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VICTORY!!
1/48 Grumman Avenger TBF-1C - Pacific Theatre of Operations II
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Is part G4 to be painted white as well like the main gear and what about part G18, whatever that is...?
mikewint
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Nice work on the ball turret, Jan. Checked my collection and I do not have an Avenger. Might be my next build
fubar57
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Eight books about the Avenger and not one clear shot of the tail wheel interior. I've got scads of other detail shots such as the bomb bay if you need them Jan.
Geo
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Catch22
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IIRC, G4 would be white, and G18 would match the interior well colour.
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fubar57
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My 2¢....
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Much obliged gentlemen...
Vic Balshaw
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Nice looking turret Jan, glad you got that one sorted and it looks as though you've a couple of options on the tailwheel assembly…………………….decisions………………..decisions…………..
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Cheers mate! True indeed, decisions, decisions.... 
Crimea_River
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IMHO, white it is.
N4521U
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Grrrrreat looking turret I must say!
Good stuff Jan...
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Cheers lads! Appreciated as always....
Last farewell message to USS Yorktown CV-10 from Ford Island's tower when sailing out on that hot sunny Hawaiian morning, 22nd of August 1943 at 08:21:
"You look good out there honey!"
Last farewell message to USS Yorktown CV-10 from Ford Island's tower when sailing out on that hot sunny Hawaiian morning, 22nd of August 1943 at 08:21:
"You look good out there honey!"
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To involve his pilots in the details of the air plan, Jimmy Flatley solicited their ideas from them at squadron meetings. Otherwise, except for daily air patrols of a few planes, the pilots bided their time in the ready room, many endlessly playing acey-deucy, the Navy's version of backgammon.
The ships junior officers, when off duty, played a more dangerous game-poker, at which they were usually clobbered at high stakes by the undisputed champion, Lieutenant (jg) Bernard J. Lally, ship's fire marshall.
"Barney" Lally had come into Navy directly from the New York Fire Department.
The obvious nervousness of the novices over the approaching battle created opportunities for the old salts to have some fun with them.
Chief Warrant Officer John E. Montgomery, an FBI agent in peacetime and now a fireman on the flightdeck, swore George Earnshaw to secrecy and confided to him that Japanese spies had apparently planted bombs somewhere on the ship.
When the old righthander went on watch, Montgomery switched the lightbulbs in Earnshaw's room with flashbulbs.
Then he and his cronies lay in hiding when Big George returned from watch.
As Earnshaw flipped on his light switch, the bulbs went off like bomb flashes. George wheeled to flee, tripped and fell against the thin metal bulkhead, denting it and briefly knocking himself out.
Angrier than h*ll at the obvious culprit, Earnshaw went looking for Montgomery for several days.
But whenever Johnny saw him coming across the flightdeck, he'd call a fire drill and drive Earnshaw back with a fire hose!
Anyhoo....
Trying to figure out how to arm the old bird for the Marcus Island attack...
Seeing that the Marcus Island was of miniscule strategic importance, I'd like to think that the torpedo is out of question, some where loaded with big 2000-pound 'blockbusters', I don't have that, some was having the belly tanks, would they then carry rockets, finally we have either 2 500-pound or 4 250-pound bombs, have to say that I lean towards the 4 250-pounders....
Suggestions...?
The ships junior officers, when off duty, played a more dangerous game-poker, at which they were usually clobbered at high stakes by the undisputed champion, Lieutenant (jg) Bernard J. Lally, ship's fire marshall.
"Barney" Lally had come into Navy directly from the New York Fire Department.
The obvious nervousness of the novices over the approaching battle created opportunities for the old salts to have some fun with them.
Chief Warrant Officer John E. Montgomery, an FBI agent in peacetime and now a fireman on the flightdeck, swore George Earnshaw to secrecy and confided to him that Japanese spies had apparently planted bombs somewhere on the ship.
When the old righthander went on watch, Montgomery switched the lightbulbs in Earnshaw's room with flashbulbs.
Then he and his cronies lay in hiding when Big George returned from watch.
As Earnshaw flipped on his light switch, the bulbs went off like bomb flashes. George wheeled to flee, tripped and fell against the thin metal bulkhead, denting it and briefly knocking himself out.
Angrier than h*ll at the obvious culprit, Earnshaw went looking for Montgomery for several days.
But whenever Johnny saw him coming across the flightdeck, he'd call a fire drill and drive Earnshaw back with a fire hose!
Anyhoo....
Trying to figure out how to arm the old bird for the Marcus Island attack...
Seeing that the Marcus Island was of miniscule strategic importance, I'd like to think that the torpedo is out of question, some where loaded with big 2000-pound 'blockbusters', I don't have that, some was having the belly tanks, would they then carry rockets, finally we have either 2 500-pound or 4 250-pound bombs, have to say that I lean towards the 4 250-pounders....
Suggestions...?
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Well, after digging around more in my Yorktown book, I found that they loaded Torpedo-5's TBF Avengers with 2000-pounders fused with daisy cutters, plus 500-pounders and clusters of incendiaries, to light up the target during the first bombing run...
As I don't have any incendiaries, two 500-pounders it is!
But it also meant that the Yorktown, after months of pushing by Jocko Clark, would be the first of the new carriers to actually go into battle-"thus beating our rivals, the Essex to a draw", reflected pilot Harrison. "We've accomplished as much in six months as they have in a year and half," the time in which Essex's Air Group Nine had been in commission.
GO YORKTOWN!
As I don't have any incendiaries, two 500-pounders it is!
But it also meant that the Yorktown, after months of pushing by Jocko Clark, would be the first of the new carriers to actually go into battle-"thus beating our rivals, the Essex to a draw", reflected pilot Harrison. "We've accomplished as much in six months as they have in a year and half," the time in which Essex's Air Group Nine had been in commission.
GO YORKTOWN!
fubar57
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Not sure if they could carry both sizes at once, first two are from Squadron Walkaround....
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Cheers Geo! 
True, what I wondered earlier as well, those with belly tank, would they have carried rockets?
True, what I wondered earlier as well, those with belly tank, would they have carried rockets?
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