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It's good to see the USAF Museum's Ju.88 finally displayed indoors and in the correct paint and markings. During my childhood visits to the museum during the 1960's and 70's it was displayed outdoors on a former taxiway adjacent to the museum, along with several other aircraft including a former Spa...

Being intended as a model railroad accessory, it may be some sort of sand tower. I've never seen one quite like yours, but railroad sand houses and sand towers come in all manner of forms. Their purpose was to dispense sand to locomotives, which could be used to improve traction when needed.

David

Another Ju.88 defector is currently on display in the USAF Museum at Dayton, Ohio. This one a Ju.88D-1/Trop flown to Cyprus by a defecting Romanian pilot, and later supplied to the USAAF by the RAF for testing and evaluation. https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Displa...

Thanks for posting. Lots of very useful drawings there.

David

Thanks David, I`ve lost count of how many M16s became either transports, SP variants or Beute German captures :D At a show (many moons ago) I bought 8 kits for £20 :o :o :o Hard to imagine now, but back in the late 1980's or early 1990's the Airfix M3 halftrack kit was temporarily OOP, as was my pr...

Another ingenious use for leftover bits. I've probably built enough Matchbox M16 kits over the years, most of them converted to other M3 variants, to do something similar.

David

Thanks to all involved.

David

David Your sharp recognition and concise history is two beautiful talents. Most helpful. I was getting fanciful in my conversion ideas with some photos, especially when the US mountain gun is available readily in metal and plastic (if fiddly)! CarlL Glad to be of help. I assume the U.S. mountain gu...

"Wants"? .. for Algeria and Tunisia or Morocco? Or use guns with other later / European dress gunners for a number of nationalities who used this type of mountain gun in WW1 and WW2 which appears to be representation of Schneider but looks similar to those used by USA, Italy and others? CarlL The g...

Lovely work and very imaginative use of found objects.

David