Mexican OS2U Kingfisher

Modeling Subjects Aircraft
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This is my first atempt to post pictures so let’s see if I can handle it… sorry if the pictures can’t be viewed, I’ll try again.

I’d like to share with you guys pictures of my OS2U 1/48 Monogram’s Kingfisher in Mexican service, 1941-1942 at Veracruz port, their main task was to patrol the Mex Gulf for german U-Boats, the Mex variant didn’t have the pilot’s telescopic gunsight, and at begining Mexico’s kingfisher were only land based version, later had also the float version, the kit its the typical old Monogram, had to rescribe all the panel lines, the interior used it’s Lone Star (as far I know the only available for Kingfisher), the color used was typical US colors Olive Green over Neutral gray, I used Zotz decals (latin american forces set) the large 73 number came from another decals set, and the ruder was painted mixing Testor’s paints to more or less matching with the decals colors. The depth charges came from Accurate Miniatures’ US WWII armament set.

Any comment and critics are more welcome! :slight_smile: Thanks

I’ll share more pictures of more airplanes I have done later when I resize them. :slight_smile:

Cheers!

Alfredo.

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Wow, that’s really cool. Don’t see Mexico marked airplanes everyday.

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cool. almost didnt reconize a kingfisher with weels

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A Kingfisher, always a treat. And on wheels, the best. Are there more builds? I’d like to see them, this always leads to all kinds of research by people.

Thanks so much, Bill

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Very nice job on a raeley seen subject and in even more rare markings.

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[#ditto] Very nice model, thanks for sharing! [tup]

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Very nice build of a rarely seen aircraft. Well Done [tup].

Regards, Rick

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SHARP!!! VERY SHARP!!!

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Thank’s a LOT for all the comments guys :slight_smile:

Bill, yeah I have a bunch of more airplanes builded and even more to build :stuck_out_tongue: Right now I building a P-36A in brazilian markings, interesting subjet. I try to build most of my models for their historic background (when I can of course), cause I have a passion for history and airplanes, so I try to mix up both of my main hobbies.

What about you guys? what’s your subjet when you build a airplane? cause how’s it looks, or cause their historic background? (like me), or something else?

Bill, I’ll post more of my airplanes when I get home cause right now I’m at the office pretending I’m working. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Very well done, Alfredo. INteresting subject and very interesting markings.

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Nice work, Alfredo! I’ve never seen those markings before, and they look great.

Mark

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A+! markings are cool, kingfisher on wheels cool.

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I’m kind of a kit-ologist. I like what people call the “classics” like the Monogram, Frog, Airfix and Revell aircraft. I don’t like to spend a lot of money and I really only go with AM on my ship models. And I get all of my scratchbuilding yahhs out on my railroad, which is mostly so.

I like historic subjects, or at least the uncommon. I don’t often buy a kit with that in mind, like I’d guess you didn’t here, but when I sit down to learn about it, I get inspired.

There’s always been a tendency for kit makers to sell what’s popular, with reason. And what they sell becomes popular, and so on and so forth as my Dad would say. I will say that I put aftermarket decals, to change the topic on just about every build I do, which means that my machines are even less accurate than they started as. But it’s satisfying to me.

So besides the P-36 what’s up your sleeve?

I do not have any Central/ South American projects, if I did they’d probably be an airliner.

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Thanks again all you guys for the comments! :slight_smile:

bondoman, yeah you’re right, mostly I do the same… I buy a model and stock it into my to-do pile and later when I read some interesting article or history about some airplane I already have waiting to be build (which I have like 120 models in my pile!) I start with it, but sometimes I get a model that I have in mind to build in determined way or subjet since the begining and I start to order the model the decals and colors at the same time. And another times I just build them OOB cause the kit already have the subjet I had in mind! :slight_smile: Just like you said, the brands sells what’s popular. For instance when I read about Tamya was releasing the G4M Betty in 1/48 I just said… I WANT IT! AND I WANT IT NOW! :stuck_out_tongue: cause since a long time I wanted to build a betty that helped in the sink of the HMS Repulse and Prince of Wales in 1941, plus I love japanese airplanes and all my planes I build are in 1/48 scale, cause you know, to have a size reference between them.

