1/72nd Special Hobby Boston Mk.V, 13 Sqn, RAF, Italy 1944

[tonyot]

 

Hello Folks,

                 Hopefully I`m back in play with a new Flickr account rather than Photobucket which has locked all my photos out! This is my second recently built Special Hobby Boston as I built an RAAF A-20J last month. It is a nice kit but the joint between the nose and fuselage is quite sporting and required quite a bit of sanding, as does the nose for earlier A-20C/ Boston Mk.III variant too!

This one wears the markings of BZ631/P` Jacqueline Anne' of 13 Sqn, 232 Wing based in Italy during 1944 and it was flown by the OC A Flight,  ....the father of Tim Staples who is the owner of Diverse Images which builds exquisite pewter models. The A Flight insignia on the tail was derived from a flag/ pennant taken from a destroyed German vehicle by the OC Flight and  first appeared on the units Baltimore`s which were replaced by Boston`s. Here is the website with photos of the real aircraft; http://www.pewteraircraft.com/STRUCKOFF/NEW SOC/BOSTON/Boston V.htm

 

Here is the model;

 

 

For the upper surfaces I used Humbrol enamel 155 Olive Drab with Polly Scale acrylic Neutral Grey undersides and US Dark Green from Polly Scale was also used to represent the Medium Green camouflage with Xtracrylic faded Olive Drab for the control surfaces and Humbrol Trainer Yellow prop hubs and dinghy, which was made from rolled up Tamiya masking tape. Brush painted as usual. The decals came from Xtradecal set X72-104 which I researched for Hannants. I have added a rank pennant from the right side of the nose, which came from the spares box as I suspect that the bottom photo seen below may well be this same aircraft,

 

Here are some photo`s of the real aircraft;

 

I suspect that the above aircraft could in fact be coded `P'?

 

Cheers

           Tony

 

Edited June 26, 2017 by tonyot

[stevehnz]

Hi Tony, good to see you back in action, Foley to PB.

That is a nice looking Boston. I've got the Revell reboxing to do something similar one of these days, I shall likely use these pics as inspiration.

Steve.

[Michael51]

Tony,

 

Beautiful rendition of an aeroplane that looks quite a beast, at least in 1:1 scale.

 

Great paintwork,

 

Michael

[pacificmustang]

M agnificent

 

I do like a good Boston, and that's a ripper.  Good move with Flickr Tony.  I migrated some time ago as PB had becomeincredibly slow

 

Bruce

[VG 33]

Hi Tony

 

As usual this is nice and interesting as a subject. I'm on the Italian campaign at the moment.

 

I have many of this kit family in my stash as there are some to operate in French colours, but not in Italy !

 

Cheers.

 

Patrick

[cngaero]

That's a cracker Tony. The little splashes of colour on the fin pennant and the wheel hub covers bring it to life.

[modelling minion]

Tony that looks fantastic.

A great job on the build and the paint looks really good, an excellent result.

[stevej60]

Look's superb Tony as is usual,another aircraft hopefully Airfix will roll out in the future.

[Pat C]

Great Boston Tony and enjoyed the history behind it as usual. Have done the Matchbox version of this as an RAF Boston IV - must get out my Revell re-pop of the SH kit!!

 

Pat

[mhaselden]

Lovely job, as always, Tony.  As a former "Stabbed Cat", I love to see 13 Sqn birds from any era!

[polo1112]

Once more,Tony you did a great work!

Beautiful model; I didn't know this version with the "duck nose". It looks rather funny.

Glad to see you have moved to Flickr.

Cheers, have a good evening. Polo.

[Hardtarget]

Lovely Tony, do you have a build thread for this?

 

[tonyot]

1 hour ago, Hardtarget said:

Lovely Tony, do you have a build thread for this?

 

Thanks, glad you like it.

Sorry I didn`t do a build thread and even if I did Photobucket have blocked all of my previous photos so all of my posts here on BM now have no photos! 

 

Cheers

           Tony

[Silver Fox]

Another cracker Tony, great history as usual with your builds. I always feel I've learnt something

[Mr T]

Another very nice model of an aircraft I must get round to build. I have an Xtradecal sheet with Boston IV on it so no excuse really. I  have had similar problems of being locked out by Photobucket and it was slow anyway. Flicker seems easier to use.

[woody37]

Great to see you're back up and running. I reckon you are solely responsible for PB imploding with the amount of builds you photograph each year 😂

 

Cracking build mate, the faded control surfaces look spot on and another great scheme