Welcome to the Yellow Wing Group Build.
This build is for the “Golden Age” of military aviation during the years of 1930 - 1941, a time when the distictive orange-yellow colored wings graced the airplanes of the Army, Navy and Marines.
Build Start Date: 14-May-2007 with the End Date: 14-May-200?
Build specifications are as follows:
All scales and build styles (Kit, Scratch, Resin, Vac Formed, etc…) OOB or Super Detailed.
Bi and mono winged AC from the Army, Navy and Marines.
Markings to be of actual flying units during the time period.
Group Build badge can be found here:
http://www.mechanicalrenaissance.com/albums/GBImages/YellowWingGB.jpg
Participants:
- tlivancso Hasegawa 1/32 Boeing F4B-4
- alumni72 Monogram 1/48 Devastator, OOB
- T_Terrific See Below [(-D]
- rlawson Hasegawa 1/72 F2A-1 Buffalo (always subject to change)
- Mikeym_us
- ps1scw
- cj95
- Ranger74 1/72 Martin MS-1
- More Power Scotty Accurate Miniatures 1/48 SB2U-1 Vindicator
Also credit is given to ps1scw for coming up with this great build idea in the first place, thanks again. [#toast]
Modellers start your building…[:D]
Just happened to decide to check FSM forums and found this group build. Don’t know at this time what to build. I will have to go through my list and find something odd. Maybe an unofficial entry of a 1/72 Martin MS-1 for starters. Unofficial because the fuselage has been closed, but nothing else. Might as well finish it.
Jeff
Got room for one more? I am trying to finish off a couple of projects right now, but I need to decide what I should build next, and this might get me moving in the right direction. Although I am not ready to fully commit on a kit yet, I am leaning towards my newly acquired 1/700 USS Saratoga (from Trumpeter) with a yellow winged air wing (F3F biplanes and the like). Let me know if there is room for one more, and I will decide on the exact kit soon.
I have a plethora of US Army, Navy, USMC “yellow wings” Some I was thinking about:
All 1/72
O2U-1 Corsair - USMC
Ford Trimotor - Navy
OJ-2 - Navy
B-7 - Army
SB2U-1 - Navy
Curtiss Condor - USMC
F3F-1 Navy
FF-1 Navy
UC-43 Staggerwing - Army
USS Akron/Macon - Navy (not 1/72)
Any druthers on what ya’ll would like to see
Jeff
[#welcome] to the build Ranger74 and More Power Scotty.
Ranger74: I probably speak for all here when I say build what you think you’ll get the most enjoyment out of, thats what this build is all about. [:)]
More Power Scotty: I personally think we all were thinking just AC and not Ships with AC on them but I guess that would not be unreasonable. I’ll let others chime in with their [2c] if they feel the need to, course if your going to build a ship with an air wing, we may have to have you super detail the AC’s…[8-] j/k…
Cheers,
Thom
Thanks for the comment - just thought someone might had a kit they wanted “reviewed”. Also, being lazy and get some input to help me make up my mind[:-^]
I don’t have a problem with the Saratoga - although in this case, the carrier will be considered an accessory. [swg]
I’d love to see it built - I have every intention of getting one, but that’s not going to happen very soon. So Ranger74 - I’ll be living vicariously through you for awhile.
Thom,
Thanks for allowing me to join. [#toast] I think that in consideration of just how long I spent on my last carrier build, and wanting to keep my build time reasonable during cycling season, I am going to lean towards my 1/48 Accurate Miniatures SB2U-1 Vindicator. The markings would be for the CAG aircraft attached to the USS Ranger. I am not saying that this is my “final answer”, but I think that this will probably be my kit of choice for this build.
Alumni 72,
The USS Saratoga (CV-3) kit that I just picked up is the new one from Trumpeter. Being a former carrier sailor, I have been wanting a plastic kit of the early carriers (I am still patiently waiting for a USS Langley (CV-1), as well as a USS Ranger (CV-4), which was the first carrier designed from the “keel up”). I saw a comment that this kit had a pre-WW2 airwing, and that was good enough for me. The kit can be built full hull or waterline, and has a small base for the full hull option and a vacuum formed water display base for the waterline option. I did get a bit of a deal on mine, but even at a full retail price of $40, it is worth the investment. If you are thinking of getting an early carrier, I would highly recommend this one. And now I will get off of my soapbox.[swg]
$40? Where do you live, Scotty? Last time I was at the LHS (less than 2 months ago) it was marked down - to $95.
