Captain Herbert Von Richter, the so-called Black Knight of Berlin, despite being a Luftwaffe ace is also a man of chivalrous knight of old – preferring not to shoot down an already disabled plane.
The finished model: The scene: On Kanzaki’s last flight before becoming a full-fledged Yamato Airlines pilot, he’s forced to fly without the use of an auto-pilot. When the B747-200 he’s piloting strays slightly off course, he learns the need to…
The finished model: The scene: During the invasion of Tanduria, Project 4 ground forces “Trapper” call in “Hawkeye” a MiG-21 to swat down a pesky fly… a RA-5C Vigilante recon plane from Area 88 that is getting intel on the…
LE Warhawk dérivait du fameux chasseur Curtiss P-36 Hawk, dont il conservait la voilure et le fuselage. Un nouveau moteur ainsi qu’un capotage-avant entièrement redessiné avaient transformé l’appareil et lui fournissaient une vitesse de pointe supérieure. Il fut commandé en série par la…
The finished model: In the comics: Lt. Johnny (Flying) Cloud, aka “The Navajo Ace”, first appeared in the DC Comics All-American Men of War #82 (1960). A member of the Navajo, Flying Cloud was named after a cloud resembling an Amerindian…
Ponyo (Japanese: 崖の上のポニョ Hepburn: Gake no Ue no Ponyo, literally “Ponyo on the Cliff”), initially titled in English as Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, is a 2008 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, animated by Studio Ghibli for the Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Buena…
The finished model: The scene: Shin’s F-20 Tigershark vs. Kanzaki’s F-18… in the final fight… to the death. That’s it. Check out the original manga scene from the FINAL Chapter 172 “Battlefield of Sand” here: The story: Really… what is…
The finished model: The scene: In a flashback scene, Mickey recalls his time in Vietnam. After a crash landing closes the flight deck of his aircraft carrier, Mickey’s squadron of F-14A Tomcats is diverted to a Marine airbase in Da…
The finished model: The scene: The mercenaries are on a mission to destroy an enemy supply base. As they fly in for a low-altitude bombing run, they are shocked by a deadly surprise – The Fang. The defensive perimeter barrier…
The finished model: The scene: After her father instructs her to return to Japan, Ryoko and Taeko book a flight on MacGregor airlines after all the Yamato Airlines flights are sold out. At the Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris,…