Douglas B-26B Invader V01 USAF 3D model

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The Douglas A-26B, A-26C, B-26B, B-26C, and A-26K, meticulously crafted by Dreamscape Studios, are their latest high-value models. Boasting near-scale dimensions (within a few percentage points), these models come fully painted, textured with realistic maps, and packed with intricate details. Geometrically detailed radial engines feature in the designs, while cockpits, rear gunner positions, and forward compartments of C models exhibit a level of detail including seats, controls, instrumentation, rudder pedals, and step-down passages. These state-of-the-art models are equipped with animated features such as propellers, ailerons, elevators, flaps, inboard flaps, rudders, cowling flaps, landing gear retraction, and landing gear doors. Originally developed by Douglas in the early 1940s, the A-26 Invader sought to replace the A-20 bombers and Martin B-26. Designed as a low-level attack and bomber platform with 14 machine guns or combinations of machine guns and cannons, it also boasted an internal bomb bay for a sizeable load. The aircraft was fast, rugged, reliable, and went into production in 1943, seeing extensive action during WWII. A-26B models featured a 'hard nose' with a navigator/gun loader stationed in the forward cockpit alongside the pilot and a gunner in the rear; eight machine guns were mounted in the nose for staffing, ground attack, and low to medium level bombing missions supporting ground troops. The A-26C model had a clear nose, relocating the navigator-bombardier position, while retaining wing-mounted machine guns for strafing capabilities. Post-war, these aircraft continued in frontline service with the USAAF and USAF, redesignated B-26 in 1948 when the A designation was abandoned. During the Korean conflict, B-26B and C models saw active service and underwent significant upgrades as A-26K models, incorporating refinements to wings, structure, power plants, increased horsepower, external weapons storage, tip tanks for extended combat loiter time, and were redesignated as attack aircraft. The A-26 and B-26 served in the mid-1960s during the Vietnam conflict. These versatile aircraft were also sold to other nations, repurposed for civil use, converted into executive transports, firefighting water tankers, or preserved for museum display and warbird flights.