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John Richard “Dick” Rossi was serving as a U.S.

Photographs taken at the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton by Don Gilman.

A perennial favorite, the Military Modelers Club of Louisville MMCL 2026 show was held yesterday at the Paraquet Springs Convention Center.

Netherlands Lieutenant Samantha May from 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment USAF test pilots with X-15 Sweden, Norway and Finland Sweden Ukraine Romania US Army Signal Corps WWI IDF Ireland LCDR Danielle “Purple” Thiriot F/A-18 Serbian EOD Ukraine US

One of the highlights of the 2026 IPMS National Convention in Fort Wayne, Indiana for me was the opportunity to meet Wojtek Bulhak and Marcin Ciepierski of Arma Hobby who were there to display their latest creations.

A USMC F-35B assigned to VMFA-225 make a vertical landing aboard USS Boxer (LHD-4) with a second Lightning II ready in the foreground.

Breaking with the paradigm of focusing on color photos, today’s selections are black and whites of Catalinas which are of particular interest in one aspect or another and too good not to share here.

These are a pair of First to Fight Polish truck kits, painted and marked as examples pressed into Wehrmacht service and repainted Panzer Gray.

Photographs taken at the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton by Don Gilman.

Photographs taken at the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton by Don Gilman.

IDF Sweden US Army with CH-47 Portugal New Zealand IDF New Zealand RFC on motorbike South Korea Australia PTE Paula Pires 4 3 RNSWR UH-60 helicopter crew members, crew chief, Spc.

This is a boxing of MAC Distribution’s 2018 family of Mercedes-Benz G3a light trucks.

The Anti-Submarine ROCket (ASROC) was the standard Cold War ASW weapon of the U.S.

Crew portrait of a USAAF Catalina crew assigned to the 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron operating from Halesworth in Suffolk, England.

This is the 2018 kit of the German Ford 3000 series truck, this is a solid kit that goes together well.

Photographs taken at the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton by Don Gilman.

Photographs taken at the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton by Don Gilman.

Mexican Navy SSGT Monica Netcu Romania 188th Fighter Wing, Arkansas Air National Guard, Fort Smith, Arkansas 2nd Lt.

First to Fight specializes in vehicles from the Polish Campaign in 1/72.

A airman inspects the tail gun installation of a USAAF Martin B-26C Marauder medium bomber.

Here is a beautiful series of photographs taken by LIFE Magazine photographer Frank Schersel of a U.S.

Construction here: https://inchhighguy.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/planet-models-hesa-shahed-136-drone-build-in-1-72-scale/

Sd.Kfz. 251: German Armored Half-Track in World War II Series: Legends of Warfare Ground Number 40 By David Doyle Hardcover, 144 pages Published by Schiffer Military History, August 2026 Language: English ISBN: 978-0-7643-7159-2 Dimensions: 9.3 x 9.3 x 0.8

Photographs taken at the National Museum of the Unted States Air Force, Dayton, Ohio.

IDF Poland USAF pilots with F-22 Raptor France Germany IDF New Zealand Armenian girl defending Baku, Azerbaijan, from the Turkish army Norway England French Eurocopter Tiger pilot Serbia IDF USCG Rescue Swimmer Ukraine WREN cleaning a Lewis gun Israeli Na…

The description of this kit is obscure – the truck is better known as a Ford 3000-series 3-ton.

The Nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser USS Long Beach (CGN-9) is seen underway in her final configuration.

The beginning of this particular rabbit hole was this framed print found at the IPMS Nationals in Fort Wayne, the painting is the “Burning of Nanchang Airfield” by Tsuguharu Foujita.