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Miniatures Adventure => Interwar => Topic started by: Pappa Midnight on 26 November 2012, 07:26:00 PM

Title: VBCW BUF Air Support
Post by: Pappa Midnight on 26 November 2012, 07:26:00 PM

I picked some more cheap 1:48 SMER kits for some VBCW action.
As with the Bristol Bulldog I haven't bothered with rigging as it is meant to be gamed with.
The first one up is a Fiat CR32 painted in BUF colours with a copplestone pilot. I have also mounted this on a telescopic flight stand.

(http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c334/pappa_midnight/BUFPlane1.jpg)
(http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c334/pappa_midnight/BUFPlane2.jpg)
(http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c334/pappa_midnight/BUFPlane3.jpg)
(http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c334/pappa_midnight/BUFPlane4.jpg)

In a dog fight with my Anglican League Bristol Bulldog:
(http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c334/pappa_midnight/BUFPlane5.jpg)

Next on the work bench is a 1:48 Supermarine Walrus which will act as an Anglican League aerial command centre.....

Regards
PM

Title: Re: VBCW BUF Air Support
Post by: Tym on 26 November 2012, 07:36:05 PM

Very nice work.  Really look the ticket.

Title: Re: VBCW BUF Air Support
Post by: commissarmoody on 26 November 2012, 08:11:10 PM

Looks like the BUF, has got the best of the Anglican in that bout.

Title: Re: VBCW BUF Air Support
Post by: Andym on 26 November 2012, 09:12:45 PM

Nice work PM!! I love your style! BTW what's the 'hooks' on top of the wings?

Title: Re: VBCW BUF Air Support
Post by: Za Zjurman on 26 November 2012, 10:00:07 PM

 :o These are great. Thanks a lot Pappa, a new project... just what I was looking for...

Regards,

Za

Title: Re: VBCW BUF Air Support
Post by: Pappa Midnight on 26 November 2012, 10:32:42 PM

Thanks for the comments.
I have no idea what the doodads do on the top of the wings. They are some sort of aerofoil attached to the flaps/aerilons.
Regards
PM

Title: Re: VBCW BUF Air Support
Post by: FramFramson on 27 November 2012, 04:30:57 AM

Now THAT'S a sexy fighter. Rakish and needlessly sinister, as befits the BUF.

Title: Re: VBCW BUF Air Support
Post by: flags_of_war on 27 November 2012, 10:53:49 AM

WOW JUST WOW

Title: Re: VBCW BUF Air Support
Post by: Arlequín on 27 November 2012, 03:55:18 PM

Quote from: commissarmoody on 26 November 2012, 08:11:10 PM

Looks like the BUF, has got the best of the Anglican in that bout.

I should hope so, the Fiat is nearly 50 mph faster and the commonest field mod was to swap out the twin Breda 7.7mm guns for twin .50s. It pretty much outclassed everything that was around when it went into service in 1934.  :D

Nice looking model indeed though... by far my favourite Inter-War aircraft, it looks so '1930s'.  :)