Vince Maddux

Here is aerial footage of my town after the storm, the large blue and white building is the county court house This is the one that passed with in an half mile of my house I don't have footae of the one that hit my mothers house and took out my workshop and the models in it, that one hit about 5:30 in the morning. Vince

When I was young I thought the CF-104 was a cargo version of the F-104. I guess it could work if you need some small really quickly Vince

Yes, I did have another screen name, but I had it deleted. Vince

Steve, please delete this if you see fit. I know I am not everyone's favorite person but I just wanted to check in. Wednesday my town got slammed by two Tornadoes. Luckily my home was spared but I did lose my work shop and storage buildings which held my models. I am very thank full that me and my family are OK. We have been without power for 5 days and lost everything in the fridge, But thankfully with help we where able to replace it. I know I do still have a few friends here and I wanted to let them know I am OK, and I hope that I can return here to ARC so I can escape the damage around

A different take on the What-if Artwork...................

Title says it all, I'm hopeing some one my have an old one to part out,please let me know. Vince

This maybe a shot in the dark, but I need ot find a conpy for the trumpeter th scale 48th scale kit. I know that Meteor produced a correction set for the kit,I'm hopeing someone would have a kit conopy left over. Vince

Thanks for the Heads up Jim. Now only if I could get on base to shoot some photos. Vince

Today I saw a C-5B, two T-38s a Blackhawk, and a RAH-66 on the back of a truck!!!!! I was driveing to work and heading north on I-65 in Alabama (between Hartselle and Decture, for those that know the area) and most days there is nothing to see. I assume the C-5 was doing touch and goes out of Huntsville Internatinal, I see those time to time. The T-38s probley where from Culmbus AFB and doing cross country training and also heading to Huntville. The RAH-66 I'm hopeing will be going to the musiem at FT Rucker and But the blackhawk, I don't know, I saw it hovering over the south boarder of Red

Meteor made a set of KC-135 wheels in 48th scale that was to be used on the A-26K. Apperently they used them on that plane during Veitnam. Vince

I guess I have officaly gone carzy then, I've could have sworn that I saw a Heller box marked KC-135A/E. I guess I missed that one. I figured it out, I looked up the box art for the Heller KC-135A and found it had markings for a USAF "A" and a French "F" model, thats where I got mixed up, sorry about that. Vince

Heller issued two KC-135s, One is a KC-135R and the other is a KC-135A with the optoinal enginas for the E model too. The R kit has French markings and the A?/E has markeings for USAF and France. In case anyone is wondering, yes, they are repops of the old AMT kits. Vince

Naw, If you want a C-17 demo team, Bring back "The Four Horsemen" Back in the 50's they flew C-130s, even did loops and rolls with them. I think IF the Thunderbirds had to get new planes in say four years, it would be something like T-6's or what ever they come up with to replace the T-38s. Don't laugh too hard, They thought about useing T-37s once, the artwork is in Squadrons' T/A-37 book. Vince

About three years ago I rescribed my 1/48th scale herk. After I did that, I never got around to putting it togeather. Thats alot of area to sand after rescribing! Alsso if your really want to go all out, look ont the tail around the cargo door of a real C-130, there has to be a thousand rivits there. Trumpeter would have a feild day on that! Vince

I really do hope its a new kit, even if it has half the feathers of the 32nd scale F-16, its going to be great. But! I'm not trying to bring anyone done from cloud 9, But Tamyia is know for releaseing ITALERI kits Japan for years, and since it was said to market for Asia and not the States, it makes me wonder. But I'm hopeing to ne completely worng and there will be new F-16 on the market. I'm just putting my thoughts out there to see what others may think. Vince

I'm working on one right now myself. I was looking at the differents between the two models. As was pointed out the cheek flairs are longer now, extending to just over the crew hatch. Also there is a tear dropped fairing on the tail of the W that I don't see on the V. Also if you want to make something reall different you can build a TC-135S Corbra ball trainer which as no check flairs, but has the long nose and the right wing is painted flat black. And then there is NC-135W which is a TEST airframe and has had parts of the V and the W mixed and matched. BUT to be on the safe side here are t

Brian, Glad to see the F-14 got new paint, it was looking pretty bad when I was it. BTW, does it still have the nose gear kill markings on it still? Vince

HMMMMMM, a T&A option kit does sound nice, although strange, but nice. Vince

For what it worth, That plane came from Maxwell AFB, I have a friend that worked on it when it as...........uh "old" Vince

OK, testing the waters here. Would anyone like a sheet of decals for the T-41? There are several airfoces flying them, even the US Army had them. And they look great in Civil airpator markings, but I'm biest on that one. Anyway, If we could get more people to buy the kit, Minicraft might take notice and do more GA subjects, plut there are a lot of civil planes that are used in the milltary. Vince

Flying planes gather no dust

As Efrian said, it was me. I release the decals about the same time the rRevell kit came out. YOu can e-mail me and i can help you get a set. thanks Vince

Funny how this is NEWS from lockheed I have an issue of Popular Machinics that has a differtent photo of the UCAV in it. Vince

Vince, all three links show the same a/c Thanks Matt, Problem fixed. Vince would you have a postage amount to Australia at all? Mike, I cover the shipping to anywhere,so youu don't need to worry about it You might want to spell check the carrier names - Lincoln and Constellation have typo's in them. Yes, I do know about the typos in the jpeg. I fixed them before I sent the artwork out for printing. I never updated the image with the typos, you never know someone might want to copy my artwork. At least tey'll have to work to do so. I'm going to have 150 copies printed, so get them while y

OK, I just up loaded some jeps to my website for the E-2 decals Here are the links to the two sheet that come in the set. image image 2 And here is the artwork for the instructions instrucions 1 instructions2 Image 3 I'm going to set the pre-order price at $18.00. As you can see by looking at the link, There is enought decals for two planes. I can go ahead and take pre orders now Just e-mail me at vmdecals@bellsouth.net. I'll get a link on my page so you can order them throught the website thanks Vince