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I promised @trickyrich an F-82 for the NAA GB but 17 months later my meds are working and a look at the Modelcollect kit with sanity filtered eyes has caused a change in plans. So with nearly a year to build it I'm chucking my hat in the ring with this Brought from the BM For Sale thread way back in 2014 it's the original Monogram P-51 Mustang kit. If it goes well the F-82 may* happen afterwards. Arrived with the raised panel lines removed and scribed although the wing joints were filled in real life (cos it's a laminar flow wing see). Airframe & Miniature 6 confirms that the kit is basic but sound so I'm going to build this THIS PAGE among much else shows that the P-38 equipped group used it in their 'Clobber College', these were Combat Schools set up by Groups to instruct new pilots in combat and operational technique after the 8th Air force training units were closed. It was also probably employed by officers attending meetings at other airfields, have a gander HERE at the last photo showing several different unit's aircraft parked up together, seems like a better idea than WW2 British roads More info HERE and HEREABOUTS. The aforementioned A&M 6 will be my main reference along with Jacek Jackiewicz's 'Hacks - Utility Planes of the Mighty Eighth' I highly recommend both titles. I will be using a little artist's licence on this; I don't see the yellow exhaust pipes lasting long, I also believe that the first time it hit the workshops at least some stencils would be reapplied. The US taxpayer got good value from this aircraft as it survived the European War and nearly WW2 entirely. All round a worthy subject I feel. * - Not a cat in Hell's chance the Sanger Blenheim is enough masochism for one year.
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