This new decal
sheet from Cutting Edge
Modelworks includes markings for four different vewrsion of 1/72 B-24's that
took part in the Ploessti raids during World War 2 with noseart. Three of
the planes on this decal sheet are the same B-24 in different times during it
bomber career.
The first aircraft is a
B-24D-70-CO, "Wongo Wongo", flown by Lt Brian W. Flavellewith
the 513 BS, 376 BG out of Berka 2, Benghazi, Libya on 1 August 1943.
The paint scheme
for this aircraft is the desert camo scheme with Sand on top and Neutral
Gray
on the underside. The nose art is a
bald eagle wearing a red/white/blue Stars and Stripes Uncle Sam top hat with red text that reads "Wongo
Wongo!". Beside that is skull and cross bones over a painted
propeller. The
artwork for this aircraft has a white decal to go underneath the noseart decal.
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