Friday, 3 August 2012

Sea Venom

As has been mentioned previously, I have an idea for a couple of games based on the 1956 Suez campaign.  I confess that the thought of painting (more) invasion stripes in 1/300 didn't thrill me but I was won over when I discovered that rather than being black/white (as per the 1944 originals) the 1956 stripes were in fact black/yellow!  So we have a collection of exotic aircraft in silly colours - simply irressitible! 
Several squadrons of these Sea Venoms were in service with the Fleet Air Arm at the time.  The models are by Heroics & Ros and were nice clean castings.
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6 comments:

  1. Paul3 August 2012 at 13:46

    Great looking birds Tim. I agree with the striking stripping.

    I was tempted to buy a Airfix Seahawk the other day for a Suez game.

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  2. Ross Mac rmacfa@gmail.com3 August 2012 at 14:21

    Dance like a butterfly, be painted like a bee. or something like that.

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  3. Tim Gow3 August 2012 at 14:33

    Paul
    More stripiness to come!

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  4. Tim Gow3 August 2012 at 14:33

    Ross Mac
    Close enough Ross.

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  5. Anonymous4 August 2012 at 18:39

    That's a cool looking plane, I never knew about.

    Black and yellow are nature's sign for 'DANGER!!', so maybe they intend to scare their opponents.

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  6. Tim Gow4 August 2012 at 20:18

    SAROE
    You'd probably have to ask the Egyptians about that!

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