After the famous
Poliesti Air Raid’s, 11 B-24’s made emergency landings to Turkey and
interned together with their crews. Later 5 of them were recovered and
joined the TuAF as heavy bombers (with thanks to Tayyareci).
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This kit was a challenge
from the beginning till the end. I re-scribed all the panels. Used
Mr. Hobby
Interior Color Set’s, Zinc Chromatte Yellow as both
base color and interior color, according to the references which I found.
On the other hand, for cockpit, I used Interior Green. For
pre-shade I chose Vallejo’s Natural Black. And finally for outside
colors, Model Master’s enamel Green and Humbrols enamel grey
used.
Nearly in all building steps some problems
occurred. Clear parts had marks and were fixed with compound and future.
Plastic quality was also terrible and there were serious connection problems especially at
the nose and in the bomb bay sections. So I had to re-build the bay doors from Evergreen styrene sheet.
Also the front wheel doors were wrong for early Liberators and had to be modified.
For weathering and washing, I used Mig Pigments, Mig’s Brown and Dark Washes and Tamia sets.
Also for paint chipping in interior parts, I choose one fibre brush. For Turkish markings, get help from Babibi Decals.
Hope you’ll like it....
Emrah BARUTCU
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