Captured G.B. - Inspiration thread

[TomZ]

This list is pretty thorough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_aircraft_of_Finland

What a huge list. It will be hard to find an aircraft they didn't have!

TomZ

[zenrat]

This list is pretty thorough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_aircraft_of_Finland

What a huge list. It will be hard to find an aircraft they didn't have!

TomZ

I dunno, it's given me the answer to at least three whiffs I had no ideas for.   
Thank you for the link.

Of course one can always build an aircraft that was flown by the Ilmavoimat but paint it in a different scheme - desert camo for example...   
You can always explain it in the back story.

I'm pondering what nazi armour would look like with a full Caunter scheme applied to it?

[TomZ]

Of course one can always build an aircraft that was flown by the Ilmavoimat but paint it in a different scheme - desert camo for example...   
You can always explain it in the back story.

I like that: Due to global warming Finland turned into a desert mode and the aircraft needed desert camo

TomZ

[Dizzyfugu]

I'm pondering what nazi armour would look like with a full Caunter scheme applied to it?

AFAIK there were at least some captured Italian light tanks that were pressed into British service and re-painted with the Caunter scheme.

[NARSES2]

My build for this GB will be a captured Soviet type operated by the Finnish AF. I just have to confirm they didn't actually have one.

This list is pretty thorough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_aircraft_of_Finland
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Thankyou for that  Confirms my idea is a starter 

[zenrat]

I'm pondering what nazi armour would look like with a full Caunter scheme applied to it?

AFAIK there were at least some captured Italian light tanks that were pressed into British service and re-painted with the Caunter scheme.

Following a bit of a stash rummage I have firmed up build No.2 for this GB.  Something beginning with Sd.Kfz, rearmed with allied weaponry and painted Caunter.

[perttime]

Of course one can always build an aircraft that was flown by the Ilmavoimat but paint it in a different scheme - desert camo for example...   
You can always explain it in the back story.

I like that: Due to global warming Finland turned into a desert mode and the aircraft needed desert camo

TomZ

You could just get Finland to participate in a Peace Keeping operation in an arid area.
Actually, that has been done a lot, just without Finnish aircraft.

[Sport21ing]

One more link for good measure 

https://web.archive.org/web/20150924013707/http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/Aircraft/FAACapturedAircraftHomepage.html

[TomZ]

Started too early for this GB so I just finished it:







Proper back-story to follow later.

TomZ

[Dizzyfugu]

Nice! 

[NARSES2]

Nice! 

It is indeed

[Dizzyfugu]

Found this suitable inspiration item for the GB in my collection - Italian aircraft (well, a Ki-61 underneath with some mods...) operated by the Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana, captured by U.S. forces and then handed over to the Italian Co-Belligerent Air Force:


1:72 I.M.A.M. Ro.70 'Asta', aircraft "H" of the 155° Gruppo, 51° Stormo Caccia, Aviazione Cobelligerante Italiana (Italian Co-Belligerent Air Force, ACI); Lecce-Galatina (Southern Italy), October 1944 (Whif/Hasegawa Ki-61 conversion) by dizzyfugu, on Flickr

[zenrat]

Further to earlier discussions regarding the Légion Pacifiste Internationale, the archives of zenrat industries have turned up this example of an aircraft captured (or as they  prefer, "liberated") by them.

Kitty Zero 18 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[loupgarou]

Aircraft...aircraft...aircraft... But modern ships too have been captured AND reused, the Royal Navy used a captured U-Boot in WW2.

[tigercat]

The Japanese captured a few ships in WW2 too