Andrew D. the Jolly Rogers guy
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Man, what a comparison, my friend! 😄
Got to splice the chopped door posts from the classic body onto the Super's convertible body. Always better to cut and graft too much, then cut it down to size. Then a bit of grinding and sanding to blend it all in.
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Just now, habu2 said:
Just found this thread, the most obvious external clue (to me) is that the classic beetle had a flat windscreen, the super beetle had a curved windscreen.
Hey there,
Discovered the Super is wider and squatter, and the front fenders a more stylish curve. Classic is much more narrow, almost felt my claustrophobia when I finally could see it between the two.
Apparently the '71 and '72 original supers had the flat windscreen, which this build apparently is. After that they went to the curve.
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Okay y'all, I must apologize for shelving this for a couple of years, but I've had a LOT to deal with, including a wedding, some health stuff, plus just got totally burned out on this due to the intensity of what I had to do to it (FAR more than I originally planned).
Time to get this thing done.
Major body modifications. Had to take pieces from the two Revell bodies and graft them to the Aoshima to reflect the correct vents, trims and such. Flat windscreen framing on the hardtop was too narrow, so I widened it with an insert of plastic, above and below. I'll worry about the windscreen itself later.
The hood was a nightmare, part of the upper section being scratchbuilt.
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1 hour ago, niart17 said:
What little I know I've picked up here and there from different sources. It was on the New Jersey's Youtube channel I'd heard the information that Admirals are allowed to chose their personal craft's colors. But the barge that the comment was made about was a much more modern time period that is still on board the New Jersey, I think Gulf War Admiral perhaps? So that may be a newer tradition that wasn't in place in the 30's- 40'e.
Ya know what, that makes more sense, that they were allowed to choose their colors in the era when ship camouflage was no longer an issue. So, prewar it would be extremely light gray like the rest of the ship, and during the war it would simply match whatever camouflage was applied to the ship in question.
Now, as far as Dec 7 colors go, THAT'S a whole different kettle of fish, as they say.... 😄
You mentioned the locations when the attack began; from the famous view of Battleship Row at the start of the attack, it appears that both captain's and admiral's barges may have been secured at the base of stairs in the water next to the starboard stern.
Interestingly, (this is coming back to me now), the two raised roof sections actually appear to be in the light gray, with the rest of the structure in the darker camo paint. Some speculation has been made that this may be a trick from lighting. I did ask survivor Glenn Lane about this when we were talking about the paint controversy, and he thought, maybe yes, maybe those barge roofs were light...but we'll never be sure. If in doubt, I'd say go with overall darker camo gray....
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I was blessed to spend many years with the Arizona's last survivors, and while our conversations didn't usually tend toward the small launches, my understanding from the dedicated ship modelers over at modelwarships.com was that the launches were painted to match the camouflage of the rest of the ship. Never heard of personal paint schemes before, although I'm not an expert. I'd say head to modelwarships.com to ask more. Great folks there!
As far as Admiral Kidd, yes, he was aboard and was probably incinerated on the bridge as opposed to still entombed. Some of the survivors I used to know saw him headed toward the bridge as the attack began, calmly giving orders and reassuring the men.
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Almost nothing at all, totally out of business...
...except one, over near the base. It's connected with a rather unique Ace Hardware store, called "The Hobby Place at Ace". 7071 E 22nd St.
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So, what I need for mainwheels is something smaller than real F-111 wheels, but a bit larger than a Tomcat's....
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4 hours ago, Tailspin Turtle said:
For the B yes. More here from my F-111 subject-matter expert: http://www.clubhyper.com/reference/f111indetailjr_4.htm
I've been using your book and your extras Tommy, I was just tricked when I saw the wheels for sale...I shoulda known better that I hadn't found a solution for the wheels for a production type....
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4 hours ago, Tailspin Turtle said:
http://tailspintopics.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-f-111b-production-main-landing-gear.html
The Air Force main landing gear tires were "fat" for unpaved-field operations; the As were 47" x 18". The Navy tires were narrow high-pressure, 42" x 13". Note that the first three F-111Bs had Air Force landing gear.
So, basically when the aforementioned ResKit aftermarket wheels say they're for the "A,B, C & D" versions, they're referring to the AF ones used just at the beginning, yes?
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Well, my real interest is what they would've had if they'd gone into production and out to the carrier air wings.
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49 minutes ago, fasteagle12 said:
Edit: I just looked it up in Tailhook Topics' and apparently there is a difference. In one of the photos it states: (Note also that 972 is shod with the Air Force tires.).
Ah, but which AF tires? A/C/D, or F/FB, assuming there's a difference?
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Just making sure here...were the B's wheels the same as for the A/C/D series? And would that include the later preproduction examples vs the first few?
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1 hour ago, fasteagle12 said:
I looked for a set last year without success so I ended up getting a Scale Aircraft Conversion set. They have them available for both the Academy and Hasegawa kits. The attachments are different so if you have to go that route if you need them for either of those kits, make sure you get the right ones.
Yep, that would've been my backup. Was trying to avoid....
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1 hour ago, kg4kpg said:
What about the gear from a Testors kit?
Suits me, yes please!
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P.S. They don't have to be totally fresh, I'd gladly take a set off a junked model....
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Looking for maingear for a Legacy Hornet. Got the tires, need the legs.
Happy to offer anything in return. Thanks!
jollyrogers5 at hotmail
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Looking for suggestions for a Soviet/Russian guided air to ground weapon (preferably missile but I'm open to ideas) that would fit in a 1/72 1.25 inch/3cm weapons bay. Think this means something under 7 ft or just over 200 cm. Everything that I think looks interesting is about double that. Something from the 1980's through modern.
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Paul my friend, you're always generous to a fault! PM coming....
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Looking for a pair of Lockheed Skunk decals, presumably leftover from an SR-71 or similar. Preferably around a half inch/1 cm, but will be thankful for anything in the ballpark. Possibly even one more much larger, up to 1.5-2 inches for the display stand, but really I'll be thrilled just with two small ones.
To trade, I have mostly 1/72 US jet, plus MiG jets and WW2 Soviet, some various insignia, and generic numbering/lettering in several colors.
At jolly rogers 5 at hotmail.
Thanks!
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Yep, I believe it's only that issue (GBU-27) and the Desert Storm release. Trouble is where to find one now??? I'm not even having any luck finding an aftermarket bomb bay, only details for it.
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Tough to identify by the box, at least with my weak tracking skills, but as far as I can tell, neither Ebay nor SprueBrothers have any bomb-bay-included releases.
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Done! Both pod and aircraft. Here it is loaded under the wing of the A-7D, its "cover story".
1/72 Fujimi with Aires cockpit, Wolfpak decals.
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Got those from MiG-29 kit decals 😄
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Here we go...not perfect, but close enough for 1/72?
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Now the interior. The Classic's side panels seemed best, except I liked some of the details on the Revel Cabriolet better. Solution: graft the details onto the better panels.
The Classic's seat bottoms are terrific, but the Revell Cabriolet's seat backs are the closest to the real thing out of the 3 kit choices. Again, graft them together.