Beyond The Sprues
Modelling => Completed GBs => Group and Themed Builds => The Snoops, Sensors, Spooks, & Spies GB => Topic started by: Logan Hartke on May 15, 2014, 01:01:33 AM
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And here we have another colorful and plausible Heinkel He 46G from a user I've never depicted before, the Bolivian Air Corps.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v132/loganov/Profiles/Heinkel%20He%2046/Reduced%20to%2033%20Percent/BolivianHe46G1.jpg~original) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v132/loganov/Profiles/Heinkel%20He%2046/BolivianHe46G1.jpg~original)
After the Chaco War, the air arms of both Bolivia and Paraguay were practically exhausted, not to mention the down-trodden and long-suffering ground forces. Their air arms had suffered considerably during the war and losses had been tremendous. However, although financially strapped, both nations almost immediately set about rearming should hostilities once again break out. It should be recalled that, although an Armistice had been agreed upon in 1935, an actual settlement of the war and a peace treaty were not signed until 1939.
Bolivia felt very strongly that she had "won" the war in the air, and that her forces need only be strengthened along certain very particular lines. Before the ink on the armistice agreement was even dry, circa October 1935, German sources had offered Bolivia terms on a number of Heinkel He 46 single-engined reconnaissance monoplanes.
These aircraft were delivered in overall silver dope, but some were painted with a tortoise shell green and brown scheme on their upper surfaces much like that applied to the Bolivian Ju 52/3m "Huanuni" that saw service during the Chaco War.
Cheers,
Logan
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Very colourful! :)