Photo-etched equipment for the cockpit of the Douglas TBD-1 Devastator carrier torpedo bomber, 1:72 scale, for the Airfix kit.
Responsibility details are not available.
On the morning of June 4, 1942, the machines of Torpedo Squadron 8 took off from the deck of the Hornet. They reached the Japanese force without a fighter escort, dropped low over the water and vanished one after another under the gunfire. Not one of the fifteen came back; a single member of the crews survived. Their attack, however, drew the defending patrols right down to the water, and when the dive bombers appeared a few minutes later, there was nobody over the Japanese carriers.
The Douglas had in its time represented a step forward. It was the first all-metal monoplane torpedo aircraft on American decks, it had hydraulically folding wings and main wheels that retracted only partly, so that the machine would survive an emergency belly landing. By 1942, however, it had aged, its speed was no longer enough and the torpedo it carried was notoriously unreliable.
The fret carries the front panel with its instruments and accessories for the crew compartment. First remove the molded plastic base, level the area and only then seat the part. Apply the glue in a tiny amount with the tip of a piece of wire, because any excess spreads instantly across the thin metal onto the visible side.
The broad white bands on the tail surfaces of interwar American aircraft are a classic job for masking. A sprayed area needs neither a gloss base nor the risk of silvery patches appearing under a film, and even a modeler with no experience of thin carrier films can manage it.
Naši poradci a znalci sortimentu jsou připraveni odpovídat na Vaše dotazy (Po–Pá, 8–18 hod).
Zeptejte se na co potřebujete, odpovíme co nejdříve.
Texts from customers in the advice section reflect solely the opinions and views of the customers. MNF trade s.r.o. does not approve or verify customer texts in advance.
There are no questions here yet. Be the first to ask!
