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Scratch Built Brewster Buffalo by mlriley540. Viewed 383 times.
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| mlriley540 | 04-May-17 21:52 | | Replaced a piece of bad tissue, did some more painting. I will probably go with the blue cross, to avoid any Imperial Entanglements... |
| LASTWOODSMAN | 05-May-17 08:05 | | Mlriley - nice color - what plan did you use for this scratch build Buffalo? what is the wingspan? |
| mlriley540 | 05-May-17 08:56 | | The plan is from : http://outerzone.co.uk/plan_details.asp?ID=3774
At the scale I printed, the wingspan is about 17 inches. In glide tests the wing load is low, it has the potential to be a good flier. |
| Don C | 05-May-17 09:47 | | Never saw a Finnish A.F. plane before, so I looked it up. Learned a bit and see why you stuck with the blue cross. Nice looking plane. |
| BriandKilby | 05-May-17 10:50 | | mlriley,question? how did an allied plane end up in service to an axis nation as finland? |
| hjlittman | 05-May-17 13:36 | | I would have gone with the swastika for historical verity. They should never be allowed to forget. However, my No-Cal Buffalo kit cannot be shipped to 19 countries with the Finnish skin because of the swastika. Fortunately, it is available in 5 other skins.
The Finns were not officially allied with Germany when they ordered the F2As. They performed very well for the Finns with a kill ratio of 26:1 over the Russians. This was because they had the early, light, version of the Buffalo with no naval equipment, and had superbly trained pilots who had 3 times the air to air gunnery training of any other air force in the world. Oddly enough, if you read the official Finnish accounts of the war, the only Russian aircraft they feared getting into a dog fight with in a Buffalo (Most of the combat in this war was below 12,000 feet.) was "the vastly superior Bell P-39"! |
| BriandKilby | 05-May-17 14:08 | | thanks for the info hjlittman. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | 05-May-17 14:38 | | Howard - in those 19 countries you cannot ship to, would you get arrested if you make your own Swastika decals and put them on your plane over there? |
| hjlittman | 05-May-17 16:46 | | Yes, in many of them it is considered a major crime to display a swastika in any way. Some of them are countries to which large numbers of Nazis fled after WW2. There are some countries where I could ship the model to you but you could be fined or jailed for flying it in public, and others where you could only display the model in public as part of an historical display or event. Confusing???!!! Actually, I should reduce the number of countries since there have been law changes in some countries, recently, that would permit the model as a matter of historical verity. Need to update my web site. |
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