Lookin' good! I'm touched that you are interested in polish history! Nice save with the decals. Thanks for sharing and have a nice day

Paweł

Nice job. It looks great. I can understand your interest. I can't imagine taking on a BF 109 in that aircraft. You have to be half brave & half crazy!! 

Half brave and half crazy - sounds like a good description of a polish fighter pilot!

Nice build Brandon, and good work on the decal repair.  Can't notice it at all.

I think the Polish pilots were more like 100% brave, with only a pinch of crazy in there.

Cheers, Mark  

Great looking build there BD, really nice to see one of these. Great save on the markings as well.

Thanks, all! This was a fun kit - a little dated, but it holds up well. Plus, like I said, if we want injected molded in 1/48, I'm pretty sure this is what you get. And it has the benefit of being reasonably priced.

Pawel - I've always been fascinated by the Polish pilots in WWII and what it must have been like. Of all the Allies, they fought the war the longest. I was lucky enough to visit Poland two years ago and then really wanted to build some Polish planes. I saw several books in bookstores on Polish pilots in WWII I really wanted to read, but I can't speak Polish, so will have to search one out in English. It's a beautiful country with excellent food and nice people, as I'm sure you know!

-BD-

Hello!

That's true, I can tell you a lot of good things about Poland. I always say it's the land of opportunities! Land of the possible! Of course we have our problems, too...

I have just finished reading the auto-biography of Jan Zumbach - if you didn't read it yet, you should try it. Lots of modelling opportunities, too! Like that A-26 he flew in Nigeria/Biafra.

Let me tell you about one scene he describes - the CO of the fighter squadron in pre-war Warsaw wants to do a little show for his pilots. So he gathers everyone in the unit and marches to the aircraft, dressed in a long coat, full uniform, etc. Then, to everyone's surprise he choses a check-out trainer instead of a fighter and takes off. He pulls of a perfect aerobatics display, everything cleanly and professionally executed. Then he lands and walks to his HQ completely naked - he managed to strip while pulling off the aerobatics - that's the way Zumbach describes it.

Thanks for reading, have a nice day

Paweł

Very nice build! I really like the blue underside, to me it seems well done. The bronze nose color is also spot on, great work. 

There is a YouTube called quick kits who made a great video about this model too. He used the exact same scheme.

Kien  

Looks great!  Always liked that airplane.

Beautiful work there! Always great to see something a little different, and a fine tribute to the stalwart Poles! 

Hey BrandonD, 

I had a quick question. I noticed you use flickr to post images, do you use the BBcode to upload the photos? I just started using flickr and your pictures are great, so I was just wondering. 

Thanks, 

Kien

Brandon I, as usual, find your work to be exemplary. Nice save on the decal.

I'd not known about this aircraft - I'm no expert on airplanes but this one seemed to come out of nowhere for me.

I greatly admire how the Polish pilots were: 1. Brave enough to tangle with the much more modern and effecient fighters and bombers and, 2. How they were able to shoot down so many of the Luftwaffe's - at that time - finest aircraft.

Here's what I read on Wikipedia:

"At dawn on 1 September, Capt. Mieczysław Medwecki flying a PZL P.11c was shot down by Rottenführer (Foreman Leader) Leutnant Frank Neubert of I./StG 2 (Stuka), having the dubious honour of becoming the first aircraft shot down in the Second World War. The first Allied air victory was achieved 20 minutes later by Medwecki's wingman, Władysław Gnyś who shot down two Dornier Do 17s with his P.11c. The PZL P.11c was also the first aircraft to successfully ram an enemy aircraft in the Second World War. The first large air battle of the War took place in the early morning of 1 September over the village of Nieporęt just north of Warsaw, when a German bomber group of about 70 Heinkel He 111 and Dornier Do 17 was intercepted by some 20 P.11 and 10 P.7 fighters, and had to abandon their mission to Warsaw.^[1]"

That's pretty cool. Well done.

BK

wow Brandon that is a really nice looking buid. how did you cpme up with the drab paint match up for the polish color?

there always seems to be some confusion with the polish colors. there weren't much of anything after the occupation. 

Absolutely incredible build.  That was a fantastic save on the decal!  I can’t even tell at all there was an issue.  

Toshi

Really first rate job on an interesting choice.

I'm always facinated by the above the norm aircraft . Well done and above the norm build as well.

Pawel

Hello!

That's true, I can tell you a lot of good things about Poland. I always say it's the land of opportunities! Land of the possible! Of course we have our problems, too...

I have just finished reading the auto-biography of Jan Zumbach - if you didn't read it yet, you should try it. Lots of modelling opportunities, too! Like that A-26 he flew in Nigeria/Biafra.

Let me tell you about one scene he describes - the CO of the fighter squadron in pre-war Warsaw wants to do a little show for his pilots. So he gathers everyone in the unit and marches to the aircraft, dressed in a long coat, full uniform, etc. Then, to everyone's surprise he choses a check-out trainer instead of a fighter and takes off. He pulls of a perfect aerobatics display, everything cleanly and professionally executed. Then he lands and walks to his HQ completely naked - he managed to strip while pulling off the aerobatics - that's the way Zumbach describes it.

Thanks for reading, have a nice day

Paweł

 

Haha that is a great story! And what a skilled pilot!

-BD-

Kien

Hey BrandonD, 

I had a quick question. I noticed you use flickr to post images, do you use the BBcode to upload the photos? I just started using flickr and your pictures are great, so I was just wondering. 

Thanks, 

Kien

 

Hi Kien, sorry for the late reply. Basically, I upload from my phone to Flickr, then end up going to the laptop to do my posts here, and I use the embed code from Flickr with the medium size (800 x 800). For the embed, you need to click the <> button in the post editor and drop the embed code into the HTML text (bsically wherever you want it). It's actually less annoying than using Photobuket, given the number of glitches I had with Photobucket, and it keeps me from giving those... .... ... ... folks... any money.

-BD-

blackdog62

wow Brandon that is a really nice looking buid. how did you cpme up with the drab paint match up for the polish color?

there always seems to be some confusion with the polish colors. there weren't much of anything after the occupation. 

 

Thanks! The color is actually just Model Master Field Drab straight from the bottle. I almost bought the Hataka Polish colors, but read online somewhere that Field Drab is a good match, and it looked the part to me.

-BD-

Don, Gamera, Mike, BK, Toshi, Templar and Jay Jay - thanks for the kind words! It was definitely a fun build, and I love the subject.

-BD-

yep it dose look the part.