Today, We are going to review a beautiful die-cast model.
It is a 1/72 MiG-29GT Fulcrum-B from JC wings.
The MiG-29 Fulcrum is a fourth-generation fighter developed by the Soviet Union to counter the American F-14 and F-15.
Development began in 1972 and mass production began in 1982.
This model is MiG-29GT Fulcrum-B of the Polish Air Force..
MiG-29GT Fulcrum-B is a version of the Soviet-made MiG-29UB, a double-seat training type, with was the modified in Germany to NATO standards.
And this model is a specially painted commemorating the Polish Ace ,Brigadier general Stanislaw Skalski in 2015 by the Polish Air Force.
Stanislaw Skalski was a Polish fighter ace of the Polish air force in World War2.
He was born on the 27 of November 1915
After completing Pilot Training school in 1938 .
On the 1 of September 1939, at 05:39am, He shot down a German Hs 126.
It's also probably the first World War II shot-down record.
Skalski then landed next to it, helped to bandage wounded crew members and arranged for them to be taken to a military hospital.
(In 1990 he met with the German pilot he had rescued on the first day of the war)
By 16 September Skalski reached “ace “ status claiming a total of six German aircrafts and making him the first Allied air ace of WW2.
When the Soviet Union invaded Poland, he was exiled to the UK.
The Battle of Britain, which began in July 1940, was assigned to the Royal Air Force and recorded six downed records.
In October 1943, he founded and became the leader of the Polish Fighter Team (PFT), which was created by collecting elite Polish people. This unit was called the "Skalski's Circus."
Skalski is the Polish Ace pilot with the most shot-down record in World War II, with an official score of 22 One other remain uncertain).
After World War II in Europe, Skalski returned to Poland in 1947 and served in the Polish Air Force.
However, in 1948 he was arrested on the charges of espionage by the Stalinist regime and eventually sentenced to life imprisonment. When Stalin died in 1953, the political direction gradually changed in Poland, and Skalski was released in 1956, and was immediately allowed to return to the Polish Air Force.
He died in Warsaw on November 12, 2004.