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  1. Berna Decals do a sheet (Sepecat Jaguar Part 2) that has both a 3 and 4 tone scheme for french Jags. It says that the 3 tone one was used in the Gulf war, whilst the 4 tone one was used at Red Flag, but I do know that the 4 tone one was also used in the Gulf war as this is the one that I am making.

  2. I have not made a decision about the 72nd version. Revell sort of made my job harder by including Texas markings in the new release.

    I know that to be the case as I have recently bought two kits, but I am after one of the other options on the sheet that being the North Dakota one. So that is why I asked if it could possibly be reduced to 1/72nd.

  3. Thanks for the help and it is a Marine aircraft that I am building. I do have an Academy F/A-18A that I recently bought on the cheap so I will use the tails from this, and look at the instructions for the lumps and bumps that need removing. I have also found that Dr Pepper Resin make a Litening II pod, but as you have said that the difference are not that noticeable I will stick with what I have got. I will look out for the GPS lump from pictures that I can find.

  4. I am making a model of a F/A-18+ Hornet from VMFA-142 in 1/72, using the Academy F/A-18C kit. Not being that hot on the differences between these versions of the aircraft is it possible for someone to tell the main external difference. Also I have a picture of the aircraft that I am making, which shows it carrying a Litening II(AT) FLIR pod. Are there any major difference between this pod and a Litening MkIII pod which I do have? If the difference are not that big could I use the pod that I have got, or does someone where I can get a MkII pod from as I have tried all the usual suspects and cannot see one?

    Many thanks for any help.

  5. Thanks for the help, that is the way that I was thinking. My real confusion is that the Linden Hill decal sheet is done in association with the Iraqi Fighters book, and one of the co-authors was from the Iraqi Air Force.

  6. I am making the Streem SU-24M Fencer D and will finish it the the colours of the Iraqi Air Force. I have a couple of decal sheets and this is where I am having a little confusion. I am alright with the lower colour, that is light blue but it is the upper scheme where the problem lies. Two decal sheets (Hi Decal And Authenic) show the upper colours to be sand with dark brown, whilst the Linden Hill sheet and the accompanying book say that it is dark green with dark brown. There are several books that show some colour photos, but these do not really show the colours either way. If anyone can help I will be really grateful.

  7. I don't know anything about the decals in the North Wing conversion set, so I can't comment on the colors they used or what a suitable match could be. The actual color seems to be a bright red, most likely FS11302. This is what I used in my own decals.

    Thanks for that even if I have to repaint the whole areas the Fs No will give me a start.

  8. Some updates: Upon carefully analyzing the kit decal sheet, I found some significant inaccuracies that required me to provide correct replacements on my C-2 decals. This meant that I needed more space, so I dropped the plans to provide older unit markings and concentrate on VRC-40 and VRC-30 Det 5. Once VRC-40 markings were provided, it is just a small incremental step to do the spectacularly colorful 50th anniversary scheme, so I decided to throw that in as well! Let me know what you think about the options:

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    The red colour on the tails of the aircraft that have yellow and red sun rays, what extactly is it called and what is the nearest paint for this colour. I ask as I am using the North Wing Models C-2 Greyhound conversion with a Hasegawa Hawkeye to do one of these schemes, and to be honest the decals are not fitting that well (it may be me at fault). So I might have to do a some touch up painting or a little more than that. I would be grateful for any help.

  9. Agreed - but getting hold of a Top Gun resin kit is almost impossible......

    Ken

    For the past couple of years some person from Poland I think has had a stall at the Scale Model World, and has had both versions of the Top Gun resin kit there. Yet again the cost and the not too brilliance of the mouldings put myself and a friend off buying the kit.

  10. I have for years been looking for F-117 Desert Storm markings in 1/72 and 1/48, but the only markings that I can ever find are with the kit and these are always for the same aircraft which is the one that Col Al Whitley flew during the conflict. This is really a pity as there many more aircraft out there that had better bomb bay art. If only someone would do a sheet or was some sort of agreement reached about which aircraft could be done?

