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My ML-KNIL Brewster B-339 is now finished, so here are some photos of it:
Though I built it as part of the Animal Antics group build, once I had started I realised it wasn’t actually really suitable for it, because “Buffalo” is the British name for this plane — in Dutch service, they were known as Brewsters, never as Buffalos. I’ll make up for it with some Sherman Crabs
As for the model: after painting it and adding the markings, as shown in the build thread, I enhanced the panel lines with my home-made concoction (colourless acrylic floor varnish plus black pigment), painting it into the lines and wiping it away towards the rear with my fingers. Then I drybrushed the green with lighter shades using Humbrol enamels and Vallejo acrylics, to fade the paint, again from the front towards the rear to make sure the streaks would run in the direction of flight. Then all that remained was adding the wheels and bombs and removing the masking.
As for the bombs, I’m not sure these would have been carried on the final ML-KNIL mission (again, see the build threat), and if they were, I’m not sure these American bombs are the ones that would have been carried But I think they’re plausible, so I used the kit-supplied ones — also because I have no idea what bombs the ML-KNIL actually used. American ones seem likely both because the ML-KNIL used almost nothing but American planes, and by early 1942 they probably got American supplies as well.
Though I built it as part of the Animal Antics group build, once I had started I realised it wasn’t actually really suitable for it, because “Buffalo” is the British name for this plane — in Dutch service, they were known as Brewsters, never as Buffalos. I’ll make up for it with some Sherman Crabs
As for the model: after painting it and adding the markings, as shown in the build thread, I enhanced the panel lines with my home-made concoction (colourless acrylic floor varnish plus black pigment), painting it into the lines and wiping it away towards the rear with my fingers. Then I drybrushed the green with lighter shades using Humbrol enamels and Vallejo acrylics, to fade the paint, again from the front towards the rear to make sure the streaks would run in the direction of flight. Then all that remained was adding the wheels and bombs and removing the masking.
As for the bombs, I’m not sure these would have been carried on the final ML-KNIL mission (again, see the build threat), and if they were, I’m not sure these American bombs are the ones that would have been carried
But I think they’re plausible, so I used the kit-supplied ones — also because I have no idea what bombs the ML-KNIL actually used. American ones seem likely both because the ML-KNIL used almost nothing but American planes, and by early 1942 they probably got American supplies as well.