When I got my Betty I was happy cause the kit already had the decals of my subjet! :slight_smile: (I didn’t looked at any review of the kit before get it, I just wanted to get the model).

The P-36 Im building now in brazilian markings it’s like 70% done. This model came from a idea I have in my mind since I finish my Mexican Kingfisher, I pretend to build latin american planes that served in ww2 era, even when some latin american countries were neutral, they were flying in alert in case of some attack, since Pearl Harbor some were afraid the being attacked too, some other latin american countries were not neutral like Mex and Brazil, there declared war against Germany, since some of their cargo ships were sunk by German U-Boats.

Besides my P-36 Im not building another airplane, but Im trying to get more info about this Mexican AT-6 piloted by Major Luis Noriega Medrano, that suppoused sunk a german U-boat (U-129) in July 1942, I said “suppoused” cause Mex says they sunk the german sub and germany says that was just damaged not sunk and they were able to reach port and being repaired. Despite uboat.net says that U-129 was taken out of service in 1944 I continue doing my own research. That kind of obscure pieces of history it’s what I really love.

Here’s the suppoused Mex AT-6 that damage or sunk (depending the source you read) the U-129, and the one I pretend to build from a Italeri T-6G kit, so I gonna need to made some modifications to get a AT-6 from the Italeri kit.

Im also reading and researching a little about curtiss hawks flown by cuban air force which is also in my future plans to build. So as you can see I have no social life. :stuck_out_tongue: hehe

What are you building right now?

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HOME FLIPPEN’ RUN, Buddy!

Superb in every aspect! I love that model! WOW!

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It may be debateable…

Mexico was the country of one of the first aerial attacks… Some say Turky was…

But around 1907, a Mexican General hired an American flyer and his airplane (a Curtis, I believe) to bombard his rival with dyanamite. The attacks were indeed carried out. I think some other Yanks joined in the following months.

My avatar photograph (B&W) is of the Americans in Mexico in 1908.

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Von Alfalfa wrote:

“What are you working on?”.

I’m in model hell. I was set up across the street in the garage of a good friend of mine, 8’ bench, spray booth, place to store the airforce, just too good to be true, and sure enough.

On April 1 he and the sig other bought a house in another town and moved. So all my stuff is in a big pile in my garage, which isn’t going to have a work area until I get a chance to drag everything out on the driveway and rearrange it.

When I do, I’ll get back to work on a 1/72 Lodestar in RCAF for the Liberation of Western Europe GB, a 1/72 Mavis for the IJN GB, and the Trumpeter USS San Francisco, with LOTS of AM, for the Battleship/ Cruiser GB.

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Very nice job and it’s a kit we don’t see often around here. Plus I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Kingfisher in anything other than pre-war USN or USN Blue Gray, looks really good in OD over neutral gray.

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Hi trexx, Thanks a lot for the comment, and about the history you tell, I didn’t know about Mexico’s first aerial attack in 1907, but I do know that Mex started aerial campaigns in 1912 during Mex Revolution which started in 1910, In that very year 1912 there were just two airplanes Moisant Bleriot flying for the Federal Army flown by the North-american Hector Worden and the mexican Francisco something… not remember his last name sorry :stuck_out_tongue:

It was until 1913 that in that moment the governor Venustiano Carranza (later Mex president) hired 3 more Moisant Morane monoplanes flown for northamericans and mexicans, they formed the first Constitutionalist Air Fleet or in spanish “Flotilla Aerea Constitucionalista”.

The picture you have there I already saw it before, as far I know it was taken in 1912 not in 1908 and they all were mexicans. And the plane behind them its a Moisant Morane. Take a look:

http://www.earlyaviators.com/esaligus.htm

Thanks for the info though.

bondoman, buddy I hope you can have some work area soon, hey, how good it’s the Trumpeter kit USS SF?? I have a old Trumpeter kit the USS Arizona 1/350, It needs a LOT of work to correct some areas and some parts to get done! So I leave it for a while.

This is the brazilian P-36 Im pretending to finish:

Cheers!

Alfredo.

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Nice work, Alfredo. Love the subject and the History lesson. Pictures came out a treat. Welcome to the forum BTW.

…Guy