David Pye
David has been scale modelling off-and-on since his first production of HMS Daring aged about 8. Since re-discovering the hobby he's rarely not had a model 'on the go' for the past couple of years and these have mostly reflected his interest in military aircraft and WW2 naval craft. His wife allows them to be displayed around the house but won't dust them, David sometimes does. Guaranteed success birthday present: fine point, short haired brushes.
MIG15 bis - North Korean Gate Guard
MIG15 bis - 1/72 Eduard, built straight from the box with no additional parts. The model is set on a base that could be the gate guard for a North Korean Airbase
MIG15 bis - North Korean Gate Guard
Messerschmidt Bf 110 C-1
Messerschmidt Bf 110 C-1 somewhere in northern France Summer 1941 (based on a photo I found on the net).
Built from the Fujimi 1/72 kit with some scratch built additions and substitutions.
Messerschmidt Bf 110 C-1
SAAB B-5
SAAB B-5
Saab B-5 built using the Special Hobby 1/72 kit with an Airfix figure and a Ferrari Rocher base plus some scratch built additions.
SAAB B-5
Antonov An2
Antonov An2
1/72 Bilek kit
East German scheme
Antonov An2
SAAB Draken
Draken operating from an improvised runway on a road. Built from the 1970s Airfix 1/72 with a scheme based on a photo.
SAAB Draken
Junkers G-24
Junkers G-24 built from Revell's 1/72 kit The original mould was made by VEB Plasticart - I had to replace the legs with brass and carbon fibre rods. The model is dressed as being part of AB Aerotransport's fleet around 1930. I made masks and painted the markings. The inspiration for the diorama was this photo..
Junkers G-24
DH Mosquito BXVI
Airfix 1/72 dH Mosquito BXVI with Eduard PE produced for that kit which combined excellently - highly recommended.
It's dressed as being from 571 Squadron, No 8 Pathfinder Group which was based at RAF Oakington in Cambs 1944.The odd grey panel on the port side is due it just having come back from repairs, they hadn't y
DH Mosquito BXVI
SAAB J21-R
Developed from the Saab J21A but the R denotes that the airframes had been significantly adapted for Goblin jet engines (the R denotes 'Roket'), externally the two still looked very similar but only about half the parts were common to both. This model is from a Special Hobby 1/72 kit that comes with photo-etch.
SAAB J21-R
David's Older Builds
Kawanishi H6K5 "Mavis" Seaplane
Kawanishi H6K5 "Mavis" Seaplane
Hasegawa 1:72 kit 1991 rebox series of 1970 tooled kit with added Torpedoes. H6K5 seaplanes were known to the Allies by the 'reporting name' 'Mavis', hence they are known to us as Kawanishi H6K5 Mavis seaplanes. They were in operational service from 1938 after first flying as a prototype in 1936.
Heinkel 100 - 1/72 Lindberg
Kawanishi H6K5 "Mavis" Seaplane
The Heinkel 100 (also known as the 113) was a feared 420mph German fighter that was never produced for combat based on the He 112 which was only produced for overseas sales the He113 was used as a propaganda plane being photographed with various 'paint jobs' at bases all round Germany.
German Marine Tornado
German Marine Tornado equipped with Sidewinder, AARGM and Kormoran missiles. The model is based on the Italeri 1:72 '171' kit with handbuilt additions in the cockpit; the cockpit shot was taken during construction.
Heinkel He 115
Phantom F4J - US Strike Fighter squadron VF-103
The He 115 is a standard production aircraft of Ku Fl Gr 106 of Luftflotte 2 of the German air force used for night operations off the coast of France in late 1940. The kit is the Revell Kit, originally produced by Matchbox in 1976, the scale is 1/72.
Phantom F4J - US Strike Fighter squadron VF-103
Phantom F4J - US Strike Fighter squadron VF-103
Phantom F4J - US Strike Fighter squadron VF-103
Revell re-box of a 1985 Monogram kit. Squadron VF-103, nicknamed the Jolly Rogers, were based aboard USS Roosevelt around 1978. The FJ4 is carrying sparrow missiles forward, sidewinders and Mk82 'Snakeye' extended fuse bombs on the wings and fitted with drop tanks for a mission of considerable length.
Nor 2501 Noratlas
Phantom F4J - US Strike Fighter squadron VF-103
Phantom F4J - US Strike Fighter squadron VF-103
Scene set at Tomale airport, Ghana, 1963 - a German assistance flight brings supplies to the Ghanains after the assassination of their president.
Kit is Heller 1/72 but has NeOmega resin Hercules engines added along with the resin crates and figures from various suppliers.
Kawasaki Ki-48 "Lily"- 90th Light Bomber Air Combat Regiment
Hasegawa 1977 re-box of a 1973 Mania Models 1/72 scale kit. The plane is a Kawasaki Ki-48 Lily that has been dressed as one of the 90th Light Bomber Air Combat Regiment based in Tak, Thailand in 1941 (not one of the kit options) that was shot down over Rangoon in January 1942.
Fiat Cicogna
Fiat Cicogna that I finished a bit before Christmas. The model is dressed for the 4th Regia Aeronautica in Greece in 1940. The kit was an Italeri 1/72 first released in 1972, this was from the reboxed 'vintage' series of about 2010
Avro Anson MK1 - RAF Photographic School
Avro Anson MK1 - RAF Photographic School
Avro Anson MK1 - RAF Photographic School
Avro Anson MK1 converted for reconnaissance photography from the Airfix 1/72 bomber trainer. The aeroplane modelled is of The RAF Photographic School base at RAF Wellesbourne in the early 1950s, at which time David's father was stationed there.
Sukhoi SU22 UM3K
Avro Anson MK1 - RAF Photographic School
Avro Anson MK1 - RAF Photographic School
Sukhoi Su22 UM3K built from an Italeri 1/72 kit with Hannants Airwaves PE. It is built as a Hungarian post cold war trainer based out of Kaposvar A.B. in 1992, in this case being set for a reconnaissance mission although it also has B8M1 rocket pods and AA8 air-to-air missiles.
DDR air force Ilyushin Il-28
Avro Anson MK1 - RAF Photographic School
DDR air force Ilyushin Il-28
The model is built from an Airfix 1/72 1968 original that I rescribed and added to with an interior detailing using scratch build and decals.
Aichi E11a "Laura"
Gloster Meteor T Mk 7
DDR air force Ilyushin Il-28
A Japanese early WW2 flying boat originally used for spotting shot landing from warships but rapidly reduced to other roles such as delivering the post. The beach is made from alpine grit and sand, the sea is done from layers of Modgpodge and varnish.
Gloster Meteor T Mk 7
Gloster Meteor T Mk 7
Gloster Meteor T Mk 7
The two seat trainer version of the Meteor originally produced in response to an Argentinian order.
This one is dressed as one from Station Flight RNAS Yeovilton although it's actually a 'What If?' as the numbers on it are not correct. Credit to Mike Costillo for the resin figures
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