Used to build models as a kid. My father worked at NACA that became NASA when Russians sent up sputnik. Build models for windtunnels from 1939 retired beginnings of space shuttle.
Been watching utube on TV air aces, warplanes etc. Bought a few diecast, then model kits. Still had airbrush from painting surfboards in 1970's.
The torpedo plane Kate sank all the battleships at Pearl Harbor including the Arizona as Kate also used as dive bomber. Bomb went through deck into forward magazine. Right after Pearl Harbor they sank British battleship & crusier in South China sea. Battle of Coral Sea sank carrier Lexington, damaged the Yorktown.
At Battle of Midway US dive bombers destroyed 3 Japanese aircraft carriers with decks full of planes & stored bombs. Last Japanese carrier Launched a few Zero & Kates before it too was sunk. Kates put torpedos into the side of repaired Yortown she was listing badly & on fire US submarine finished her off. Kate was best torpedo plane at beginning of war Japanese also had better torpedos than Americans.
Two German Fighters BF 109 and Focke Wulf 190 both excellent fighters and buy large margins most Arial victories than any other fighters in all Aviation history. When excellent FW190 came out in 1942 Brits had to produce upgraded Spitfire to compete mark IX in background. The FW 190 had twin row radial BMW engines
The Grumman Corsair & F6F Hellcat were large fighters with Pratt & Whitney supercharged R-2800 twin row radial engine. Also P47 thunderbolt another large radial engine fighter had same engine.
WW1 monoplane first to have interupter gear to fire through propeller. It was a game changer. All these are 1/48 scale. Figures are same tiny only 3cm high must be hand painted with tiny brushes.
Been watching utube on TV air aces, warplanes etc. Bought a few diecast, then model kits. Still had airbrush from painting surfboards in 1970's.
The torpedo plane Kate sank all the battleships at Pearl Harbor including the Arizona as Kate also used as dive bomber. Bomb went through deck into forward magazine. Right after Pearl Harbor they sank British battleship & crusier in South China sea. Battle of Coral Sea sank carrier Lexington, damaged the Yorktown.
At Battle of Midway US dive bombers destroyed 3 Japanese aircraft carriers with decks full of planes & stored bombs. Last Japanese carrier Launched a few Zero & Kates before it too was sunk. Kates put torpedos into the side of repaired Yortown she was listing badly & on fire US submarine finished her off. Kate was best torpedo plane at beginning of war Japanese also had better torpedos than Americans.
Two German Fighters BF 109 and Focke Wulf 190 both excellent fighters and buy large margins most Arial victories than any other fighters in all Aviation history. When excellent FW190 came out in 1942 Brits had to produce upgraded Spitfire to compete mark IX in background. The FW 190 had twin row radial BMW engines
The Grumman Corsair & F6F Hellcat were large fighters with Pratt & Whitney supercharged R-2800 twin row radial engine. Also P47 thunderbolt another large radial engine fighter had same engine.
WW1 monoplane first to have interupter gear to fire through propeller. It was a game changer. All these are 1/48 scale. Figures are same tiny only 3cm high must be hand painted with tiny brushes.
