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Hi all and here's my latest result of sticking plastic bits together, Airfix's ancient A-26 Invader built up as Tanker 59. Along with its sister ship, Tanker 57, these were part of the firebombing fleet owned & flown by Lynch Air Tankers of Billings, Montana for the 1989 Steven Spielberg film, “Always”. The real a/c survived its firebombing career and is now in a museum in Texas. This was my first Civil build and was part of a tribute GB in memory of our late IPMS Ireland member and all-round gent, Don Whitaker who built beautiful Civil 1/444 jets and props. RIP Don. The build thread is here but to recap: Kit: Airfix A-26 Invader (1975 boxing) Scale: 1/72 Build: Some homemade detail in the cockpit but otherwise OOB. Extras: 20g in the nose, cockpit and engines. Sanded all the rivets off and a minor rescribe. Paint: Halfords primer from a can. Brush painted with Revell Acrylics. Flory Models Wash, Klear, Pastels for weathering. Decals: A-26 from Draw Decals (thanks Greg) Goofs: Lots! - the nose never fitted properly (or the clear bits) and the wing leading edges should have a prominent droop that was designed to help with low-speed handling. The nacelles fit was.....testing. And I think the nose art is back too far...Acch....here are the pictures! Cheers, Dermot Airfix Douglas A-26 Invader_Air_Tanker (6) by Dermot Moriarty, on Flickr Airfix Douglas A-26 Invader_Air_Tanker (5) by Dermot Moriarty, on Flickr Airfix Douglas A-26 Invader_Air_Tanker (16) by Dermot Moriarty, on Flickr Airfix Douglas A-26 Invader_Air_Tanker (9) by Dermot Moriarty, on Flickr Airfix Douglas A-26 Invader_Air_Tanker (7) by Dermot Moriarty, on Flickr
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OK - time to dig out all your XP-50 Skyrocket kits! Spielberg is signed to direct a 'Blackhawks' movie about a WW2 Squadron who flies Skyrockets! The XP-50 Skyrocket of course being the forebear of the Tigercat. I'm not sure where to put this, but it has planes in it so... Cheers Hans J
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