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[Capt. Vick]

No one wanna talk about the huge identification stripes on some of the fighters in post 2030? I don't recall seeing them before. Anybody know anything more? Where the squadron specific or air force wide?

 

[Wildcat]

The 348th FG would be my guess, they flew P-47's and 51's with those stripes.

 

[Capt. Vick]

Cool! Thanks! Hard to miss those!

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

 

[GrauGeist]

An He162 assembly line in an underground facility.

 

[Capt. Vick]

I always loved this picture. Oh to wander around the ruins of Nazi Germany and Japan after the war...collecting.

 

[GrauGeist]

Yes...the term "collecting" does sound much nicer than "obsessive hoarding"

 

[Wildcat]

Looks like something out of an Indiana Jones movie

Native soldier of the 1st New Guinea Infantry Battalion with Owen gun at the ready, New Britain 1945.

 

[Capt. Vick]

What gun is that? It looks like a cross between a Thompson Sub Machine Gun and a Sten Gun.

 

[Wildcat]

Australian Army Owen SMG.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmAigxjQbtE

 

[Capt. Vick]

Was it any good?

 

[Capt. Vick]

Wow! Evidently it was quite a weapon. Ok, but here is my question: With a top magazine, how do you aim it?

 

[Torch]

Didn't it have offset sights?

 

[Capt. Vick]

I always wondered the same about the BREN gun...

 

[Airframes]

Both had sights off-set on the left of the receiver body, and the left of the barrel in the case of the Bren. With the Owen, as with most SMG's, being a close-quarter weapon, sights were probably not needed anyway !

 

[GrauGeist]

...being a close-quarter weapon, sights were probably not needed anyway !

Kind of like a sawed-off shotgun...aim it in the general direction of the target and let fly

 

[fastmongrel]

Mosquito production line Hatfield 1943

 

[Capt. Vick]

Good wood

 

[Crimea_River]

Nice one which appears in a couple of books I have. I find it interesting how the light reflects off the left side of the second wing in the foreground and that you can see how the painter sprayed the demarcation line of the green and then filled in between the lines. That is something that happens when I paint my models as well and I've always tried to hide the phenomenon with the clear coats. A model judge would, I'm sure dock points for sch a finish.

 

[Capt. Vick]

Interesting...

I think the same challenge exists for anyone (except Wayne) trying to add temporary winter camo to say Luftwaffe models. While accurate, it just doesn't LOOK right in most cases.