Search

Making-History

Scale Models, Real People, Extraordinary Stories

Menu
Skip to content
  • Home
  • Second World War
  • RCAF
  • RAF
  • RAAF
  • RNZAF
  • USAAF
  • USN
  • VLR
  • luftwaffe
  • IJAAF
  • First World War
  • Non Combatant
  • Shop Making-History
  • About Making History
  • Contact Me

Author: Mark Beckwith

  • General Modelling

鍾馗 “Shoki”

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on August 11, 2020March 26, 2021

After the VLR P-51 I felt like doing something quick and easy. Here’s my Hasegawa Ki44-II as a straight up modelling piece.

Read More
  • Feature Article

Running On Fumes

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on July 19, 2020March 18, 2021

Seven hours, covering 1300NM over open ocean, limited fuel, one engine, enemy fighters; there were few missions more relentlessly hazardous, nor with so many different hazards to face.

Read More
  • Feature Article

Two Weeks in January, 1945

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on June 17, 2020March 18, 2021

If you read to the end, a sense of fatigue wouldn’t be unexpected. It will pale though when compared to the fatigue these men must have endured. I don’t know how they did it.

Read More
  • General Modelling

Otto Shultz’s Jg 27 Bf 109F-4/Trop

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on June 2, 2020April 6, 2021

This piece is an addendum to the article on S/Ldr E. M. “Imshi” Mason, DFC; Otto Shultz was Mason’s victor, along with three others.

Read More
  • Feature Article

“Imshi”

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on May 2, 2020March 18, 2021

One Christmas my parents gave me Chaz Bowyer’s “The History of the RAF”. Within its pages is a captivating photo of a pilot resting on the ground, smiling. The pilot’s name was S/Ldr Ernest M. Mason DFC, known to all as “Imshi”. This is his story.

Read More
  • Feature Article

“Rescue Me”

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on April 12, 2020March 18, 2021

The little told story of the USAAF’s 5th ASR and how they rescued war weary P-47’s and in turn, rescued almost a thousand downed airmen in the North Sea and English Channel.

Read More
  • Feature Article

Earning Their Stripes

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on March 20, 2020March 18, 2021

How does a squadron of trainee pilots return to base in the event bad weather when they don’t have radios in their aircraft? The recall bird goes up; here’s mine.

Read More
  • Feature Article

Mrs. Yarra’s Boys

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on February 10, 2020March 18, 2021

Two brothers, two Spitfires; Ft/Lt. John Yarra and his brother, P/O Robert Yarra from rural NSW and their No.453 Sqn. Spitfires.

Read More
  • General Modelling

A Balkans Bf 109 E-4/B

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on January 19, 2020April 6, 2021

Ever since I first saw a picture of the “crazy paving” camouflaged 109’s of JG 54 I’ve wanted to make one. After many a year of procrastination, here it is…

Read More
  • Feature Article

A War Weary Spitfire MkV of the 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group at Mount Farm

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on January 7, 2020March 18, 2021

What to do with a spare Spitfire?

Read More

Posts navigation

Previous Page Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 … Page 5 Next Page

Search Making-History

Making-History on Instagram

Here’s the finished PR Mosquito. The subject aircraft, MM312 was only a month or so old at the moment I've modelled it, which was early hours of the morning of 7th June, 1944. It had just completed back to back sorties over France, the second of which was a night-time sortie.
Getting very close to the finish line now...
Exhaust staining completed. These stains were airbrushed, the dark colour first and then the grey. I used the 544 Squadron aircraft in the second pic as the reference.
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the RAAF and we had a perfect day for a fly by here in Canberra. Here’s some real aircraft instead of models...
Moving inextricably towards the finish. Gloss coating, decals on, sealing gloss coat on and setting. As pictured the wings aren’t permanently attached, I’ll be doing most of the weathering first, as well as the undercarriage before finally gluing them on.
Some catch-up... the base painting is complete. The progress was careful; I painted and masked the D-Day stripes first, then built up the PRU blue base coat slowly to ensure a solid coverage. Last, I subtly mottled the base blue with a thin 6:1 mix of the base PRU blue with mid-grey. It’s all curing now, tomorrow I’ll apply the gloss coat in prep for decals.

Making-History on Facebook

Making-History on Facebook

Featured Articles

The RCAF’s No.404 “Buffalo” Squadron

Two Weeks in January, 1945

The Bottisham Blues

The First Fighting Squadron VF-34

G for George

Not Just Pretty Nose Art; The Black Widows of Iwo Jima and Ie Shima, March-August 1945

Shades of Grey

“A Thousand Bombers, or One Battleship”

The RAAF’s New Guinea Boston Tea Party

“The Little Friends” – Fighter Escorts of the Eighth Air Force, USAAF in the ETO 1944/45

Top Posts & Pages

Not Just Pretty Nose Art; The Black Widows of Iwo Jima and Ie Shima, March-August 1945
Foresight
CV-9 USS Essex & AVG-83, March-August 1945
"The Little Friends" - Fighter Escorts of the Eighth Air Force, USAAF in the ETO 1944/45

Receive notifications of new posts by email.

Archives

Take a Look

  • Shop Making-History
    • Making-History Models
    • Making-History Prints
  • Contact Me

Blog Stats

  • 32,109 hits

Making-History

Sydney, New South Wales
Australia
markjb14@gmail.com

Tags

1/48 airfix European Theatre Feature Hasegawa ICM luftwaffe Mustang Non Combatant Pacific Pacific Theatre RAF RCAF Second World War Spitfire Tamiya USAAF USN US Navy WW2
Blog at WordPress.com.
×
Cancel

 
Loading Comments...
Comment
    ×