Grenadier37
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Looking good Deacon.
As for interior color, I'd suggest white with a drop of RAF interior pale green. My M.O.S is 19K, armor crewman, so I have some personal experience on the subject. I've seen models built with an interior color that is too green. In 1/72 it would probably look almost off-white.
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Nice work Sebastijan!
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Looking great so far Pete. I dig the marking for the 66th bird...it's the stars.
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WOW!
Very nice.
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Thanks for the kudos. I'll take some photos in my ultra-high tech photobooth and post them in the finished thread asap.
As for the ECM pod, it's out of the kit. So as soon as AMT corrects the kit, I'll be sure to buy another and...wait, what am I saying? LIke I want to build this pile again!
Somewhere, maybe Iowa, there is a plastic cow, eating plastic grass, crapping AMT kits.
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Here she is, in all her glory...
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More progress. When I peeled off the canopy masking, the mid-section canopy came with it. I've also painted and hung the drop tanks and Shrikes. The decals are from an old MicroScale sheet and some of the smaller stencils silvered. I tried to fix it, without success. I've also knocked the tip off the pitot tube something like 27 1/2 times. The carpet moster finally decided to eat it and I decided to stop "fixing" it.
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coercion is not a nice way to do things; effective, not nice; now I've got to find a bird or something from a Texas unit to build or I'll never live down the guilt trip :wacko: . Oh well I guess another Viper is in the offing, now let's see what unit is available. Anybody seen any 48th Trainers of the T-38 variety. Laughlin, Randolph, Sheppard, or Goodfellow markings would be OK. I'd try to do one for Bergstrom, but I'm not fond of Recce Phantoms, nothing wrong with them, just not my cup of tea, mates.OBEY! Good dog... :)
On the T-38 front, what about NASA's T-38s? I know they're not military but, they reside at Ellington Field.
And for the Whirlybird clan, don't forget the Coast Guard...Semper Paratus!
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God, I hate this build.
Nothing says "what the hell was I thinking" like a 1/24th Airfix kit.
I tried to build the 1/24 Fw-190...wing to fuselage gap a problem you ask, only about 1/8" I says. Fix it you ask, fixed it straight into the garbage I says.
You sir, are either very very very very brave or completely and absulutely bonkers.
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I just won a Monogram F-101 kit off evil-bay with 147th markings. So that's what I'll do. On base we (I'm a member of the 147th RW) now have on static display an F-101, F-102, F-16 and T-33. We used to have an F-4D, but it's been moved to be restored, I think.
Check out this web site (below) for additional ideas for Texas based aircraft to model.
http://www.147rw.ang.af.mil/resources/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=13003
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So...I predicted I'd quickly get imapatient. I did, and forged ahead placing walkway decals on the Phantom before getting a really good look at some reference photos. So they're the wrong color. I swear they looked a lot darker on the sheet. The others on the sheet looked almost black. Once they dried it was obvious how wrong they are. Oh well.
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I'm in!!! Here's a question if it counts as an escort. I have a picture from the last squadron I was in, some of us were riding in the Omega Tanker to a detatchment out west, and four of our birds flew off the wingtips and took gas on the way out. I'll have to dig the picture out later, its a real picture not digital, there are a few with two Hornets on each wing. But does that count as an escort, because if it does I have a decal sheet for VFA-34 from the time period of the photo that I've been dying to use. If not, oh well, there are pleanty of other subjects.
There's a support aircraft GB starting in March(?)over at AeroScale. I bet your tanker would fit right in. I'm going to be doing an ESCI US-3A for it.
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I may have changed my mind...instead of an F-4B or J, I might be doing a P-51D. Because I got some really cool decals the other weekend.
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And some more.
Is that an F-4 Phantom I see lurking in the background..? Moo ah ha ha haaaa! Our evil plan is working, soon, all of you will be Phantom Phanatics!
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Those look amazing Sebastijan. I can only imagine the fun you had with the decals.
I tried building the Dragon 1/144 F-15C...horrible fit problems and a "catastrophic loss of both engines" landed it onto "runway 13", aka. the garbage.
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I'm digging the paint chipping Don, very cool.
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Thanks guys. After some deliberation and decided to draw the line at any more updates/corrections to this kit. The Hasegawa kit is so much better and the only reason I'm building this one is I couldn't unload it on Evil-bay. As it is, I've done way too much, which will translate to major or minor mistakes on my part as I get bored and just try to "finish the damn thing", as is my mantra...
I've got two Fw-190s, an Me-262, a AH-1W, a Jagdpanzer IV, a M60A1, and an XB-70 on my workbench, all of which are begging to be finished.
Speaking of finishing, paint was applied...
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More pics of my progress. I didn't want to go overboard, so all I've done is add some detail to the cockpit, add antennas where needed and remove the control surfaces. It's primered and will be ready for paint soon.
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You know you want to pick up one of those very nice and easy to build Hasegawa 1/48 F-4Gs.
I need another Hase F-4G like I need another hole in my head...
Here's some progress pics. The easiest part about turning it into a soft wing phantom is re-scribing the panel lines (image #2).
The ESCI kit has no sidewall detail so I glued some appropriate looking shapes to it.
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I'm really looking forward to seeing your finished model. It looks like a winner so far.
I was in Stuttgart a while back and visited the Porsche museum. Of course the GT1 street and race cars are there and every bit as sexy as you'd expect them to be.
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She's B-E-A-U-tiful...in a OMG she's so freakin' ugly no one will steal her from you, kind of way.
Now these beauties on the other hand...
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Scale?
If it's 1/72 i built the AMT/ETRL boxing of the F-4S, and it wasn't bad at all. A few missing bits, though (wing fence, underside DECM bumps). Hoping your kit is a good one.
I've built the 1/72 ESCI Phantoms as well, I think they're nice kits. But unfortunetly, this is the 1/48 ESCI kit. It's decent if you're doing a hard wing F-4E, and don't want to spend the money on the Hasegawa kit.
I started cutting the wings apart and spent some time deciding just how far I'll take this build. Something tells me in the end, I'll wish I'd just built the Hasegawa F-4G.
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I've started building the AMT/ESCI F-4G kit. I'll be using some aftermarket decals, resin seats and wheels. The first thing I noticed about the kit is it's a hard wing Phantom, so I'll change that. And the G specifc sprue looks like completely different plastic (I smell trouble).
So why build the AMT kit when the Hasegawa kit is so much better you ask? Because no matter how many times it went on evil-bay no one was foolishe enough to buy it, so I'm stuck with it.
Photo to follow shortly.
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Well said! I second that.
Rhino Modelworks is a fraud counterfeiter
in Bad Trader Alert
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I've bought DMold resin sets at shows here in Texas. I've also bought Rhino products off ebay a couple of times. The last time I bought from Rhino took a long time to receive and the shipping was excessive (his return address is Mansfield Tx, basically Ft. Worth)so I wrote him off. I compared the Rhino products to the DMold stes and they did look incredibly similar so I was suspisious. After reading this thread I now wonder if the guy I bought from at the shows was Miller selling counterfeit DMold products.
If Miller did in fact copy and sell counterfeited DMold products as DMold products, everyone who bought from him got ripped off.
Since we're heading into show season I think I'll keep an eye out for Mr. Miller or anyone selling DMold products at local shows. Our first show is is Louisiana in two weeks. I'll update my post if I see the guy.