Battle of the Atlantic Feb. 1 to Aug 1, 2006

Nice work on the pit Richard.  Looking great.

Regards,  Rick

I got started on the Vickers Seafire on Friday and here are som progress photos of the office area.  More to follow.

Richard

Thanks  im looking forward to my first GB have found the markings and diagrams to the first kingfisher to sink a  U-Boat in the Battle of the Atlantic the kingfisher was a U.S. Navy OS2U-3 Kingfisher A/C #5771 was used by the U.S.Coast Guard flown by Pilot Lt Loren Perry and was the first U.S.Coast Guard Aircraft to sink a U-Boat on 15 May 1942 am looking into the U-Boat # And location of the battle i also have started on my little killer bird  thanks for giving me a chance to show my skills and being part of something great.

KINGFISHERS: Little Killer Birds

Im in with a OS2U Kingfisher a killer bird this will be my first GB

KINGFISHERS: The little killer birds

do you have any info  on kingfishers ? have found out a pair of kingfishers from VS-9D4 from Cherry Point N.A.S.  North Carolina  were credited with sinking U-576 in the Battle of Diamond  Shoals 15 July 1943 am currently looking for squadron photos and markings have found out about the pilots. kingfishers played a part in damaging U-576 in the beginning of the battle and at the end with the coup de gras in sinking the U-576. killer birds!!

STRATEGIC AIR COMMANDS MOTTO:

PEACE IS OUR PROFESSION

BOMBING IS OUR HOBBY

JAY im definatly going to dress up the pit a bit but i'm REALLY going to do a number on the gunners positions as they have those large greenhouse blisters the cutaway site is going to come in real handy

Hillbilly  welcome other than a armor fanatic I'm also a seaplane/flying boat junkie i'll see what i can dig up for references

Panzerwulff (Chris), if you're really into the detailing have you seen this resource page?  www.pbyrescue.com/ cutaway/cutawaythumbs.htm

Wow, if I had the inclination to try and add all that to my model! (I don't though...)

Work has begun on the Beaufighter, I hope to have some pictures to post of the cockpit in a couple of days.

Thanks Panzerwulff.  If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have just gone ahead and built it with the brownings.  I asked at the LHS a while back if there were 1:72 k-guns available in aftermarket, he didn't think so.  Oh well, looks like I'll have to scratch some stuff after all.

What are you going to be doing about the cp?  It is very sparse but at the same time you won't be seeing much through the little windows once you put the canopy on.

JAY here are a couple of good pics of the Vickers K-gun i thought you might need them for your Canso

I'm searching for a british SAS jeep as they used the K-guns as well if not i will convert the brownings on the catalina

Jay, I have not seen that particular picture before but it is from a mk. I and not the mk. III that is the Airfix kit.  The mk.III has a turret rather than the two waist gun positions as shown on this photo.  Anyway, I decided not to dive into scratch building on the Sunderland other than what I already showed you with the floors and bulkheads because frankly I've never done much scratch building before and the Sunderland just seemed way too involved.  (ie: I'm too lazy )

Panzerwulff, I also found a reference to the K gun here: http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/NARG/catalina.html

It looks like the RAF and probably the RCAF had them with twin guns in the blisters.  Do you have the Squadron/Signal book on the PBY Catalina? Do you know if there are any good pics in there?

This is the pic I found the other day. You can see the drums, but beacuse it is on two levels, I know it  is not a PBY, maybe a Sunderland?

<<EDIT>> yes the pic is from a Sunderland, I found an aircraft website with a very similar pic showing the interior and the caption said it was a view from the tail looking forward.  Sorry to get your hopes up.  I wonder if Dave has seen pics like this before he closed up his sunderland...

No work yet.  I'll probably start this weekend.  I still have some research to do so I'll start work on assemblys that are common to both models and take it from there.

Cheers

Bear

Don't know the answer to that one Chris.

Snipped some sprue and then did some research last night on the "O" class destroyers.  The Tamiya kit makes two ships but dspite the fact that it includes the later style 4 inch high angle guns it only has the parts to make the 4 early ships with the 4.7 inch guns.  This is because the later 4 ships of the class removed the single 4 inch AA gun midship and added another bank of torpedo tubes and the Tamiya kit doesn't provide the extra torpedo tubes.  I'm sure I could get them from WEM or somewhere else but I think I'll stick to the earlier 4 ships.  I'll probably do Onslow and Oribi which took part in the Barents sea battle with the German battleship Lutzow, the Admiral Hipper and a number of Z class detroyers.  Six destroyers managed to damage the Hipper and sink a destroyer without loss to themselves or the convoy.  I also thought this would be an easy quick build (this is a Tamiya kit after all) but after researching the paint schemes the single tone scheme in the Tamiya instructions is totally bogus.  The ships all had very complex disruptive patterns and they are going to be a to paint.  Oh well... what would a hobby be without a challenge now and then!

Started a little work on the Strinbag today.  Going to take a while, the interior covers the first 7 steps of the instructions .

Regards,  Rick

darson wrote:

Well I don't know about you Northern hemisphere guys but my calendar say Feb 1st, so it's time to crack open the Beaufighter Cheers