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The First Fighting Squadron VF-34

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on February 14, 2021March 21, 2021

In early 1944 the US Navy assembled an untrained and ill-prepared fighter squadron and shipped it for immediate action in the final stage of Operation Cartwheel. This is the story of the first Fighting Squadron 34.

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  • Feature Article

“A Thousand Bombers, or One Battleship”

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on September 28, 2020March 18, 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, 2020March 18, 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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鍾馗 “Shoki”

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on August 11, 2020March 26, 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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  • Feature Article

Running On Fumes

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on July 19, 2020March 18, 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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  • Feature Article

The RAAF’s New Guinea Boston Tea Party

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on December 28, 2019March 18, 2021

This is the story of an aircraft the RAAF didn’t want to use and a model I didn’t want to finish.

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  • Feature Article

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

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on September 18, 2019March 18, 2021

The men of the 348th, 349th and 6th Night Fighter Squadrons were more than the nose art on their P-61’s.

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Lt. John “Ray” Johnson’s “Fighting Cocks” P-38L-1 Sep 1944 – Mar 1945

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on April 30, 2019March 18, 2021

The 13th Air Force did not fight the most glamorous of wars, theirs’ was a war of ground attack, relentlessly destroying Japanese ground forces and infrastructure. They fought, not from centralized bases closely tied together, but from island bases, spread hundreds of miles apart.

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No. 25 Squadron, RNZAF Piva Airfield, Bougainville, March – May 1944

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on March 28, 2019March 18, 2021

This update brings to life another of the older articles, from around 2005-2006 and tells the story of No.25 Squadron RNZAF in Bougainville in mid 1944…

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Col. James Beckwith’s 15th FG P-51D-25 Mustang “Squirt” at Iwo Jima, March-May 1944

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on March 4, 2019March 18, 2021

Early on the morning of 7 April the 15th and 21st Groups were poised ready for the signal to start engines. The briefings of the day before and that morning had everyone eager to get the operation underway…

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Here’s the finished PR Mosquito. The subject aircraft, MM312 was only a month or so old at the moment I've modelled it, which was early hours of the morning of 7th June, 1944. It had just completed back to back sorties over France, the second of which was a night-time sortie.
Getting very close to the finish line now...
Exhaust staining completed. These stains were airbrushed, the dark colour first and then the grey. I used the 544 Squadron aircraft in the second pic as the reference.
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the RAAF and we had a perfect day for a fly by here in Canberra. Here’s some real aircraft instead of models...
Moving inextricably towards the finish. Gloss coating, decals on, sealing gloss coat on and setting. As pictured the wings aren’t permanently attached, I’ll be doing most of the weathering first, as well as the undercarriage before finally gluing them on.
Some catch-up... the base painting is complete. The progress was careful; I painted and masked the D-Day stripes first, then built up the PRU blue base coat slowly to ensure a solid coverage. Last, I subtly mottled the base blue with a thin 6:1 mix of the base PRU blue with mid-grey. It’s all curing now, tomorrow I’ll apply the gloss coat in prep for decals.

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The RCAF’s No.404 “Buffalo” Squadron

Two Weeks in January, 1945

The Bottisham Blues

The First Fighting Squadron VF-34

G for George

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

Shades of Grey

“A Thousand Bombers, or One Battleship”

The RAAF’s New Guinea Boston Tea Party

“The Little Friends” – Fighter Escorts of the Eighth Air Force, USAAF in the ETO 1944/45

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Not Just Pretty Nose Art; The Black Widows of Iwo Jima and Ie Shima, March-August 1945
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CV-9 USS Essex & AVG-83, March-August 1945
"The Little Friends" - Fighter Escorts of the Eighth Air Force, USAAF in the ETO 1944/45

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