More Playing Around With Printed Planes

 

       A little while back The Housemartin found the Axis & Allies Air War game. He got some truly lovely model planes (pre-painted, my favorite sort!)  and we played it several times after our usual game. The rules are simple to understand and easy to play, needless to say they were well-received. Of course we all wanted to expand the horizons of the game. Upon looking into the situation further it turned out that the game had been discontinued some time ago and the model planes now came at a premium.

         I offered to give 3D printing the desired aircraft a try and began digging about on the internet to find free STL files of the desired aircraft. It took a bit but I found the files, re-scaled them and printed them out. Out of boredom I painted them and found decals suitable to our purpose. All that remains is to drill a hole in the underside to accept the post from the base.

 

 

a couple of Fairey Fulmars, two Tupolev SB and a brace of KI-21

 

scaling up the low-poly models left some flat spots, 

look at the fuselage of the KI-21 between the cockpit and the gunners station

 

painting and glossing those tiny windows was a pain

 

The Housemartin had to buy decals for the Fulmars

 but I found spares in my stash to cover the other kits

         A bit of weathering and holes for the support stand and they will be ready for play.