Author Topic: Lauhof's profiles  (Read 288693 times)

Offline GTX_Admin

  • Evil Administrator bent on taking over the Universe!
  • Administrator - Yep, I'm the one to blame for this place.
  • Whiffing Demi-God!
    • Beyond the Sprues
Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #525 on: January 27, 2014, 04:31:11 AM »
These jet ones remind me a bit of the North American FJ-1 Fury:

All hail the God of Frustration!!!

You can't outrun Death forever.
But you can make the Bastard work for it.

Offline lauhof52

  • Dutchie
  • The Decimator Guy!
Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #526 on: January 27, 2014, 03:09:36 PM »
Yes indeed! ;)

Offline cptmike2012

  • Newly Joined - Welcome me!
Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #527 on: February 12, 2014, 04:46:24 AM »
Thanks!

Douglas, which contributed a lot to the War-effort with the Decimator and Dominator, were asked by the Bureau of Aeronautics to develop a new fighter-bomber with a turboprop engine. Douglas, already building an piston-engine attack-plane (the AD skyraider), came with the A2D Skyshark. Although there were some difficulties at the beginning, they succeeded to deliver the plane before the end of WWII. When the USS Wasp (CV-18) returned to the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington 24 Skysharks were taken on board. With the Wasp they went to Pearl harbor in June for deck-trials. The USS Wasp entered war-activities in July 1945 by attacking Wake Island but only two Skysharks from VFB-86 took part in wartime-efforts by attacking the Yokosuka naval base in Tokyo in august. Here is one of them:



After the war Douglas developed an anti-submarine version of the Skyshark, the A2D-2W. here is one from the VC-12, which took part in the Korean War in 1952:



friendly regards
Lauhof


For some reason, I keep thinking that the A2D-2W would be a natural for Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force colors.  if you have the time, could you please do a JMSDF machine?

Thanks,

CPT Mike

Offline lauhof52

  • Dutchie
  • The Decimator Guy!
Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #528 on: February 16, 2014, 05:00:26 PM »
No problem Mike!

regards
Lauhof

Offline lauhof52

  • Dutchie
  • The Decimator Guy!
Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #529 on: February 23, 2014, 10:12:38 PM »
No problem Mike!

regards
Lauhof


Hi Mike,

After the 2nd WW the allies built up the Japanse defence force as a result of the communist tension in the region. So they created the JMSDF-force. Several Skysharks were delivered in he beginning of the fifties.
Here are two examples:

regards
Lauhof



Offline Scooterman

  • Professional A-4 Stalker...and stealer of Rule 3.
  • Even his underwear is embroided with Skyhawks...
Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #530 on: February 24, 2014, 07:51:21 AM »
SWEET MONKEY JESUS!!!!!

I NEED A SKYSHARK!

Offline cptmike2012

  • Newly Joined - Welcome me!
Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #531 on: February 25, 2014, 12:51:59 AM »
No problem Mike!

regards
Lauhof


Hi Mike,

After the 2nd WW the allies built up the Japanse defence force as a result of the communist tension in the region. So they created the JMSDF-force. Several Skysharks were delivered in he beginning of the fifties.
Here are two examples:

regards
Lauhof





Hello Lauhof,

Thanks for the JMSDF Skysharks; they are outstanding!  :D  I really like the second one; that one really looks like a "could-have-been" aircraft  8)

Best regards,

CPT Mike

Offline lauhof52

  • Dutchie
  • The Decimator Guy!
Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #532 on: February 25, 2014, 02:28:41 AM »
Thank you Guys!

regards
Lauhof

Offline lauhof52

  • Dutchie
  • The Decimator Guy!
Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #533 on: February 25, 2014, 02:29:39 AM »

Hello Lauhof,

Thanks for the JMSDF Skysharks; they are outstanding!  :D  I really like the second one; that one really looks like a "could-have-been" aircraft  8)

Best regards,

CPT Mike
[/quote]

