domingo, 9 de marzo de 2025

3 Photo Group, F-4A Lightning, USAAF, India


 Strategic reconnaissance is a dangerous job, travelling a lot and to the strangest places in the world. This aircraft and a couple of companions were assigned to an airfield in India, to monitor Japanese movements in the Indian Ocean and Burma. Usually reconnaissance detachments are made up of only a few aircraft.


Airfix model, the camera covers are from the Revell model, as are their decals, specially mixed El Viejo Marino paint, PRU blue is not a very commercial colour.






P-38J LIghtning, Radar Pathfinder, Airfix + Scratch, 1/72

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