B-24D "Pete the Pom Interceptor"

Kommentare

19 September 2016, 21:55

Glenn
Wow! Those formation ships really stand out!

20 September 2016, 02:57

Ray Seppala
A great eye popping scheme there Thomas 👍

20 September 2016, 05:03

Ulf Petersen
Way cool, Thomas!8) 👍

20 September 2016, 05:08

Hanno Kleinecke
Beautifully colourful assembly bird, great !

20 September 2016, 08:39

Spanjaard
that is quite an unusual colour scheme. nicely done. any idea why the original airplane received that treatment?

20 September 2016, 09:09

Soeren R.
Awesome work of an assembly ship! I really love this special planes!

@ Spanjaard
This kind of planes are called "Assembly Ships" or "Formation Ships".
Those planes were meant to help other bombers to find the formation and rally behind these special painted bombers.
Those planes were normally unarmed and without a payload. They also returned home as soon the bomber formation had been established.

Hasegawa has one in 72 scalemates.com/kits/154216-h..-liberator-formating-monitor
and here a finished kit:
hyperscale.com/2011/galleries/b24d72ho_1.htm

20 September 2016, 09:17

Spanjaard
Thanks a lot Sören, now it makes sense 🙂 i did not know about that.
i did not really expect anybody wanting to fly with that colour scheme over nazy Germany in 1944 😄, so i was really curious about it.
quite an interesting model, and nicely done.

20 September 2016, 12:15