About me

Name:: Christophe Chojna
Nickname:: Papertiger
Country:: France
Town:: Lille
Member since:: July 2, 2016
Communities:: scalemates.com (Scale modeling)
papermates.net (Paper modeling)
gundammates.com (Gundam modeling)
railwaymates.com (Train modeling)
diecastmates.com (Diecast models)
rcmates.net (RC modeling)

I'm a modeler in his early fifties, back to modeling after quite a long hiatus. An historian, I'm working for a french national TV channel. I'm living in Lille.

Favorite Topics

Periods :

-WW I
-Pygmies Wars 1918-1923
-Russian Civil War 1917-1923
-USN 1919-1941
-RAF 1919-1939
-FAA 1919-1939
-Soviet Air Force 1921-1941
-Polish Air Force 1918-1947
-Spanish Republican Air Force 1936-1939
-Ilmavoimat in the Winter War 1939-1940
-Soviet VVS Nomonhan 1939
-Soviet VVS Barbarossa/Typhoon/Battle Of Moscow
-Soviet VVS 1945
-Allied Air Forces in the Aleutians War 1942-1944
-No 1426 RAF Flight "Rafwaffe"
-Indochina 1945-1955
-USN/USMC Korean War
-Bay Of Pigs
-Fuerza Aerea Sandisnista 1979-1989
-RAF and Operation Firedog
-FAA, 1945-Present

Units :

-112 Squadron RAF
-American Volunteer Group 1941-1942
-49th Fighter Group 1941-1945
-Normandie Niemen 1942-2016
-IdAF 101 Squadron
-244th Sentai IJAAF