Artie

Any man serving his country and willing to give his life for his flag, history, principles and values is a brave man, and deserves all our respect and admiration. But regarding your kind comment, I must admit that those men were made of a special material.

In fact, just the cowling assembly.....parts 37, 38 and 39. Cheers

I took a look at the Eduard website, but obviously didn't find that...!!! Thanks a lot. The project will wait, won't spend that amount to get a few parts..... Cheers...

I'd bet that's a SB2, but couldn't tell for sure....

Hi all.....Do you know if Eduard ever offered their Westland Lysander in Weekend Edition series, or just as a Profipack issue??? I've been looking for one "cheap" kit, just need it as a donor, don't want to pay the price of a Profipack and leave a box full of parts...!!! Even the older Gavia boxing seem to be difficult to find..... Regards

Maybe a SM79 Sparviero or a Do17 Bacalao would be good options...

You could depict a He111 belongin to the "Servicio Meteorológico"...they used to fly all over Spain, so It wouldn't be strange to finde them anywhere....Maybe some scratch building will be needed...

I thought some of you could like some info regarding the whereabouts of some allied planes wich, for one or other reason, landed in Spain during the IIWW. Some of them saw service with the spanish Ejército del Aire, others didn't. If you click the following link, you'll find on the right part a list of planes...click them again, et voil´à....Hope you'll like it. http://incidentessgm.blogspot.com/2013/11/north-american-b-25-mitchell.html

Well, that's not an easy question. The Junkers Ju87, definitely no, as they returned to Germany after the war's end. The "Martin Bombers" (Tupolev SB2) were deployed with 13º Regimiento de Bombardeo at Los Llanos air base (eastern Spain), so who knows, a trip down south could make sense, but not a long term deployment there at all. The same can be said about the Junkers Ju88. They were purchased during 1943, under the Bär Program commintments, and were deployed at Los Llanos as well. But if you want to walk the line, you can build the only North American B-25 to see service with the spanish Air Force. During august, 1944, an USAAF B25D landed at Nador air base. It was later purchasd by Spain and entered service with the Escuela Superior de Vuelo. On August 4, 1944 it made an emergency landing at the Tauima aerodrome (Nador-Melilla). It was a B-25 D-10 Mitchell US, this B-25 was a plane of the VIP transport version operating for the RAF. The airplane with USAAF serial number 41-30338, suffered a fault in the flight controls. By mistake, the pilot, who had left Gibraltar heading to Tunis, thought he was on French Morocco. The plane was interned in Nador until the end of the war. Once finished, the staff of the Allied Control Commission arrived in Nador to order the destruction of a Lockeed P-38, also interned, and negotiated the sale to the Spanish Government of the B-25. In 1948 she was put in flight again, with the help of mechanics from Iberia, and was used as a training aircraft in the Air Force from 1950 to 1953.

Some years ago, I tried to reproduce the viyil roof on a Fujimi Mini Cooper in 1/24 scale. I used some kind of textured aluminium sealing foil from the lid of an ice cream pot. Something like this:

Regarding the planes deployed to Spanish Morocco around the early/mid forties, these were the most numerous: 27 Grupo de Caza. Heinkel He112 and Fiat G50. Nador air base. 43 Grupo de Bombardeo. Polikarpov R-Z. Auamara air base. 51 Escuadrilla. Dornier Wal. El Atalayón. 41Patrulla reconocimiento. Henschel Hs126. Sania Ramel air base. It was a common sight the Fiat CR32, flying grm Baleares. Apart from that, lots of different planes were deployed there, but not in great amount, such as the Grumman Delfín, Polikarpov I-152, etc...

Well, that was the fashion back then..even my grandad looked that way, with that thin moustache...

I'd bet the planes in the background are Chirris....at least the one on the left side, see the code 3*15.

By the way...the He112 never used that sand colour shown in the wrong profile above. The lighter colour was some kind of light grey, quite similar to RLM 02. By clicking in the following link, you can get the excellent booklet made by a fellow spanish modeller, Manuel Conde, who did an awesome work some years ago. I think you can find all the available info regarding the Heinkel He112 in spanish service. https://manupedia.com.es/2017/05/01/heinkel-he-112-en-espana-camuflages-y-marcas/ If planning to build a samll diorama, mayb you'll like to add some kind of vehicle, a lorry for example.....Back then, the spanish army and air force had lots of ex-german, italian and russian equipment. The air force used different kinds of lorries, baing the most numerous the Ford V8, the Opel Blitz and the Chevrolet.

