Small Scale Military Headquarters

I hope that you will find this story about the recovery of an original Brewster Buffalo as interesting as I did. Amazing!

http://broadcast.illuminatedtech.com/di ... cfm?bp=131

JimBob

That's pretty neat. Thanks for sharing.

Anybody up for a 1/18 VMF Midway Buffalo?

I think 21st (or someone else) posted the release of one a couple years ago as an April Fools joke.

Not a bad A/C

Do you know that the early model Buffalo was just about as good as a Zero? It wasn't until armor plating and self-sealing tanks that it fell behind.... Interesting factoid.

-Ski

Teamski wrote:Do you know that the early model Buffalo was just about as good as a Zero? It wasn't until armor plating and self-sealing tanks that it fell behind.... Interesting factoid.

-Ski

I remembered reading that years ago.

Do you know that the early model Buffalo was just about as good as a Zero? It wasn't until armor plating and self-sealing tanks that it fell behind.... Interesting factoid.

Hey Ski, I honestly did not know that. I knew that the Finns had used the BB very effectively against Russian Rata's in the winter war of 1939-40, but I always thought it was hopelessly outclassed by the Zero, I guess it must have been the later models, the extra weight of the armor and SS fuel tanks adversely affecting it's performance.

Do you know that the early model Buffalo was just about as good as a Zero? It wasn't until armor plating and self-sealing tanks that it fell behind.... Interesting factoid.

No, I never would've thought that! Very interesting, thanks for sharing!

JimBob

JimBob55 wrote:

Do you know that the early model Buffalo was just about as good as a Zero? It wasn't until armor plating and self-sealing tanks that it fell behind.... Interesting factoid.

No, I never would've thought that! Very interesting, thanks for sharing!

JimBob

I believe I read that in Martin Caiden's Ragged, Rugged Warriors many, many years ago.....

-Ski