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.
Tim
ReplyDeleteVery nice (and deadly looking) model. Quite the nose art too!
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PD
Always liked the Black Widow.
ReplyDeleteI saw, heard and indeed felt one fly over at an airshow once. A stunningly powerful beastie.
ReplyDeleteRichard
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.
ReplyDelete...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!
ReplyDeletePeter Douglas
ReplyDeleteI was confident that someone would spot the nose art?
Xaltotun of Python
ReplyDeleteI remember it from the Airfix catalogue way back when - but could never afford one!
Counterpane
ReplyDeleteIt certainly looks like a noisy thing.
Stephen Beat
ReplyDeleteThanks 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
ReplyDeleteGeordie
ReplyDeleteI 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...