Tag: USN
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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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Naval Camel
Sopwith Camel, USS Texas, 1919 This was part of a group build in our local club, “1/28th Scale Revell Biplanes”. Most guys built theirs in a typical WWI scheme, but I had this subject on my bench in 1/72 so decided to scale up and be a bit different. The Subject When the war ended…
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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…