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The P-43 prop is currently available- Metallic Details MDR48209.

There are aftermarket props for the Republic P-43 which would get you close.

The 'two managers' were not Brewster Aeronautical officials, but salesmen who operated a Brewster-adjacent sales firm. Their stint in Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary was unrelated to Brewster but rather for breaking neutrality laws selling Curtiss Condors in South America. And the Fleet Air Arm...

Yes, all of the surviving F2A-3's from VMF-221 went to training duties at NAS Miami, as did those stationed at Palmyra.

https://j-aircraft.com/captured/capturedby/p40warhawk/captured_p40.htm

I can't answer all of FulmentheFinn's questions, but this one I can: "Granted, I'm not entirely sure now whether the additional two .50 cals were installed during the Interim Peace after the B-239s had already arrived. At any rate they certainly all sported four MGs by the time they saw action...

There was a 1/48 Americal Jasta 5 sheet with decals for this scheme, and IIRC also an FCM (Brazil) 1/48 sheet. Neither looked simple.....

Is this a Luftwaffe trainer, redecorated with (incorrectly applied) Czech insignia?

Here is a file with figures from original Brewster documentation. The data on the 339-23 is sketchy, sorry about that Hopefully this file will help with the Brewster discussion. BTW, I'm unaware of 'two Brewster CEO's' being arrested. Perhaps the poster was thinking about Miranda and Zelcer...

The OEFFAG Albatroses started out with natural wood fuselages - there are some beautiful reconstruction photos on the web that are well worth searching out. The "davenport" (my term) fabric wing camouflage probably had color variation so the example shown is reasonable, maybe a little stark...

It's a little more complicated. The prototype Buffalo was not the 139, and the Navy F2A's never carried the 239, 339 or 339-23 type designations. In every Brewster document I have, the Navy types are only identified by their Navy designations like XF2A-1 etc. The x39 type Export Model Numbers...

My reaction is the same as Mark's.....the Brewster 239 was the export designation for the F2A-1 equivalent, as offered by the Brewster Export Co., a separate entity form the Brewster Aeronautical Corp. (and run by some fun guys named Miranda!). The actual Brewster factory model numbers were...

As with anything, read some reviews. I know they make a real effort to get things right (thinking of a certain pudgy fighter right now). But (a) they can only work with the info they have, and (b) their molding technology imposes some limitations.

The original upper wing and fuselage markings for 1937 camouflaged RAF aircraft were roundels of (from center) red-white-blue-yellow. Squadron was shown by colored numerals with the unit number on fin or fuselage. Both items were pretty visible, so in August-September of 1938, teh roundels...

The registration numbers were correct. The ML-KNIL registration system had categories - the one for fighters was '3' - and the category number was preceded by a letter indicating the manufacturer. So the base code for Brewster Model 339 fighters was 'B3'. Following this was an individual...