A 1:48 sheet for two Superfortresses, among them a machine of the 19th Bombardment Group and an aircraft with the Circle E marking of the 22nd Bombardment Wing.
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At the time it appeared the Boeing B-29 was the most complex production aircraft in the world. A pressurized cabin, remotely controlled defensive turrets and four eighteen-cylinder Wright Duplex Cyclone radials made it a machine that could carry a bomb load across the whole Pacific Ocean. After the war it went on serving and in Korea it flew most of the strategic strikes, this time from Japanese and Okinawan bases.
The first set belongs to an aircraft of the B-29A version with a serial number of the 60-BW block and the name Top Of The Mark, which flew with the 93rd Bombardment Squadron of the 19th Bombardment Group. The second set covers a machine named Spirit of Freeport with the circle marking of the letter E, of the kind carried by the aircraft of the 22nd Bombardment Wing. Both sets of markings show well how postwar practice differed from the varied nose art of 1944 and 1945.
Working with large motifs: long lettering on the fuselage is best divided into shorter sections with a sharp scalpel. A smaller piece settles on a curved area without folds and the joint between the parts disappears once varnished. Choose water that is lukewarm rather than hot.
A model of this type takes up a lot of room on a shelf, and that is exactly why it pays to spend more time on the markings than on a fighter. A large aluminum area has no way of drawing attention elsewhere and every crookedly settled piece of lettering is visible on it from across the room.
Naši poradci a znalci sortimentu jsou připraveni odpovídat na Vaše dotazy (Po–Pá, 8–18 hod).
Zeptejte se na co potřebujete, odpovíme co nejdříve.
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