I am very happy to realize that a bunch of you evidently have found the reworked PZL-55 in 1/16 scale attractive enough to get it from Ecardmodels. Thank you!
By the time I got that pleasant surprise work was already underway on the next project in the same vein. Here it is:
This time it is not only a reworked, rescaled, and repainted model by Marek – it was also a very thorough lesson in history for me. Scouring the web for images of this, Poland's most produced aircraft until 1939, of which not a single airframe remains extant today, I unexpectedly found that it had played a very special role in the Jewish resistance movement against the British in Palestine during the 1930s.
Exploring that path took me deep into sources in Hebrew and Polish that would have been unintelligible if it weren't for the resources available to us today. At a push of a key those rare sources got completely transparent and intelligible. Thank you, internet translation services!
I also got quite immersed in the generous digitalized archive of the Polish Aviation Museum, where the original instructions for the RWD-8 are readily available, including fabulous see-through skteches.
The results of this is included in the kit, and I'll soon get to it. By way of introduction, and to immerse you in the period, let me first take you directly to Palestine in the late 1930s, by way of this film clip from the Spielberg Jewish Film Archive at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem:
What you will see in this 7-minute long film clip is the flying school at kibbutz Afikim, just south of the Sea of Galilee. It was quite interesting to be able to date the clip (although no date is given; in the model I discuss how it is still possible to date it) to a period just after March 1938. What we see on the surface is a seemingly innocent flying club taking a few round the field flights in two RWD types, the RWD-8 and the RWD-13 – and the RWD-8 flown in the clip is the very aircraft modeled here, VQ-PAK! In addition your will see how the wings of the RWD-8 is folded back and the aircraft hauled back to its hangar.
What really goes on is the Haganah resistance movement training pilots for starting the very first Jewish airline in Palestine. It would very soon play a larger role than that, flying liason & medical rescue missions for Haganah during the Arab-Jewish hostilities at the time, and keeping a life-line open for the isolated kibbutzims under siege.
Enough for now. Let's take a look at what has been modeled here.
By the time I got that pleasant surprise work was already underway on the next project in the same vein. Here it is:
This time it is not only a reworked, rescaled, and repainted model by Marek – it was also a very thorough lesson in history for me. Scouring the web for images of this, Poland's most produced aircraft until 1939, of which not a single airframe remains extant today, I unexpectedly found that it had played a very special role in the Jewish resistance movement against the British in Palestine during the 1930s.
Exploring that path took me deep into sources in Hebrew and Polish that would have been unintelligible if it weren't for the resources available to us today. At a push of a key those rare sources got completely transparent and intelligible. Thank you, internet translation services!
I also got quite immersed in the generous digitalized archive of the Polish Aviation Museum, where the original instructions for the RWD-8 are readily available, including fabulous see-through skteches.
The results of this is included in the kit, and I'll soon get to it. By way of introduction, and to immerse you in the period, let me first take you directly to Palestine in the late 1930s, by way of this film clip from the Spielberg Jewish Film Archive at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem:
What you will see in this 7-minute long film clip is the flying school at kibbutz Afikim, just south of the Sea of Galilee. It was quite interesting to be able to date the clip (although no date is given; in the model I discuss how it is still possible to date it) to a period just after March 1938. What we see on the surface is a seemingly innocent flying club taking a few round the field flights in two RWD types, the RWD-8 and the RWD-13 – and the RWD-8 flown in the clip is the very aircraft modeled here, VQ-PAK! In addition your will see how the wings of the RWD-8 is folded back and the aircraft hauled back to its hangar.
What really goes on is the Haganah resistance movement training pilots for starting the very first Jewish airline in Palestine. It would very soon play a larger role than that, flying liason & medical rescue missions for Haganah during the Arab-Jewish hostilities at the time, and keeping a life-line open for the isolated kibbutzims under siege.
Enough for now. Let's take a look at what has been modeled here.
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