Hi everybody and welcome to Aces High Two!

There are four weeks to go until our start date of Jan 1st 2010.
The campaign page, rules and regs can be found HERE
Its also the place to go if you want to enlist.

I'm going be building the P-51B of Ralph "Kidd" Hofer, the enigmatic 4thFighter Group ace.

Im hoping to use the Tamiya Mustang MKIII kit, as I intend to depict "Salem Representative" with the Malcolm Hood. If this isnt a suitable kit for the P-51B could somebody please let me know

The decal sheet is from LifeLike.

Reference will be primarily taken from Troy Whites book. Kidd Hofer-The last Of The Screwball Aces

Nige

Lets see now - this is what im thinking of in 1/72 - depending on what I fancy at the time!

Kozhedub's La-7
Rudel's FW190D9
Jonnie Johnson's Spitfire Mk IX
Anderson's P51B Mustang
Streiss' HE219

thanks
Mike

Hi all aces,

I'm not 100% decided, but I'm thinking along these lines...


Cheers! // PolarBear

I am also not sure yet .. a full stack of aces (well, 99% of it)

Tamiya Mustang (Lt. Henry Brown "The Hun Hunter from Texas" with a bunch of goodies from Czech and Canadian companies)
HobbyBoss MiG-17F (Nguyen Van Bay; Aires +Quickboost -- picture will be difficult) and
HB/Vector FM-2 (McElroy, Funk or McGraw; Vector and Ultracast Seat ... maybe will add Eduard Zoom for the instr. panel)

are high on the list though I need to find pictures for every of them ... and I have a bunch more kits...

cheers

Steffen

Mm.. choices..
Loerzer's Fokker D.VII?
Michalskis/Barkhorn's Fw 190D-9?
Tonne's Bf 110G-2?
Wind's B-239?

I've been thinking of this one as well. I'm leaning towards the Brewster B-239 of Ilmari Juutilianen at this stage, with winter distemper camo.

But that could still change.

Andrew

OK, you got me, I'm in. Number 40 to enlist.

I'll check the stash and find something, stay tuned.

I'll be doing this one:



in one of the Jan Zumbach markings with his famous "Donald" emblem.

first version


or

last version

Ok, I've found a candidate that's a bit left of centre for me . . .


This kit has the marking options for 4 aces, and I'm leaning towards the markings for the ace with the coolest name ever, Marmaduke Thomas St John Pattle (Pat to his friends). I cannot find evidence of any kill markings on his Gladiators, and now I just have to find a good photo to qualify !!

Cheers, D

Good luck Damian!

.. and look out for some AM Decals too .... these Roden decals are "challenging" to put it friendly (especially the early ones) ...

I built this one about 7 years ago ... turned out very basic then (and my standard has raise a bit since)



cheers

Steffen

Hey all, does anyone have a photograph of the A6M2 type 21 piloted by Saburo Sakai? The only images of it I can find are either illustrations or photos of scale models. Thanks

Alright so for me im going with the "Aces of Aces" Richard Bong and his P-38.....



Im also building a P-38 for the Twin booms campaign so this is going to be fun Two P-38's at the same time


Build On,
Justin

I'm going to be building the MkVIII Spitfire belonging to Captain Clive Caldwell while base in Morotai in 1945. He wqs the highest scoring Australian Ace of WW2 with 28.5kills, 22 in North Africa and 6.5 against the Japenese fllying the Spitfire.


I'll be using ICMs offering of their MkVIII as well as AM decals. Quick look at the kit shows a fair bit of flash so be interesting to see what the fits going to be like. Lucky it was the right price

I'm going for Gerhard Michalskis Fw 190D-9 from DML kit.

Ok, I found my pic of L8011/YK-O in the Osprey book on Gladiator aces. . . . .



Sorry for the quality Pattle flew this Gladiator in 1940 and then in December of that year it was passed on the the Royal Hellenic Air Force.

Cheers, D

my kit arrived today im all ready...




Build On,
Justin

ICM do a 'Hofer' B - which I did have lined up for this - FWIW it's the same kit inside their Mustang III boxing...gonna have to look at another 4th FG machine now probably...

Pretty much decided on my subject for this one. Actual pilot may change, but the model kit won't. Probably will do Ilmari Juutilianen's Orange 4 with winter distemper, but you never know when the time comes i may just do one of the lesser modelled Finnish Brewster aces...there are plenty to choose from.



Andrew

Whats the deal campaign started and nobodys here....hmmmmmmm



Build On,
Justin

Never fear, Aussie's here !!




About to get going on my Gladiator

Cheers, D

My efforts so far today on the Brewster. It's a rather tricky fitting kit that is going to take a bit of care to get the fuselage halves together.



Andrew

Its called being at a neighbours and getting through the best part of a bottle of JD,,lol.
Thats my excuse and I'm sticking to it
So............
Happy New Year everybody and welcome to Aces High 2!!
Nige

Ok, I am tentatively modeling Eric Lock's Spitfire Mk Vb, #W3257 of No. 611 Squadron, flying out of Hornchurch.

Well after 2 goes I cant post the picture properly For those of you interested in Lock's plane, this link will have to suffice:

http://www.aircrewremembrancesociety.com/raf1941/lock_files/1.jpg