Get an old pot of liquid glue, with about half the content...add small pieces of sprue into the pot, and leave it for a few days. The plastic sprue will dissolve into a kind of "liquid" plastic. You can use that "paste" to fill those gaps. When cured, you can sand, file, engrave, etc...the same way that the rest of the kit. Best regards

Here you are a pic of Tte. Miguel Entrena Klett, flying with 5*65 over Tauima air base, Spanish Morocco.

You can also use a Fiat G-50 And one of the most esoteric planes used there...the Grumman G-23 Delfín...

I've been always obsessed about the N.A. T6 Texan. Well, in fact, I'm obsessed about any of the planes wich my father flew...From the Aisa I-115 "garrapata" to the Douglas DC-4....but the Texan has been my all time favourite.....Douglas DC-3 is the second in line... Best regards....

Hi Frank...Wich kit are we talking about? Scimitar.? Please, send me a PM with your address, and I'll send them personally, can't get in touch with Juan until next wednesday or so, and can't be sure if the parts are already sent. Hes send replacement parts with unregistered mail, and can't track them....

Thanks, guys...PMs answered....Please, check your messages.... Cheers

Good afternoon, Sirs... AFAIK, all the Scimitars have already been shipped. Please, feel free to PM me with your name and surname, and I'll gladly check it......I can't guess who's who with just your Britmodeller forum display name, and the guy with the shipping records is on NATO exercises again... The Northrop N3PBs will be shipped next week, and the Supermarine Swift is almost finished. I've asked Juan to send me some pics of how is it now, but the military interenet acces is next to zero where he's now..... I've got a pile of kits to be sent tomorrow morning, but I think no one of them are for fellow britmodellers.....

Wich side are you looking for...???? The nationalist pilots were issued italian equipment. The republicans, needles to say, used soviet garment. Amnyway, the regulations were applied with some laxity, and a mixture of military and civilian clothes were used. During the late twenties and early thirties, some material was received from french stocks as well. CMK used to offer some WWI french pilots wich would be easily converted. Cheers

That's why I said that can't give any opinion for sure. I just confirm what can be backed with photographic or official records evidence. And up to this day, no pic or official record demonstrates that the SBs arrived in one colour or another.....the first pictures showing those planes in Spain are of already camouflaged planes, and no evidence or proof demonstrates when or where that camouflage paint was applied, and there's not a single pic showing them in light grey or aluminium colour. Most of the material received from the URSS was new, in fact, as you correctly say, the soviets (in fact, the same can be said about Germany) found an excellent playground to test their combat abilities. The vast majority of the russian planes was used by russian pilots, so I wouldn't talk about inexperienced crews. There was a last batch of soviet planes waiting to be delivered to the republicans, waiting in France. That batch included M103 engined Kats, as well as I-152 and probably some I-153. Thay never reached spanish soil, because the campaign in Cataluña was already lost by the republicans.

http://www.sbhac.net/Republica/Fuerzas/Armas/Kursaal/Kursaal.htm Click that link, scroll down, et voilà.....the SB shown at the 1938 Gran Kursaal expo....Anywaym, that plane seems to be stripped before being shown. Regarding the colour of the Kats when they arrived, I keep saying that there's no evidence of them being repainted. Not a single pic of any operative grey or aluminium plane, not a single veteran testimony.....I can't confirm or deny any option, so it's up to anyone to decide. Most of the republican Kats were green/blue.....the camouflaged ones were a minority, and of course, they were repainted here. Even here in Spain, it's quite difficult to find our certain aspects of those planes. When there're not written records, pictures or any other reliable source of information, everything else is theory and speculation. Back then, they weren't worried about keeping a detailed record of the planes, their colors, how they came or when they were repainted ...just needed to press them into combat as soon as possible. Add the fact of the large amount of documentation that was destroyed to prevent it from falling in the hands of the advancing enemy, and you'll get an excellent puzzle...!! From time to time , a new unknown pics comes to light, throwing away every previously speculated theory, but up until then, I prefer to stick to what's already known for sure. Cheers... Arturo Navarro

AFAIK, the Kats arrived painted in olive green/light blue....could it be light blue/grey??? Maybe, who knows. On the other side, those early Moscas came unpainted, with just an overall primer coat. It's been said that the early light grey paint was used on the undersides, but again, that's just spurious. Anyway, I've never heard about grey or aluminium Kats arriving in Spain. Maybe they were repainted before delivery??...I don't know, but the russian planes received their green/light blue repaint in the spring of 1940, and the Kats arrived in Spain in october, 1936. The same month, they made their first combat mission, and no record or evidence exist about the planes being repainted. In fact, the only «aluminium» Kat to be known, is the one captured and shown by the nationalists in San Sebastian...