Looking good, Jeff!
Is your folding-wing TB2D-1 Havoc on hold due to that wing cut issue ... or is one of these fuselages destined to go to sea?
This project has been in and out of limbo for quite a few years. I have been on and off this project for far too many years. At one time, I had three A-20 kits all stuffed into one box and it was a major undertaking just getting the bits and pieces out of the box to a point where I could remember what I had last done with the project. I disposed of one A-20/P-70 kit to a friend of mine in Utah that also enjoys the what-if niche and that helped in sorting things out. Most of the parts have been identified for the project and included in the project box. I was toying with the idea of trying to convert from R-2600 radials to R-2800 radials but that did not pan out as the engine nacelles are a bit too short to get away with the larger R-2800 engines. That being said, the R-2800 engines from the AMT/Ertl-Italieri F9F Tigercat do fit inside the Havoc engine nacelles.
As far as going to sea, that is the intention for both Havocs at the moment. One started life as a P-70 night fighter and the other was the A-20G (four-gun nose). I sanded the feature on the P-70 nose smooth so that it can become a radar nose and will have the two cheek mounted Browning machine guns. There was some swapping of kit parts and I gave away the A-20G fuselage since it has a powered gun turret in the radio operator/rear gunner position and I was focused on a carrier strike aircraft that would need to lose some weight in order to haul bombs or torpedos with drop tanks and under-wing stores. I acquired some blister pack machine guns for the B-26 Marauder and B-25 Mitchell with the intention of using one or the other on the Havoc and the remaining set to be used with my Attack Tracker (TB2F?) since the Tracker has no room up front for a battery of any kind, side blister mounted package machine guns seemed like the best solution for both the Havoc and the Tracker projects.
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