This P-61 Black Widow was built from a Japanese pre-coloured Gashapon kit.
As I understand it, the P-61 saw some late war service in (or rather over) the Pacific, flying long range night fighter missions. In black it certainly makes a striking model.
11 comments:
Tim
Very nice (and deadly looking) model. Quite the nose art too!
Cheers
PD
Always liked the Black Widow.
I saw, heard and indeed felt one fly over at an airshow once. A stunningly powerful beastie.
Richard
Not a plane I know much about, but I liked the look of the picture on Airfix box for this when I was a kid. It looked a very exciting plane.
...Very pleased that I did look up the P-61 and it's history (because of this post). Because I discovered that one of my favourite planes - the Beaufighter - was used by the USAAF and was the night fighter that the P61 replaced (because not enough Mosquitos were available apparently). You learn something new every day!
Peter Douglas
I was confident that someone would spot the nose art?
Xaltotun of Python
I remember it from the Airfix catalogue way back when - but could never afford one!
Counterpane
It certainly looks like a noisy thing.
Stephen Beat
Thanks for the reaearch - I didn't know about the US Beaufighters!
Cor I remember seeing a kit like this as a boy and thought cool ... too cool for my modeling skills at the time .. it does look a frightening beast .. something about it makes it look so wicked
Geordie
I checked in an old Airfix catalogue and can now reveal that their version of the P-61 was a Series 4 kit! No wonder none of us had it - who could afford such luxuries? The only S4 kit I remember having was the He111. No Dakota, F-111, Wellington etc...
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