AKULA's Korean Air War Project

[AKULA]

Sometimes my projects are years…even decades…in the making.

And sometimes they don't involve any degree of planning ... or indeed much in the way of forethought.

This project is most definitely one of the latter...


FIVE DAYS AGO my fellow LAF’er posted this innocent looking comment on my Little Wars thread (Inter War board):

Size schmize. I just purchased a 1/144 B-52 for shits 'n' giggles. It ain't small.

So off I went to see how small a 1/144 B-52 is (or rather how small it ain’t)….

…several hours of surfing the net for different 1/144 kits and I found myself with a new project that I hadn’t considered previously (and trust me I’ve considered a lot of different projects in the last 40 years of gaming). I know what you are thinking…no B-52s in the Korean War… and you’d be correct… but that search opened my eyes to the hundreds if not thousands of different 1/144 aircraft kits that exist.

The first of those kits arrived yesterday…but it won’t be the last

1/144 Texan T-6 (by Valom)

Originally a two-seater trainer, the T-6 was pressed into service for use as Forward Air Control aircraft during the Korean War.



It's a lovely little kit to put together - takes only a minute or two, and you can have the undercarriage up or down.  It also comes with a couple of decal options, although sadly only one USAF set.






Rules?

Will probably write my own. I'm not a big fan of loads of counters on the table, and I plan on having a whole bunch of planes in the air at any one time.  All I've decided so far is that there will probably be four levels of flight: Low, Medium, High and V.High ... helicopters will be Low, piston aircraft apart from bombers will be Low/Medium, Bombers and most jets will be Low/Medium/High, and a handful of jets will be able to go V.High as well.


Oh... and Carlos is absolutely correct ... a 1/144 B-52 ain't small 

[carlos marighela]

Nice looking Texan.  :-*You should call it Beyonce. There's a a photo of my grandfather in one of those (well a Harvard, same thing) replete with Luftwaffe Maltese crosses from when he was posted to Bavaria to train the post war Luftwaffe. I must make one some day. My only Harvard is in Portuguese colours.

Apologies for my contribution to your future financial pain but it's obvious it didn't take much.

There's a click 'n' screw 1/144ish B-29* out there somewhere  as well as the Minicraft version and I suspect you've found the Eduard and Attack Mig-15 models.

Extra points if you can track down and field one of these.

https://kampfgruppe144.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=4525

Looking forward to seeing more of this project.

* The Testors B-29 is apparently 1/130 so a tad larger. I have their C-47/ DC-3. It's not a masterpiece but it works well enough and was cheap.