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CLAUDE BOILEAU HUYNH-DINH KHUONG THOMAS A. YOUNG ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF MILITARY MODELS 1172 AIRCRAFT · MISSILES · SCIENCE-FICTION VEHICLES · ARTILLERY · FIGURES · WARSHIPS I ITAB BOOKS Inc. TAB Bluo Ri cl~o Summit. PA 1729~ CONTENTS Introduction 6 Aircraft 7 Missiles and Science Fiction ...... 86 Vehicles, Artillery, Figures ...................... 92 Warships ..... 94 History and Acknowledgements ..... .. 97 How to Obtain Rare Model Kits .... ... 99 In2 Scale Model Manufacturers 102 List of Manufacturers 103 List of Models 115 Aircraft 117 Missiles 186 Science Fiction 192 Accessories 194 Ships 201 INTRODUCTION The defmu1on of the word model m some d1cuonanes reads hke this a mm1ature representauon of some exlStmg ob1ect. such as a machme or a theatre scenery. which is accurate m 1ts proporuon and aspect More generally, u can be said that the expression is used to cover all three d1mens1onal reducuon of an object The idea of creatmg a reduced version of reahty stems from manifold asp1rauons Ardutecrure makes use of models. and so does sh1pbwldmg for hydrodynamic tests Models are again used m 1he field of aeronautics for aerodynamic research but. apart from technical or mdusmal requirements. pnvate reasons for butldmg models do eXlSt A good model is rather Wee a work of an that amateurs handle wlth care or mdeed content themselves with lilSpecUng n from all angles It can be said to be real m 1ts presence and unreal insofar as tt con1ures up different places or penods Models can represent any sub1ec1. be n a hts1oncal event or the bramchtld of fiction. technical or human feats. passions. wars or even fancy rank among those mulllple sub1ects that can be con1ured up by models Modellers will often devote a lot of time to makmg models of wha1 they hke and what they may never be able to afford That accounts for the umversal and growmg appeal of modellmg Broadly spealang there are three ways of building a model • Straight from the box. The assembly of such a model can be very quick and some of them will look quite sattsfactory. even wuh simplified assembly and pamung • Usmg a Jot as a basis. Wlth improved or mochfied parts. or even conversions. 10 achieve greater realism • Scratchbuildmg, usmg the best available documents and "raw matenals" ranging from plasuc card 10 copper wire These procedures should enable a modeller to assemble all the aeroplanes of an aerobatic team in a day or. m the case of the opposne extreme, to spend months or even years 10 portray that proto1ype whose rakish Imes took his fancy. Experienced modellers will not content themselves with assembling their models properly they wlil try 10 analyse Jots and to understand the "whys·· and '"hows" They will not hes11ate o leave aside a poor model and bulid up their own masterpiece from scratch. so as to evokt:> the h1Story of the original as accurately as possible I' AVROCf·lOOMk.NCamx:k (AWWI) 2 BA.C l.Jghrrw>gf.& (f>oo) J• ADER Eole (Bnfa\11) .; • AERMACCHI MB 326 (CUnarmodel) S AICHIMWSeuan (Aoolum&} s·BELLX·l C""""'l 1 AGUSTA-BELL AB·a>5 (Eoa) 8 BA.C 7SR·2 (Caaln>I) 9 ANTONOV An20>1r (VD) 10 AVRO Vulcan ~) of the F.o/e will raise the greatest interest ADER F.ole - Brifaut among a group of modellers. Produced more than 20 years ago by Brifaut the F.ole plastic The French name Av1on' meaning a kll was one of the ftrst to bear 1he · Made m heavier·than·arr machine fnted with wmgs France' label In spue of its age It remams and designed for flight. was mvenced by one of the best models of old aircraft m the Clement Ader m 1890 who made h1S 1n2 scale senes. chlldhood dream come true that year. when Pierre Bnfaut aimed at several obiecuves he built hlS Avian l better !mown as F.ole when he designed hts kits Thac flymg machine was probably the first to - he wanted hlS boxes to look better than actually leave the ground under ns own the others and had the box arts painted by power Wuness accounts are not unequivocal Bernard Brenet a famous pre-war arust. but Charles Dollfus a histonan and flyer who he wanted to improve the culture of those personally knew Ader, wrote the following who purchased hlS models. that lS the reason Imes m the spnng 1974 lSSue of /care why he added a h1stoncal account of the magazine (No. 68) devoted entirely to Ader F.ole and a biography or Ader "On Oc1ober 9th. 1890. Clemen1 Ader he wanted hlS models as accurate as clearly demonstrated the poss1b1hty of possible and the F,o/e must have been