Category: Yellow Wings
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Upgrading an older kit
Curtiss SBC-4 Helldiver, 3-B-11, VB-3, USS Saratoga (CV-3), 1941 This is the old Matchbox kit, tarted up quite a bit with the Starfighter resin cockpit set and a set of Startfighter decals. I’d started (-ish) this kit a few years ago with the intent of making a quick build just to improve my biplane rigging…
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Navy Cobra
Bell XFL-1 Airabonita, May 1940 I’ve attempted this subject in the past by modifying the old Revell P-39 and failing miserably. RS finally released one in injected kit form and I had to make it. The Subject When the US Navy issued its requirements for a new lightweight fighter to augment the F4F Wildcat and…
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A fighter’s scout
Vought SU-3, 1-F-19, VF-1, ca 1935 The Subject US Navy fighter squadrons, before the high quality nav systems of the post-war period made them redundant, had a two seat utility aircraft for navigation over great distances. They additionally were good for instrument flight training, ensuring proficiency in the inevitable likelihood the pilot found himself in…