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  1. Sorry, can't help. Interesting airplane, though.
  2. Battle Colors, by Robert A. Watkins, says:
  3. Thanks, this is a great clip! I think the inner wing structure was steel and thus required anti-corrosion treatment (paint) regardless of the aluminium airframe finish. Ball turrets, and chin turrets, came from subcontractors and had Neutral Grey finish long after the fuselage painting was dropped. Seattle built B-17:s had the staggered waist positions added at assembly line since block G-50-BO, and staggered and bulged cheek positions since late G-60-BO block. In the film the planes got both, so that dates it in late April -44 as earliest. The planes don't yet have the later tail gun position, which came in late block G-80-BO or early G-85-BO, depending on sources, so that again dates it at mid July -44 as latest. My guess is G-60...65 blocks, April to May -44. V-P
  4. Alexey, in your opening post you wondered about Kuivalainen photo etch. By Eduard, but not Eduard. Mr. Martti Kuivalainen ran for decades the best hobby shop in Finland. He produced several etch and decal sets for Finnish AF specific subjects, and subcontracted the PE job at Eduard. He then sold all the sets exclusively at his shop in Helsinki, and on-line of course. That was probably ten or more years ago, when Eduard was not yet the current megamodelmaker Eduard. I wasn't back at hobby yet. Then Martti retired and sold the shop a few years ago. It didn't last many years in new hands before capsizing, unfortunately.
  5. NATO = Nordic And Twentyseven Other countries
  6. F-16 is NOT a Twin . But I can't keep away from this one, so please add me to the list, gents . V-P
  7. Not helping Alexey with his search for prototype, but as the SCW was again mentioned, I think we better stick with this ruling done in the Chat period
  8. Started as part of a triple-build thread, now separated from this one. I have planned to model Lt. Bert Stiles's last mount since I read his "Serenade to the Big Bird" - highly recommended - and then learned of his death in combat flying a P-51D on his second combat tour, not much later than he had written the book. The new Airfix kit boxing makes it almost too easy to decal bash 6N*C Pauline to 6N*X Tar Heel, from the same fighter squadron, that Lt. Stiles flew when he was killed in action over Germany. The name in the nose will need to be printed by myself, close but probably not 100% accurate. See the original thread (link above) for boxing and sprue pics, and some more details of them. V-P
  9. No matter how balanced, that stance of a bomber has a very grim look carved into it. Too many real life prototypes did just that.
  10. Not much of an update, but a kind of a big step for me... I decided to try filling the panel lines of one of my kits, the old mold one, as a test mule. All that black is not pre-shading, I just marked those grooves I should NOT fill with a black marker! I'm not sure if that's 100% correct but it's my attempt at it. It's all still wet, it's just sanded and drying. I have also painted the wing spar and tail wheel housing with Hu 81 matt pale yellow, in all three kits. All three have also their control sticks attached, two of them from two pieces . Oh, and I decided to split the three builds to separate threads, in one way or another. V-P
  11. The build list is updated. Yours truly has been busy with helping SWMBO who started the spring cleaning, but I have managed to advance the Zerstörers too ☺️. Thanks James for keeping the GB host flag up! V-P
  12. Oops I'm sorry, it's corrected now - but I kept your previous forum name on that list, mr. Magnificent Matrix! Also, everybody from the second Latvia forward was lifted "one flag" upwards, but as they are only for decoration, it shouldn't matter.
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