"Blackburn Buccaneers in 1/3000th" Topic
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| The Wargames Room | 04 May 2026 12:08 a.m. PST |
Departing the maintenance hangers this week are a number of 1/3000th scale Blackburn Buccaneers. These diminutive models will provide the 1980s Royal Navy a valuable reinforcement to challenge the ever growing Cold War Soviets at sea. A little background can be found here: link
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79thPA  | 06 May 2026 4:44 p.m. PST |
Weren't they getting long in the tooth in the 80s? |
| The Wargames Room | 09 May 2026 1:16 a.m. PST |
To a degree. The entered service in 1968 with the last ones retired in 1994. Some even were used in the 1991 Gulf War. There were however just over 200 built – so a very small production run. |
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