The F2A Database at iModeler

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Brewster F2A Buffalo

Jim Sullivan Memorial Build, F2A Buffalo

Hi All, This is my first contribution to the Mr. Jim Sullivan Memorial Group Build. I did not know Jim personally but have read many of his books and enjoyed seeing his models here on iModeler. His talents will be missed. I hope my [...]

Tamiya 1/48 Brewster F2A-2 Buffalo

Here is my completed entry for the Jim Sullivan Memorial Build. This is Tamiya's 1974 boxing of their first release of the Brewster Buffalo, Kit No. 61019. There are 3 versions that can be made, RAF, Dutch and USN. This is a nice kit, all [...]

Yellow Wings...1/48 Brewster F2A-2 Buffalo, VF-2 "Flying Chiefs", USN

My dad´s yellow wing theme still continues. Also this is his first contribution to the Jim Sullivan Memorial GB. As usual some glitches but all in all not bad for a 75 year old man and a 49 year old kit Tamiya kit, early 90ies edition, [...]

Trainer: Brewster F2A-2 Buffalo – 1/48 Tamiya

So this is the second build that I had promised a few days ago, another kit saved from the proverbial Shelf of Doom. This Tamiya F2A-2 kit, much like the Hobbycraft P-36 that came before, was purchased for something like $6 many years ago, [...]

Off the SoD – Special Hobby Brewster B-239 “Taivaan Helmi”

How a company that produced buggies during the 19th Century and was virtually moribund before it was bought, resuscitated, and turned into a manufacturer of naval aircraft managed with its first design - the B-239 - to come in ahead of [...]

1/48 Tamiya Brewster BuffaloU.S. Navy VS-102

This build was a nice easy build of the Brewster Buffalo dressed in U.S. Navy colors of VS-102. Some photo etch details were added. I also used the Quickboost resin engine and super detailed it. The engine fit pretty well with only some [...]

Brewster F2A Buffalo Tamiya 1/48Aicraft Model

Another beauty by PLASMO. The old (ancient?) Tamiya kit gets a proper treatment: (link)

Video: Brewster F2A Buffalo Tamiya 1/48Aircraft Model

Brewster F2A-2 Buffalo (Tamiya 1/48)

Hi everybody! This is my latest build, and this one is something special. First of all, this is an iModeler build, started back in October 2015, and it took 2 years and 7+ months to be completed. And all I can say – thank you everybody, [...]

Brewster F2A-3, "Buffalo"

Next, is the 1/48th scale Tamiya kit. This model represents the aircraft flown by Major Floyd B. "Red" Parks, C.O. of VMF-221. Major Parks led the young pilots of VMF-221 against the incoming Japanese strike force. The inital [...]