Well, the stencils are all on and I found 10 rockets in the trashed kits pile (a.k.a. spares box), I'll try and get my friend over, as I have plenty to photograph. Now, I will procede with a story:
With Britain and Russia having crumbled to Hitler's Wehrmacht, America began rushing development of all their in-progress military projects and started locating their factories underground. By the time Germany and Japan jointly struck from either side on August 15th, 1943, all but one of the factories were completely hidden, the remaining one needing 3 more days of work. The Japs reached Washington on September 21st, with the Axis forces meeting up on the Mississipi River., on December 22nd. The Americans then went full power with resistance, the Avengers playing a major strike role, along with the Dauntlesses, Hellcats, Mustangs, Jugs, etc. etc, you get the picture. Such a large and varied strike force made the average daily amouth of resistance aircraft in the air about a whopping 3200 of all types!!!!!!!!! Because of the almost consistant use, the aircraft developed heavy weathering,, which is well represented in my model. The heavy pummeling from the resistance made the Axis armies very weak, especially the Japanese, who's far from adequate armor and merchant shipping made easy cannon fodder for the Avenger's captured pair of 20mm MG-151s, each with 400 rounds. A typical weapons load was one torpedo in the weapons bay, 4 500 pounders and 2 depth charges on the inner wing, plus 10 HVARs or APHVARs on the outer wings. All this heavy cargo greatly diminished the Avenger's speed (max 320 km/h (200 mph) fully loaded), making it easy prey for Zeros, 109s, 190s and the like.Because of this, each Avenger would normally have about 3 fighters escorting it individually. JATO bottles were a nessecity to get the Avenger airborne within 5000 feet of runway. All in all, this was a tactical headache equall to the Wp. 20s faced in Poland. The Axis crumbled under this kind of pounding. The end (for now). ![Mischief [:-,]](/FSM/CS/emoticons/icon_smile_mischief.gif)