Decals 1:72 for two Halifaxes of the Canadian No. 419 Squadron: a machine named after a town in Alberta and a second with a mermaid on the fuselage.
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The squadron with a moose in its badge re-equipped in the fall of 1942 from twin-engine Wellingtons to four-engine Halifaxes and had its base in County Durham. The sheet covers two of its machines from 1943, both in the special form of version Mk II, which was given a smoother nose and lower drag.
The first of the pair carried the code VR-O, later VR-D, and a name after the town in Alberta its pilot came from. According to the supplier it flew more operations than any other machine of the squadron, and on one of the flights it carried an aerial mine instead of bombs. A photograph captured it after forty-five raids.
The second machine, with the number BB323 and the code VR-R, was given in the spring of 1943 to the crew of a pilot from Edmonton. The painting of the mermaid was devised by two members of the unit and carried out by a corporal of the ground personnel. The upper half of the figure came from a period wall calendar, the lower from the crew's own brief. The motto added to it was a parody of the official motto of the air force and can be loosely translated as through antiaircraft fire to the point of nausea.
The special form of the Mk II is told from the ordinary version by the absent nose turret and the reworked shape of the nose. Before you set about building, check whether the kit you have chosen contains this guise or whether it will have to be reworked.
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