Greenshirt Modeler

Category: World War II

  • East Indies Seafire

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    Seafire LF.IIc, LR792/K, 834 Squadron, HMS Battler, East Indies Fleet, 1944 This was an easy conversion, one of the first I did using a resin plug that represents the retracted a-frame hook of the Seafire. The rest of the conversion is just some plastic sheet. This is another 2010 completion. The Subject Seafires began showing…

  • A Spitfire from Down Under

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    Spitfire Mk Vc Trop, BS219/ZP-X, 457 Squadron, RAAF, 1943, F/O Frank “Bush” Hamilton, Camden NSW Until the Sword Vc arrived the only real option was to use the Airfix kit. Since the Revell Vb wing is poor on a good day, I decided to graft a spare Vc wing from an Airfix kit (using the…

  • Hasegawa F4U-1A Corsair

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    Vought Corsair, F4U-1D, VF-17, Lt Ira Kepford, Solomons, 1944 This is one of those subjects in my “must do” category. Ira Kepford racked up 16 kills in 5 months, 4 in one day protecting a local carrier task group. When he left the combat zone he was the highest ace with the US Navy. This…