Tag: Brewster Bermuda
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Brewster Bermuda – Part Eight – A Lovely Surprise
Well, mustard gas is always a surprise anyway, but this experimental Brewster Bermuda adds a stylish note to it. Not sure if I’m proud to have made an experimental Canadian gas plane of it, but the other options weren’t all that much better. The new technique of masking off the greenhouse entirely and temporarily gluing…
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Brewster Bermuda – Part Seven – Ray Stevens…
Ray Stevens once had a big hit song in which he suggested that everything is beautiful in its own way. I take it that Mr. Stevens never saw a Brewster Bermuda half-way through a camouflage job. I’m building it and I rather like the Brewster airplanes but even so I think it’s as ugly as sin.…
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Brewster Bermuda – Part Six – How Did They Do It?
How did they spray poison gas from an airplane over troops? Or anthrax spores over cattle? How was it done? This grisly thought occurred as I continued to paint the Bermuda. The idea of chemical and biological warfare was certainly on everyone’s agenda in the 1940’s as by then the military scientists had discovered how to to…
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Brewster Bermuda – Part Four – Well, Why Not
Having decided to convert a perfectly inoffensive Brewster Buccaneer with no purpose in life into a perfectly inoffensive Brewster Bermuda with even less purpose, I am now left with a kit that silently screams for something to call attention to itself Never mind that it has a dual rear machine gun with an armoured shield…that’ll…
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