[DADoser]

In regard to wing loads (drop tanks, bombs, rockets) on your WWII fighters, how do you prefer to display?

Thanks in advance for any discussion/perspective/replies.

[Armour Addict]

Originally Posted by DADoser

In regard to wing loads (drop tanks, bombs, rockets) on your WWI fighters, how do you prefer to display?

Uhm, on my WWI fighters?

I think that wouldn't be historically correct

But on my WWII fighters (the few I got) I like the ones with an lot of ordnance the most.

A 'clean' config is not that visually appealing to me.

AA

[Shawn 507]

My Mustangs, Thunderbolts and Hellcats all have the external tanks mounted. My only clean birds are the Corsairs and Wildcats. I really wish they had bombs on the Corsairs and external tanks on the Wildcats as an option. Oh and my Avenger is clean inside and out right now. I don't want to cut out the fieworks just yet.
- Shawn

[PH-LKK]

I like to mix and match. Some loaded, some clean. Some gear down, others in flight. Makes for a more interesting display IMHO.

[flyXwire]

I like to display my IXO Typhoon and Beaufighter with their weapons loaded. Same goes for the Hobby Master Dauntless and Avenger, and all
my modern jets from Dragon/Witty/Gaincorp/Hobby Master. With these loaded out warplanes, it gives the impression of
"ready to rock n' roll and unleash HELL!"

I only wish Corgi have provided some extra bombs/rocket tube launchers and such
on their WWII warplanes.

[FormerViperDriver]

I voted "fully loaded," but I have to caveat that by saying I like realistic and representative weapons/fuel tank loads on my models. For example (even though it's not a WW II example, but I'll use it because it's such an obvious one), I would not display the recent HM A-10 with all the weapons provided in the box. It's just very unrealistic and no A-10 has ever flown like that.

But I do like to show my airplanes with weapons, because that's the purpose of the real thing: to carry weapons. Of course in WW II many times the only weapons were internal machine guns and cannons. So there I go with a variety of loads that might be characteristic of how the plane was employed in actual combat. That's why I tend to like my Mustangs with wing tanks, for example. And to me, a Typhoon with no rockets just doesn't seem "complete" (even though I know they didn't carry them early on). But if the more representative combat configuration was clean, then I'll display that.

When I have more than one of one type, then I like to display various configurations. One of my GMP P-40s has the centerline bomb, the other the fuel tank. It gives an idea of the various possibilities that existed with that plane.

FVD

[Raven]

I don't care for either a 100% clean look or the Christmas tree, max payload look with every possible hardpoint filled. I prefer a realistic, operational load.

My 2 cents - All manufacturers should put as much effort into making their ordinance and fuel tanks as realistic as the planes themselves. They take a great, realistic looking plane and then put on ordinance that looks like a toy. Some do a better job than others - Dragon, Witty, CW to name a few.

[STARMAN 352ND]

I said the same Fully Loaded...They just look so much better this way .
But i have a habit of putting on the correct weapon load on my planes
such as with the F-14 or A-10's from other model kits i have laying around..
JP

[mustangdriver]

For me it depends. I am not against the clean look if it is a model that shows the lins of the plane off very nice. Now planes like a P-47 look cool with drop tanks and bombs and rovket tubes. I am not a fan of the navy rockets though. I think it depends on the plane. For example wen the skyraider comes out, I hope it is loaded out, but when the HM Panther comes out, I want it clean.

[djjeffhall]

I have to say that the one area where I'm most dissappointed in diecast is the weapons load. You either get nothing, or just drop tanks. Hobby Master is working on changing this and kudos to them.

Bombs, no bombs depends on the plane. Typhons should have rockets. (It's a black mark on Corgi that they give us a Typhoon that never carried rockets.)

Corsairs often carried rockets and I'd LOVE to have the option of rockets or no rockets, depending on how Baa Baa Black Sheep I'm feeling that day. (BBBS never carried rockets to my knowledge so if I'm feeling all Boyington, no rockets.)

The ME-262's that have been coming out from Corgi and Dragon should have optional bombs. Maybe they rarely/never carried them, but part of the "What-would-it-have-been-like" lore is Hitlers edict that the Swallow carry bombs.

You could probably make an argument for just about every plane that has come out thus far and frankly, I wish that a little more thought would go into it.