I hate to nit pick, oh, all right then, I love it, but…
In a Brit model magazine (SAMI) there’s a Squadron advert for a Verlinden
1/16th waist gunner #VE1878, entitled ‘Bandits, 2 O Clock’[?].
Now, if this is a left waist gunner, he’s pointing at ten O Clock, & if he’s the
right gunner he’s pointing at four O Clock. Have Verlinden gone digital?
Or is it (once again) me?
Incidentally, If things go badly for a pear, what shape does it become?
My take on that vignette:
Right waist gunner, ever alert and scanning the sky in his assigned quadrant, which would probably be 3:00 to 6:00. The name “Bandits at 2:00” is the call he is about to receive from the bombadier, or has just received and is modelled in the split instant before he swings into action.
Either that or … the name was assigned by some Marketing type who never did learn where Mickey’s big hand is pointing.
Phil
Or the B-17 is inverted[:D]
A bottom?