God Is My Co-Pilot

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dazdaman
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God Is My Co-Pilot

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A war film that doesn't seem to get the recognition that it deserves, God Is My Co-Pilot is based on the wartime memoirs of Robert Lee Scott, a pilot who flew combat sorties with the famed "Flying Tigers" in China.

The film makes great use of the P-40 in its various combat scenes, but it fell to the good old North American AT-6 Texan to play the Japanese fighter contingent once again!

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Veteran generic Asian character actor Richard Loo played Scott's fictional nemesis, "Tokyo Joe".
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So, to add to my burgeoning collection of movie star warbirds, I thought I would do one of these aircraft!

I used this kit as a basis - my first HobbyBoss 1/72 kit:
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The planes in the film seem to be virtually unmodified, save for masking out the rear cockpit to make the Texan appear as a single-seater.

So, some quick progress on the Texan in the space of a couple of hours:
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Well, that was quick!

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There's a sequence in the film where a couple of the "Zeros" drop bombs onto the Flying Tigers' airfield. If I had some suitable bombs for it, I'd have stuck them on. Sadly not!

Anyway, it was fun building "Tokyo Joe"'s Zero. Next up is a "proper" replica Zero.... ;-)
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