1:144 B-26 Marauders

A sheet of waterslide decals in 1:144 with four Marauders of the 386th and 391st Bomb Groups of the years 1943 to 1945, including a French base.

Scale1:144
Manufacturer Kits-World
Product EAN8591111000000

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10.36 €
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The Marauder over France and England

In the last phase of the war the Martin B-26 medium bombers moved from English airfields to the continent, so as to keep up with the advance of the ground units. Crews marked their aircraft with names that were sometimes charming and sometimes thoroughly rough, and it is those that have survived in unit photographs.

The set captures four machines, each from a different stage of the deployment:

  • 42-107841 Little Pink Panties - code TA-6, 573rd Squadron of the 391st Group, France, January 1945
  • 41-31608 Our Baby - code AN-Q, 553rd Squadron of the 386th Group, Great Dunmow 1944
  • 41-34946 The Yankee Guerrilla - code YA-L, 555th Squadron of the 386th Group, Boxted, August 1943
  • 42-95812 Rationed Passion - code P2-D, 572nd Squadron of the 391st Group, Matching in Essex, 1944

The span of dates here is unusually wide: from the summer of 1943, when the type was still gathering experience over the Channel, to January 1945 and operations from French airfields. Anyone building a series gets three different chapters of the story of one group in a single package.

It is worth mentioning that a name on the nose was not merely decoration in the US Army Air Forces. It was a way for a crew to make its own a machine that otherwise belonged to the unit and could pass to another crew at any time. That is why the artwork often survived even after the original crew had flown its tally of missions.

Working with the sheet follows the usual procedure for small scales. First go over the surface with a gloss layer, let the marking float off the paper and slide it up with a brush. The lettering on the fuselage is long and narrow, so settle it in one piece and straighten it on the model while the film is still pliable.

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From August 1943 to January 1945. The oldest machine operated from Boxted and the most recent already from a French base after the unit moved to the continent.

Two, namely the 386th and the 391st Bomb Group, each with two aircraft from different squadrons.

A gloss intermediate coat under the decal and a final matte varnish over the whole part help. That evens out the difference in gloss between the film and the paint.

It is not. The package consists of a printed decal sheet only, and the bomber kit has to be obtained separately.

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1:144 B-26 Marauders

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10.36 €
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