Anyone got a few spare swastikas kicking around?

S'cuder said
S'cuder said

Ray would be 101. Thanks, but we lost him in late 2016. He would talk a lot about his experiences except air to air combat. He was a young man, having enlisted at 17 before hostilities began in Europe, spent all six years of war in service. He turned 23 just after VE Day.

A lot of heavy fighting in your old home area. I'm a history geek. I'd be all over that. Well, after girls and hot rods at age 20. And when I could get army leave. :rolleyes:

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It's funny, there wasn't a whole lot of focus on the US in history class back then

They never mentioned 1776, or the Gettysburg adress, but they honed in quite well on your activities between 1940 and 1945

Back to the plane
I'm not totally happy with it, but it's starting to look like something

(One of the complaints people have about this kit is that the scale is of...which doesn't become apparent untill you start to add properly scaled decals)

This was my first time using a pinwash, and I did a light chalk detailing over top

Not done yet, but she's got her feet under her again