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    Again an excellent Sunday afternoon spent with friends and working on our Dutch Airforce.

    Wing Commander prompted me to work hard by example! And Genever...



    Wing commander's excellent Brewster 339D's were already painted. Mine would get a big advancement during the afternoon. Even if at a cost. My thumb was wounded in the line of duty.



    But the amazing company of my hosts and the Genever made marvels to my thumb's recuperation!


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    Splendid!
    Nothing like a painting busy afternoon! I would gladly join your party.
    Brewsters are very nice models - moreover - they fir many fronts and scenarios.
    It is a pure coincidence, but right yesterday, waiting for a plane at the Frankfurt Airport I was reading "Saburo Sakai: Samurai" and his reflections of fighting Dutch Brewsters in East Indias! A worthy read.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nightbomber View Post
    Splendid!
    Nothing like a painting busy afternoon! I would gladly join your party.
    Brewsters are very nice models - moreover - they fir many fronts and scenarios.
    It is a pure coincidence, but right yesterday, waiting for a plane at the Frankfurt Airport I was reading "Saburo Sakai: Samurai" and his reflections of fighting Dutch Brewsters in East Indias! A worthy read.
    Thanks, my friend!
    I'll read that then!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Blackronin View Post
    Thanks, my friend!
    I'll read that then!
    Definitely do that (I love the language of the book used - so to say a kind of BBC English with only few words to be look up) although - it was a painful lesson for the Dutch Air Force of the time.
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    Nice painting workshop, comrades.

    Maybe we gan give those Buffaloes a quick test flight versus Japanese Oscars in Prague.




    ...thumb's recuperation! - Better then amputation.
    Voilŕ le soleil d'Austerlitz!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marechallannes View Post
    Nice painting workshop, comrades.

    Maybe we gan give those Buffaloes a quick test flight versus Japanese Oscars in Prague.




    ...thumb's recuperation! - Better then amputation.
    That would be a good idea!
    The dogfight... not the amputation...

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    Thumbs up

    Its always good fun to paint with mates.
    I am sure the Gin helped the Thumb Pain!

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    Quote Originally Posted by gully_raker View Post
    Its always good fun to paint with mates.
    I am sure the Gin helped the Thumb Pain!
    It did, Barry.

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    Great paint jobs. I would love to fly one of those Brewsters.

    Thomas

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    Quote Originally Posted by CappyTom View Post
    Great paint jobs. I would love to fly one of those Brewsters.

    Thomas
    The ones in the photo belong to Wing Commander Guus. You'll have to ask him.
    Soon I'll post mine.

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    Great to see others painting and modeling together! We do that twice a month here at a local hobby shop (in fact, tomorrow night is the first round this month), and it's always fun to talk and paint and share ideas and techniques, not to mention help one another out. We then go out to a nearby pub for food and beer afterwards...a fun time all around...

    And the Brewsters are lovely...
    And the Genever is certainly tasty...

    All the best,
    Matt

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    Samurai by Saburo Sakai is totally and 100% recommended by me if you have not read it already. Picked up my copy in 2005 for 25p from Saddleworth Museum.

    Those Brewster Buffaloes are looking just fine - which markings are those by the way as I have forgotten. I remember from the 1/72 scale Matchbox kit that they originated from Indonesia or the Far East somewhere? The B-339 appears to have served most effectively in Finland from what I recall. The F2A-2 was the US Navy version which was around in time to have become the Brewster Buffalo Mk 1 with the RAF ... A desperately underpowered and undergunned aircraft which was quickly deployed to the Far East and Singapore. This story is very well documented in the book Buffaloes Over Singapore by Brian Cull and Paul Sautehaug (Grub Street Press.)

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    Hey Barney,
    the Brewster B.339D's I painted in NEI Air Force (ML-KNIL) colours and markings which Joaquim shows here (see also the Dutch Wing thread for more info on the painting session in The Hague) are the best of the bunch, they had the 1200hp engine and an armament of 4 .50 MG's. When they were sent to bolster the Singapore defences they were highly valued by the RAF, who only had 1000hp engines in their Buffaloes, which were heavier as well ...
    Cheers,
    Guus
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