109F and LaGG-3

These two came along with the latest batch, part of the Art of Tactic range. I would not want to discuss how the scales of these match the aircraft scale for FoW and Zvezda's intentions about it, the thing is, they are darn cheap, easy to assemble and very handsome little models.

Revell 1/144 Focke-Wulf Fw-190 A-8

The Fw190 has been a favorite of mine for a while but did not know someone makes it in 1/144 (had an A and a D version n 1/72 with terrible enamel painting back from the early days), now that my WW2 collection is expanding there was a chance to buy one. Turns out Revell does a 'Micro Wings' range that has a lot of WW2 aircraft including the Fw190.

Let's just not talk about assembly because I usually find aircraft nerve-wrecking to assemble but this one wins the gold prize of all. However I had fun with the painting (not sure of the cabin though) and it looks good in the end and that is what matters. Had also been more careful with the decals and undercoated the necessary parts with varnish which helped a lot and made the decals appropriately smooth.

Transparent plastic base which is about half the height of the Zvezda Art of Tactic planes', I'll switch one probably as I would need some landed planes too for objetive markers or simple terrain props and this would provide the chance for a spare 'flying' base.

Next up is two Sd.Kfz. 251s from Zvezda.

Zvezda 1/144 aircraft

IL-2 on the left, Ju-87 on the right. These are from the Zvezda 'Art of Tactic' fast build boxes. And they are truly fast to build, plus relatively cheap; no trouble with painting either. I painted the transparent plastic parts too on these with a good result. 

The dreaded Stuka. The boxes are supplied with these black base sort of things, very useful. The base forms three sides of an Art of Tactic hex.