  11. I got a Streem kit that had the Neomega cockpit with it, but it does not fit at all, mainly due to the fact that the nose U/C bay is too big and also it is too wide for the kit. The Neomega cockpit is meant for the Italeri kit.

  12. I am using the Hasegawa kit to make a UH-60A from the Desert Shield/Storm time period. The problem that I have at the moment is the shpae of the stabilator, in that the kit offers you one with a kinked trailing edge and the decal sheet instructions shows the helicopter with a straight edged version. I can't fiind a picture of the actual helicopter that I am building, but I am asking if there is a hard and fast rule with the shape of the trailing edge of the stabilator. I do have a update set that offers both and will use whichever is correct from this.

    Any help will be grateful.

  13. go to Z5 and search misc. desert storm shots. Or go to Aviation photography page 11. As I thought the link above would not work.

    Thanks very much for that. I found the pages that you suggested after I wrote the above post, and there really are some interesting subjects ppictured, plus some interesting stories. I found the pictures of 85-114, and from what I see it seems to confirm what I have written above, but then I still maybe wrong.

    Yet again thank you.

  14. Thanks for all the help that is being given. I have overnight come up with a theory, which maybe right or could be totally wrong.

    In the first picture that I have which show an F-15C being refuelled, it has black stencelling and 1 Iraqi flag as a kill by that aircraft. This also shows the painted over bigger star. It also has the nameplate of Capt Rodriquez. But I cannot see the serial No of this aircraft, but the caption says that it is 85-114, but I don't think that it is, but it maybe the aircraft that Capt Rodriquez was assigned at the start of the war.

    The second picture is of 85-114, and has full colour national markings and stencilling. There are no kill markings, but I can't make out the nameplate. So I think this aircraft was at this time actually assigned to another pilot.

    The third picture is again of 85-114 with full colour national markings and stencilling, but with both Iraqi flag and stars on the nameplate kill markings. This also has Capt Rodriquez name on the nameplate, and I think that this was assigned to him as a "coming home parade" aircraft. This picture I think maybe taken when the aircraft returned to Elgin.

    As I said this is just a theory and I may have added 2+2 and got 5, but it does sound a bit plausable.

  15. From what i understand, during the war the name plates were painted over. Often, pilots are not flying the plane with their name on it.

    I know for sure that iraqi flags were painted on to represent kills for that plane. after the war, names were painted back on with stars beside the name representing kills by that pilot. i don't know waht name was on 114 before deployment but it wouldn't surprise me if they put his Rodriguez on 114 because that is thr olane he flew for his kill(s). one of the regular planes got painted as the wing jet because it was the high scorer with three aircraft shot down.

    That could be a logical answer. The decal sheet instructions do say that the nameplates were painted over, but most of the pictures that I have seen of F-15s being refueled during the conflict still have them painted on. yet again I fear that the fog of war might be behind this.

  16. In the pictures, you can make out the serial for 85-0114 with black stencils?

    Some of their aircraft did have black stenciling. If I recall right, 85-0114 went from Hi Vis to Mod eagle.

    Sorry to say I can't make out the serial No in one of the pictures, it is just that the name plate is visible, so unless Capt Rodriquez's name was applied to other aircraft, I can only say that this is that aircraft. The strange thing is that in this picture where there is one Iraqi kill flag under the name plate there is a black ejection seat triangle, where in another picture with no flag, the triangle is red, and this is the same in another picture with two Iraqi kill flags. The last two also show the full colour national marking, but only just on the last one which took me a while to be sure.Also there seems to be a change in the style of name plate in these pictures. In the one with the 1 kill, it has his rank, nickname, surname and a star at the beginning and end. there is close up picture, which I think is taken at the same time as one of the others, where the nameplate his rank, full name and his nickname under these in quotation marks. There are two stars at the end of his surname, but these are his kill markings. So this is where I am a bit puzzled.

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