F6F Hellcat, Airfix

Another box of the era of the seventies or eighties, this time an Airfix, is the model of a F6F Hellcat in 1/72 scale, at that time was the best Hellcat in the market, whith correctly parts, in reasonable detail, you could assemble one of two versions, the F6F-3 or a F6F-5 with decals for English and other USN apparatus. 

The colors in the boxart are matte, somewhat opaque, with a background just scribbled, barely visible, the composition, focused on a blue plane of the Fleet Air Arm, attacking a Japanese airfield, the painting is signed, unreadable, seems to say Jallo, but not sure. Sergio Tellez' private collection

B-25 Mitchell, Mexican Air Force

The mexican manufacturer Lodela producen in their final series, this magnificent B-25J Mitchell, who served in the Mexican Air Force in late World War II, as usual, does not bring the author's signature, but whoever it was, the composition is good, but the background is somewhat neglected, like all models in the series, it lacks realism, landscape painting is something, but that is what is in vogue today.

The model was Airfix, with pieces to make a belated D a J, H or with any major surgery, any of the modified transport aircraft, one must not forget that in Mexico at the end of his career were modified, removing armament and bomb bay, being used as transport, this requires removing the towers and the side machine guns. The decals were out of this world, with Mexican triangles, codes for the three aircraft used by the FAM, plus decals for an American plane and another Brazilian.

There are three preserved aircraft in the country, one in the museum at Chapultepec CFE, two in the forest of Aragon.

Brand Lodela Author unknown number M032 Series, catalog 1997.