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Wider Wargaming => Non-Pendraken Stuff => Topic started by: Sunray on 04 January 2021, 09:38:07 AM

Title: One for the aircraft spotters
Post by: Sunray on 04 January 2021, 09:38:07 AM
I recently purchased some N gauge (?) model aircraft in a job lot.

One is a complete mystery - indeed it may be a fictitious design for the railway laylout background.  Railway modellers - while pedantic about their engines, tend to settle for more generic background items.

Twin engine, unswept wings, modern bubble cockpit - it resembles aspects of  a Pucara - apart from the tail section.
Title: Re: One for the aircraft spotters
Post by: Leon on 04 January 2021, 11:58:17 AM
Image added in!
Title: Re: One for the aircraft spotters
Post by: Sunray on 04 January 2021, 12:07:14 PM
Quote from: Leon on 04 January 2021, 11:58:17 AM
Image added in!

Thank you Leon! :)
Title: Re: One for the aircraft spotters
Post by: FierceKitty on 04 January 2021, 01:09:45 PM
A skilled plane spotter has been at work here.
Title: Re: One for the aircraft spotters
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 04 January 2021, 01:25:54 PM
 Think that is a fictious one, looks like the sort thing you'd get in a kinder egg.

Quote from: FierceKitty on 04 January 2021, 01:09:45 PM
A skilled plane spotter has been at work here.

Nobby - go chew that eivl cat's tail.

The spotted Liberator was a tired bird used to allow easy form up by a wing off on a strike
Title: Re: One for the aircraft spotters
Post by: slugbalancer on 04 January 2021, 04:08:31 PM
I don't recognise it.  Any marking on the underside?  What does it say on the starboard wing?
Title: Re: One for the aircraft spotters
Post by: Steve J on 04 January 2021, 04:10:48 PM
Very good Alexander ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: One for the aircraft spotters
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 04 January 2021, 04:17:22 PM
Think the wing marking is meant to be a US civil reg, dsoes it begin N or NA?
Title: Re: One for the aircraft spotters
Post by: steve_holmes_11 on 04 January 2021, 11:16:03 PM
Nice article on Lead Assembly Ships - (jolly clever these Americans).

https://www.classicwarbirds.co.uk/articles/the-history-of-lead-assembly-ships-of-the-eighth-air-force.php (https://www.classicwarbirds.co.uk/articles/the-history-of-lead-assembly-ships-of-the-eighth-air-force.php)