The Captured G.B. - Finished Builds

[Leading Observer]

Blackburn Skua - build & backstory here:https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=48571.0

[AURI]

Captured MLD Hawker Seahawk.

In 1960, during the Dutch decolonization and planned independence of Western New Guinea, a territory which was also claimed by Indonesia, HNLMS Karel Doorman set sail along with two destroyers and a modified oil tanker to "show the flag". on Board HNLMS Karel Doorman there is 12 Hawker Sea Hawks were equipped with Sidewinder missiles that significantly enhanced and extended their air-to-air combat capabilities.
During Air Patrol in Western New Guinea, a pair Sea Hawk confront heavy, one plane manage to escape from the storm and the other lost his heading. when the storm calm, he realize not in western new guinea airspace any more and still figured out where his location. Suddenly a pair MIG-17PF intercept the lone Sea Hawk and make him force down at the Indonesian air base, because the Sea Hawk low on fuel the pilot comply to land his aircraft at Indonesian air base.



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More about it : https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=48549.0

[The Rat]

Flygvapnet Lockheed P-80C, interned

01 by Dave Bailey, on Flickr

The war in Europe was definitely winding down in 1946, with Germany fighting desperately to keep the Allies from its borders. If not for the 1944 rebellion in the Soviet Union allowing them to forget about the Eastern Front, they would have lost at least a year earlier.

The early jets that were in the air forces of all combatants had proven themselves many times over, with Germany having a slight lead in technology that was hampered by their steadily reducing manufacturing ability. The American P-80 was arriving in ever greater numbers, and was now the primary front-line fighter. Most were painted in a wartime scheme of olive drab upperside with light grey underside, a simple and effective camouflage.

02 by Dave Bailey, on Flickr

On a patrol out of Leeuwarden Air Base in The Netherlands, 5 P-80s were looking for Luftwaffe transport aircraft travelling to and from Norway, still mostly under Nazi occupation. Over the Baltic north of the Danish island of Bornhom, they encountered a couple of elderly Ju-52s still soldiering on after many years of service. The transports immediately turned north-northeast, and led the Americans into a trap. Racing in from, further east was a large group of Me-262s , and a fierce fight ensued. Three P-80s were downed, and half a dozen German machines, but one American pilot pressed home his attack on the transports in all the confusion. He managed to shoot both down, but had lost sight of the rest of his patrol. Low on fuel, he elected to head for the only land he could see, and landed safely, with almost empty tanks, in a farm field in neutral Sweden.

03 by Dave Bailey, on Flickr

The Swedish government impounded the aircraft and turned it over to the Flygvapnet for their perusal. The pilot was repatriated, but the aircraft stayed behind. National insignia and any identifying marking were quickly painted over with a poorly matching paint, and Swedish markings applied. As it was the only one of its type in service, it was given a simple code number of '1'. Until the end of the war in Europe it was used as a squadron hack, and parts were supplied through legitimate channels by Lockheed. Returned to the USAAF in early 1947, it was declared unserviceable and sent to a maintenance school.

04 by Dave Bailey, on Flickr

05 by Dave Bailey, on Flickr

[NARSES2]

My RTAF Ms 406







https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=48585.new#new

[sandiego89]

Maybe a good time to highlight the tradition of a brief sentence or two on the subject/back story, a maximum of three photos of the finished build, and a link to the build thread for the finished builds section? (believe I have that correct?) Think we should stick to that-makes it easier for the moderators, and easier when it comes to voting.  Save the multiple photos and details of the backstory to your build thread. 

Maybe put that into the first post? Perhaps this suggestion would be helpful to new GB entrants.     

My thoughts.  Dave

[sandiego89]

Taliban Il-28 Beagle.

The area around Bagram Air Base was hotly contested during the Afghan Civil War, with elements of The Northern Alliance, The Taliban and Afghan government forces all taking control at various phases of the war. After taking the field the Taliban were able to put into service two Il-28 Beagles from various airframes that had been abandoned/dumped at the air field.   

by Sandiego89







build thread: https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=48829.msg910260#msg910260

[zenrat]

Mitsubishi Ki-46-II in Soviet Service

Mitsubishi Ki-46 in Soviet Service  - 18 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
Mitsubishi Ki-46 in Soviet Service  - 14 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
Mitsubishi Ki-46 in Soviet Service  - 3 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=48524.30

[TomZ]

Looks very good. I like the colours.

TomZ

[Dizzyfugu]

A late submission: a Mark I tank (male), vehicle "02" of the Northwestern (White) Army, captured by Bolshevik/Red Army forces during the Russian Civil War, Petrograd (Saint Petersburg), 1919 .








More here: https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=48888.0

[PR19_Kit]

The RAF's sole Savoia-Marchetti SM-77. Finished build and (lengthy...) backstory here.

https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=48528.165

[Leading Observer]

Spitfire Floatplanes [two versions]

[Bungle]

The idea was the RAF needing a stop gap fighter in 1938 so were looking to buy the Fiat G.50 so while evaluating war broke out so it became 'captured !

[zenrat]

Messerschmitt P.1099 in Finnish service.

Messerschmitt P.1099 - 1 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

Messerschmitt P.1099 - 12 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

Messerschmitt P.1099 - 5 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=48678.45

[zenrat]

Sd.Kfz 251 in Allied Service.

Sd.Kfz 251 - 2 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

Sd.Kfz 251 - 9 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

Sd.Kfz 251 - 23 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=48525.new#new

[kitbasher]

Focke-Wulf FW190D-15 Air Min11 (ex-150168), as seen at the German Aircraft Exhibition, RAE Farnborough October 1945.



Not so much a backstory, more an explanation.  I stumbled across the FW190D-15  many years ago on a modelling site called SMAKR (which I think stood for 'Scale Model Aircraft Kit Review'), which I don't think is still around.  I was struck by it's looks - elegant but a bit beefier than a D-9 for some reason - it must be the fin and rudder, I don't know.  There's not much info out there on the D-15, a lot of it is contradictory, not least in terms of armament.  Some claim the D-15 was an actual design but didn't enter production, others that several were actually built and cite Wk Nrs - seems no one really knows.
I've a Revell repop of the FROG Ta154H that I wanted to repaint using the Freightdog decals for the real Air Min 11, plus all the bits for a D-15 that had languished in the stash for ages for an in-service whif.  Then along came this GB and I thought why not?  Another stash demon exorcised!
So here we have a model of a type that may or may not have existed, finished in the colours of a type that did and was displayed at Farnborough in 1945.  My Air Min 11 follows the Freightdog colour scheme of RLM76 Lichtblau undersides, RLM81 Braunviolett + RLM82 Lichtgrun topsides and RLM83 Dunkelgrun engine cowlings and overpainted wing markings.  I departed from the instructions by using RLM02 Grau to overpaint the fuselage, fin and underwing markings (Freightdog says Humbrol 64) on the assumption that captured RLM colours would be used to overpaint German markings rather than Allied paints, and that my Xtracolor RLM63 looked far too light for the job.

So, Air Min 11 was captured at Leck, having previously operated with JG301 as Green 9.  It was delivered to Farnborough in August 1945 and featured in October's German Aircraft Exhibition.  Air Min 11 was briefly test flown at Farnborough, but scrapped in 1946.  The number of FW190D-15s actually built and flew with the Luftwaffe is unknown, certainly very few.

Build and more pics at https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=48535.msg901888#msg901888.