One model per (non-working) day - Page 1567

**Don Boose** · #**15661** 10-14-2019, 02:11 PM

Looks great!

Don

**wireandpaper** · #**15662** 10-14-2019, 07:55 PM

I have to say that the lines of this Potez fighter looks a lot nicer than the bomber 63.11.
And maybe they were the recipients of friendly fire as well.

**Rata** · #**15663** 10-15-2019, 03:55 AM

Top job again Bruno. Love your work.

**Mike1158** · #**15664** 10-15-2019, 04:43 AM

Another fine design.

**scissorsandplanes** · #**15665** 10-15-2019, 12:57 PM

Thanks guys,
I'm steadily working through the list of variants and doing some recolors of the Potez 63 family.
Here are two new profiles.

**gomidefilho** · #**15666** 10-15-2019, 01:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scissorsandplanes

Thanks guys,
I'm steadily working through the list of variants and doing some recolors of the Potez 63 family.
Here are two new profiles.

Amazing!!!

**Don Boose** · #**15667** 10-15-2019, 02:01 PM

In between studying Japanese (I passed my mid-term exam this morning), I am beginning to learn a bit about French military aviation in the early war period.

According to the sources available to me, BruNo 3157 is Potez 630 C3 Number 44 (C-556) of the 3rd Escadrille (formerly SPA 94) of Groupe de Chasse II/1, 1st Escadre, based at Etampes in 1939. It carries the Grim Reaper (la mort qui fauche) insignia of the escadrille formerly carried on Nieuport-Delage NiD.622s and Dewoitine D.500s of the unit.

BruNo 3158 is Potez 631 No. 135 of Escadrille de Chasse de nuit (night fighter squadron) ECN I/13. It bears the white fuselage stripe applied during the Phony War to differentiate the Potez 63-series from Messerschmitt 110s. (Thanks to Jan Kytop for this information.)

Sources:

Armeé de L’Aire Française 1939-1940, available at https://www.passionair1940.fr/Armee%...rmee%20Air.htm

“Groupe de Chasse II/1,” Armeé de L’Aire Française 1939-1940, available at https://www.passionair1940.fr/Armee%...-1/GC_II-1.htm

"Escadrille de Chasse de nuit ECN 1/13," Armeé de L’Aire Française 1939-1940, available at https://www.passionair1940.fr/Armee%...C_ECN-I-13.htm

Paul Camelio and Christopher Shores, Armee de L’Air: A Pictorial History of the French Air Force 1937-1945, Carrollton, TX: Squadron/Signal Publications, 1976.

http://kativ.eu/ivohobby//Airplanes/...gloire/033.jpg

Don

**Mike1158** · #**15668** 10-15-2019, 02:27 PM

Nice profiles mate.

**Wyvern** · #**15669** 10-15-2019, 05:32 PM

Love some Bruno profiles!

Wyvern

**wireandpaper** · #**15670** 10-15-2019, 06:41 PM

Dear Bruno:
Very nice, thank you very much for the profiles!
Are you doing one with the red and yellow stripes?
Dear Don:
The references that you provided are excellent!
I checked and indeed some Hurricanes confused and attacked one of the Potez confusing it for a Me-110.

ps: Just for your info, Bruno did a few Potez 540 and 650 (in the No. 850s and No. 1455), some in Vichy markings some time ago, and including venerable 25 still in use overseas during WWII.