JWM Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 (edited) Hi, I've just finished it. The last (so far) of series of Jack Northrop designs of all metal single engine monoplanes from 1930. - which all are related, one to another. This is BT-1 - the underpowerd dive bomber and then advanced trainer of US Navy, a precursor of BT-2, which then became a very scuccessfull SBD Dauntless (when produced by Douglas, not Northrop). Basicly its is OOB build (Valom "BT-1, 1942" kit) - I made a small difference in decals. I made machine as perhaps looked later in 1942. But anytime I can add red circles in middles of white stars to go back to begining of 1942...The markings are from NAS Pensacola. I only increased height of aerial after analyes of some photos it seems to me neccesairy. Photos are with halogen lamp - day is too short to catch good daylight. Sorry for this... And two photos of whole set of Jack Northrop's single engine monoplanes from my shelves: from left and aft: Spanish Gamma 2d (scratch conv. from Williams Bros. Gamma 2a/b), Chineese Gamma 2e (scratch conv. from Williams Bros. Gamma 2a/b), Iraq DB8-4 (MPM), US Navy SBD-3 Dauntless (Aifix), first row, also from left: US Navy BT-1 (Valom), US Army Northrop Delta (scratch conv. from Williams Bros. Gamma 2a/b), RNoAF/RAF N3PB (Contrail vacu). The contrail N3PB has shorter chord of the central part of wing, but the construction of wing looks so similar to others (especially Gamma/Delta/A17 or DB8 - BT-1 and SBD have shortered outer parts of wings) - I wonder if it is not a mistake of Contrail? Comments welcome Regards Jerzy-Wojtek Edited July 22, 2017 by JWM Switch to Flickr 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight_Flyer Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 Nice build, quite a neat looking model. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beard Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 Very nice, as usual. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Learstang Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 (edited) Another good and interesting addition to your huge collection, J-W! Regards, Jason Edited November 29, 2015 by Learstang 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Very nice build Jerzy, and impressive collection of Northrop aircraft! I was slightly disappointed that you did not model the yellow wing paint scheme of the BT-1... Well done nonetheless JR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevej60 Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Excellent collection Jerzy,the BT-1 is a little beauty too 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reini78 Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 nice one and a sweet collection................still waiting for a BT-1 kit in 1/48..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
occa Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 What an awesome Northrop collection !! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch K Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Lovely build and a great addition to the collection! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Very nice indeed! Mike. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike DeTorrice Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Excellent job and a fine collection shown there of Northrop aircraft ! Mike 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted November 30, 2015 Author Share Posted November 30, 2015 Thank you Gentelmen for nice comments, I appreciete it very much. I was slightly disappointed that you did not model the yellow wing paint scheme of the BT-1... Jean, I was temptated by the colours like here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dougsheley/3627439969 but I have not seen yet grey/blue BT-1 and I wanted to see it In fact I prefere war-time scheme even if machine is a secondliner... Regards Jerzy-Wojtek 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookenbacher Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 Excellent collection Jerzy! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 Nice build! Martin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Mollica Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 (edited) Nice model Jerzy. Cheers Tony Edited December 1, 2015 by Tony Mollica 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted December 3, 2015 Author Share Posted December 3, 2015 Many thanks Gents for likes and your kind and nice comments Regards J-W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_W Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 Nice build. When you see them all together you can see the family resemblance and the distinctive Northrop cowling. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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