The Little World

No 1 Bombing And Gunnery School RCAF.

The Battle was used extensively in Canada as a training aircraft and target tug. Kept well away from the Luftwaffe, its only enemies on the prairies were the cold, the students, and gravity.

Slow, heavy, but a good flier for limited purposes. The RCAF even fielded a variant with a Bolton turret behind the pilot’s position as an air gunnery advanced trainer.

I am indebted to an unknown artist who painted a large canvas of the Battles in service with the RCAF in 1940. The result is a little primatif but confirmed the choice of exhaust fairings and interior colour actually used at the time.

In the end, an excellent MPM kit.