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02-05-2009, 01:48 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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 | PTO Build Choices I know it's probably a but early, but what are you guys thinking of building for the PTO build? Personally, I'm doing the Trumpeter 1/32 F4U Corsair, probably backdating it to a -1 birdcage. Hopefully I'm allowed to do this one as I've already built the cockpit. Also, the Eduard 1/48 Hellcat. I was originally going to do it in USS Bunker Hill colours, but I'm thinking now of doing another FAA one.
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02-05-2009, 01:50 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Brownhills, W. Mids, UK
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 | I'm currently sitting on a Seafire L.III (Airfix 1/4  , dont know whether to save it or build it now and get something Japanese for the GB. Decisions, decisions... 
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02-05-2009, 01:51 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: May 2008 Location: New Zealand
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| Revell Zero Hasegawa RNZAF Corsair unknown brand RAAF P-40 All 1/72 Yet to decide on schemes
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02-05-2009, 02:28 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland
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| These are the birds that I'll build in the PTO GB: Stanley W. Vejtasa's SBD-3 "White 5" .....and this one, observe the aircraft number!  A Grumman F4F-4 "Wildcat" fighter (Bureau # 5244) takes off from USS Yorktown (CV-5) on combat air patrol, during the morning of 4 June 1942. This plane is Number 13 of Fighting Squadron Three (VF-3), flown by the squadron Executive Officer, Lieutenant (Junior Grade) William N. Leonard. Photographed by Photographer Second Class William G. Roy, from the ship's forecastle. ...and hopefully, if time permit....Robert M. Hanson's F4U-1A or.....might break one of my four PBY-5's and 5A's the Catalina, am a bit torn between Hanson and Lieutenant Commander Flip Anderson, he got two destroyer escorts at Zamboanga during the night between 5th/6th September '44, flying a Black Cat.  Lieutenant Commander Flip Anderson Unfortunately I don't have a clue what number he flew that night, all I know is that he flew with VP-33. "Anderson, a very capable Officer of Swedish descent, was a tenacious warrior who achieved considerable success not only by the number of ships which he personally sank, but as an effective leader when the big push was on..."Flip" was the Commanding Officer of VP-33 when they started their record breaking tour 1 September '44, operating from the tender Orcha off Middleburg Island. There you go chaps, the SBD and the Wildcat are "booked", I'm more like between a rock and a hard place with the other two....  All 1/48!
__________________  JAN "Felicis Tredecim" "I´m going back to the front to relax" "THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT" "Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!" "When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!"  |
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02-05-2009, 02:39 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2007
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| My options (yet to decide which): (All 1:72) Italeri (ex MPM) Lockheed Hudson III - RNZAF Academy P-40N Warhawk - RNZAF Airfix Short Sunderland GR.III transporter conv. - RNZAF Italeri Douglas C-47 - RNZAF Revell/Airfix Hawker Hurricane Mk.IIB - RNZAF Fujimi Supermarine Spitfire FR XIVe - SEAC Hasegawa/Italeri Goodyear FG-1D Corsair conv. - RNZAF Fujimi/Heller/Airfix/Falcon Supermarine Seafire XV conv. - NZ inst, ex FAA + ICM Supermarine Spitfire MK.VIIIc - RAAF (1:48 ) Last edited by A4K; 02-05-2009 at 02:43 AM. |
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02-05-2009, 02:55 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Melbourne, Victoria
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| Not entirely sure no doubt it will include some RAAF and RNZAF stuff.
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02-05-2009, 03:00 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland
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| Would it be possible to in some way add ribbons for each completed GB? Like the one below, the Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal, but as I said a ribbon instead, of course I suspect that they look different for the commonwealth, right? Opinions? Just though that it could be fun, if it's too much hassle just ignore this post...
__________________ JAN "Felicis Tredecim" "I´m going back to the front to relax" "THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT" "Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!" "When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!" |
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02-05-2009, 03:25 AM
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| Did someone say something..?  (  )How do you mean Jan, as a logo, or a ribbon for the winner of each category? |
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02-05-2009, 05:14 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Adelaide Sth. Aust.
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| Something Japanese, most likely.... 
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02-05-2009, 08:42 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Queensland
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| Do Australian based a/c count? If so I'll be doing a 1:48 RAAF Spitfire Vc.
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02-05-2009, 09:45 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland
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__________________ JAN "Felicis Tredecim" "I´m going back to the front to relax" "THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT" "Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!" "When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!" | |
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02-05-2009, 09:50 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007
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| That probably counts me out then! |
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02-05-2009, 11:10 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2008
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| Not really sure yet what to do. Probably be a Corsair of some kind, or maybe a Hellcat.
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02-05-2009, 02:16 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland
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| The more that I look at my Catalina's, the more I want to build one...! The question is though, how do paint an all black machine to look good and convincing in 1/48 and in any other scale for that matter....?     My arms were almost too short to take the pics!
__________________ JAN "Felicis Tredecim" "I´m going back to the front to relax" "THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT" "Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!" "When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!" |
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02-05-2009, 02:42 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: billingham nr middlesbrough uk
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| possibly a corsair and an A6m zeke (zero), did the FAA use corsairs in the PTO before VJ day ?
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