AIRCRAFT (3) MORE COLOURFUL INTERWAR TYPES

Continuing our look at interwar types (and colourful camouflage schemes) to inspire conversion and painting of our "piece of cheep Chinese plastic":

The Amerikanskis must not be allowed to have all the
best camouflage schemes! A Polikarpov I-15bis in the
service of Comrade Colonel Professor Winters taxis
into the wind at Shobdon Airfield....

...while this Polikarpov I-16 Rata is preparing to land, fresh from combat in the skies of Spain.
A retractable undercarriage (the first in operational service) solves any undercarriage
problems for the modeller!

The Henschel 123B is the German effort, retaining a biplane configuration but
with a 'big radial engine'

while the Gloucester Gauntlet might be the choice for the Royalist faction looking
for a top "Interceptor Fighter". The Gauntlet was the fastest aircraft in the RAF
from 1935 to 1937 (top speed 229 mph - compared to the slightly later Spitfire Mk.1's
top speed of 355mph!!) and the chequerboard patterns are an open invitation
to a courageous modeller with too much time on his hands...

whatever the choice of type and camouflage, completion of the 2020 Modelling Challenge ("Aircraft and Anti-Everything") by Ebay purchase of our piece of "cheep Chinese plastic" should give the VBCW
modeller enough planes for "full Squadron manoeuvres" over the battlefield!