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I'm sure glad I didn't throw away my Academy Bombcat.
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My models on display at Vermont ANG!!!
Cool Hand replied to Andrew D. the Jolly Rogers guy's topic in General Discussion
Congrats on having your models displayed with the Vermont ANG. What an honor. -
Fantastic build.
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I was looking a several examples on this page https://www.reddog1944.com/340th Bomb Group Unknown BS and SN PLANES.htm It definitely looks like the dark paint was applied over the lighter shade. So I presume that the 340th BG received many aircraft in factory desert paint. Not sure if it would be sand or pink, but it's definitely light.
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Are you modelling that specific aircraft? It looks to me that the darker paint was added after.
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Fantastic job on the pilot figure. Rest of the build is nice as well.
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That site does have a LOT of mistakes in the photo captions on other pages, but the 2.(H)/14 page is fine.
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I can't seem to find the build, but the aircraft is a Bf 109E-7/trop operated by 2.(H)/14 {2./Aufklärungsgruppe 14}, a reconnaissance unit in North Arfica. You can find several photos of this squadron's aircraft, including #10, here: https://www.asisbiz.com/il2/Bf-109E/H14.html
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Are you looking for information on the aircraft depicted in the build or info on the build itself?
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Tamiya 1/48 P-47D Razorback "Ruthless Ruthie" completed!
Cool Hand replied to Drew T.'s topic in Critique Corner
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How is the Italeri kit? I remember seeing sprue shots when it was first released a few years ago. Looked pretty impressive.
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1/72 Academy F-14A Jolly Rogers "The Final Countdown"
Cool Hand replied to JNordgren42's topic in Jet Modeling
Cool. That doesn't seem so bad. I might have to get one of these.- 16 replies
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1/72 Academy F-14A Jolly Rogers "The Final Countdown"
Cool Hand replied to JNordgren42's topic in Jet Modeling
Lovely build. How hard was it to close up the gear bays?- 16 replies
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That's 1/72? Superb job on this bird.
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Looks great!
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I can't see the photos either.
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Beautiful job, Dai.
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If you look closely at the image I sent earlier about the Erla wing pattern, you'll see that the cross does not meet the panel line it's positioned slightly outboard. Your decals are close to what I see in references.
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The shape of the vertical fin is accurate. It was designed as an airfoil to counteract the effect of engine torque while in flight. The fuselage wants to twist to the left at the nose and right at the tail, so a an airfoil that pulls the tail to the left will keep things stable.
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Looking real nice. Shame that the EagleCals are not reacting well with the decal solutions. Also not very good that the Eduard color is so far off.
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This will seem tedious, but your best bet will to be create a new layer and trace over the image with the paint brush tool. Just use a color that's not black initially (I like red) so you can tell what you've drawn from what you haven't. You can make the new layer black when you are done. For the finer lines, you may need to scale down the smallest brush size 50%. How many pixels tall is the Eagle?
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That looks great.
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Try GIMP. It's a free image editor similar to Photoshop.
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From looking at the decal sheets there are indeed a few definite MTT built 109's and a few possible ones. Here are the definite MTT 109's: Top three schemes on EagleCals #27 (Yellow 6, White 1, and White 12) Middle two schemes on EagleCals #42 (Yellow 16 and Yellow 6) Note that Yellow 16's rudder was not actually white - reference photo clearly shows it was just an illusion caused by the rudder being deflected to the right, making it look lighter in the sunlight. Possible MTT 109's Middle two schemes from EagleCals #171 (Red 11 and Blue 14) T
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Yes. It's always a good idea to search for reference photos and other information. In some cases, you won't find all the information in one place and will need to piece it together. But it's not likely you will find a Werknummer unless you can find a source that can link a plane to a pilot or to an incident report. If a basic google search for the aircraft or pilot doesn't result in the answer being found in short order, then the Werknummer is probably unknown. In most cases, it's probably not worth much more effort than to find a photo pf the plane.