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Friday, December 07, 2018 - 08:15 AM UTC
Special Hobby has released details of the marking options for the 1/72 scale Bolo B-18B Anti Submarine Warfare variant they will be releasing shortly
”The new B-18B was offered in two machines. One flew in the classic Olive Drab / Neutral Gray color, while the other was covered with Oyster White except for the top of the wing and the Olive Drab GOP.”
Special Hobby

The B-18B Bolo was a Antisubmarine conversion, with 122 aircraft converted by adding a radar and magnetic anomaly detector [MAD].

SH72230 - B-18B Bolo 'ASW' – 1/72

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It was just a matter of time! The radar nose is included in the other two kit releases, so I figured the sub hunter would be on the way eventually. For those that don't know, the B18 was the first US service aircraft to sink a U-Boat, going on to sink another and damage several others. It also sank one in Canadian service. It was the most numerous Bomber aircraft in the US inventory at the start of WWII. It actually beat out the B-17 in the 1933 Bomber competition. I am a little surprised at the marking options though, since the sub-hunter version had some wild and interesting camouflage patterns, these are a little tame. VR, Russ
DEC 07, 2018 - 08:53 AM
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