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Hello everyone, very excited to be part of this Group Build of... monumental proportions 😊 So many interesting builds to follow, so much talent on show! I'll be entering with the 1/72 Arado 196, a kit I actually bought in my teens (a loooooong time ago). Simple instructions for a simple kit: The kit's decals are unusable. So I decided to go for a new set of Royal Romanian Air Force decals: Kora suggests that Romanian examples were delivered painted just like the German ones which is just the way I like it. The pieces are nicely moulded and flash is almost non-existant. Clear parts are good enough for me... But... and that's a big but, I did get some extra parts as you are about to see... 😉 Thanks for looking.
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Hi In a triple conversion from Heller kits the last one - Potez 651. The build thread is here Accordingly to typical French nomenclature for Interwar airplanes the "651" is a variant of Potez 65. But the story is a bit more difficult. The well known bomber Potez 540 has variants 541, 542 and 543. The last one was build for Romania and was equipped with radial Gnome Rhone engines. On the other hand the civilian (passenger) machine Potez 62 was constructed basing on that bomber. She had completely new, wider by 30 cm fuselage (what made also bigger wingspan by the same 30 cm) and engines, tail and wings taken from "540". The civilian machine was back militarized into a transport variant named Potez 65. And Romania, who used radial engine driven "543" ordered modified "65" with the same radial engines and moreover - with provision to be used as bomber. So in fact the "651" was not just a transport machine but it was transport-bomber one. The additional window in floor was installed with bombardier position behind it and (most likely - this is not confirmed unfortunately) with machine gun defence position on top of fuselage. Only four were delivered to Romania and and used along one militarized in Romania "62" as paratroopers transport or ambulance. Here she is: Comments welcome Regards Jerzy-Wojtek
