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Albatros Modelworks
48-014/72-014
A-26 Invaders
Review by Steve Bamford
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| Albatros Modelworks is well known for their decal sheets with an abundance of interesting nose art....beautiful nose art. This decal sheet is no exception. Included in this decal sheet are markings for 11 different A-26 Invaders. I've cut profiles of the 11 different nose profiles from the instruction sheets to give you a quick taste of the beauty and variety of this decal sheet. You can see them directly below. The thing that strikes me is the sheer variety of nose art as well as the variety of paint schemes. There is even a CIA plane in Cuban markings from the "Bay of Pigs". Also below you'll find scans of the 4 decal sheets. The printing and colours of the decal sheets is crisp and clear with no flaws. The amount of | ||
| decals in this set is absolutely great and includes all the special nose art markings and serial numbers etc to make the 11 planes below. At the bottom of this review you'll find scans of the instruction sheets that will show complete views of the planes that are included on this decal sheet. Also included is a resin nose for one of the planes on this decal sheet. |
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Prices for these sheets will be $19.95 for the 1/48 sheet and $15.50 for the 1/72 sheet. Both scale of this sheet will contain a resin nose as seen above.
| A-26B Forca Aerea
Portuguesa
Esquadrilha Os Diabos, BA9, Luanda, Angola ca. 1973 |
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| A-26B USAF Korean War
A-26B The 6th Chadwick, flown by Major Robert Fortney 13th BS early 1952 |
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| A-26B Versatile Lady, also known as Old able, 13th BS flown by flight leader Capt. Tony Curto, Iwakuni AFB, Japan 1952 |
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| A-26 C Armee De L Air
Armee De L Air of CIB.328, Constantines, Algeria. Circa 1958 |
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| B-26K Congolese Air Force |
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| CIA B-26K, marked as an aircraft of the 21 leme Escadrile |
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| A-26 B Biafran Air Force
Nicknamed "The Shark" Enugu July 1967, flown by RAF WW2Polish ace Jean Zumbach and Ernest Ike during the Nigerian War. |
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| A-26B CIA Invader
Operation Pluto
Flown by Capt. Gustavo Ponzoa, 15 April 1961, beginning of the Bay of Pigs invasion. |
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| A-26B Fuerza Aerea
Hondurena
Based in Tegucigala, March 1976. Used for public display to remind the Salvadorean agents that the Invader had the capability to reach San Salvador at night. |
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| B-26K USAF Operation
Steel Tiger: Laos 1966-1969
Based at Nakhon Phanom, Thailand. This Invader was a Congo veteran '646 in 1967 |
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A-26B Indonesian Air Force
Allocated to Skadron 1, at Abdulrachman Saleh, Malang, East Java. Used for tactical air support interdiction and long range reconnaissance. this particular a/c made it's last flight on 7/12/1977, making it the last fully armed B-26 in military service anywhere in the world. |
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(resolution of decal sheet has been reduced to 75 dpi protect the art work)
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Click on images below to see larger images |
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