Wulf's old drawings

[wulf]

One can never have too many girls on the rack, the horse, the strappado, the stocks, the whipping post. the......

Agree but you must have noticed that after a while they all tend to look the same. And the master Dick want something new to stay interested. That's the nature of things.

That's why new perspective from you are much more valuable than same tired racks/horse/strappados I make. They might be more polished but the master Dick doesn't care.

Seriously, I get it. And you're right that master Dick is the one calling shots, just never heard it put that way before.

I used to build plastic scale models of ww2 fighter planes. Every so often I would have the urge to build something different. So there are a few tanks, a helicopter, a rather large Japanese battleship (1/200 scale) in my collection.
So like I said, I get it.

[doe.1971]

I used to build plastic scale models of ww2 fighter planes. Every so often I would have the urge to build something different. So there are a few tanks, a helicopter, a rather large Japanese battleship (1/200 scale) in my collection.
So like I said, I get it.

P-38 Lightning, all the way. Maybe a Corsair or a Wildcat. But Lightning killed Yamamoto, so respect the man. Or the plane, in this case.

[yyy02]

... P-38 Lightning, all the way. Maybe a Corsair or a Wildcat. But Lightning killed Yamamoto, so respect the man. Or the plane, in this case.

Operation Vengeance: The Astonishing Aerial Ambush That Changed World War II
by Dan Hampton

If you're interested in reading military history anyway.

BTW I've seen some pics of wulf's completed model builds: some great talent there.

[doe.1971]

Operation Vengeance: The Astonishing Aerial Ambush That Changed World War II
by Dan Hampton

A title a bit pompous if you ask me. Yamamoto, charismatic as he was, couldn't change the fate of a minor battle at that point, US was rising militarily much, much faster than Japan, pretty much all Yamamoto supervised toward the end of his life were only withdrawals and skirmishes defeats, a far cry from the days of Pearl Harbor.

But someone needs to sell a book, so let's not throw stones.

I mentioned P-38 not only because I like its frame but also the interception feat was nothing short of amazing. Fly 1000 miles in a fighter plane, skimming the water, avoiding coasts to keep the secret, staying in formation and finding precisely the spot desired with the crappy compasses the US Army used on its planes? Add precise timing on target, as they have little gas left ... all in all, amazing.

Too bad Lanphier had to spoil the works with his meritless claims .. reminds me of another sad development about who shot Osama bin Laden.

[yyy02]

...Fly 1000 miles in a fighter plane, skimming the water, avoiding coasts to keep the secret, staying in formation and finding precisely the spot desired with the crappy compasses the US Army used on its planes? Add precise timing on target, as they have little gas left ... all in all, amazing.

Too bad Lanphier had to spoil the works with his meritless claims .. reminds me of another sad development about who shot Osama bin Laden.

@50 ft over featureless ocean, on the inbound flight...

If I recall correctly Maj. John Mitchell (amazing commander of that flight) used a different, USN compass, for more accuracy?
Dan Hampton, the author, pretty much dispels the notion that Lanphier, and not Rex Barber, was the shooter of record.

And Yamamoto sealed his own fate by being so punctual.

[doe.1971]

@50 ft over featureless ocean, on the inbound flight...

Aye.

If I recall correctly Maj. John Mitchell (amazing commander of that flight) used a different, USN compass, for more accuracy?

He did. He asked for one to be installed using spit and tape, then asked everyone else in the squad to follow him.

Dan Hampton, the author, pretty much dispels the notion that Lanphier, and not Rex Barber, was the shooter of record.

As it should have been.

And Yamamoto sealed his own fate by being so punctual.

I say that to myself every morning. "Don't be too precise in your dealings, JD unless you want to have Yamamoto's fate". A good way to organize your life.

[wulf]

My favorite subject, ww2 fighters and other aircraft.

I love the P-38 as well. Unfortunately I wasn't able to finish one before leaving the hobby.

I do have some types from the pacific theater though.
This picture may be off topic, but it's my thread, so sue me.

F4U-1D
A/C SERIAL 49850
ID NO 850
SERVICE USMC
OP UNIT VMF 217
OPS AREA Guam Sep 44
PILOT unknown
NOSE ART / UNIT ID Bayou Baby

[doe.1971]

Ah, the Corsair ... the terror of Zeros ...

[wulf]

Sorry for the quality of the girl in the stocks image. Lost the original and this was the only copy I had. Never got around to cleaning it up.

The other one is purely educational showing alternate uses for the ordinary curling iron.

[yyy02]

...This picture may be off topic, but it's my thread, so sue me.

Yep, sue him (not me)

One of the more colorful P-38s, that of Col. Charles MacDonald:

Believe these are computer mockups.