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How interesting that even the painting of these planes identified the different groups. As a child during WW2 I learned to identify the various fighter and bomber planes of Canada and many of the US too, I could also identify all the fleet ships sailing up the St. Lawrence River to the Atlantic to join the war. Funny because today I can't even identify the makes and models of cars

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Industrial design used to have "brand specific" items that made the products identifiable. Now it's not just cars you can't identify.

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These are wonderful!

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Nice to see some more of your great models - of course I have been following you on Modeling Madness since Harrison Ford was young..... :-) Good show - some day I may do Tom Christian's P-51D in its rainbow array, a very interesting kluge of a couple of painting orders according to Dana Bell.....

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Forgot to put Lou IV up - I did it in Dana Bell's revisionist scheme.

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Great! Now I can use you as a reference too..... :-)

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Great pix, and incredible modeling. Thanks TC.

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Love the P47D!

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Forward in these to my nephew, another modeler and a wooden boat builder. He will appreciate these because they will remind him of his Canadian father, also a modeler whose works often took up wide swathes of the ceilings where he hung them.

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