Hi gang,
Thank you for the kind compliments...
The are all 1/72.
The Akula was built in 2001 from many model parts!
-Mig-29 airframe from which I chopped the engine bulges and intake trunks.
-Grumman X-29's wings and cockpit.
-F-5 canopy.
-Mig-23 intakes (turned them horizontal on the model.
-Kfir tailfins, small intake vents, nosewheel leg and main wheels.
-F4U4 main legs that retract backwards into the halves of a Hawker Hunter fuel tank.
-Matchbox Lynx rear fuselage inserts to go behind and extend Mig-23 intakes.
-M-1 Abrams turret behind that.
-Refueling probe from a Buccaneer.
-Smoke-stacks from a toy/Lego ship for exhausts that rotate on a koki-pen on a shaft.
-Tornado exhaust nozzle between the intakes as a typical russian lift-jet.
-Scaratchbuilt canards and airbrake.
-Decals from the Italeri Mig-37B Ferret E, Soviet Navy flag from Italeri Su-27 Sea Flanker and the sharkmouth from a Heller Vampire/Mistral.
The Yak-130 is an out-of-the-box Amodel kit with decals from MAV Decals.
The CG-1 Dynablade I built when I was still in highschool. This was also built from a lot of stuff.
The Pike is a BAC Lightning airframe with F-8E forward fuselage. F-8E tailplanes used as canards, and the main wings are from a TSR.2.
As for the Corsair, old Matchbox kit with a scatchbuilt engine based on the P-40B Tomahawk. The idea was to make a mould of the nose and share it, but I just never got to do it. The Corsair started off as a profile, but I encountered a big problem when trying to fit a Tomahawk engine to it. The Corsair airframe is a perfect circle in cross section, and the Tomahawk oval.
Cheers
John