Greg Boeser
1st Sergeant
Muri. Flies one combat mission and becomes a celebrity. USO Front for the rest of the war. Nice gig if you can get it. Everybody else heads south and pulls a full year or more in the combat zone.
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Yeah I know. He was sent to Egland AFfb to teach torpedo training.Muri. Flies one combat mission and becomes a celebrity. USO Front for the rest of the war. Nice gig if you can get it. Everybody else heads south and pulls a full year or more in the combat zone.
Both great reads, I'm more partial to B-26 Goes To War myself compared to Midway Bravery (Too much Montana and not enough action for my taste). If you need any info on the early models feel free to check out my thread on my B-26 research or to message me, I'm currently scanning several rolls of microfilm from the Smithsonian, most of which relate to the early models. I see that you're talking to Greg already and he's certainly very knowledgeable on the subject!Understand. Just finished Midway Bravery about Jim Muri in particular as the author, a fellow Montana native, wrote about him and to some extent the crews of the other four torpedo armed bombers at Midway. Also reading B-26 Goes to War which I have in digital (Kindle) format. The B-26-MA conversion (well really covers all short wing types) is supposed to come with the torpedo but mine was missing it. I'm looking to do this pretty much as intended out of the box as a late model C-45-MO. Get the feel for the kit before I hack it to shreds in another build. Already noted that it's going to take about 100 grams of weight inthe radio compartment to bring the nose down.
I know they say unavailable but if you click on the arrow they play. At least for me on any device I try them on.Good stuff. "Video is unavailable". If I had my druthers, my choice would be 4T✪S. Its been eons since I've seen a sheet from MSAP
NMF on this one. Won't be like the MiG. That was easy compared to this but one has to learn sometime.Don,
Lots of unpainted metal finish. Your favorite I believe? After the Mig (great build by the way) it should be a cake walk? Or are you going to dress her up with some khaki?View attachment 647080
Thanks for that. One of my go to 'sing in the pasture' (alone) tunes. The cows are typically mesmerized, they just stare.No go. It just took me to the YouTube site but I did listen to this awesome song while I was there
I'm not sure if this also applies to late B-26Cs, but you may want to look into olive drab padding instead for the nose and cockpit, with black for the insides of the cockpit windows. That's what's on Flak Bait, which is the B-26 closest to original condition as far as I can tell. I'll try to link to some photos of it later today.I'd need to dig out all my reference books to confirm, which I can't do at the moment, as my hands are too bl**dy stiff and painful, but from memory, when I built my model years ago, the nose and cockpit were in Interior Green, and from the radio room aft was in NMF.