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[Mike1158]

Great builds and marvelous airframes. Nicely done, Sir.

[Wyvern]

Nice flock of Havocs!

Wyvern

[gomidefilho]

Fine airframes Karol!

[Don Boose]

A fine set of DB-7s, Karol. A Huddle of Havocs? A Bunch of Bostons? An Accumulation of A-20s? A Pile of P-70s?

Don

[Rata]

Originally Posted by Don Boose

A fine set of DB-7s, Karol. A Huddle of Havocs? A Bunch of Bostons? An Accumulation of A-20s? A Pile of P-70s?

Don

A mess of models?

[Butelczynski]

There will be French DB-7 and P-70 as soon as I can print them.

Don-if you can find some info on colors of A-20 in Hawaii in Dec 41 then there will be one of those too.

[Don Boose]

Karol - I'm a little distracted just now with Lil in the hospital and research underway for the next Gillard/Boose USN/USMC Interwar Aviation History Project, but here is some preliminary info.

I believe the only unit in Hawaii that flew A-20s on 7 December 1941 was the 58th Bombardment Squadron (Light) based at Hickam Field. The unit was redesignated as the 531st Fighter-Bomber Squadron on 19 October 1942.

Here is an image of an A-20 of the 58th BS(L) over Oahu on 29 May 1941. It was probably in the same scheme on 7 December 1941. The source is the NMUSAF A-20 Fact Sheet.

Dana Bell reproduces this same image on page 78 of his book and identifies the colors as Medium Green [presumably the darker color and Shade 42] and faded Olive Drab [Shade 41, presumably]. I imagine the underside color would have been Neutral Gray 43.

Sources:

A-20 Fact Sheet, National Museum of the USAF, available at Douglas A-20 Havoc

531st Tactical Fighter Squadron Fact Sheet, Air Force Historical Research Agency. U.S. Air Force. Maxwell AFB, AL.

Leatrice R. Arakaki and John R. Kuborn 7 December 1941: The Air Force Story, Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii : Pacific Air Forces Office of History, 1991.

Dana Bell, Air Force Colors Vol. I 1926-1942, Carrollton, TX: Squadron Signal, 1979.

More later when I have a chance to do more digging.

Don

[LAPR94]

hello how are you?, I just uploaded to the download section the plans of a B722 of the now defunct Venezuelan airline Servivensa.Anyway i will upload the file here so that they have it here in advance while the moderators approve my recolor take as a base the S&P B727 with the nose modification of the PSA found here in scale 1/300.

I uploaded three variants of the same B722 here and only one in the download section

It should be noted that this aircraft was later converted to super 27.

Grettings from Venezuela 🇻🇪🇻🇪🇻🇪🇻🇪

[scissorsandplanes]

Thanks for all the contributions (designs, builds, pictures, facts and comments).
Nice bostons, Karol.

[scissorsandplanes]

I used the few hours after work this week to build and document the SH-3 Sea King build. I'll have to redo a few pictures since there was a problem with the nose.
Here are the pictures:

first scoring the parts. Especially the tabs to connect the fuselage (and sponsoons) to their bottom part. Note also that some parts should be glued to light cardboard. I used a packaging of cookies since it was rather thin.