Brewster Buffalo B339 (Tamiya, 1/48)

[Guest]

thy guys

hehehhee Martin, great idea

Roman

[mossiepilot]

Looking great so far Roman.

Tony.

[chameleon 2009]

looking good Roman

[Guest]

3 times I have try to get on pictures nice colors how they are seen with bare eye...

it looks like there are 2 brown color

but up they are. grenish gray and brown earth booth from revell acrilyc...

equivalent for RAF dark green and brown via The Ultimate Model Paint Conversion Chart

Cheers

Roman

[Guest]

Hi Roman, looking good mate

Cheers, Andrew

[Guest]

Looks really nice Roman :score:

[Guest]

basic painting is finished...

Dont ask me nothing about pictures... almost my photo idiot Olympus was throwen out thru the window

I manage to get thru filters and lefels in photoshop to get something how it looks to bare eye

I see just few spots for little repaint repair

Cheers

Roman

[flyjoe180]

Nice to see a NZ example being constructed Roman. I found some background history of this No. 488 (NZ) SQN aeroplane and its pilot for you.

The pilot was Flying Officer Noel Callan Sharp, DFC. His personal nose art was a striking Chinese dragon. He shot down three enemy aircraft during the Malayan campaign. He claimed an unknown Japanese fighter on January 12, a Nakajima Ki-43 the next day, a Mitsubishi A6M Zero on January 18, and damaged two bombers on January 20. Sharp was shot down on 17 January 1942 but survived. Engineers repaired his aircraft, replacing the front section of the engine cowling with that of another. Sharp was evacuated from Singapore before its capitulation, as was his Brewster Buffalo. The aircraft was destroyed at Palembang, South Sumatra during a Japanese bombing raid on 7 February 1942.

Noel Sharp was killed in action over Java on 20 February 1942, while flying a Hawker Hurricane with 605 SQN RAF. He was 20 years old. He was buried in the Kranji War Cemetery in Singapore and awarded a posthumous DFC on 26 December 1946.

[Guest]

thx Jow for info

Really nice to know that story, thx

Roman

[Guest]

FINISHED

Thx for watching and contributing

ROman