How could I have forgotten about the Taranto StringBags?!! But I did, Donny - I earmarked my Tamiya kit for the plane (even though nobody knows exactly who it was) that hit Bismarck's rudders, thus turning her entire escape from the Sinking of the Hood episode into her own final swan song. How can anybody NOT build that SwordFish (at least once), in their lives? But then, the SwordFish was central to so MANY utterly paramount, historic events - I forgot about building one from Taranto - though I definitely have plans to bash together an Illustrious, launching that very deckload of torpeckers.

Wasn't it also one of Illustrious' SwordFish that poked the Italian Pola, allowing the Brits (again including Warspite) to catch and obliterate that entire (3-) cruiser squadron?

And wasn't it also a SwordFish that put a torpedo into Scharnhorst, during the Channel Dash, or was it a DD (or even a sub) did that?

In any case, my Tamiya kit is now packed away for moving, so you've got (at least) some time to talk me into building it as the bird you think most historic - or maybe into just building yet MORE SwordFish!

Cheers,

-Matty