Michael Pye
Having gone looking for an 'inside' hobby for bad-weather days when the allotment and cricket pitch were off limits, Mike turned his hand back to a childhood hobby modelling in 2019 with a simple Airfix Typhoon starter kit. From there a Lancaster bomber bought at the RAF Museum in London followed and the hobby has snowballed ever since. His wife instilled 'limit' of 15 unstarted kits in the house at any time - not realising the loophole she had left until it was far far too late!
Mike's primary focus remains upon WWII Aircraft, preferring 1:48 scale for smaller planes and 1:72 for 3-4 Engined Bomber/Transport craft.
Fairey Fulmar
AZ Models Fairey Fulmar in 1/72 Scale. Added a full scratch built interior with radio, navigator tables maps etc.
Painted in RAF slate gray with medium sea gray underside.
Fairey Fulmar
ICM Polikarpov I16
1:72 Scale ICM kit built into an Eastern front engine replacement diorama.
Academy Field Ambulance (Modified) with Airfix figures.
Painted in AK acrylic and weathered with Abteilung oils and natures finest soil.
Polikarpov I16 - Engine failure on the Russian front
USAF Convair B58 Hustler 'Greased Lightning'
The Convair B-58 Hustler, designed and produced by American aircraft manufacturer Convair was the first operational bomber capable of Mach 2 flight.
USAF Convair B58 Hustler
P-47m Thunderbolt
1/72 Revell kit with added internal cabling and metal gun barrels.
P-47m Thunderbolt
Tupolev TB-3
ICM 1:72 Tupolev TB-3, Built out of the box, finished in Mig Ammo acrylics with painted markings. Painted in VVS Bright Green with Russian Blue underside representing “Red 4” of the 8th Soviet Air Force.
Produced 1932-38, The Tupolev TB-3 was the world’s first all metal 4-engine bomber. It saw service throughout WW2.
Tupolev TB-3
A frosty start for Auntie Ju
Junkers JU-52 in Winter camo, residing on an airfield in Norway, October 1942 and being prepared for take-off from Sola airport, Stavanger.
A frosty start for Auntie Ju
Heinkel HE-177
This is Revell's 1:72 kit of the HE-177, modelled here without the fritz-X glide bombs.
Plane depicted is part of KG. 100 squadron operating from Ahlborg in late 1944 attacking convoys in the Northern and Arctic seas.
Heinkel HE-177
Messerschmitt BF-110g
Eduard's "weekend edition" Messerschmitt BF-110g in 1/48th scale.
Modelled according to the kit produced spec, this is the plane of Lt. Felix Brandis, based in Malmi, Finland in January 1942 on the Eastern front.
Messerschmitt BF-110g
