Douglas A-24B Banshee

• Guest 655

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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  28 June 2012     06:55180326
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  This is the US Army version of the Navy's Dauntless that was hugely successful, sinking more Japanese ships than any other aircraft.
  
  The kit is a Trumpeter 32 scale kit and is the best engineered kit I have ever built. However it is sad to say that the kit decals are also the worse I have ever used!!
  
  This aircraft is an ugly workhorse of a dive-bomber that operated in the Phillipines and I have tried to depict it in a fairly grubby worn condition without going over the top.
  
  

  

  
  
  

  

  
  
  

  

  
  
  

  

  
  
  

  

  
  
  

  

  
  
  

  

  
  
  

  

  
  
  

  

  
  
  

  
• Guest 710

  • Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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  28 June 2012     10:02180343
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  Well done you, Barry...
  
  All is not so rosy...
  
  http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=491
  
  But, ever so shiny...
  
  http://www.airliners.net/photo/Douglas-A-24B-Banshee/1898370/M/
  Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
• Guest 655

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  28 June 2012     10:23180344
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  Yes, an interesting article Tom. Shame the US Army could not make the same kind of success of the type as the US Navy.
• Guest 653

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  30 June 2012     06:15180617
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  Very impressive Barry.
  
  The attention to detail (your's and the manufacturer of the model kit) is very good.
  
  Looks like a good size bomb on the undercarriage.
  
  
  
  
  Roger
• Guest 730

  • Registered: 5 Nov 2011
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  30 June 2012     11:27180693
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  Very nice, again. I haven't heard of Trumpeter kits before.