Birdog photos needed for special project

[TJTX]

I'm about to embark on a very special build and I'm searching for photos of bird dogs. I want something unique but also not gaudy.   If you have any ideas or photos to share u would be immensely grateful.   

[HubertB]

Hi Tony,

I don’t want to be overly pedantic, but during WWII, you had liaison aircrafts like the Piper Cub or the Stinson L5 Sentinel, but no Cessna Bird Dog, whose first flight was in 1947. And of course, you had also liaison and observation aircrafts built on the British/Commonwealth side. I suppose you are looking for a US bird ?

If you were using the « bird dog » expression as a generic term, then this remark is of course void.

Sorry that I do not provide pics as expected, but I was a bit confused by your query

Hubert

[TJTX]

No you are spot on Hubert.  As usual I get going a bit too quick and don't use proper phrasing to clarify my remarks.   I'm looking for ideas for a Bird Dog from the later years.  

[GazzaS]

 

Sorry...  the best I could do.

 

[GazzaS]

OK...  reread the OP...  how's this?

 

You might find more you like at Skytamer.com.

https://www.skytamer.com/1.1.htm

 

 

 

 

 

[HubertB]

I do not know what you want to do, but this one is certainly unique, and can be done with the Roden kit :

Then there is this italian example, a bit of a mishmash between decos :

And of course, versions for up North :

Focused on floaties, I know, but I cannot resist them

Hubert

PS: sorry about the weird compressed look in the first two pics.

[HubertB]

Landplanes :

- Used by Laos :

- South Vietnamese Air Force :

By the French in Algeria, in green ...

... or grey ...

I trust you can find US versions easily. Most were not very colourful nor unique.

Hubert

[TJTX]

Thanks for the pictures guys.  Those were all ones I had not seen yet.  There is a US one with shark teeth that i thought was pretty neat.

[HubertB]

The South Vietnamese one looks very much like the one Major Buang Ly, with his wife and 5 children as payload, landed on USS Midway on 04/29/1975, at the fall of Saigon.

Hubert.