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The Bottisham Blues

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on December 30, 2020December 7, 2021

The Bottisham Four, 26th July, 1944; iconic images that spawned a hundred pages of discussion. Blue or not?

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Alone, Above All

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on November 22, 2020December 7, 2021

The Photo Recon pilot had no wingman, no flight, no formation. He flew alone in radio silence for hours at a time, navigating on dead reckoning all over mainland Europe; in his unarmed Spitfire he had only its altitude and speed, along with his wits and airmanship as protection.

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Hunted.

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on October 17, 2020December 7, 2021

“The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.” – Ulysses S. Grant

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“A Thousand Bombers, or One Battleship”

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on September 28, 2020December 7, 2021

The Battle of the East China Sea.

“Nearly all [Beast] stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon… That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.” – A.N. Wilson

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Shades of Grey

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on September 19, 2020December 7, 2021

In this unusual piece I make the argument for why I’ve painted my in-progress USN Helldiver in a somewhat unconventional scheme.

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“Papagei” Staffel

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on August 15, 2020December 7, 2021

JV44’s “Papagei” Staffel only existed as an operational unit for a couple of weeks, but they live forever (whatever one may think of that…) in plastic. Here’s mine.

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鍾馗 “Shoki”

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on August 11, 2020December 7, 2021

After the VLR P-51 I felt like doing something quick and easy. Here’s my Hasegawa Ki44-II as a straight up modelling piece.

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Running On Fumes

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on July 19, 2020December 7, 2021

Seven hours, covering 1300NM over open ocean, limited fuel, one engine, enemy fighters; there were few missions more relentlessly hazardous, nor with so many different hazards to face.

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Two Weeks in January, 1945

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on June 17, 2020December 7, 2021

If you read to the end, a sense of fatigue wouldn’t be unexpected. It will pale though when compared to the fatigue these men must have endured. I don’t know how they did it.

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  • General Modelling

Otto Shultz’s Jg 27 Bf 109F-4/Trop

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on June 2, 2020December 7, 2021

This piece is an addendum to the article on S/Ldr E. M. “Imshi” Mason, DFC; Otto Shultz was Mason’s victor, along with three others.

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My captured Ta152-H1 is done and dusted. I’m quite happy with how it turned out, what do you think?
While updates have been scarce progress has nevertheless been made. I have almost finished the undercarriage, all that remains is its assembly and then attachment.
All markings painted…. The Wulf now has its Lion’s markings.
Current project, a Ta152H-1 in captured markings. Using the 1/48 Dragon kit. I made the masks and so far have painted the luftwaffe markings, then painted over them :). Next will be the roundels.
The final adaptation for an FAA Avenger is the scratch-built creation of the Observer’s station behind the pilot.
I also had to convert the lower fuselage windows to the FAA spec of round bulged windows instead of flat rectangular shape the US used.

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The RCAF’s No.404 “Buffalo” Squadron

The Bottisham Blues

G for George

Two Weeks in January, 1945

Not Just Pretty Nose Art; The Black Widows of Iwo Jima and Ie Shima, March-August 1945

The First Fighting Squadron VF-34

“A Thousand Bombers, or One Battleship”

Flying Nightingales

Shades of Grey

The RAAF’s New Guinea Boston Tea Party

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