You're welcome

regards
Lauhof

Offline lauhof52

  • Dutchie
  • The Decimator Guy!
Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #534 on: April 23, 2014, 05:32:46 PM »
At the beginning of WWII the Nazis were already testing airplanes with jet-engines. Messerschmitt and Heinkel were the first. When Messerschmitt postponed their tests due to problems with the JUMO 003 engine, for almost two years. Focke-Wulf stepped into the gap and asked Junkers to further develop the Jumo-engine. They came with the Jumo 004A and Focke-Wulf developed the Fw 190T-1.
However the Nazis contracted Messerschmitt for their Me 262. At the time Messerschmitt was still developing prototypes, Focke-Wulf delivered their first Fw 190T's to Finland. The Fins used them with success against the Russian troops. The FW 190T had a good performance. So in the beginning of 1945 the Nazis contracted the Fw 190T-1. here are two examples:




regards
Lauhof

Offline Tophe

  • He sees things in double...
  • twin-boom & asymmetric fan
    • my models
Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #535 on: April 23, 2014, 06:35:48 PM »
Great new silhouettes, thanks!

Offline arc3371

  • Takes no responsibility should anyone try to turn the drawings into plastic...but we will still hold him accountable for the madness that ensues!!!
Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #536 on: April 25, 2014, 06:56:10 PM »
Cool idea and well illustrated

Offline lauhof52

  • Dutchie
  • The Decimator Guy!
Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #537 on: April 26, 2014, 04:57:10 PM »
Thank you, Guys!

Focke-Wulf, disappointed by the lack of interest from the Nazis, started negotiations with the Japanese Navy. They were eager to obtain the Fw 190T jet-version but wanted a torpedo-bomber variant. In 1943 Nakajima started with German engineers to built the Fw 190T-1B.  Successfull tests were made on an airfield near Kobe and several takeoff and decklandings were made on the carrier Taiho, which was already launched in the waters near Kobe but still not commissioned. When the Fw 190T-1B went into production at the beginning of 1944 the purpose was to deliver the torpedo-bomber to the carrier-squadrons. But the staff of the IJNAF were reluctant to use the plane for operational action. Afraid the airplane was captured by their enemy, the US.
The first batch was send to groundforces, such as the 131st Kokutai, stationed at Kanoya AB and used for reconnaissance duties. CPO Yoshimitsu Naka and Radiomann - Lt.JG Hisao Kanazawa, formerly flying a Nakajima B6N2 were send at an reconnaissance mission to Okinawa with the Fw 190T-1B in March 1945. An invasion of the Island was at hand. Due to fuel-distribution problems they had to land at 1e Shima. Before the torpedo-bomber could be repaired, the commander of Okinawa ordered to destroy the airfield on Shima. So the plane was stuck on Shima and was captured by soldiers of the US army 77th infantry division.



regards
lauhof
« Last Edit: April 26, 2014, 05:03:24 PM by lauhof52 »

Offline lauhof52

  • Dutchie
  • The Decimator Guy!
Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #538 on: May 11, 2014, 01:28:40 AM »
The captured Fw 190T-1B was transferred to TAIU-SWPA in the Phillipines and tested. Later on it was send to the US and was used as a trainings-aircraft in OTU at NAS Vero Beach. here are the two different color-profils of the same plane.

regards
Lauhof


« Last Edit: May 11, 2014, 01:31:27 AM by lauhof52 »

Offline Jeffry Fontaine

  • Unaffiliated Independent Subversive...and the last person to go for a trip on a Mexicana dH Comet 4
  • Global Moderator
  • His stash is able to be seen from space...
Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #539 on: May 11, 2014, 04:58:05 AM »
Really like your interpretation of what an estate wagon Skyshark would look like.  The Fw-190T is nothing but brilliant too. 
"Every day we hear about new studies 'revealing' what should have been obvious to sentient beings for generations; 'Research shows wolverines don't like to be teased" -- Jonah Goldberg

Offline lauhof52

  • Dutchie
  • The Decimator Guy!
Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #540 on: May 12, 2014, 02:06:24 AM »
Thank you!

