Adie Roberts continues his inspirations to help inspire modellers of all abilities to work out of their comfort zone building dioramas or just trying new builds.

It is an unusual subject but one that is a great build by modelling friend Juan Carlos Fernández Casado,  and also one with some history of the flight officer Noel Sharp. The Brewster F2A-2 was modified for export with the RAF ordering over 200. The RAF designated the plane the B339 Mk. I “Buffalo” and “Buffalo” became associated with this Brewster aircraft. 167 land based “E” versions were shipped to Singapore and Northern Malaya to equip RAF and Commonwealth squadrons. B339-Es were quite adequate until they encountered the vastly superior Japanese Zero. The pilot of the RNZAF NF-O was Flight Officer Noel C. Sharp who downed 3 aircraft and damaged 2 bombers. F/O Sharp was killed in 1942 flying a Hurricane.

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