James Michener's novel "the bridges at Toko Ri" is a good read. I stumbled through some of his other novels but Korean War jet fighting, what more do you need. The movie was probably better, particularly Mickey Rooney as a helicopter rescue pilot in his green top hat.
I have a nice collection of Korean War aircraft but no US Navy F8f Panthers. Time for some scratch building. Not sure how these will pan out. I'm also planning on scratch building a 2D flight deck for carrier operations, and Mickey's jolly green giant helicopter.
The Grumman F8f Panther was a US Navy fighter bomber. It counts as a first generation jet.
Fire 2
Agility 1
Speed 11
Traits: Heavy Hitter, Robust.
My scratch build began with a pencil drawn former, and the use of a Sabre to scale.
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| Building up the shape with Milliput. This is a first go. |
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| Using the sabre for scale. The Panther is slightly smaller. |
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| A quick paint job to see where I am with this. The rear of the model is wrong and the cockpit bubbles over emphasised. The air ducts need sculpting too. Not bad and getting there. From this angle the rear strut on the helicopter looks warped but it's actually not! |
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