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#2 Pacific Theater of Operations Discuss PTO Build Choices in the Group Builds forums; I know it's probably a but early, but what are you guys thinking of building for the PTO build? Personally, ...

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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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    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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    and therefore never send to ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee" - John Donne, Meditation XVII

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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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    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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    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 )
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    Not entirely sure no doubt it will include some RAAF and RNZAF stuff.

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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...
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails PTO Build Choices-asiatic-pacific-campaign-medal.jpg  

    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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    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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    Something Japanese, most likely....

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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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    Quote Originally Posted by A4K View Post
    Did someone say something..? ( )

    How do you mean Jan, as a logo, or a ribbon for the winner of each category?
    No, not like a "winner" thingy far from it, more like that you've taken part in a specific GB and finished before the deadline, that's it....

    Jan "Felicis Tredecim"
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    "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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    That probably counts me out then!

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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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    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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    possibly a corsair and an A6m zeke (zero), did the FAA use corsairs in the PTO before VJ day ?


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