1/48 Tamiya Fairey Swordfish MK.II 61099 30 Minutes Missions RP23 wing tankiv

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This is a 1/48 plastic assembly kit model of the British Light Utility Car 10HP

Four folks read all about it at the local newsstand

and one Soviet tanker figure

The F6F-3 differed from the prototype externally by streamlining the bulky landing gear fairing assembly

1/48 Tamiya Fairey Swordfish MK.II 61099 30 Minutes Missions RP23 wing tankivFamous for such feats as the night attack on the Italian fleet at Taranto and damaging the German battleship Bismarck, the British Royal Navy's Swordfish torpedo plane was assigned to the less glamorous, but still vital role of anti submarine hunter from the latter half of WWII. The Mk. II variant entered service in 1943 with a more powerful engine and metal lower wings which allowed it to carry and fire a formidable payload of rockets. Flying from