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Re: A-20 Time
« Reply #15 on: December 27, 2013, 07:11:04 PM »
:-ok

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Re: A-20 Time
« Reply #16 on: January 01, 2014, 03:49:00 AM »
I had hoped to finish this A-20 before 2014 began but it will be a few hours short of completion. The markings and O.D. are applied and I've gotten a start on the final painting steps:
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/TaifunAssembly002_zps72c46895.jpg
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Happy New Year, friends! :-ok

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Re: A-20 Time
« Reply #17 on: January 01, 2014, 11:46:03 AM »
Happy New Year and wish all nice models :))

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Re: A-20 Time
« Reply #18 on: January 03, 2014, 05:03:23 PM »
Here is the finished A-20B. I almost completed it before the first day of 2014, but not quite. :-think

The airplane depicts 41-3011, assigned to the 84th Squadron of the 47th Bomb Group. These were the first American Bostons in North Africa and almost certainly were among those that my father remembered flying over his various positions as his unit moved across the countryside.

My inspiration was a series of photos from LIFE magazine--here is one of them, with "my" airplane nearest:
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/A-20soverTunisia1943_zps60333385.jpg
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Notice that the splotches of tan/sand were applied very sloppily (maybe with a broom?) in the field over the O.D. The yellow circle under the cockpit is the background of the 84th Squadron emblem that hadn't yet been finished on 41-3011 when the photos were taken. Also note that the upper transparencies in the bombardier compartment were painted over to lessen the effects of the desert sun. When I painted the model I followed much the same methods, spraying the O.D. and neutral grey and then hand-brushing the tan.

I enjoyed the building of this AMT kit. Now that I've done one out-of-the-box a more detailed model in the future would seem to be a lot of fun!
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/HavocFinished001_zps3e8c6e3f.jpg
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Re: A-20 Time
« Reply #19 on: January 03, 2014, 05:17:57 PM »
Wonderful my friend :-ok

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Re: A-20 Time
« Reply #20 on: January 03, 2014, 05:58:09 PM »
I surely enjoyed "slopping" on the tan with my large brush. I even had to practice to get the right pattern of brushmarks on the splotches! These field applications of camo are interesting to me. On this one you can see that the man painting the tan stood on the horizontal stabilizer and reached to the top of the vertical fin to add the new paint with some long handled brush. That's why I figure they used a mop or soft broom to apply the stuff!

I'm going to (someday) build a D-Day striped airplane with the extremely sloppily applied stripes just to make IPMS judges angry!!!! :-jump :-smey
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Re: A-20 Time
« Reply #21 on: January 03, 2014, 06:22:01 PM »
Years ago I have seen a move at an IPMS event showing how the invasion stripes were applied on Hawker Typhoons for D-Day. They were hand painted with a broad brush and a bucket of paint and it was all done in a great hurry. It was a great difference of those neatly applied stripes on plastic models and I can still hear the laughter!!

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Re: A-20 Time
« Reply #22 on: January 03, 2014, 07:01:38 PM »
Yes, we had a great thread years ago on WIX about the invasion stripes! Gary Austin and I threatened to get some water-based paint and a mop and painting the very sloppy stripes on a CAF C-47 that was close at hand! ;) No one was amused......

I think I'll go through my kits to see if I have something I can hand-paint some stripes onto!!!! :-wch

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Re: A-20 Time
« Reply #23 on: January 04, 2014, 02:15:21 PM »
Great! :-ok

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Re: A-20 Time
« Reply #24 on: January 05, 2014, 05:05:59 PM »
WOW
VERY GOOD!!!

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Re: A-20 Time
« Reply #25 on: January 05, 2014, 06:25:18 PM »
Thanks, friends!

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Re: A-20 Time
« Reply #26 on: January 06, 2014, 07:03:11 PM »
Nice job on the A-20!

The invasion stripes on the C-47 in the Air Force museum were done with rough edges.  They're not nearly as sloppy as many of the ones done in the field but it's nice to see.

http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy360/WIXerGreg/NMUSAF%20Photo%20Tour/268.jpg
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Re: A-20 Time
« Reply #27 on: January 06, 2014, 07:11:59 PM »
That is heartwarming!!!!! Good to see this!

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Re: A-20 Time
« Reply #28 on: January 19, 2014, 11:51:35 PM »
Precious !!! :-razz :-ok :-clap :-clap :-clap