Search the Community
Showing results for tags 'modified updated'.
Found 1 result
-
Hiya Folks, I`e been reading up and researching about the Home Based RCAF during WW2 and they operated a wide variety of aircraft in `different' colour schemes and one of these was the Douglas Digby Mk.I, the Canadian version of the B-18 Bolo. Although it looks ungainly it continued in service throughout the war and served as a front line anti submarine patrol aircraft operating from Newfoundland until 1944, it also sank the first U-Boat to be claimed by a North American based aircraft,....so quite a record. It initially wore a Dark Earth/Dark Green/Black colour scheme but White anti submarine colours began to be applied circa 1942 and the aircraft that I have depicted here was the first to wear the all white scheme. Some white Digby`s also wore camouflage colours on the upper surfaces but the only ones that I have seen in this scheme were operating in the transport role with small roundels and no code letters. Anyway enough blurb,.....this is my attempt at the 1/72nd Special Hobby kit and I found it very easy to work with and extremely well researched, although I opted for my own aircraft and not a kit option; URL=http://s262.photobucket.com/user/tooley220/media/z1_zpsbbdcf751.jpg.html][/url] This model is dedicated to all of the men who flew the Digby in the atrocious weather conditions prevalent around Newfoudland while protecting convoys bound for the UK, and especially those who died in the process. All the best, Tony PS- It did have resin pitot tubes on both wing leading edges but they were very fragile and both pinged off,.....however new ones have now been fitted along with the radio antennae wire and the photos now show the modified and updated model!
