Friday 8 March 2013

VBCW: King Edward VIII's Airliner



This Oxford Miniatures diecast model is a Dragon Rapide in the personal colours of Edward VIII, the 'traitor king', when he was Prince of Wales.

It is in 1:72 scale and very suitable for a Very British Civil War scenario.

The Rapide was the best prewar airliner. Examples are still flying today.

7 comments:

  1. Nice looking model. Now any chance of an Army shot of one of your VBCW factions. I'm starting out on my VCBW adventure and I'm building up my combatants.

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  2. Dear Irqan
    I'll see what I can do.
    J

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  3. Dear John,
    The Dragon Rapide is a lovely aircraft. But the Douglas DC-3/Dakota was the better airliner by a considerable margin.
    As always,
    Dave

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    1. Different generation, Dave. It should be better.

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  4. Dear John,
    Different generation but same time:
    Dragon Rapide and Boeing 247--1934
    DC-3--1935
    Douglas had better engineers.
    Dave

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