Thanks sincerely Duke. That's the only CSAF aircraft I've built. I still have a lot of the decals we made for that Mirage though. My son and I did several others of the different maritime air stations, different squadron names and some of the naval jack too seen on the fin, as well as a lot more of the low-viz crosses and CSAF decals.
It started off as just a
thought exercise that developed into the model idea. I think some viewers on various model forums have attempted to ascribe some sort of political expression in doing a Confederate plane. That is most definitely not what I had in mind.
I think it's embarrassing that my home state of Texas
did join the CSA. Sam Houston, who by 1861 had already been a twice elected president of the short-lived Republic of Texas, a US senator from Texas and the sitting Texas governor at that time, urged against secession and correctly predicted the folly and tragic outcome of Texas joining the Confederacy. He resigned that office rather than swear an oath to the CSA, dying in 1863, before seeing his dire predictions come true. Houston is the only American than I'm aware of who was a member of the US Congress representing
two different states, the victorious Commanding General of an
army, the governor of
two different states as well as the president of an independent republic. Quite a life indeed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Houston
