Cessna 310 - Katanga

[PR19_Kit]

Its all scratchbuild, as I could not find any usefull pieces in my scrapyard.

It looks like ALL the bits were useful! It worked a treat. 

[Wardukw]

Very tight work area Mat...great stuff bud 👍 👌

[mat]

After some filling I managed to make the windows fit and fixed with Clearfix. The cabin and the nose wheel well glued in and som weight added so I don't get a tail sitter.

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[Weaver]

Looking good! 

[loupgarou]

Lot of work in that little critter! 
I hope that when you sand around he windows, you won't scratch them.

[Wardukw]

Lot of work in that little critter! 
I hope that when you sand around he windows, you won't scratch them.

Basically exactly what I was thinking 🤔 😅

[mat]

Windows glued in with Clearfix, fuselage assembled, puttied and windows covered with maskin tape to prevent scratching. The 310 is slowly getting along.

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[kerick]

That's going to look cool!

[Wardukw]

That's going to look cool!

Seconded 

[mat]

Ready for some paint.

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[PR19_Kit]

Looking EXTREMELY good. 

Looking forward to seeing it finished, I had a flight in one in South Africa once, a lovely aeroplane.

[rickshaw]

On the 'aiming' bit: I spent 10 years, 1969 to 1979, with a reserve infantry regiment, and alongside many veterans of the disastrous raid on Dieppe, Operation Jubilee. So I've conversed and trained with many who saw thick combat, and here is what they said: Aiming is great, if you can actually see them. But in many cases all you're trying to do is keep their heads down while others advance toward the position. Then, in close quarters, you often don't have the time, because you're still running/walking/trembling, and scanning for whatever may come at you from the side. In fact, when advancing in a line on a flanking manoeuvre, your section automatic weapons team (we had the FN 7.62mm C2) is keeping their heads down with bursts, and you are firing from the hip on command, until you get close and charge into the position. After that it's mass confusion, screams, and blood.

And I hope we never have to see it.

I spent 10 years in the Australian Army from 1977 to 1988 and during that time I trained a few Army Reserve recruit courses.  I used to teach them to shoot the F1 SMG (which looks like a Stirling turned on it's side with a top mounted magazine).  I used to teach them to hold the SMG into their sides and the left hand on top of the cooling jacket, pointing instinctively at the target.  I used to chop down Figure 11 targets when demonstrating it to the recruits on the 25 metre range.  They learnt similar skills.  My best recruit was a Vietnamese recruit who was a dead-eye Dick.  When I asked him where he had learnt to shoot like that, he said, "In the war."  I then remarked, "In the ARVN?"  He replied, "No, in the VC."  I suggested that he should keep that a bit quiet. 

[The Rat]

    

[Dizzyfugu]

Looking (very) good. 

[mat]

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The Katanga Cessna 310 have been painted. The inspiration came from a N.A. T-6 Texan/Harvard, that served in an other of the 1960s wars - Biafra.

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And now it's time for printing the decals.