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I have it, I liked it. BUT, I wished it had more flying scenes and focused on the adversaries more, which was the original intention. It would have been nice to have an hour or so of behind the scenes, with just flying footage. Brian

There is no F-24 through F-34. They simply made F-35 the designation for the production X-35. Quite a stupid move IMO. As for the F-19 you have to go back to the classified days of the F-117. Maybe it was reserved for it, or as the story goes, Northrup wanted F-20 for the Tigershark (for some reason they thought it sound better than F-19). Basically the US designation system has fallen apart ever since the F/A-18. Brian

I'll put in another vote for the Millennium Falcon, 1980. Alsio, last year my wife surprised me with two Sea Doo Watercraft Brian

I've never had much luck with washes, enamel and acrylic seem to stain too bad. Promodeller is the best thing I have found. The dark didn't always have the effect I wanted, so I purchased many more bottles of the black. so far, I'm happy with the result. Brian

And the soon-to-be splinter scheme. I can't wait to see it. Also, the prototype F-15E was in Euro I ,but yeah, not much variety for the F-15. Brian

Those aren't evaluation schemes, those are Navy adversaries out at Fallon (those last two are the same plane). They always have one or two that included Marine markings. There was an F-16N in the 80s that had green splinter camo with Marines on it. Here's a review of the F-16N sheet (3 of the 6 F-16N schemes) http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/Rev1...bs48038/00.shtm This was the standard scheme: http://www.jpsmodell.de/dc/draw/f16n1.jpg There is also the Blue Power Puff scheme (markings included in the Tamiya aggressor kit). Here's one for the Euro I Vipers: http://decals.kitrevie

I'm sure it is the blue and white scheme you are thinking of. Early Academy, Hasegawa and Entex kits showed that scheme. It seems it was used for a Navy evaluation of the F-16 and only for a few months. The ten or eleven Euro I F-16s are all on the Two Bobs sheet. The other schemes you mentioned were not tested on the F-16. The only other USAF camo I know of was a desert scheme on one F-16 for one day in Desert Storm. Although, a commander at Nellis recently told me there was a black and white test on one in the 80s, similar to the arctic aggressors scheme. Brian

Yeah, I know bigger batches would be better, but model paint cost what -a bazzilion dollars a gallon? It takes me a year (or three) to finish a project, so my main problem is that it dries out faster than regular bottles. I probably should take better notes, but there always seems to be that last tweak that makes a subtle change. I should probably practice more with the cheapest paint I can find. What I really need is a foolproof storage system. Thanks for the suggestions, For a shade change whole bottles probably are the way to go. It's those one-time projects that are the tough ones to

I've never been satisfied with Gull Gray out of the bottle. It always looks too yellow to me. Next time I have to use it I'll probably mix in some Light Ghost Gray. I don't mind mixing paint, but what. I hate is when you get to end of a project and you need a little more for touch ups, it seems hard to get a perfect match. Anyone have any tips for that? Brian

Nope. Never heard of that problem. Actually, I think someone once said that no matter how big your workspace is, it always gets reduced to about one square foot. It's just one of those things you have to work through. In one small session, I end up pulling out half of my tools and it ends up in one pile. Every so often, I take a few minutes to put things back into place (the worst part is I need to do it to find my computer keyboard). If I was really disciplined I would do an organizing routine before and after each modelling session. But, really its not that important. Just pick up som

Well, the question then becomes: is the demo unsafe or is the pilot unsafe? The Air Force doesn't seem to be questioning the safety of the C-17 demo, and these are maneuvers that the pilots are already doing, so I hope it will not impact future air show displays. I have seen the C-17 demo and it is quite impressive, and I hope to see again sometime, I think it's more valuable than calling it just "entertainment." The B-52 pilot was definitely out of control, as for this case I don't know enough, and I'll give the crew the benefit of the doubt. It just seems like it was a bad situation. Giv

HA, that's exactly what I came here to say! I wait until the last possible moment to put them on. Now that I have some Tamiya metal ones for the F-16, I'll have extras to replace some of the lost ones. Brian

I just checked, 48101 only has the duckbill nose, so that part is Navy specific. I'm sure many people would be trade for the rarer Navy part. Brian

I saw one of these landing at MSP when I was taking off for Aviation Nation, an interesting sight indeed. Brian

Yeah, its weird but I don't really have any interest in non-combat aircraft, or at least non-military (T-38, T-2, SR-71, C-5, C-17, C-130, S-37 are all okay). Of course it starts with shape, power and performance, but if there were non-militarized versions of an F-16 of F-22 I wouldn't find it nearly as interesting. I like the look of armed models. Even at air shows, I have no interest in looking at the civilian planes on static display, it kind of seems like looking at a bus or a neighbor's car. The stunt performers are okay, but I would prefer to be watching fighters. I'm not interested

Wow, there are some dumb ideas in that game. And who wrote the English, a fifth grader? I was looking at HAWX the other day, it looks like a terrible game but it might be nice to look at. The YF-12 and A-12 are tempting. I just don't get why companies have time to make these kinds of things, and yet we haven't had a new combat sim in what, 8 years? Brian

Double post, sorry ARC's acting weird for me.

I hear the 65th Aggressor Squadron at Nellis will be getting splinter schemes soon, should be interesting to see how they turn out. Brian

Worst. Song. Ever. Brian

Yes, that's correct, but they are part of the 187 total, so we do have fewer aircraft than many people think. Brian

Nice shots! I'm still trying to sort my 4000 pics, I hope to post some soon. Brian

I believe some A-7s were one solid color, some ghost gray, some medium gray. I think the instructions in one of my hasegawa kits has one of those schemes. I'll check later. Brian

I believe six airframes have already been lost or retired, so now we're down to 180. I have a feeling the fleet is going to get pretty thin over the next fifty years. Brian

What's interesting is that the F-16 had wingtip Sidewinders from, what, 78- 92. Also, I would imagine that a number of countries using the F-16 don't have Amraams and use Sidewinders or equivalent. I wonder if the problem was more the addition of Amraams to stations 2 and 8, rather than the Sidewinders alone. Brian

Yeah , good pics, I would like to see more. I was just thinking the other night that I would like to get a F-15 from the 5th on the bench. I remember visiting Minot in 86 and seeing them during their short F-15 days. Brian