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    My models [Again!]

    in Jet Modeling

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    I think I've got the uploading procedure right this time!

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    My models

    in Jet Modeling

    Posted

    Hi everyone,

    As I've just recently joined the ARC forum I thought you might like to see some of my models which I have been building. They're all 1/48 scale, except for the F-100D which is 1/72. I'm hoping to start a 1/32 F-104G as soon as the Astradecals Please feel free to add any comments [good or bad!]

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    OOps! I seem to have cocked up here! I'll try a re-post later, when I've worked out the correct procedure . . .sorry about that! :)

    My models

    in Jet Modeling

    Posted

    Hi everyone,

    As I've just recently joined the ARC forum I thought you might like to see some of my models which I have been building. They're all 1/48 scale, except for the F-100D which is 1/72. I'm hoping to start a 1/32 F-104G as soon as the Astradecals Please feel free to add any comments [good or bad!]

    <a href="http://s248.photobucket.com/albums/gg185/Patemm/My%20Models/?action=view&current=CF-104439SqdnCAF.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg185/Patemm/My%20Models/CF-104439SqdnCAF.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

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    Hello!

    in Jet Modeling

    Posted

    I've just recently joined ARC forums, and I thought I'd like to show a couple of pics of one of my models. It's the 1/48 Monogram F-100D in 20th. TFW markings, withhome-made fin flash, wing emblem and small stencilling. I'm quite ptoud of how it turned out, and am now toying with the idea of doing the Trumpeter 1/32 Hun . . .But only after my 1'32 F-104G in Luftwaffe markings!!

    :banana: :)

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    F-100 450 gallon tank fins

    in Jet Modeling

    Posted

    Just spotted while looking at the F-100 pylon photos, I think the close-up photo of the series III pylon is actually a photo of the one fitted to the outboard stations. I may be wrong, but according to my interpretation of my F-100 pics, the 450 gallon tank had a longer pylon with a slightly swept back leading edge. Hope this does'nt mean I'm turning into a pedantic old fool !

    :)

    F-100 450 gallon tank fins

    in Jet Modeling

    Posted

    If you can get hold of the Squadron/Signal "F-100D/F Walkround" book there is a three view drawing on page 9 which shows the shape and location of the fins on the tanks. Just out of interest, the F-100s of the 20th.TFW carried these 450 gallon tanks as more or less standard until the mid- to late sixties. . . Hope this is of some help to you :thumbsup::bandhead2:

    1/32 MB Q7a ejection seat review

    in Jet Modeling

    Posted

    Thanks,

    It is getting easier to do each one, as I find out what works and what doesn't.

    I try to make it as "alive" as I can, and still look accurate.

    Just wait for the next one I am working on. (I am cheating a bit on this one, you'll see what I mean when it is ready).

    Cheers,

    Harold

    Well, I've bought this seat, and it is absolutely stunning! I'm just waiting for the Astra decal sheets for the German F-104s, then it will be all systems go! Many thanks for a quality product, Harold. :banana::nanner:

    F-100 Super Sabre

    in Research Corner

    Posted

    Many thanks for the 'Hun' pics, Bill. Iwas particularly taken with the two photos of 'Triple Zilch' as I remember seeing her many times during her time with the 20th. TFW at Wethersfield. I live approx. 7 miles from the former USAFE base, and spent many a school holiday watching the 'Huns' coming and going over the boundary fence. It's nice to know that 'Triple Zilch' still exists, although she would look better in her original colour scheme, complete with tail flash, etc!

    :D ;)

    Marineflieger F-104 question

    in Jet Modeling

    Posted

    Oops ! That should read "OK . . that's my I should be building a model! over, but I do feel strongly etc. Sorry about that !

    :coolio::cheers:

    There's something funny going on with this post ! I tried to say that I've had my moan, etc. but I keep getting "I should build my model" Never mind, i think you all get the general idea ! Sorry about that.

    :banana::banana::angry:

    Marineflieger F-104 question

    in Jet Modeling

    Posted

    Oh boy ! At last I'm not the only one to have noticed the "Rivets" detail on these kits. As Danny says, the F-104 was a beautiful, smooth machine, and even in close-up photos the rivets were almost invisible. While the Hasegawa kits capture the shape of the F-104, they went overboard with surface detail, having raised panels where there were none, etc.

