| The name of the small practice bomb carrier is unclear to me, I've seen AF/B37K or simply B-37K (USAF), R-3 (RNLAF), of LABS rack (RNLAF) and Mk 25 (Luftwaffe). It's from Daco's F-104 set. I also used the practice bombs from the same set, and installed a steel wire pin in each of them.
The low-drag practice bombs had a tube surrounding the tail fins, and I tried CA-soaked cigarette paper here. First impression is that the diameter is too large. For the definite version I need to swap the bombs front-back, since the high-drags were usually installed aft. Due to their drag they could otherwise hit the bombs behind. | 
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| In a second attempt at creating the tube around the fins, I rolled cigarette paper around a 2 mm rod, and cut off 2.5 mm lengths. The bomb fins had to be shortened before the tube would slide over the four fins. But I think I now have a reasonable representation of the low drag practice bomb. I painted them MRP-232 International Orange, and the high-drag practice bombs blue, a 1:2 mix of MRP-044 and MRP-045. The rack itself was painted MRP-128 Silver. I had only one vague color photo to decide the color upon. The assembly is quite colorful! |
| I made a mistake with the practice bombs: high-drag practice bombs were not used on Dutch Streaks, since there were no retarded bombs in the inventory for the Streak. The only doubt would be the B28EX (without parachute) versus B28RE (with parachute), but I found evidence that the strike squadrons used Mk76 low-drag practice bombs for their LABS practice missions. They were allocated between 2500 and 3000 of them yearly.
The high-drag bomblets were replaced with two more Mk76 bomblets. | 
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