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Last post 09-25-2008 7:47 PM by rtraincollector. 21 replies.
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09-25-2008 9:32 AM In reply to
Offline RockIsland52
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Re: What scale plane should I purchase?

Revell.  Monogram.  Memories of strings of aircraft hanging from the ceiling in my boyhood bedroom.  Fokker triplanes chasing a B17 and a B24.  At least I got the combatants right, but I was just a kid.

Jack

09-25-2008 10:37 AM In reply to
Offline palallin
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Re: What scale plane should I purchase?

The SBD Daultless, the SB2C Helldiver, and the TBF/M Avenger could actually drop their bombs and torpedoes.  Many a warship model on the floor lost a radar dish or a gun barrel to a dropped bomp or torpedo from a vastly over-scale aircraft flying a couple of feet overhead. . . .

 

 RockIsland52 wrote:

Revell.  Monogram.  Memories of strings of aircraft hanging from the ceiling in my boyhood bedroom.  Fokker triplanes chasing a B17 and a B24.  At least I got the combatants right, but I was just a kid.

Jack

09-25-2008 11:57 AM In reply to
Offline cnw1995
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Re: What scale plane should I purchase?

Good memories. I also used to blow them up with firecrackers, gasoline, magnifying glasses using the sun, air rifles. All good boy stuff. About 15 years ago, I remember driving to their HQ in suburban Chicago to get a catalog. I still have a B-26 and F4 Phantom on a shelf in my office.
09-25-2008 2:39 PM In reply to
Offline philo426
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Re: What scale plane should I purchase?

Does anyone remember this plane?   
09-25-2008 5:01 PM In reply to
Offline palallin
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Re: What scale plane should I purchase?

The pic is a bit difficult for my eyes, but the markings suggest it is a TBD Devastator, late-prewar/early war USN torpedo bomber.  By the markings, this was the #3 aircraft in VT-6, Torpedo Squadron Six, still part of Carrier Air Group Six, assigned to the U.S.S. Enterprise during the first part of the war up until June of 1942 when, along with most of its squadron mates as well as those from Yorktown and Hornet, almost all operational TBDs were shot down attacking the Japanese carriers north of a little sandspit called Midway.  IIRC, ten of fourteen TBDs flying with VT-6 were lost.

 

Blame for the loss is often placed on the aircraft design--and it was fairly slow--but the real cause was a mix of uncoordinated attacks; the straight, level, and low attack pattern of torpedo aircraft; and unfortunate timing.

09-25-2008 6:55 PM In reply to
Offline PhilaKnight
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Re: What scale plane should I purchase?

Didn't CTT run a project where they used 2 flat cars and they showed you how to make a wooden frame to hold the wings on one car and the body of the plane on the other car or was it the other mag.
09-25-2008 7:47 PM In reply to
Offline rtraincollector
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Re: What scale plane should I purchase?

Hey Philaknight yes they did or I think it was them ( sorry to say it might have been those other O gauge mag)  not sure which as at the time it came out I was getting last months eddition of both for free from my local hobby shop back then but I've moved twice scince then. At the little store in the hospital they have a 1:55 scale military helo for $15.99 and I'm thinking of getting it and using my Penn Central flat car that came with my Chessie Frieght set as it has tie down chains and all with it but I think the helo is a lot wider than the car. need to look again at it . the car is right at 2 3/4" wide and 13" long not including the couplers. I think legnth is fine its with. Would make as a nice military load for it and I don't think it being 1:55 it would make that much of a difference. I be lieve its an appachee helo.
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