    Also, has anyone else noticed the difference in the thickness of the fin/rudder and wing/flaps/leading edge flaps? Perhaps I'm being too picky, but I'll not build my F-104s until Dave's superb decals & update sets are available. OK . . .that's my I should be building a model! over, but I do feel strongly about the most beautiful airplane ever built !

    :coolio::cheers:

    Oops ! That should read "OK . . that's my I should be building a model! over, but I do feel strongly etc. Sorry about that !

    :banana::banana:

    Marineflieger F-104 question

    in Jet Modeling

    Posted

    If you are planning to build a 1/48 Hasegawa F-104, please have a look at my website, and put the kit aside for a few months...

    A complete set with many usable F-104 Starfighter items, including wing tanks, is almost ready for tooling

    http://ultra.glo.be/daco

    Danny Coremans

    DACO Products

    Oh boy ! At last I'm not the only one to have noticed the "Rivets" detail on these kits. As Danny says, the F-104 was a beautiful, smooth machine, and even in close-up photos the rivets were almost invisible. While the Hasegawa kits capture the shape of the F-104, they went overboard with surface detail, having raised panels where there were none, etc.

    Also, has anyone else noticed the difference in the thickness of the fin/rudder and wing/flaps/leading edge flaps? Perhaps I'm being too picky, but I'll not build my F-104s until Dave's superb decals & update sets are available. OK . . .that's my I should be building a model! over, but I do feel strongly about the most beautiful airplane ever built !

    :coolio::cheers:

    The mighty F-4 Phantoms

    in Jet Modeling

    Posted

    Ahhhh, worked 'em for two years at Spang. I have the scars(phantom bites) on my hands to prove it. When they were taking off, you couldn't talk to the person next to you or on the phone and the whole base paused. LOL

    Poor guys who had barracks over by the trim pad...sheesh.

    But, definitely a plane that meant business...on the ground and in the air. Hard to believe that out of the 5,000 plus built, there are but a handful of them flying in the US... Other nations...well...hat's off for keeping 'em up.

    RS

    Oh yes . . .I was a weapons tech on 17 sqdn. based at RAF Bruggen in the early 70's, and I think the F G R 2 [Or F-4M] was even noisier than the F-4D/E , especially as they had 2 dirty great Rolls Royce Speys fitted ! I had many an evening's recreation drowned out with their night flying activities . . .happy days, though !

    :cheers::cheers:

    Monogram F-102 Case XX 48th

    in Jet Modeling

    Posted

    Just a quick note to add regarding the F-102 kit. If you get hold of the kit with the markings as shown on the box in kenlilly 106's reply you won't be able to use them, as the a/c shown on the box top was from the 496FIS, which had case X wingtips. I have a photo of this machine taken at Wethersfield open day in 1964, which clearly shows the early type wingtip, and to the best of my knowledge thy were not retro fitted to these machines . . Hope this is of some help.

    :D :P

    F-104 decals

    in Jet Modeling

    Posted

    Does anybody have any information on the impending release dates for the Astra decals set for the German F-104s, please? I've tried e-mailing Daco Productions, but had no success. I'm desperate to start my 1/32 scale Luftwaffe F-104, so if anyone can help i would be eternally grateful.

    :coolio: :blink:

    Ian Gleed's hurricane

    in Props

    Posted

    It depends on the time frame as well. Gleed is normally associated with P2798 and I have seen both red and blue depicted on the Dark Earth/DarkGeen/Sky camouflaged aircrafted and on the overall Night aircraft. Scale Aircraft Modellings Combat Colours No2 has a profile showing the Night scheme with a Roundel blue spinner, cowling front and fin stripes, The Hasegawa kit depicts these as red. A good side view picture in the Combat Colours book shows that the colour could indeed be blue judging by the similarity to the trailing blue portion of the fin flash and the fin stipes which are in very close proximity. An earlier photo of P2798 in the same book taken when Gleed was a Flight Lieutenant show the aircraft in standard markings with 'possibly' a coloured spinner, which Osprey in the Hurricane Aces 1939-40 book shows as Red with his Figaro the Cat emblem on the Starboard side.

