Beyond The Sprues
Modelling => Completed GBs => Group and Themed Builds => Gunships GB => Topic started by: Weaver on March 25, 2016, 07:13:56 AM
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When you've finished your model, please post it in this thread in order for it to be included in the voting process.
Posts on this thread should consist of:
1. Up to three photographs
2. A short description (about a paragraph)
3. A link to the build thread
Please DO NOT post comments, questions, critiques or anything else except finished build entries on this thread. If you want to comment on a model, please do so on the relevent build thread.
If you want your efforts to be judged in multiple categories, i.e. a physical build and/or a profile and/or a back story, then please post the relevent material in EACH of the relevent 'finished builds' threads. Work will only be entered into voting for the categories in which it's submitted.
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1/72 CASA 352M "Miguel" (http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=6181.0;all)
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/ZacYates/just%20models/4FD2F670-A460-4199-94DE-0045C15C144E_zpscumjvqnl.jpg) (http://s15.photobucket.com/user/ZacYates/media/just%20models/4FD2F670-A460-4199-94DE-0045C15C144E_zpscumjvqnl.jpg.html)
In the late 1960s General Franco directed the Ejercito del Aire to develop a gunship in the vein of the American "Spooky" or "Puff", to be used against anti-colonialists in Spanish Sahara. Three CASA 352L aircraft - licence-built Junkers Ju52 transports - were duly converted to carry an array of machineguns, two miniguns and a Bofors 40mm cannon and re-engined with a pair of powerful Rolls-Royce Merlins in place of the original three radials.
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/ZacYates/just%20models/A3FA768F-111E-488E-B383-DC51D14484DD_zpslnaakttx.jpg) (http://s15.photobucket.com/user/ZacYates/media/just%20models/A3FA768F-111E-488E-B383-DC51D14484DD_zpslnaakttx.jpg.html)
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/ZacYates/just%20models/DF4B13A0-5F66-4398-8BD9-B8C725CF8006_zpsywugkqxj.jpg) (http://s15.photobucket.com/user/ZacYates/media/just%20models/DF4B13A0-5F66-4398-8BD9-B8C725CF8006_zpsywugkqxj.jpg.html)
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"General VandeBoom" was the nickname for a field modification of a Beech JRB completed by a pair of Marine officers (one a junior pilot and the other a mid-level artillery officer) during the difficult days of the Guadalcanal campaign. The JRB had been the personal transport of Maj Gen AA Vandegrift and was modified by mounting a 75mm M1A1 pack howitzer firing out the doorway on the port side of the aircraft. A .50 caliber machine gun was also mounted to assist with aiming.
Here is a link to the build thread and backstory: http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=6169.0 (http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=6169.0)
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Okay, it's well past midnight on the 31st, so I hereby declare this GB closed. A poll will follow shortly.