Douglas A-26B Invader Australia 3D model

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The Douglas A-26B, A-26C, B-26B, B-26C, and A-26K crafted by Dreamscape Studios are our latest high-value models. These meticulously built models are nearly to scale (within a couple of percent in overall dimensions), fully painted and textured with realistic maps, and include numerous detailed features. The models boast animated propellers, animateable ailerons, elevators, flaps, inboard flaps, rudder, cowling flaps, landing gear retraction and doors, and geometrically detailed radial engines. The A-26 Invader, designed by Douglas in the early 1940s as a low-level attack and bomber platform, was intended to replace both the A-20 and B-26. Equipped with 14 machine guns or combinations of machine guns and cannons, an internal bomb bay, and fast twin-engine radial power, it served in production from 1943 throughout WWII. The A-26B models featured a "hard nose" with a navigator/gun loader stationed upfront and eight machine guns mounted in the nose for staffing, ground attack, and low to medium level bombings. The A-26C model boasted a clear nose, with the navigator bombardier stationed inside, while retaining wing-mounted machine guns for strafing capabilities. After WWII, these aircraft remained in frontline service under the USAAF and USAF until 1948 when they were redesignated as B-26s. During the Korean conflict, the B-26B and C witnessed active service, and in the mid-1960s, the A-26 and B-26 saw action again in the Vietnam War. Redesignated A-26K models underwent significant upgrades, including refinements to the wing, structure, power plant, increased horsepower, external weapons storage under wings, tip tanks for increased fuel load and loiter time, and were used in combat during the Vietnam conflict. The A-26 and B-26 aircraft also found their way into other nations' air forces, were sold surplus for civil use or rebuilt as executive transports, converted to firefighter water tankers, or were preserved for museums and flying warbird displays.