Paul Paints Plastic

13/11/2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/172gfNaNeF/

04/04/2025

Black-basing done. Next up the camouflage topcoat. Slowly but surely...

17/03/2025

Butcher bird update: yes, it looks like a plane

09/03/2025

FW190A-5 cockpit. Eduard 1/48

28/01/2025

Back to modelling after quite a break (about a year)!

I’m not really a jet aircraft builder but I’ve always had a soft spot for the Harrier. This kit is the GR9 and I’m building a replica version of ZG857 that was based at RAF Cottesmore around 2010.

Lots to do…

04/04/2024

Final stages of my Dornier Do17z, Airfix 1/72. Just some dulling down and some tidying up to do.

08/03/2024

Incredible! A miracle he survived

📸 B-17 ball turret gunner Alan Magee, who fell 22,000 feet without a parachute, falling through the glass roof of St. Nazaire train station. In January of 1943. ✈️

He suffered multiple injuries, including a broken leg and a badly cut arm, but survived. 🏥

05/03/2024

What an image!

Mosquito FB.VI, PZ446 of 143 Sqn, Banff Strike Wing. Taken 4th December 1944.

This Series 2 machine, powered by R/R Merlin 25 engines, was built at Hatfield to Contract 555/C.23 (a) some time between 16/5/44 and 19/6/45. It is finished in Coastal Special Duties Scheme 'A', and is being loaded with 3" R.Ps fitted with the highly effective 25 lb armour-piercing heads. These were the preferred weapon of choice of the Banff Strike Wing, and ripped huge holes in the hulls of German shipping off the coast of Norway, during anti-shipping strikes.

For more insights into the operations of the Banff Wing, we recommend Andy Bird's seminal work, 'A Separate Little War: The Banff Coastal Command Strike Wing Versus the Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe 1944-1945'

Following service with 143 and 4 Sqns, PZ446 was sold to the Royal New Zealand Air force on 3/5/48, and redesignated as serial NZ2395. It was ferried out to New Zealand by a mixed RAF/RNZAF crew arriving at Ohakea on 4/11/48.

Unfortunately, its service with the RNZAF was very short, as it was flown to Taieri for storage purposes, within a very short time. In February, 1952, the New Zealand War Assets Realisation Board declared the aircraft surplus, the wings were sawn off, and the fuselage sold by Government Services Board Tender No 4641 on 18/2/1952.

Photo: Authors Own Collection.

Image Repair & Colourisation - Nathan Howland @ HowdiColourWorks.

With thanks to 'The People's Mosquito ' FB Page for the caption.

05/03/2024

Like your worst fairground ride!

Scream if you want to go faster!! Here, a view from inside the cockpit view of a German Ju-87 Stuka during a dive.

https://planehistoria.com/ju-87/

27/02/2024

Thrust vectoring on the $100million F22 Raptor!