Or maybe it’s me who just doesn’t know where to look?
More Power Scotty,
Not a problem the more the merrier [:)] .
Cheers,
Thom
Well, I’ve been thinking about it, trying to decide which kit to build. I’m definitely not ready for a biplane yet, which narrows it down quite a bit; I have a couple of monoplane kits to choose from, including the P-26, the Buffalo, and a couple different sizes of the Devastator; but I have a duplicate of the Monogram 1/48 Devastator, so in case I botch it I haven’t actually wasted a kit, in that I have another with which to try again. So I guess I’ll go with the Monogram 1/48 Devastator, OOB.
Don,
My USS Saratoga kit is molded in 1/700 scale. I am guessing that you are looking at the 1/350 scale at your local shop. For some reason the modern carriers in 1/700 do run about $90 from Trumpeter, but if the detail and parts count is similar to what I found in my kit, I may need to rebuild a kit of one of the carriers that I served aboard.
Hello All,
Thought I would give this thread a lil bump, it’s grown a bit quite here and maybe it will draw more interest of other modellers.
I still need a few of you to send in your choices for this build and I have pushed out the dated to make the build an entire year.
I have started working on my Hasegawa 1/32 F4B-4 and will have some progress pics up possibly this weekend.
Cheers,
Thom
That’s a very nice one!
I have the Hase 1/32 P-12 as well.
Has anyone volunteered a yellow wing Consolidated PBY-5, such as by Academy? Even at 1/72 it is impressive! [;)]
Tom [C):-)]
Tom
That is a nice kit I have that one too [:)] , I’ve looked at the PBY-5 and it is nice also.
So what are you planning on building the P-12?
Let me know.
Cheers,
Thom
I was thinking of my Aurora 1/48th SBC-3, unless it gets too involved for this build. I intend to steal an engine from a spare Vindicator I got from Hobby Lobby on special, since the Accurate minitures’ kit engine has finer detail then the Aurora’s (both aircraft had essentially the same engine),as well as seeing about using the spare Vindicator’s thinner cast clear cockpit. The provided squadron insignia is my only question, since I can find no record of a naval unit using the Layfayette Escadrille’s style of Indian Chief in warbonnet insignia.
If anyone here can verify this as a valid insignia, I believe I can use the ones on the old Aurora decal sheet.
Otherwise, my second preference from my stash, is a 1/32 Williams Brothers Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk, my third being a Monogram 1/32 F3F, fourth being a Hase BF2-C, fifth being an Accurate Minituures 1/48 Vindicator or a converted Tamiya F3F, sixth being a 1/48th Monogram Devastator, seventh could be the Hase Boeing P-12E or a Hase 1/32 Boeing P-26A.
In the case of the latter two, I would not paint the wings, since I like the orange/yellow color Hasegawa molded them in the 70’s when I got them.
I have a Williams Brothers P-35 Seversky, but it has not yellow wings.
I had a Check model of the Curtiss A-12 Shrike on order, but Squadron.com “lost it”.
I am also sneaking up on a Grumman Duck.
Maybe I will get "on a roll"and do multiple entries, especially the Hase and Monogram kits go together so nicely.
OK?
Tom [C):-)]
Wow, Tom - I’m all out of breath just from reading your post. That’s a lot of thinking and planning there!
Me - I’ve opened the box to my Devastator. Woot!
Tom
The squadron insignia you describe sounds like Scouting Sqn Two (VS-2 after July, 1937, originally VS-3B). They used an Indian head in a warbonnet for years, on a number of aircraft. Unfortunately, they also varied the style, so I can’t say if the one you have is appropriate for the SBC-3. If you can lay hands on a copy of Squadron’s “SBC Helldiver In Action”, there are a few pics in there that would help you.
HTH
Dick
Hello Tom,
I found this in my Navy Air Colors United States Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Gaurd Aircraft Camouflage and Markings Vol. 1 1911-1945.
I do not know if this matches your decals, but at least it confirms that there was such an insignia used.
hth [:)]
Cheers,
Thom