"1/72 HS-123 in Chinese colors" Topic
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| Anton Ryzbak | 17 Oct 2023 7:22 p.m. PST |
I knocked together this little gem last week. Some of these old kits go together so well that it is deeply surprising. Nationalist Chinese colors this time, my Chinese Air Force needed to up its game at bombing. Airfix from 1978 but a nice little model all the same. More here link
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 ColCampbell  | 17 Oct 2023 8:30 p.m. PST |
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| 79thPA | 18 Oct 2023 4:11 a.m. PST |
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 Yellow Admiral | 18 Oct 2023 11:10 a.m. PST |
This one has spats and stirrups! Very cool. I didn't even know this plane existed, let alone a model of it. |
| Anton Ryzbak | 19 Oct 2023 9:54 p.m. PST |
Yellow Admiral,
It does push all the buttons; spats, stirrups, sesqui-plane, open cockpit, cylinder-head bumps on the engine cowling and just two rifle-caliber machine guns for armament. Col Campbell and 79th PA, thanks for the kind words |
 deadhead | 21 Oct 2023 9:58 a.m. PST |
It is beautiful and show imagination in choice of subject. Did you show your Spanish Civil War version here? A question. Spats were clearly thought a good idea, especially on Biplanes' wheels. But why did the Gladiator or Swordfish never carry them? Is there a downside to the idea? More rather than less drag maybe? |
| Anton Ryzbak | 21 Oct 2023 3:47 p.m. PST |
deadhead, Thanks for your kind words
I think I posted the SCW one ages ago when I built it. Spats were used to reduce the turbulence around the wheels (or so I'm told) they seem to have become a fashion statement of their own for certain designers. Often they would be removed when using rough runways or during bad weather (snow and mud could get up inside them and cause all sorts of problems landing as well as adding unwanted weight). |
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dips his toe into the Russo-Japanese War.
