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Joel, If you are looking for the kit decals, I'm pretty sure I have them. Let me look. Send my your addy - PM on Agape. Stew

Beautiful work. Flew into and out of Dubai in one of those. Excellent service and excellent work on the model.

Beautiful work!

Love those old Braniff schemes!

Very nice! Thanks for sharing this!

Drat - makes me like the Monogram F-5 in my collection that much less! Nice job! Ain't that an F-5N, though? Pretty sure that the VF-111 birds with the flattened nose are some we bought back from Sweden or something.

Cool story. Cool model. Even cooler display. Thanks for sharing. Don't get me wrong. I love the Tomcat and based on what I have read, it was a great platform on all accounts with the exception of maintenance...which is one of the things that killed it, from what I understand. Darn shame. Last of the Great Grumman Iron Works cats! Yet, I have spoken to an F-15 pilot who said that the F-15 community generally enjoyed going up against an F-14 because you could tell when it was loosing energy by the wing configuration (swinging forward) and the telltale red of the dropped control surfaces. Of c

Thanks for sharing your Mossie. Definitely a beautiful plane and a beautiful model.

Great job! You know, some folks knock the whole Jolly Rogers genre, but "Final Countdown" played at a formative time in my teen years and seeing F-14's fly in the VF-84 colors inspired me to want to be a Navy pilot. That dream didn't pan out, but I still like the JR schemes and am collecting the kits to do the same as you have done. FWIW, John Vojtec (Unique Master Models) carries the Demon kit. It's a re-release of the Grand Phoenix release with some upgrades and is quite nice. There are two versions, one of which has the VF-61 Jolly Roger's markings.

Very nice! Thanks for sharing your work!

Excellent work! Thanks for sharing it.

If it were me, I would take those that may have sentimental value, and either hang them up in your hobby area, or strip them down and rebuild/repaint them. If they are rare/discontinued I would refurbish them as well. Any left overs would either go into the spares box, become airbrush hacks (for testing colors, paint/thinner ratios, etc.) or I would donate them to a kid I knew in the neighborhood or to a local boys/girls club for them to hang up there.

My eyeballs are bleeding from all the armchair flightsuit pontification. :wacko: When's the styrene gonna hit the streets? That's all I care about!

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Stepping into the Evergreen aviation museum in McMinnville, OR and my eyes looking up to the Hughes HK-1. Awe-inspiring. Other tops: - Going to an airshow at Belle Chase (N.O.) NAS with my dad and seeing the Blues perform with the F-4J's and the Thunderbirds perform with the F-4E's. - Flying as a pax NOE in a 5th Mech ID UH-1H with the doors open from Barstow-Daggett to Bicycle Lake at NTC. (This following a 4-day self deployment of six UH-1's from Fort Polk, LA - Riding in the refueling station of a KC-10 during a refueling of another KC-10 enroute to March AFB. - Flying as a pax in a Qu

LF instructions for the Monogram F/A-18C release with the Sparrow launch rails vs. the targeting pods. Prefer you to e-mail me scanned PDF. Lost the instructions for a kit I will be sending to the Intrepid Center in San Antonio. PM me and I'll send you my e-mail address. Many thanks in advance. Stew

Ditto. I have two Eduard -3's, and a -5 in the stash as well as an Arii -3. One of those will definitely be built with folded wings.

Sad that this thread didn't go beyond Dan's original post. This is one of those little known uses of the P-61 and as I am finding a very interesting slice of Marine Corps aviation history. About a month ago, I was in Lowes Home Improvement Warehouse looking for a hole saw blade and up rolls an older gentleman in his "Little Rascal" scooter chair. We he asked what I was working on, I shared my project (drilling a paint booth vent hole through my modeling area wall), and he shared that he used to be an active R/C modeler. We talked more and of course the topic immediately turned to aviation and

FWIW, I got the 6-LED Optivisor light and mine is not overly heavy. Now, I don't sit and model for hours on end, either.

ABS Plastic!?!??!

So glad to know that the current surge in Chinese technical achievements is being paid for by the stuff we buy from Wal Mart.

I did a search and didn't find anything here on this topic. If I'm duplicating, forgive me. Like many others, I was enthused with the new Revell Germany release of the 1/32nd scale Hawk T1A. At the same time, I was watching 3rd party manufacturers come out with add-ons and some US mail order shops are even stocking them. What I can't find anyone in the US doing is actually carrying the kit! My two primary mail order houses (Squadron and Spruebrothers) usually come out with the latest greatest stuff, but not this time. What gives? Can anyone provide insight? I am baffled. Stew

Thanks for the link, Frank. I have ridden many times in Saab 340's and would love to build one.

Picked up the Trumpeter kit at the Squadron Open House a couple of weeks ago. They were selling them for $25, so it was hard to pass up that opportunity. I am not in any way shape or form a "109 Experten", but a close friend who is bought one as well and gives it a thumbs-up. His take is that Hasegawa kits are getting too expensive and a fine model can be built with either kit. After looking at both side-by-side in the box, my unqualified assessment is that some things are better on the Hasegawa kit and some things are better on the Trumpeter kit. If you are a stickler, note (for instance) th

Good , bad, or ugly - I am pulling together bits to build the Yf out of the Monogram kit. I will probably fill the nose with milliput or resin and shape it down to the proper - or close to proper profile. The intake is not a big deal as the Monogram release I have has the intake plug/cover included. Will probably go with the Model Technologies "Light" landing gear and after-market wheels. I have the old Microscale YF-16 sheet, and an early "A" instrument panel and side consoles from Eduard. These will be modified to work. Will also go with a one-piece vacu-formed canopy pulled over the origina