boeing xf8b-1

[lenny100]

Picked up a valom Boeing xf8b-1 at the south Shields show for  £5  , but at a loss of what to do the markings as. any ideas?

The kit is not to bad if you like making plastic kits which are over 1 mm thick  so i treated it like a resin kit whilst putting it together lots of sanding!!!!!!!!!!!!! !
This aircraft was in real life even larger than the skyrader, and on paper may of been a better aircraft, with 6 20 mm cannons and a internal bomb bay cabable of hauling 2.000 of bombs and a further 6.000 on 6 external points and a combat range of 2500 km, and a ferry range of 6000 km make a flight from the west coast of the USA to iwo jima none stop.

[The Wooksta!]

Fleet Air Arm, Extra Dark Sea Grey over Sky, with Type C roundels and a nice P marking.  Test aircraft at Boscombe Down.

[JayBee]

Almost right Lee, but it really needs Suez stripes. 

[The Wooksta!]

Think they'd be too early for Suez.  Besides which, even with an extended war to get it into service, ending possibly '47, you'd still have the UK dumping the Lend-Lease equipment pretty fast because we simply couldn't afford to keep it so any British XF8s would go straight over the side.  On top of that, it's more likely that any supplied to the UK would be in overall dark blue for use during the invasion/blockade of Japan and carrying BPF markings.

French Navy instead of Corsairs, possibly with Suez stripes.  Certainly more plausible than British operated ones over Suez.

The Wyvern looks prettier anyway.

I have to be honest and say that I think that Suez stripes are fast becoming yet another whiffing cliche. Especially when you're getting mainstream companies (Trumpeter springs to mind) releasing prototypes in whiff Suez markings.  I've always thought that whiffing was partly about rejecting the mainstream?

[lenny100]

were there ever any theater markings for Korea?

[The Wooksta!]

Yes, white style D-Day stripes for FAA and RAN aircraft. 

However, it's a pretty BIG aircraft - would it be capable of being accomodated in the hangars of the British carriers?  Yes, you could have us operating bigger carriers in theatre but don't forget that the Navy didn't have the manpower.  Shore based operating from airfields in the south or possibly Japan is probably the most plausible.

I've a Mauler somewhere that was going to end up as an FAA aircraft and there's an XF8 to go with it.

[lenny100]

its only a few cm larger than the gannet so it would fit upon the larger fleet carriers altough it would need the gannets double wing fold i believe

[Thorvic]

French - Either Aeronaval in Indo-China or Air Force in North Africa or either at Suez

[bobbo]

Post-WWII Luftwaffe?  Post-WWII Kriegsmarine??

Norwegian AF?

bobbo

[Scooterman]

Fleet Air Arm, Extra Dark Sea Grey over Sky, with Type C roundels and a nice P marking.  Test aircraft at Boscombe Down.

I was thinking almost exactly the same thing, but not in test markings...........brilliant!

[Sentinel Chicken]

Portugeuse AF in Africa or French desert two tone brown in Africa.

[lenny100]

well its going to be a royal navy exemple in sky and gray, in korean war markings,with one wing folded like on the seafire with two folds all done manualy as shown here


i took the immage from our own colins site as its the best out there i heve found

[Mossie]

Wings Palette has a few good Korean War profiles of different types, there are several on each page I've linked to.  Click on the thumbnails for bigger pics.  Firefly and Sea Fury seem to have five stripes compared to the Seafire's three.

Firefly:
http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww2/f/203/9/3

Sea Fury:
http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww3/f/205/9/0
http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww3/f/205/9/1

Seafire:
http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww2/f/72/9/2
http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww2/f/72/9/3

[lenny100]

all done now see here

http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php?topic=35463.new;topicseen#new

[bobbo]

Almost right Lee, but it really needs Suez stripes. 

Yup.

bobbo