Masks for the glazing and the national insignia of the TBD Devastator carrier torpedo aircraft in 1:48 scale.
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When Douglas delivered the first TBD machines to the Navy, it was the most modern carrier aircraft in the world. An all-metal cantilever monoplane with folding wings and retractable landing gear replaced biplanes that until then looked like a leftover from the previous war. The crew sat under a long greenhouse canopy that ran from the engine back past the rear gunner.
In five years the novelty had become a slow target. A speed below 300 kilometers per hour and torpedoes that often failed to explode meant catastrophe at Midway. A torpedo squadron from one American aircraft carrier attacked without fighter cover and not a single machine returned; one man from the whole unit survived. Two further squadrons fared only a little better. Their sacrifice was not in vain, though: it pulled the Japanese fighter patrols down to the water and left the sky free for the dive bombers, which set three aircraft carriers on fire within a few minutes. The type was withdrawn from combat immediately after the battle.
A pair for the canopy, a pair for the insignia, exactly as the manufacturer's description states. The glazing masks cover the outer and the inner face, and the insignia parts serve for spraying the stars on the fuselage and the wings.
A sprayed marking has no thickness of its own and no glossy film, so it does not stand up from the surface. With prewar schemes in strong colors that matters a great deal, because on a flat area the eye notices every step at once.
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