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You may need to look in to applying with the DoD to use their markings. Someone on this board (despite their best intentions) had some experiences and I’d solicit the advice of those offering. I’m being a bit vague on details because I’ve learned this type of contractural/legal stuff isn’t always best for a public forum…and I’m fuzzy on the actual details myself.

Thank you! It wasn't quite matching up to what I was seeing, and the medium gray makes sense.

Would anyone be able to help me with the correct color for the rotor hub on a USCG HH-60J? I can find good colors of HH-60H's which I expect to be the same. Here it appears a dark graphite metallic color. However, I'm finding some photos of coast guard birds seem like the rotor hub is a lot lighter and perhaps not metallic, such as this one... But I can also find plenty of photos where it looks dark like the HH-60H. Does anyone have guidance or other knowledge to help me sort this out? I appreciate any t

I've ordered items listed as "in stock 6+". Took over 2 weeks to ship, and then I asked to cancel. Then magically before I could get a response it moved to "pack and ship". But tracking didn't show as active for almost 2 weeks (air mail, so should be relatively quick). I'll never order from them again. They're not even that cheap in more. If you want to save money, you have to use their sea shipping, which is 3-6 months.

I really appreciate the help from everyone! I think I'm calling her done. I feel I could go on forever with small weathering details, but am in a good place. The final thread...

I've been through a number of A-10 boxes to eventually model the A-10C, but most fizzled. The Hobby Boss needed a lot of work, and that was before turning it in to a -C. The Academy is rather nice, but I hit a paint disaster and by the time I had motivation to come back the GWH kit was out. The GWH kit is marvelous. It is well detailed, fits well, and a very smooth build. I would give it comparisons to Tamiya somewhere between their F-16 and F-14. It's not as good as their new F-35 or P-38, but rather good. I keep wanting to call this OOB, but it's not. The cockpit has Quin

I've been through a number of A-10 boxes to eventually model the A-10C, but most fizzled. The Hobby Boss needed a lot of work, and that was before turning it in to a -C. The Academy is rather nice, but I hit a paint disaster and by the time I had motivation to come back the GWH kit was out. The GWH kit is marvelous. It is well detailed, fits well, and a very smooth build. I would give it comparisons to Tamiya somewhere between their F-16 and F-14. It's not as good as their new F-35 or P-38, but rather good. I keep wanting to call this OOB, but it's not. The cockpit has Quin

Thank you, I love the lengthy explanation! And the Hog, so love learning the details. Would this circled streamer be for the gun? It sounds like what you described about the streamer hanging out of the door. I know you said this picture had the battery streamer, but unfortunately I picked a pic with 3 streamers all nearby. Now I have to figure out of I can remove the streamers on the LAU-131 and AGM-65. Put those on already since I was pretty sure of those...on the LEFT hand side of the pylon.

I think this may be my last question. And thank you all for the help. I'm trying to place the -21 equipment realistically. Eventually I'll have a pilot figure on climbing the boarding ladder. So all the airframe pins and covers are off. If I'm correct, the seat pins stay with the pilot, so those are remaining. What I have is to sort out what ordnance/pylons would be pinned. My final loadout is: LAU-131, SUU-25, GBU-38 x 3, GBU-54, AGM-65L, and an LIGHTENING pod. Based on what I've read and learned in the past, it could be only the forward firing ordnance that wo

It is a tedious as hell kit to build, but can get you there…

Probably a good call for station 8. I thought that was camera glare.

Once again thank you! Now to go repaint the GBU-38 fuses. GWH called out black and at that time, I didn’t know as much about -38’s vs -54’s.

Thank you! I'm definitely don't have the level of knowledge of you guys on these birds and munitions. I was wondering if the yellow could be the identification/manufacturing text, but didn't expect it to be that clear. Is there any logic to the gray vs green bomb bodies? As a very generalized rule, I've taken gray since about 2000 to be USN thermally protected munitions and green to be USAF. Was the gray body fairly common, or just a one off? It is a nice contrast for visual appeal.

Would anyone have thoughts on what the gray bomb is on this aircraft, station 4? It looks basically like GBU-38 or GBU-54. I can't make out a conduit track, so more likely GBU-38. But there does some to be some dirty streaking about where the steel bands holding it on would be. The picture just gets too grainy to be sure. But the yellow stripe on the actual bomb body seems odd. And I can't find any photos of gray bomb bodies on USAF birds. The USN jets with the ablative coating. But then again the yellow stripe on the body is odd.

Thank you for your reply! For better or worse, I did install the pylon per the kits marking instructions. No pod, but the pylon is there. It seems the most realistic load would drop the APWKS, maybe put a LAU-131 in its place. And drop the GBU-31. Looking through an Osprey book for the A-10 in OEF/OIF, the picture of 75th EFS jets in Kandahar has the sniper targeting pod. But once the moved to Bagram, the pictures seem to show the Lightening pod again. So that’s one thing narrowed down.