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R3D-2 US Marines, S & P design, PacificWinds recoloration
Greetings. Here I show you the last thing I did, the R3D-2 of Bruno recoloratión of Kacper. I do not know the history of this plane, if Don Boose goes by here he will surely comment something. The model at first sight when seeing the printed sheets seems relatively simple.When finished it looks great, and hands more skillful than mine will achieve a spectacular result.
I said it seems simple.It is not so.Comento and for those who want to build it keep in mind.The 2 rings of the nose are slightly larger, fight a good while to accommodate them.The other drawback is the windshield, it could not be left well, after several hours of trying to make a sacrifice.Corte, remove it, sacrifice the Tabby windshield and place it individually.Although it is not the same, with a few touches of paint in the frames the appearance improved remarkably.I think the best is separate it before, then make some eyelashes and place it after closing the fuselage. Wings and stabilizers adjust perfectly. Motors, there is a small gap where the fairing is attached to the wing, if you take the engine further in to eliminate the gap, the wheel is misaligned. Add leaks, circular antenna, cable and nothing You can add a couple of things more. Except that couple of details that make it more entertaining, it's a great design, beautiful color, very entertaining, I recommend it, Bruno and Kacper have done a fabulous job. Mine the jury will decide. There is not much WIP, I was possessed while building and I forgot several photos. |
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4 days ago it rains here, so the photos do not have sunlight. Greetings and thanks.
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Magnificent work, Sergio. I didn't think it would be that good! Well done!
S&P designs are the most difficult for me because I can't be sure how they'll turn out after resizing. Usually I carefully examine these designs and the I decide which are worth converting to 1/100. Here my "technician eye" comes in handy. By the way, maybe today or tomorrow, I'll release new recolor, probably in 1/100 but that WWII plane is quite huge... It's also one of these forgotten planes.
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Very nice work, Sergio (if I may).
I have never seen an image of this particular aircraft in those colors and markings, so can only speculate. The red outlines to the national insignia identify the time frame as the summer or early autumn of 1943 since that insignia was authorized on 28 June 1943 and replaced with a blue-outlined insignia on 31 July 1943. Only four R3D-2s served with the Marines, two each with VMJ-1 (later, VMJ-152) at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Quantico, Virginia, and VMJ-2 (later VMJ-252) at MCAS San Diego and then in mid-1941 at MCAS Ewa, Hawai'i. According to E.R. Johnson (United States Marine Corps Aircraft Since 1913, Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018), one of the VMJ-252 aircraft (BuNo 1904) was deployed to Australia in December 1941, but was shot down, crash landed, and damaged beyond repair on 31 January 1942. The other VMJ-252 R3D-2 was reassigned to Air Base Group Two (ABG-2) initially at MCAS San Diego, then at MCAS El Toro, California. When VMJ-121 deployed to the Pacific, one of its R3D-2s was left behind with the Quantico Air Base Group, the other was transferred to ABG-2 at El Torro. All three Marine R3D-2s were stricken in October 1946. Taking all this into account, I think it is most likely that your aircraft was assigned to Air Base Group 2 at San Diego or El Toro in the summer of 1943. I'll be glad to hear other speculations or evidence. Don Last edited by Don Boose; 11-13-2018 at 02:46 PM. |
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Actually it's the one from NAS San Diego, 1943, according to wingspalette. There's not too many informations about these planes.
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Nice build! I really like the last pic you posted.
Air Magazine #54 has a profile of this one and places it too in San Diego in 1943 (but with VMJ-152). What I find odd is that all profiles describe it as an R3D-2 but none shows the cargo door specific to this version.
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Thanks Kacper and Carlos. I hadn't seen the Wings Palette images, and I see that I was wrong in saying that the model was in overall dark blue - my eyes deceived me. I see now that it is in the standard mid-war color scheme. I have edited my earlier response.
I accept the VMJ-152 mid 1943 identification. By August 1943, according to the O/B in Bill Larkins's U.S. Marine Corps Aircraft 1914-1959, VMJ-152 was in the Pacific as part of MAG 25. It was no doubt at San Diego for a while en route. I still have a lot to learn about the wartime renumbering of Marine air squadrons. This site adds some info: https://www.dvidshub.net/news/printable/226983 Yes. The R5D-2 had port side cargo doors, one of the features that differentiated it from the Navy R3D-1. Incidentally, I think it is possible that my oldest son, a retired Marine aerial navigator who flew KC-130s in the Pacific, served in this unit. I will ask him tonight. Always new things to learn! Don |
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Top effort Sergio! You had better luck than I did on my first attempt. Kacper's colouring is perfectly good, and we all know Bruno can design, but I think the main problem lies in the natural issues that will occur in resizing to this level. Gaps and minor fit problems that hardly show on a 1/300 are gonna be a lot bigger in 1/100!
Kudos to you for solving the problems mate. I've got a second one printed and you've inspired me to have another go!
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Is that a water cooled Ma Deuce on wheeled carriage on that picture??
Wheel on it looks like it use to belong on 37mm AT gun in previous employment (or Ford A maybe?). Either way I have never seen or heard of contraption like that before. |
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Thank you very much everyone, I'm glad you like it. Kaper, to be honest, I thought the same thing at the beginning, when I finished the fuselage and closed my wings I said "this is going to look great". And so it was, I am very satisfied. Thank you very much You and Bruno, have a great time building this model.
Don Boose, thank you very much, I do not know if I already commented it, it is very good to know the history of what we build, one keeps thinking about how important it was and one no longer looks at it as a simple model. Carlos, thank you very much, I'm glad you like it. Valuable information. Thanks for the Dagger and the Mirage, they are already printed waiting. I am accumulating a mountain of impressions. Garry, your hands will make the R3D shine, I'm sure of that. Another good thing (or bad, I'm not sure) that I have is that I'm very persistent, I insist, I insist and I keep insisting until I achieve what I want. We hope to see yours . |
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