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Posted: November 08, 2006 07:23 am
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I`m planning to build a paper model of a bomber.What camo colors should i use??
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Posted: November 08, 2006 09:03 am
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i think you should decide first on the bomber type you want to build, which narrows it down a bit.

but, there are several good kits from revell, airfix, hasegawa(i think), for pretty much every ww2 bomber type, including Ju87, He111, He177, B17, B24, B25, Lancaster, Wellington etc. etc.
however these kits are from plastic, which i'd recomand instead paper for durability reasons, if you can afford them (and the paint). each kit should contain instructions for painting various cammo shemes, depending on year and theatre.

i'm not sure about tamiya or hasegawa, which are more expensive, but revell and airfix should be available in Romania, at least about revell i'm positive. the scale should be 1:72.
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Posted: November 08, 2006 09:41 am
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i`m now painting a allied B-17 with a green and light green,Soon i`ll post some pics.

P.S. It`s hand-made(by me) and it is made out of paper wink.gif
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Posted: November 08, 2006 10:40 am
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by mistake,i made it an axis bomber sad.gif
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Posted: November 14, 2006 04:43 pm
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Well, there were a number of B-17 that were flown under axis markings for test purposes, but I'll be darned if I understand how someone could mistake the nationality of a plane and still be able to manufacture an acurate model.
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Posted: November 15, 2006 06:21 am
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QUOTE (Wings_of_wrath @ November 14, 2006 07:43 pm)
Well, there were a number of B-17 that were flown under axis markings for test purposes, but I'll be darned if I understand how someone could mistake the nationality of a plane and still be able to manufacture an acurate model.

i did this mistake because i was working at this bomber and at a Messerschmitt smile.gif
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Posted: November 16, 2006 07:48 am
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Ok, I won't comment further on that, since at your age I was probably even less informed on matters of aviation than you are, but if you allready marked the B-17 as a german plane, here are a few photographs of captured B-17s:

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As for the painting, most of the captured planes had yellow bellies while test-flown by the "Erprobungsstaffel" or test squadrons, to allow easy identification by friendly AA, like this P38 below:

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PS: with the exception of the first one, the photographs are taken from here
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Posted: January 07, 2007 10:47 am
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it`s lost!!! I CAN`T FIND IT!!!! sad.gif sad.gif
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Posted: February 05, 2007 10:07 am
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I found it,i built it and it looks like s**t.!
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