Matt Walker

The yellow shirt is thinkin........... "I should be flyin this here jet, not this red-neck, homeboy, nancy-boy" Or something along those lines. Saw this model in "theflesh" last night. It truly is a sight to behold. The figures look fantastic! M

18B number 15 has been re-painted in a 2 tone grey scheme that looks quite sexy......Oh now I have to find another B kit!! Check out airliners.net there are a few shots there. Also the book "Adversary", some really nice shots, and a good read to boot! Cheers M

Wow, is this in-flight? That birds doing about 40 deg bank! :)

Shadowy, Thanks for the clarification re CV and CVN. I've learnt something! The picture size thing depends on how you re-size the shots to post them. I use Photoshop, and reduce the pixel count to bring it below the 80K limit. Cheers M

My "art-sie" shot.

the rest of the boat. The VFA-102 CAG jet was hidden behind a few other a/c unfortunately. Which other Rhino group is with CVN-63? I couldn't see due to VERY subdued markings

I was there at a very similar time, and have similar shots, but here are some from Mrs Macquarie's Chair.

J.C. It's going to be a Scorpion Squad jet, bombed up ready for a strike on sthrn Lebanon. I'm using a pic in the Isra book as the main ref., which shows them in place at that time. Night Hawk. Great models web store is great for finding things like the Aires wheel weels. They may take a little while sometime, but they usually come up with the goods. Thanks for the thoughts so far. M

dropped the flaps too.........(in case it's not obvious!)

again

nother.....

Nearly reafy for paint. this is my first commision build, and includes BB pit, aires wells, Airwaves spine (yeah I know the Hase one is better, that's why "this" one has the Airwaves spine, Don't tell the client, will y'all ) There's alot needed to get the correct B40 bits on the Hasegawa "Brakeet" kit. Heaps of things are missed entirely in the kit. I've added the ECM boxes on the tailpipe and spine extension, RAM plates over the aileron and flap actuators, plates under the front antennae. The BB "can't" be made to fit this kit. It must surely have been made to fit the Italeri or somethin

Hey wow, now that's got my imaginative-creative juices flowing....eewwwww!! :blink: Wish I'd thought of it.

Paint used was Testors MM with the dark blue and grey being out of the bottle. The Light blue was mixed using the ratios as described in Dave Aungst's article. Cheers M

A HUGE thanks to Gary Wickham for driving the camera. We both agreed that the colours came out alittle "flat" in the shots. So imagine them a little bit "richer", please. M

nother angle.

back view..

an agin....

Whoa!!! blowin those cockpit shots up is really SCARY! 'Nother..........

Another.....

Hasegawa 1/48, Aires Cockpit and burners. TwoBobs decs, a few scratchbuilt items.

BTW Andy, Do you do full 4 views of the jets you're building? Having a good sized 4 view (ie larger than the one on the 2Bobs sheet) of the Splinter 16N would make doing that scheme so much easier. What would we have to offer for you to do one? Cheers M

Habu, Yes I know they're there, but look at the size o the holes in the kit (any kit) Far from scale.... Also notice "where" they are. Nothing like what the kits depict.

I don't mean to be a prat, but why didn't you fill the pylon holes under the wing? These birds don't usually carry pylons, and the huge holes underneath look really "dud" on a finished model IMO. Nice paint scheme, BTW M

Does the word "Ouch" suffice? How'd you do THAT?!?!?!?!