Blast up off the pitching deck of a US Navy aircraft carrier in the rugged F4F Wildcat! Protect the fleet from marauding Zeroes and Kates! Despite a rocky development process that led to aircraft designs being scrapped and redrawn several times, the F4F Wildcat proved to be an incredibly successful naval fighter. In the hands…
Jump into the cockpit of one of the Luftwaffe’s most advanced fighters and turn the tables on those pesky Spitfires! Enter the Focke-Wulf 190A! View in Store After his first design lost out to the vastly superior Bf 109, aircraft designer Kurt Tank and the Focke-Wulf company began work on a new fighter aircraft, that…
While the Spitfire steals the spotlight an unappreciated workhorse is defending Britain’s shores from the marauding Luftwaffe. Enter the Hawker Hurricane! View in Store Designed and built in the early 1930s, the Hawker Hurricane was the RAF’s workhorse during the early part of the second world war. While not as glamorous as the Supermarine Spitfire,…
Dive back into Blood Red Skies with a brief look at the Soviet Air Force – defend the Motherland from the hated fascists! Unlike their illustrious counterparts in the west, the Soviet air force had rather humbler beginnings, transforming from the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Air Fleet in 1918 to the Military Air Forces (VVS)…
Dive back into Blood Red Skies with a brief look at the Imperial Japanese Air Forces – both Army and Navy. Drive the enemy back in the Emperor’s name! Like the Americans, the Japanese did not have a dedicated air force, with the operation of aircraft being handled by the Army Air Service and the…
Dive back into Blood Red Skies with a brief look at the United States Army Air Force and the US Navy! Fight across two oceans in defence of Freedom! Unlike the British, Germans and Soviets, the United States did not have a separate air force. Instead, aerial combat was handled by the doughty pilots of…
Dive back into Blood Red Skies with a brief look at the Royal Air Force – join the “few” and help defend the sceptered isle from the marauding Luftwaffe! Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” – Winston Churchill Formed from the amalgamation of the…
Dive back into Blood Red Skies with a brief look at the Luftwaffe – join some of the war’s finest aces in a desperate struggle for control of Europe’s skies! Despite the treaty of Versailles’ prohibition on warplanes of any kind, Hitler’s Reich continued development of aircraft technologies in secret, often using commercial enterprise as…
Though not officially participants in the Korean War, the Soviet Union nevertheless aided both the KPA and the Chinese PVA. Troops of the Soviet 25th Army were stationed in Pyongyang for a number of years in the aftermath of World War II. This precipitated a reorganisation of North Korean armed forces following the Soviet model….
These Vallejo paint sets for British WW2 aircraft give you an extremely accurate palette for your Blood Red Skies squadrons. Vallejo Model Air is pre-thinned for application by airbrush, although depending on your setup you may find you need to add a little thinner or flow improver. With pigments that are ground more finely than…
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