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United States

Seversky P-35A
US Army Air Corps, 1941
 HobbyCraft 1/48 Scale

Bell P-39Q Airacobra
15th Fighter Group, 46th Fighter Squadron, Pacific, 1943
 Eduard 1/48 Scale Profi-Pac, with Cutting Edge resin cockpit and decals

Bell P-400 Airacobra
347th FG, 67th FS, Guadalcanal, 1942
 Hasegawa's 1/48 kit, straight out of the box, no extras

Republic P-47D Thunderbolt "Big Squaw."
19th Fighter Squadron, 318th Fighter Group, 7th Air Force, Saipan, 1944/45
Pilot: John H. Payne, Jr.
 The Hasegawa 1/48 scale kit with homemade decals, and my first ever attempt at Bare Metal foil on the tail and cowl.

Republic P-47M Thunderbolt
61st Fighter Squadron, 56the Fighter Group, 8th Air Force, England 1945
Pilot: Witold Lanowski
 The Monogram 1/48 scale kit with Missing Link resin prop, Decals by Ministry of Small Aircraft Production

Republic P-47N Thunderbolt "Icky and Me."
333rd Fighter Squadron, 318th Fighter Group, 7th Air Force, Ie Shima, August 1945
Pilot: John H. Payne, Jr.
 The Academy 1/48 scale kit with my second attempt at full Bare Metal Foil coverage, and homemade decals

McDonnell XP-67 Moonbat
As it might appear in service with the 20th FG, 55th FS, 8th AF, late 1944.
The Collect-Aire 1/48 scale resin kit

Vought XF5U-1 "Flying Flapjack"
 The Hasegawa 1/72 scale kit of the US Navy's experimental fighter

Grumman F8F Bearcat
US Navy Blue Angels Display Team, 1948/49
The Monogram 1/72 kit (twice) with Superscale Decals
Okay, not strictly a WWII aircraft, but what the heck.

British and Commonwealth

Supermarine Spitfire Mk I
Number 92 Squadron, Royal Air Force
Manston, Kent, England, December 1940
Tamiya's new paradigm for 1/48 scale Spitfire kits.

Supermarine Spitfire Mk Va tropical
Number 417 Squadron, RAF
Italy 1943-45
Again the Tamiya kit. There is no better.

Supermarine Spitfire Mk Vb Experimental Floatplane Fighter
Hasegawa's 1/48 scale Spit Mk V with Gartex's resin floats, tail, and metal prop.

Supermarine Spitfire Mk VIII
Number 457 "Gray Nurse" Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force
Morotai/Labaun, June 1941
Arii, 1/48 Scale

Supermarine Spitfire Mk XV
Number 152 Squadron, RAF
Bengal, May 1944
HobbyCraft, 1/48 Scale, with Aeromaster Decals

Supermarine Seafire Mk XV
Royal Canadian Air Force
HobbyCraft, 1/48 Scale

Bristol Beaufighter Mk VI
272 Squadron, Malta, 1942
Tamiya, 1/48 scale

DeHavilland Mosquito FB Mk VI
143 Squadron, Banff Strike Wing, Coastal Command, Spring 1945
Tamiya, 1/48 scale

DeHavilland Hornet F.3
No. 80 Squadron, Kai Tak, Honk Kong, 1954
Classic Airframes, 1/48 scale
Allies that ain't Brits

Dewoitine D.520
GC I/3 1st Escadrille, Armee' de l'Aire, North Africa
Hasegawa, 148 Scale

Curtiss Hawk 75N
Royal Thai Air Force, 1941
HobbyCraft, 148 Scale

Polikarpov I-16
 Various kits of Russia's premiere monoplane fighter

Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik
 The Accurate Miniatures 1/48 kit with an attempt at an extreme winter weathering job

Japan

Mitsubishi A5M2 Type 96 Carrier Fighter
(Allied Code Name "Claude")
Fine Molds, 1/48 Scale

Nakajima B5N2 Type 97 Carrier Attack Bomber Model 3 ("Kate")
Mission Commander's Plane, Pearl Harbor Attack, Dec 7, 1941
The 1/48 Hasegawa kit with 1/2 of the Cutting Edge resin wing fold set

Nakajima Ki-43-II Ko "Hayabusa" (Falcon) (Allied Code name "Oscar")
50th Hiko-Sentai, 2nd Chutai, Malaya, August 1943
Fine Molds, 1/48 Scale

Kawasaki Ki-45 Kai "Toryu" (Dragon Killer) (Allied Code Name "Nick")
93rd Sentai, Home Defense, Japan, 1944-45
Nichimo, 1/48 Scale

Nakajima Ki-115 "Tsurugi" (Sword)
Cheap, purpose-built Kimikaze plane. About 100 were built at the end of the war, but none were actually used.
Fine Molds, 1/72 Scale

Italy

Macchi MC.200 Saetta
Mounted on a real Macchi's cowling, no less!
Pacific Coast Models, 1/32

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