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| Not sure of the artist on this one...cool work though! |
Well, I am probably safe to say that anyone who is "woke" probably doesn't know Wake, but as for me, time to get another little Check Your 6! project knocked out! And this time, I am going...small! I ordered a few 1/600 scale aircraft from Pico Armor because I did not want to buy a slew of bombers in 1/285th for a one off sort of project. While I picked up Wildcats and Nells, the Nells were only part of the earliest air attacks on Wake...pretty much every other attack on the atoll was delivered by Mavis flying boats. I have a list of dates, types of planes, and numbers, and was hoping to run a small campaign, but I really do not want to buy a bunch of Mavis's because even at 1/600 scale they are still three bucks a piece.
Listing of potential scenarios:
December 8th
36 Mitsubishi G3M3 Nells vs. 12 F4F-3 Wildcats
December 12th
2 Kawanishi H6K Mavis’s vs. 4 Wildcats
December ??
5 (10) Mavis’s vs. 4 Wildcats
December 15th
6 (7) Mavis’s vs. 4 Wildcats
December 18th
8 Mavis’s vs. 4 Wildcats
Once these little birds arrive I will be sending them off to Chris Geisert of I-94 for painting, along with several 1/285th selections. Kevin Hammond of Miscellaneous Miniatures simply does not have the time to paint commission projects any longer, which is a shame because I've enjoyed using his services, but I am very glad he completed the 1948 Arab-Israeli project for me. Chris does nice work as well...all my Korean War aircraft are done by him.
As always, more on this in a future post!
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| Cat and Mouse Over Wake - Artwork by Marc Stewart |