Give Me a Gun or Somethin'! The Monster's At the Door!

[jimm]

Ah yes the Corsair kits with folding wings. Another tuffie for a youngster! 

My pop flew the C46 during the big one 



Love everything POTA related Bud!

[bigbud]

jimm....searched through my plane kits and can only find a C47....do you know of any kits made of the C46?  What is interesting is that by model number the C46 would seem to have been produced prior to the C47 yet it looks so much more streamlined and modern than the C47......

[Scatter]

This is a 1953 Buddy L Spitfire Machine Gun. Over 2 feet long and weighs over 2 lbs.   Combines plastic with plated steel and aluminum. Has a drop down cap loader, and also makes a nice rat-a-tat sound when you turn the crank. Bi-pod folds under when needed..........








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Buddy, did I see your name scratched faintly into the metal on that gun? I'd gun down the perpetrator! I knew it couldn't have been you because the name was spelled correctly.

[bigbud]

Scatter...you monster child you!

[jimm]

Bud, one of the newer kit company made one a while back, gonna have to pick one up off the bay.

[bigbud]

I really like the lines of the C46!

[Hepcat]

Love those Korean War cards!

Well then here are scans from my Fight the Red Menace set with which Bowman in 1951 responded to the Freedom's War set Topps had issued:





Note the colouring error on the Mao Tse-Tung card. Mao's eyes were of course brown and not green.

[bigbud]

Wow..that one Russian jet looks like a German ME 163 Komet......

[bigbud]

Ya can't go to backyard neighborhood-kid combat without a helmet! And one of the coolest is the Remco Monkey Division Helmet.........says it "Fits All Head Sizes"...fraid that does not include Scatter and me..............ha!

[Fester]

jimm....searched through my plane kits and can only find a C47....do you know of any kits made of the C46?  What is interesting is that by model number the C46 would seem to have been produced prior to the C47 yet it looks so much more streamlined and modern than the C47......

The C-47 Skytrain/Dakota was built by Douglas Aircraft and was a military/cargo version of the DC-3.  The DC-3 was first flown 1935. The military version came out in late 1941.   Around 16,000 were built, of which maybe 2,000 are still flying.

The C-46 Commando was built by Curtis Aircraft starting in 1941 but only about 3100 were made.
The C-46 was about 10 feet longer and its wing span was a bit wider. It was faster, had a better range almost 2X that of the C-47, and could fly a couple thousand feet higher.
The biggest problem was its engines.  Those Pratt & Whitney R-2800-51 engines put out 2000 horsepower; The C-47's Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90's put out only 1200.
Problem was--it cost half again more to run a C-46.  Quite a few of them are still flying, though, mostly in Northwestern Canada and in Alaska.  They are great for hauling stuff in crappy weather--tough birds.

Williams made a 1/72 scale model kit of the C-46. And there are several sources for finished carved mahogany models.

[jimm]

Thanks for the write-up Fester. I remember Pop telling me they flew Trans-Atlantic once. Had to land on a tiny spec in the middle of the ocean. When they took off it was off a cliff! 

[Hepcat]

Wow..that one Russian jet looks like a German ME 163 Komet......

That's because the Soviets just copied the German designs to begin their own jet program after WWII.

[Hepcat]

Ya can't go to backyard neighborhood-kid combat without a helmet! And one of the coolest is the Remco Monkey Division Helmet.........says it "Fits All Head Sizes"...fraid that does not include Scatter and me..............ha!

Oh man, beautiful box too! Does it include the cardboard insert to hold the actual helmet during shipping?

[curseofthewerewolf]

Oh Lordy, Bud...what don't you have?  My head is spinning....WOW!!!

What is that Thor figure I see in a couple of the photos with the cloth cape?

[curseofthewerewolf]

In regards to cranial protection, here's a shot of me w/ my new Steve Canyon helmet.

I had one, too. Still remember the smell when wearing it (uh, from the toy, that is).