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    All downhill from here...

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    If you end up in DC, we have some good clubs in the area. Congrats on the FINEX of your CMD tour and having a band playing when you walked out the door. As you know from your previous tours...flying or driving a desk isn’t as much fun, so hopefully your next tour lands you with good people and boss. 


    Cheers

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    1/48 F4U-7 Corsair -Hasegawa

    in The Display Case

    Posted

    One of the best GSB Corsairs I’ve seen, and I think a lot of folks in these boards will agree. 
     

    The weathering of your GSB, the slightly off tone look you created...how was that done. Very effective. 
     

    Pencil chipping or scraping down to the NMF base layer?

     

    Cheers

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    A " Tail of Two Vikings "

    in In-Progress Pics

    Posted

    27 minutes ago, A-10 LOADER said:

    Thanks for the pics Collin, I'll need to modify the MK-20 noses somehow. Were the small fuse setting windows not on these because I don't see them ?

    Steve

    Somewhere on that darker nose ring just behind the cream colored nose cone are two little function toggles that you set the time to arm and height of burst if I remember correctly (it's been a long time).

    In 1/48 scale...you get the darker and lighter colored nose correct....you win.  

     

    Cheers

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    A " Tail of Two Vikings "

    in In-Progress Pics

    Posted

    ROCKEYE were my fav.

     

    Steve...as you know the ROCKEYE had two different types of nose fuzes...the MK339 and the FMU140.  

     

    While I dropped a lot of MK339 fuzed ROCKEYE...when we flew armed in the Gulf around '97-'98 (actually just looked in my logbook...it was Feb-June '98), we only loaded up FMU140 armed ROCKEYE (when we did).  They were the new HOF/HOB type fuze that had a completely different look than the small tit-like MK339.  Most of your kit and aftermarket MK20 ROCKEYE canisters still have the older MK339 fuze with small red nose cone that went over it while on deck.

     

    The link below I posted pics of what the FMU140 looked like with the white cover that went over the nose.

     

    http://www.arcforums.com/forums/air/index.php?/profile/1546-collin/content/page/11/&type=forums_topic_post

     

    Another good pic of one on a Harrier during preflight below:

    http://cactustactical.blogspot.com/2017/01/weapons-of-war-in-afghanistan-cluster.html

     

    Load em Up!!!

     

    Cheers

    Collin

    S-3B Viking Low Viz Color

    in Jet Modeling

    Posted · Edited by Collin

    Correct: That’s a TER loaded with FMU-140 fuzed ROCKEYE. 

     

    TER (Triple Ejector Rack) is not a launcher, just a modified bomb rack system allowing three weapons to be hung from a BRU-11 parent rack (the bomb rack inside the pylon that the TER attaches to). 

     

    This was one one of our standard SuCAP alert loads while in the Gulf (we didn’t have Mav+ installs yet). 

    Of course we couldn’t loose the buddy refueling pod. We also had 2x MK-82 slicks in the bomb bay. 

     

    Cheers

    A quick (almost) OOB Spitfire build for my desk at work, and a lesson learned

    in The Display Case

    Posted

    Trying to just have fun with these Airfix kits.  This is their PR XIX done up with Xtradecal X48-118  for RM643/Z.  The only non-OOB part is the exhaust stacks.  Clear glue still drying in the camera ports.  Overall....a fun quick build.

     

     

    Marbled on a PRU Blue color from SMS....great paint.  Xtradecals....great as well.

     

    Kudo's to Airfix for allowing in-flight builds....they give you the parts to build gear up which I really appreciate (wish all kits did this).  The issue I have is the pilot figures.  I painted the kit pilot up and it really looked great.  To get him to fit in the cockpit...I ended up cutting away about 2/3rd's of him to get him to fit (legs gone...backside...gone, lower back...gone).  Very frustrating...but it's a Spitfire cockpit...can't see anything anyway.  

     

    LESSON LEARNED:  I will never build another in-flight kit and attach the canopy BEFORE I paint and finish. This is the second or third build I have had fogging on the inside of the clear parts after I thought all the glue had set and off-gassed.  This could also be paint and overcoat fumes sneaking in during the painting process.  Regardless...I will improved my builds by adding the canopies as one of the last steps of the build.  Lesson learned.  

     

    So off to the work desk she goes....to keep my two Mosquitos company.  

     

    Cheers

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    Caracal Decals models gallery

    in Caracal Models

    Posted

    14 minutes ago, 82Whitey51 said:

    Thanks man!

    S-3B Viking up next (VS-22 bird). I may need to hit you up for gouge. S-3B...but still with the MAD boom???

     

    Yep, MAD boom and all the sono tubes. -22 and I think -31 had B’s during DS1, the rest were A’s. I might be off on that, my references are in the basement.  

     

    Cheers

    Collin

    F/A-18D VMFA(AW)-225 question

    in Jet Modeling

    Posted

    2006-2007, the Deltas I controlled when in their neck of the woods (near Al Assad) they had M’s from what I recall. GBU-12 and LMAV were also their primary BOOM. 500# JDAM wasn’t really in fashion yet, but I had F-16’s from Bagram “on the wheel” with 2000# JDAM often (along with GBU-12). 

     

    Cheers

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