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Gallery Article by Doug Fede on July 9 2009

 

Fleer Air Arm Avenger

For this project I decided to take an Accurate Miniatures TBF-1C Avenger and model it in Royal New Zealand Air Force markings and paint.  The decals were a set by Aeromaster which went on very well after an application of future along with Microset and where necessary Microsol.  

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The paint scheme was airbrushed using fun tack as a masking tool.  I used a combination of paints including Humbrol, Tamiya, and Polyscale acrylics.  These were the closest to the three color scheme used in the illustrations.  Some color zoom PE by Eduard was used to finish off the cockpit as well as an EZ-Mask set for the canopy glass.  It has plenty of panels and this helped a lot.  The antenna arrays were strung by hand using fishing mono-filament and Elmer's glue for the insulators.  To present the base I utilized an Eduard's plastic styrene creation which I painted and weathered.  

The Fleet Air Arm included aircraft from both the RAF and the RNZAF.  These fighters and bombers patrolled the Pacific and attacked both naval vessels as well as aircraft.  With this in mind, I molded my Avenger with a torpedo in the bomb bay.

Doug Fede

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Photos and text © by Doug Fede