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Douglas A-20 Boston

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1/48 Douglas A-20 by AMT

by dale travis on September 12, 2021
in Aviation — 48 Comments

Lots of aftermarket items added to this build. The engines, cowlings, propellers, control surfaces, cockpit, control panel, guns, and wheels. Foxbot decals were also used to replace the kit ones. I fabricated the pitot head on the fin, the ret[...]

A-20B Havoc 1/48 AMT ( with my lovely Tigercat )

by Josef Rössner on March 21, 2018
in Aviation — 27 Comments

A-20B, “Miss Burma” of the 86th Bomber Squadron, 47th Bombardment Group, based in Italy in 1943.The curious thing about this plane is its name, given that it served in the Mediterranean rather than the China-Burma-India theatre. Fantastic kit on[...]

“Cry ‘Havoc,’ and let slip the dogs of war”… Kasserine Pass Build Group A-20B Havoc

by David A. Thomas on February 22, 2018
in Aviation — 29 Comments

First, a thanks to all who've participated in the Kasserine Pass/Tunisia Campaign Group Build, which has been a blast and has already seen some remarkable submissions with more to come. Before I get into my own contribution, I would like to of[...]

Douglas A 20G Boston, A28-60, 22 Sqn RAAF Noemfoor Island 1944.

by Allan J Withers on April 23, 2017
in Aviation — 16 Comments

1/72 MPM, I modified a few things, upper turret guns hinge, added alloy foil to landing lights, tinned copper wire push rod tubes to engines, finished in MM enamels with Future and Xtra flat over kit and Aussie decals from the spares box.

1/48 AMT P-70 Nighthawk

by Tom Bebout on October 9, 2016
in Aviation — 21 Comments

Finally pulled this off the shelf to complete my A-20 series of aircraft. I discovered that working with black is about as difficult as working with NMF. This model represents a P-70 that was with Detachment A, 6th Night Fighter Squadron at Port[...]

Douglas A-20 in 1:48 from Italeri

by Ulf Lundberg on June 12, 2016
in Aviation — 23 Comments

The Douglas 20, sometimes called ”Boston”, sometimes called ”Havoc” is a bit of an unsung hero. This, and its kool looks, were the main reasons I wanted to build a model of it. It served in the French, the British, the Soviet and the US Air Forc[...]

Aussie Aussie Aussie. :) My 1/48 Amt RAAF Db-7 Boston

by Paul van Acker on March 13, 2016
in Aviation — 27 Comments

Stationed in New Guinea. It passed through Archerfield airport in Brisbane, where I live 5 mins from now. Nice to do a local boy. Lol. More RAAF subjects to come. Hope you like. Replacement engine cowlings and trop filters for the RAAF an[...]

1/48 AMT A-20C Havoc/Boston III

by Tom Bebout on January 23, 2015
in Aviation — 17 Comments

My second A-20, the first was a G model and it was so bad my grandson took it home where it shortly crashed on takeoff. I used the long range aux tank on this one as I assumed it was needed to get them to the MTO. Had some issues with silvering [...]

Douglas A-20B Havoc desert diorama 1/48

by Miha Kosi on October 14, 2014
in Aviation — 24 Comments

Hi everybody! For my first article I chose my desert diorama, which was presented also in Moson model show in Hungary in april 2014. It was noticed by the editor of iModeler.com who gave the invitation to post the photos here. Thank you Martin![...]

D-Day Group Build – 1/48 AMT A-20G Havoc

by Jaime Carreon on July 17, 2014
in Aviation — 20 Comments

This is the AMT 1/48 scale A-20G in the markings of the 646th Bomb Squadron, 410th Bomb Group, 9th Air Force based at Gosfield, UK during the Normandy invasion. Kit was built mostly OOB with the addition of the True details resin wheels and lif[...]