the leaving a flat surface. and making a first plastic model ta be supplied wuh a progress of 50 yards m a straight hne. no template. rabnc nylon thread and hqrnd more. for lack of power and stab1hty cement for covering and nggmg. thls new That IS one of the reasons why any menuon The Air Vac vacuformed klt IS very crLSply hod made assembly much more d 1mcu1t made and enables the bmldmg or an me!ts 10 encourage 1he average mod~ller to excellent model. even 1f decals are not :cceed m spite of the d1fficul11es, Bnfaut included However, a very fine Microscale included iwo t:ole models m each box decal sheet IS provided with the X- IE made Pierre Brifaut planned to make no less than b y the same manufacturer The assembly 100 models of French aeroplanes 10 ln2 instruction sheet provides a good plan and scale That scheme was a way for him to quotes the source references used for the convey h!S views by telling the h1Story of design of the kn, particularly the remarkable aeroplanes. theu manufacturers and their book Supersomc Flight wntten by Richard p pilots He hoped thus 10 urge modellers to go Hallion Congratula11ons to Air Vac for the beyond their normal ab1hlles- Unfortunately, choice of this plane and their good results he died before his schemes could matenaltse. He was buned a1 Presles, a pretty village m the Val d'Otse near Paris. A tnbute m h1S memory is a must, should you happen to go there. AVRO CF-JOO- Aurora Ttus kit was eagerly sought after by Canadian modellers. although the packaging contains a shghtly oversized model whose moulding quality IS not up to present-day standards. but was reasonable when it was released. Purists may prefer to work out a CF-100 from the Hosey Craft model, which lS a more accurate kll and Sllll available AERMACCHI MB 326 Cunarmodel The Gualdoni brothers mamly manufactwe desk-models for Aermacchi at Cunardo, near Varese, Italy. On request of local modellers, they develop very unique aircraft lats to In2 and 1/100 scale for them These planes, released m small batches under the Cunarmodel label. are eagerly sought after throughout the world BELL XS-/ - Air Vac On October 14th, 1947, Captain Charles E Yeager was the very first m the world to break, the sound bamer wnh his Bell XS-1 ~ named "Glamorous Glenms" to honour his ADER Eole D1d1er Palix wife. After an outstandmg service, this aircraft performed hlS 59th and last flight on ADER Eo/e D1d1er Palix May 12th. 1950. On that day, Charles Yeager flew II agam m spw1ous Soviet markmgs. for The &le is d1fflcult to cover with ' t ~':o~=mg of a short sequence of the jet following the procedure recrir'l.mC Pierre Brifaut, because of its f:, x1l Retued Bngad1er General Charles E Yeager structure. Indeed, after glumg tl appeared recently m 1he film The Right Stuff. a tendency to bhstenng One f not as hunself (Sam Shepard did), but as developed for covering this kit Fred, the bartender at Pancho's bar, the only msertmg thm sheets of pl'"' '1 meeting-place m the Mo}ave desert for all to the proper d1mens1ons t those famous test pilots who were p1oneenng and wrap and glue the w supersomc flight Aero-Skm Franc;olS Poruer The XS-1 number one is now dLSplayed m friendly MKSB (Model K1 the National Air and Space Museum in used cartx>n paper pr11ti Washmgton DC replace the Aero Skm 8 I" AICHI EIJAJ }V<e (KueOa.,.) Z A VRO TuµWte MkJ (lle11wal) 3" AEROCOMMANOER/et~r (Aurora) 4" Br.DE BD-5 (299 Mode!.) S BAC QinbctlBI PR7 (TrianO) 6 BELLAl/-/S1bwCl::ibra (J"ujun!.) 1· AVROQIMdaCr·IOO (A.lphr.) 8 AERO L29 DelM (tovocawxly) 9 8£RIEV &.>6/.1.Kk,le (VDll) 10 BRISTOL. /JBA (f'rOg) II BAC~1Pl'o~MkJ (AirlU) lnc., has confirmed 1hat the mould (bought AICHI E/3A I fake Hasegawa from Aurora) was broken up when the train Ross Abare owns one of the finest collec11ons that was carrying 11, derailed of models m the world He moulded hundreds of Japanese catapults for the sheer BEDE BD-5 299 Models pleasure of 1mprovmg his dioramas of The BD-5 IS lhe smallest ex1Sunq ln2 scale Japanese aircraft. Some of those catapults aucraft kit ThlS one IS made by Teny were sold for $3 each by Unique Scale Elmore a dynamic Amencan who Accessories from $pnngf1eld. Massachusetts. succe$fully used a press whose m1t.>et1on USA Hasegawa even1ually bought up the load lumt does not exceed 4 oz 'TI10 mould and now includes Ross Abare's bagged kit shown here IS of the fust release catapult m the Aichi Jake and Kawarush1 Alf and only offers the iet-pcwered version. but. kits, thereby mcreasmg their pnce and with somP mod1f1cat1ons.