Two B-25J bombers in 1:32 scale, each from a different era. The machine with the serial number 43-28149 carried the name The Ink Squirts, served with the 98th naval engineer unit at the air base on Sydney Island, and its nose art was created by Jack Kellogg. The second subject is 44-30823A named Pacific Prowler, an aircraft of a flying museum in Fort Worth, Texas.
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This sheet brings together two subjects separated by decades. One captures a bomber as it was at the end of the war in the Pacific, the other a machine that can be seen at air shows today. Its value lies exactly in that: it makes it possible to build either a period aircraft or a carefully maintained veteran in its present-day guise.
The first machine is the Mitchell with the serial number 43-28149 and the inscription The Ink Squirts, from 1945. It was tied to the 98th naval engineer unit, that is, to the formation known as the Seabees, which built and maintained airfields on the Pacific islands. The base of the aircraft was Sydney Island. The supplier expressly gives the name of the creator of the nose art as well, Jack Kellogg, which is a fairly rare detail with period inscriptions.
The second subject is the aircraft listed under the number 44-30823A and named Pacific Prowler. It belongs to no wartime unit but to a flying museum in Fort Worth, Texas, where it is kept in airworthy condition. The modeler can therefore build the machine in the guise in which it exists to this day.
The period and the present-day form are not usually the same thing. Veterans still being operated tend to have different cockpit details, reworked armament and, above all, a cleaner finish that is renewed more regularly. Before building, therefore, it is worth deciding which of those two paths you want to take.
The package contains a printed sheet for release in water. Plastic parts and paints do not belong to it.
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