    So I guess the answer is that either is possible or both depending on time frame. My own view is that Gleed, who was a flamboyant character would have wanted his aircraft to stand out and it is very likely his grpund crew used either Roundel blue or red as paint stocks would have been to hand, They may even have been the pre-war equivilants.

    Hope this is of some use.

    Thanks for the info, Silver Fox . . .It just goes to show the difficulties inherent in colour interpretation of old B and W photos . . .Perhaps I'll choose a different scheme !

    :D

    Ian Gleed's hurricane

    in Props

    Posted

    Just found a pic of a 1/48 scale Hurricane Mk.1 in the markings of Ian Gleed's 87 SQDN. machine "LK-A" which shows the a/c as having a pale blue nose and spinner. Now, I was always under the impression that the nose was red, as depicted in many references, so I would be interested to know whether some new info has come to light, or has someone made a slight "boo boo" ?

    I ask because I'm considering doing the Trumpeter 1/24 scale kit, possibly as this machine. so would be grateful for any feedback, please.

    :D

    Marine Fleiger F-104G's

    in Jet Modeling

    Posted

    Sorry, I don't agree that they were aluminum lacquer. Both Luftwaffe and Marinefleiger F-104s used the same underside color, RAL 9006 "Weissaluminum". That's just a name, it doesn't mean that it is a metallic color or anything. Looking at the photos of Luftwaffe 104s in the Verlinden book, the undersides look grey (maybe with a touch of silver, but definitely more grey than metallic) paint to me, with no hint of any sort of metallic properties, unlike the gear and wheel hubs which are clearly metallic. Even considering weathering and age, I can't see how you could have a metallic paint worn down to such a uniform finish and lacking any metallic sheen at all.

    I plan to make mine match the photos and what is going to work for me is using a greyish paint, maybe with a touch of silver to brighten it, instead using any kind of aluminum or metallic paint. Just my two cents.

    I have some close-up photos of JaboG 32 F-104s from 1973, and they were definitely weissaluminium, which was a metallic colour, rather like the USAF's aluminium FS 17178. Xtracolor have this in their paint range, & it's certainly like aluminium.

    :beer4:

    German F-86 Canadair Sabre seat

    in Jet Modeling

    Posted

    From what I've seen of all kits made, including the Revell-Germany release,

    you get the NAA typical ejection seat only.

    The GermanAF modified many of it's 86s for the MartinBaker Mk5 seat,

    and had to design a new track that raised the canopy up as it slid back to open.

    All-in-all tis a huge difference visually.

    I had a quick look thru my pics re RoG's JaboG71 JA-344 offering, but haven't come up with a pic yet showing which seat was used,

    but I did find JA-339 w/ the MB Mk5.

    Also... Some of these a/c were later sold and used by other countries,

    and a few exist/fly today in private hands in the States.

    I might be able to help you here. I have a copy of the F-40 book on the Canadair Sabre in Luftwaffe service, and on page 143 there is a photo of JA-344, which clearly shows the earlier NAA seat installed. Maybe it was upgraded later, but 90% of the other aircraft in this book seem to have the earlier type seat. Hope this helps !

    :beer4:

    F-101C paint schemes

    in Jet Modeling

    Posted

    I have a photo of an F-101C from the 81st. TFW in the overall light grey which appeared at the 1964 Wethersfield Open Day. I think there was only one or two of their airplanes painted in this scheme . . .It may have been a trial to combat corrosion/ weathering problems. The aircraft serial was "60036" If you contact me via this forum I will e-mail you a copy of this pic.

    <_<

    CF-104 Stencils

    in Jet Modeling

    Posted

    I'm about to start decalling my 1/48 scale CF-104, which I have painted in the overall green scheme of the early 70s. The model will represent a machine of 439 sqdn. based at Baden-Sollingen in 1974. Can anyone tell me if these aircraft had the full stencil details applied after being painted in this scheme, or were only certain markings applied?

    I have a decal sheet which has a full set of stencils, but I'm not sure how far to go! Can anyone help, please ?

    :worship:

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