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    I have succumbed to the Dark Side...

    in Jet Modeling

    Posted · Edited by F14SRCOOL

    Sorry i cant give you reference numbers but i can give you these: the colours i use are humbrol 167 (barley grey) uppers, 165 (medium sea grey) nose cone and inner wings and undersides 166(light aircraft grey) undersides. #

    Hope that helps!

    ps 56 squadron phantoms kickass!!!

    JSF looking shakier

    in Real Aviation

    Posted · Edited by F14SRCOOL

    hmmm ive been waiting for this to come up and ive been keeping and eye on what the aussies on here had to say about JSF. Im glad someone mentioned britain so i can comment lol. From what ive heard the major disagreement was that despite us brits putting in 2 billion the americans wanted to keep certain technology to themselves! so for example software upgrades would have to be done in the US at our cost which considering how much we contributed seems unreasonable.

    A eurofighter flying from RN carrier decks does sound cool now its been mentioned too...............................

    And also i think the issue with exporting F22 would be the price of each airframe certaintly here in the UK we are buying eurofighters and JSF (maybe) and i cant imagine other countries spending large amounts on f22 to only be able to get a few aircraft when they could have several of another type of aircraft for the same cost!!!!!!

    RN JSF

    in Real Aviation

    Posted

    While these are cheaper to operate than the older metal winged Sea Harrier don't forget they lack a radar or AIM-120 capability and are thus much less potent in the air defence role.

    Yeah i knew that the GR9 was a step down because fa2 had blue fox radar its called which was developed to work specially with aim-120.

    On one hand i think oh great look where budget cutting got us before - the falklands is a prime example. Shortage of aircraft and having to use a vulcan that was about to be scrapped!

    Yet on the other im not surprised what it will take to make the goverment or whoever realise their mistake is some aircraft to attack a carrier and the GR9's fail to stop it!

    My country it seems has a history of stopping anything good or brilliant for the RAF (tsr2 :thumbsup: ) or fleet air arm (scrapping the big carriers). Read any RAF history and count how many times you read statements similiar to the following

    1.forces cutback for budgetary reasons

    2.used as an interim measure

    3.cancelled by govt whitepaper

    FlightVisions Wow!

    in Dioramas

    Posted

    yeah totally agree with you about the copies ive made several images of my kits against a sky background including the phantom and Bucc below as my sig! Generally it looks good but i find getting right takes time and lots of patience too. Loving that RN tomcat wish we had them for real...... <_<

    very very cool website too photos look awesome. :rofl:

    b-26 marauder

    in Props

    Posted

    could someone please give me the suggestions for humbrol paint to use for the olive drab seen on b-26 and other american bombers from ww2? thanks for any replies

    Hasegawa

    in Jet Modeling

    Posted · Edited by F14SRCOOL

    simple answer: yes :thumbsup:

    Their jet kits are highly detailed in terms of recessed panel lines cockpit detail etc. Ive found that parts fit really well too, little finishing required (for the most part).The few downsides to their kits are lack of weapons (although fuel tanks are included) the general price of kits and also the number of parts per kit! for example the F14D ive build body is in three different sections, wings have flaps as seperate parts detail inside of intakes etc.This makes for excellent kit in terms of accuracy but will take more skill in construction etc.

    So really i would have to say what kinda of price range are you looking and what kind of difficulty level?

    for the moment

    my suggestions:

    skyhawk plane is small anyway so with

    simple construction goes to together quickly and easy. price around £18 from hannants.

    phantom still fairly easy to construct slightly harder but again can be built fairly quickly and easily. price around £25 from hannants

    F14 tomcat. ok excellent detail etc but as i mentioned above its gonna take more skill and more time to put together. I would only really try this if youve put together plenty of kits before. also price is around £30 from hannants

    also there are different version of every kit eg there are british and american phantoms and F14A, F14B and D kits although Bs are rare. also ive given the prices from hannants assuming they are about average price.

    Colours on Su-30MKI prototypes

    in Real Aviation

    Posted

    its looks to be like they are simply two different camo schemes on the second pic all the colours are shades of blue whereas the first pic seems all the colours are shades of grey or thats my opinion anyway. Have to say i would agree with you the blue camo scheme looks better!

    some of my diorama work

    in Dioramas

    Posted · Edited by F14SRCOOL

    well all your kits of british planes look amazing that tornado needs mucking up a bit tho blacken the tail and engines! and a special mention the weathering on those 2 skyraiders is perfect!!!!!

    exceptional work

    Stephen (who cant stand to see a clean plane) :blink:

    TOMCAT FANS!..dit..dit stop press!

    in Real Aviation

    Posted

    I would almost bet $$$ that Mr. Snodgrass is buying these to form an aggressor squadron to fly against US military air forces. Very similar in planning and design as to what a number of for profit units are doing in places such as Richmond VA, Yuma AZ, and Califorina. There is money to be made in forming aggressor squadrons and have them fly against current military units on top of that there are a still a number of out of work military aviators that didn't want to join Com Air business since it wasn't sexy enough.

    that would be cool only thing i can think of that would be cooler would be if they started air races with them!!!!!! would be a bit different from corsairs mustangs etc <_<

    Javelin in Borneo

    in Jet Modeling

    Posted

    Last time the RAF shot down a hostile aircraft was 1948! (Unless one of the Yemeni Migs that tangled with Hunters in Oman crashed)

    you've forgotten about the falklands sea harriers shot down several argentinian aircraft or at least thats what i thought......................

    Losers

    in Real Aviation

    Posted

    if your interested in aircraft that never saw production take a look at the UK! my countries govt is expert at cancelling what would have been great aircraft for the RAF! TSR2 of course is the obvious example and there is an airfix kit coming out around september also there is the saunder roe 177 a mixed powerplant interceptor (jet/rocket).

    Joining group build

    in The F-4 Phantom Group Build

    Posted · Edited by F14SRCOOL

    well my hasegawa tiger squadron FGR2 arrived yesterday! i finished my other phantom FGR2 (shown below) before the group build had started but i liked building that much and was pleased with the completed build i had to get involved with this GB!

    Im building my kit as XT 914 which was displayed with 74 squadron and 56 squadron markings and looks real cool.

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