In February 1945 the first Fw 190T-1A's were delivered to operating squadrons at the West. After Operation Bodenplatte had failed the Luftwaffe tried to stop the Allied advance from the West to conquer Germany territory and send in Me 262's and Fw 190T-1A's. One of the pilots had to make a forced landing at Ophoven airfield in Belgium in March 1945 and so the Fw 190T-1A fell in the hands of a British regiment which was resting nearby. They got the plane intact and it was send to the UK for testing at Farnborough. here is the one in May 1945.

regards
Lauhof


Offline lauhof52

  • Dutchie
  • The Decimator Guy!
Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #541 on: May 27, 2014, 01:49:34 AM »
Back to the Decimator and Douglas. When Douglas won the competition with the biplane XFD-1, it didn't went into production, because the Navy stopped ordering biplanes. Douglas was already busy with the TBD-1 torpedobomber and decided to use the basic concept to built a fighter-bomber for the US Navy. Already Grumman and Brewster were also busy with their XF4F and the F2A. The design had the name XF2D-1 but was later tansferred in XFBD-1, a prototype which could be used as a bomber and as a fighter. In 1938 the FBD-1 went into production as a fighter and in 1939 came the FBD-1A, the fighter-bomber variant.
It was delivered tot the USN and USMC in 1939 and was still flying by the end of 1942, when already the F4F's were in combat and the F6F was nearby. The Dutch government ordered the -1A and send them to KNIL in the Indies (they had still their tailhooks). Here are two examples:

regards
Lauhof


« Last Edit: May 27, 2014, 02:28:59 PM by lauhof52 »

Offline GTX_Admin

  • Evil Administrator bent on taking over the Universe!
  • Administrator - Yep, I'm the one to blame for this place.
  • Whiffing Demi-God!
    • Beyond the Sprues
Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #542 on: May 27, 2014, 02:16:25 AM »
Cool.
All hail the God of Frustration!!!

You can't outrun Death forever.
But you can make the Bastard work for it.

Offline Tophe

  • He sees things in double...
  • twin-boom & asymmetric fan
    • my models
Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #543 on: May 27, 2014, 10:27:49 AM »
Thanks for this enrichment of the warbird family! :-*

Offline Logan Hartke

  • High priest in the black arts of profiling...
  • Rivet-counting whiffer
Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #544 on: May 29, 2014, 11:35:36 AM »
Happy Birthday, lauhof!

Cheers,

Logan

Offline lauhof52

  • Dutchie
  • The Decimator Guy!
Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #545 on: May 29, 2014, 07:32:48 PM »
Thanks for this enrichment of the warbird family! :-*
Cool.

Thanks Guys! More to come..

Lauhof

Offline lauhof52

  • Dutchie
  • The Decimator Guy!
Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #546 on: May 29, 2014, 07:33:30 PM »
Happy Birthday, lauhof!

Cheers,

Logan

Thanks Logan!!

regards
Lauhof

Offline lauhof52

  • Dutchie
  • The Decimator Guy!
Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #547 on: June 02, 2014, 03:12:04 AM »
The first Country to buy the FBD-1 was England. They were at war with Nazy-Germany in 1939 and in the phony-war period they bought the FBD-1 to fill the FAA squadrons. here is one from NAS 822 which was still flying in 1943.



When The Dutch Indies were conquered by the Japanese several pilots escaped with their FBD-1A's to Australia. There their planes were enlisted with Australian squadrons and used for training purposes and Home-defence actions. Here is one from No 83 squadron at Coomalie.



regards
Lauhof

Offline lauhof52

  • Dutchie
  • The Decimator Guy!
Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #548 on: June 07, 2014, 07:38:05 PM »
Douglas was already working on the SBD, but used the main part of the FBD to develop a scout- and scout bomber version; The SFD-1 and the SFBD-1. The USN tested both planes ashore and on the carrier Saratoga. Two squadron were equipped : the VS-41 with the SFBD and the VS-72 with the SFD. Here are two examples:




regards
Lauhof

Offline GTX_Admin

  • Evil Administrator bent on taking over the Universe!
  • Administrator - Yep, I'm the one to blame for this place.
  • Whiffing Demi-God!
    • Beyond the Sprues
Re: Lauhof's profiles
« Reply #549 on: June 08, 2014, 03:20:38 AM »
There' something about that nose…makes me think a Biplane version would look good. ;)
All hail the God of Frustration!!!

You can't outrun Death forever.
But you can make the Bastard work for it.