Having finally gotten around to painting up my Museum miniatures Italian Aircraft I decided that the time had come to pit them against the Desert Air Force. Unfortunately, on opening the WW2 Desert Airforce box, not seen since the move to Cyprus, I discovered that this much vaunted collection consisted of two, that's two, Hurricanes. The entire remainder of the Aircraft were... German...
Odd how my memory played tricks on me. I could have sworn that there were 12 Hurricanes.
Ah well, its desperate measures. Squadron leader Quiggles and Young Bertie were about to face the Regia Aeronautica in a pair of early war Hurricanes.
Once I looked up aircraft stats I was reassured. The Italian planes have style... the Macchi C.202 Folgore is a beautiful design, my Fiat G.50 Freccia ("Arrow") planes look nicely early war, being flown with cockpits open. The Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 bomber is a tri-engined beast, but it has style.
Unfortunately the thing that none of these aircraft has is substance, the two Hurricanes outgun them all.
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| A Fiat CR.42 Falco biplane is escorted by a newer Fiat G.50 on patrol |
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| Quiggles and Bertie |
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| The bi-plane dives down onto the deck whist the G50 attacks. |
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| In a flash Quiggles is on the tail, and the G50 is done for, Critical damage, pilot killed. |
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| The bi-plane escapes |
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| Enter the rest of the Regia Aeronautica |
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| Straight into a dog-fight |
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| The C.202s sweep back around and try to get a shot at the Hurricanes. |
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| The Bomber dives low and heads away |
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| Quiggles downs one of the C.202s |
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| Leaving Bertie todeal with the fighters, Quiggles dives after the bomber |
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| RIP Bertie as his engine is shot away |
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| Sweeping around, Quiggles kills the bomber. Job done. |
Alas poor Bertie! Luckily his brother Algy can step into his well used size 9's. Where are the missing Hurricanes? Are they on a clandestine mission? Will they return? Somehow I think they will.
ReplyDeleteI can't figure it out. Why would I sell ten out of twelve Hurricanes? A trip to Museum Miniatures is in order. I finished putting the logos (markings) on the wings of the Italians today. Trouble is I can't do much with just two Hurricanes, except variants of the same game. Still once I recruit back up to strength Quiggles and Co will fly again.
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