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Hurricane IIc 3 Sqn QO-F Night fighter

1:72 Revell Hawker Hurricane IIc – Z3068/QO-F, Royal Air Force 3 Sqn – RAF Hunsdon Summer 1942 ” template=”/var/sites/o/octanescalemodels.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/products/photocrati_nextgen/modules/ngglegacy/view/gallery.php” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]

Morane Saulnier N 3 Sqn RFC

1:72 Revell Morane Saulnier N “Bullet” #5067– Sgt.Tone Paul Hippolyte Bayetto, 3 Sqn RFC, 2nd March 1916, France. ” template=”/var/sites/o/octanescalemodels.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/products/photocrati_nextgen/modules/ngglegacy/view/gallery.php” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]The Aircraft The Morane Saulnier N or “Bullet” as it was nicknamed was a single seat fighter-scout introduced into the Royal Flying Corps in late 1915 after have been introduced to the […]

Nieuport IV G (2Co Air Battalion Royal Engineers – ABRE)

1:72 A-Model Nieuport IV G (#7266) – 2nd Company Air Battalion of the Royal Engineers (ABRE) – Larkhill – Salisbury Plain 1911. ” template=”/var/sites/o/octanescalemodels.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/products/photocrati_nextgen/modules/ngglegacy/view/gallery.php” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]Some Backstory The Air Battalion of the Royal Engineers was formed 1 April 1911 from an expansion of the School of Ballooning which had been part of the […]

Curtis P-40B Warhawk – Pearl Harbor December 7 1941

1:72 Airfix P-40B Warhawk – Lt Kenneth M.Taylor – “155” 47th Pursuit Squadron USAAF, Haleiwa Auxiliary Airbase, Hawaii, December 7 1941. ” template=”/var/sites/o/octanescalemodels.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/products/photocrati_nextgen/modules/ngglegacy/view/gallery.php” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]“Based on a true story” The Action (in real life) After a night at the local Officers’ club in Hawaii dancing and gambling Lt.Kenneth M.Taylor and his friend 2nd […]

Other builds

The page for any builds that don’t fall easily onto the other main groupings. 1:72 Special Hobby Heinkel He178 – The World’s 1st jet – 27th August 1939 Rostock-Marienehe 1:72 Arma Hobbies PZL P.11c Junior Edition – Lt. Wladyslaw Wojciech Chciuk, 1 September 1939 1:72 Airfix Junkers Ju87B-1 Stuka – S2+EP of 6./StG77 Cherbourg-en-Cotentin during the […]

1:72 Hasegawa Typhoon 3 Sqn centenary

1:72 Hasegawa Typhoon 3 Sqn centenary livery – RAF Coningsby 2011 ” template=”/var/sites/o/octanescalemodels.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/products/photocrati_nextgen/modules/ngglegacy/view/gallery.php” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]

1:72 Airfix Gloster Gladiator I – K6147 – 3 Sqn Royal Air Force – RAF Kenley 1937

1:72 Airfix Gloster Gladiator I – K6147 – 3 Sqn Royal Air Force – RAF Kenley 1937 ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]The Aircraft. The Gladiator was the result of a private development by Gloster which first flew in 1934. The RAF transferred the prototype onto their registry in April 1935 for testing. In June the […]

Revell Hunter F4 – 3 Sqn zapped

1:72 Revell Hawker Hunter F4 (converted from F6) – 13 May 1957, 3 Sqn RAF, RAF Geilenkirchen – Zapped by 441 Sqn RCAF after an emergency landing at RCAF Melville.  ” template=”/var/sites/o/octanescalemodels.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/products/photocrati_nextgen/modules/ngglegacy/view/gallery.php” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]

Airfix Bulldog 1929 3Sqn

Bristol Bulldog II – Airfix 1:72 – J9574 – Royal Air Force 3 Sqn, RAF Upavon 1929 ” template=”/var/sites/o/octanescalemodels.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/products/photocrati_nextgen/modules/ngglegacy/view/gallery.php” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]The Aircraft The Bulldog I 1st flew on 17th May 1927 (known at the time as the Bristol Type 105), in a private response to an Air Ministry call (F.9/26) for a new […]

Canberra PR9 – Retirement scheme

1:72 Airfix Canberra PR9 XH134 Retirement livery “End of an Era” 28th July 2006 RAF Marham ” template=”/var/sites/o/octanescalemodels.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/products/photocrati_nextgen/modules/ngglegacy/view/gallery.php” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]The Aircraft The Canberra first entered RAF service in 1951 after its first flight on 13th May 1949 (only 4 years after the end of the Second World War) following the publication of Air […]