I built
these two models for a friend of mine who flies the SH 60 B in the US
Navy. He had a Ukrainian grand aunt who flew the PO 2 in the Second
World War as one of the all women night bomber squadrons on the Ukrainian
front in the early days of the German invasion of the then USSR.
The
Southwestern Front was on the main axis of attack by the German Army
Group South during Operation
Barbarossa. Her death telegram reads –“Pilot 4th class
4th Squadron South Western Special Aviation Group Tovarish Evtykhova,
Anna Leantova died 28 November 1941 while flying a combat mission in the
Krapinska Rostovskaya Oblast” (near the town of Rostov on Don).
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I
used the well known Hobby boss kit for the SH 60B and fittingly, a
Ukrainian Modelist kit for the PO 2. The decals are non representative but
typical of the flamboyant propaganda applied on these machines. I also
used a Moscow cottage industry PE Shkas 7.62mm machine gun in place of the
non scale original.
The
base is hobby train grass matting painted in places and a printed base for the
Sea Hawk.
Polly
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