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Fauxterre 1930: up, up and away

Fauxterre 1930 remains a work in progress, no gaming for eons and painting units seems endless. This could be because I get distracted!

In this case distraction of the aviation sort occurred at a couple of wargame shows.

The Other Partizan in 2024 fielded a luscious blue biplane. A suitably inter war affair still includes cavalry and tech like biplanes although I think this demo game was Russian Civil War era.

https://thewargamingerratic.home.blog/2024/10/15/the-other-partizan-2024/

Then there was Recon 2023 where Height 518 demo game saw the Italians losing again to the Greeks in a 1941 Balkans encounter.

https://thewargamingerratic.home.blog/2023/12/11/recon-2023-at-pudsey/

I was gifted an old second hand biplane and eventually it ate my brain and had to be made. And thus triggered me digging out a bricks and mortar store purchase – another biplane.

Of course these models offer little to an empty wargaming battlefield!

This has been my Fauxterre experience – lots of distractions.

Anyway first up lots of make photos

Planes creep into the production line
Biplanes are fiddly but we got there
The Czech transfers were ancient compared to the Henschel ones
Airfix Henschel was easy to build with good connections
The Kovozavody model instructions looked almost as old as the aircraft!
Instructions were ok fit was reasonable if a bit off in places
The Two Plane build

And then came the painting which took a lot longer than I expected. Then the Matt varnish would not Matt. At least both transfers went on a treat.

Plane from 83 squadron of 5th Air Regiment in Brno
Another letov S-16 this time from no. 63 Squadron 2nd Air Regiment in Olomouc – a crack squadron of very experienced pilots.

Did I tell you I had two S16’s……

Airfix Henschel 123
Just the one plane in Spanish civil war markings for the German legion

So my Fauxterre forces have some bombers and fighters to go with a floatplane spotter. Progress of sorts!