Recent content by Maty12

Very pretty bird and you've done a great job of portraying it!

Very late to this, but I can answer some questions! Ram, you are correct. R-263299 is the part number for the bottom engine hood/engine cowling panel (as stated on the plate), the one with the intake for the oil cooler. It was fitted to the B-26-MA, B-26A and some B-26Bs (short wing) and early...

You're technically not wrong but you might want to reread the post as it explains that it's a B-25C that was turned into a B-25H.

That's some excellent-looking paneling right there, Glenn! Very nice work. Thank you, really won't have time for modeling anytime soon though I'm afraid. It'll get done at some point and I'll post pics when it is!

Hope the surgery goes well, Glenn! Nice to see you working on a shark-tail. I hear ya, mine got bumped off the shelf by an air conditioning repairman. Fortunately it was at an earlier stage and the damage wasn't too major so I've managed to repair it, but it's sat on my shelf half-finished ever...

Absolutely excellent work, Shinpachi! Amazing attention to detail.

Continuing on from the training film in the weapons thread, here are some more B-26 film appearances in the internet archive: https://archive.org/embed/84384ArmyAirForceAircraftInstruments B-26 timestamps: 01:09 B-26-MAs in formation (identified from shape and fuselage insignia/roundel) 01:13...

Found something neat on the Internet Archive. It's blurry, but here's a training film on B-26 torpedo use. Early long wing models fitted with B-2 Torpedo Directors. These are different from the Mk XXVIII Torpedo Directors used by the short wing models...

Just giving y'all a heads up that the full episodes are now available for free in that same link in the previous post.

Other article, with airtimes: https://www.pbswesternreserve.org/luminus/marauder-men-in-their-own-words/ Comes out Saturday!

That's a thing of beauty

This looks more like a small aircraft's rudder or elevator to me. Has a torque tube, which is typical for both (and especially elevators), a ground-adjustable tab, and that large rib at the end to me looks like the bottom of a horn-balance. Example: Edit: is that big metal rib at the end of...

Best of luck, Greg!

Update: forgot to show photos of the skeletons. Here are some previews of them! Blender does not support those natively, but it does support DAE, OBJ and STL. Is this skeleton of use to you? It doesn't contain the plane's actual shape, it's a reference jig.

Been a while since I've posted here, so I have a two-in-one update this time: First up, I'd like to highlight a little detail that people rarely notice: the leading edge of the B-26's wing! Martin documents claim that the wing is a NACA 0017-64 airfoil of 168" chord at the root tapering to a...