RNZAF Ventura build

[ZacYates]

Hi guys,
Over at ModelingMadness.com master modeller and historian Tom Cleaver has built the new Revell 1/48 Lockheed PV-1 Ventura...as a Kiwi example! Check it out here: www.modelingmadness.com/reviews/allies/cleaver/us/tmcpv1.htm

I've always found the Ventura the best-looking of the wartime twins, and to see an example so superbly done in RNZAF colours warmed my heart after a few days of personal troubles and warbird woes.

Now, to mention to Brendon the idea of buying a Ventura...

[Dave Homewood]

Nice work, but I see he is crediting my research into the correct serial number of Slippery Sam to Pete Mossong.

[ZacYates]

I would email him, Dave.

[trx850]

Mar 9, 2012 18:25:48 GMT 12 Dave Homewood said:

Nice work, but I see he is crediting my research into the correct serial number of Slippery Sam to Pete Mossong.

Dave. He obviously saw the now corrected artwork on my site giving the serial, but not my credit given to you for this I have added below my colour plate of 'Slippery Sam'!

rnzaf.hobbyvista.com/vendraw.html

Cheers,
Pete M.

P.s. I've also been in touch with David Hannant regarding the serial and the colour of the nose art!

[Dave Homewood]

Thanks Pete.

[dewobz]

Hate to blow my own horn but I also have an RNZAF Ventura build online, NZ4540 on kiwimodeller.com www.kiwimodeller.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=68&id=19597&Itemid=122 as part of our RNZAF 75th Anniversary Group Build. I regret the finished photos are not inserted into the stream, which also contains correction of my assumption that our lend-lease aircraft were mostly second-hand. [Got it now] Currently building NZ4509 with 2 Sqn Mar/Apr 1944 after repainting. Tom Cleaver's "surprize" and comments about Ventura being a "second line" aircraft are interesting, it being so important in RNZAF history. Cheers, Wally.