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  1. Great photos and explanations, Don. Thank you!
  2. Thanks for the comments and photos, guys. To me, this is an interesting subject. Camouflaging aircraft goes back to WW-I, so I know I'm not the first one to be curious about it. I can see the advantage of the SEA camo scheme on aircraft that would be in an area where attack from above was a possibility, but what about the B-52s and other high flyers? In SE Asia, weren't they usually "seen" from below by radar? A SAM site's radar wouldn't know or care what color a B-52 was. Was there a period of time on their missions when the SEA camo made them less vulnerable? Her
  3. Thanks for responding to my screw-up.  Been away for so long, I've forgotten how to communicate here.  Used to have it down pat.  Must be getting old. 

  4. What was the reasoning for the SEA camo used on many of the USAF aircraft in Vietnam? I have a couple of theories, but haven't found much to support them. Someone, somewhere must have had a good reason or reasons. Anyone?
  5. What was the reasoning for the SEA camo used on many of the USAF aircraft in Vietnam? I have a couple of theories, but haven't found anything to support them. Someone, somewhere must have had a good reason. Anyone?
  6. Thank you very much, Holmes and GW!
  7. I'm loading up a 1/72-scale French Naval Air F4U-7 with the 5-inch HVAR unguided rockets used by the French in Indo-China in the 1950s, and I need to know what color to paint these things. I can't seem to find anything helpful on the internet, let alone in the Italeri kit instructions (kit No. 1313) In photos, the rocket motors appear to be off-white, and the warheads darker, possibly olive drab. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you!
  8. Having been burned a few times when ordering "out of country," I'm a little nervous about sending billing information to a company in Hong Kong. Has anyone had problems with hobbyeasy.com? I think they have something I want. Anyone?
  9. I ended up ordering a VC-6A from RVHP Models, by way of Hannants. I'm hoping I can make a proper Vietnam-era airplane from it, although I expect that my skills will be put to the test before I'm done. This kit comes with the decals to make the (US Army) airplane that Werhner Von Braun used in 1966, ferrying to and from the White Sands Missile Range, and I expect to be able to use some of them.
  10. I'm not sure this aircraft was in SE Asia, as an RU-21H. Do you know if it was. As the years went by, a lot of the "A" models were converted.
  11. Thanks for the quick comeback, Dylan. Here's one of the resin models available from rvhp models. https://www.rvhpmodels.cz/pages_kits/72026.html It's one of the C-90 birds, and to my eye, it looks a lot like the RU-21 Ute. What do you think? The fuselage sides look fairly flat, so cutting out the resin and fitting square windows might not be too much of a chore. I've had some experience with making windows and gluing them into a resin fuselage using clear epoxy, so that prospect doesn't scare me off. Let me know what you think.
  12. I'm trying to complete my Southeast Asian Wars collection, and I need help from someone knowledgeable about Beechcraft aircraft. I've searched far and wide for a model that I might convert to a 1/72 Beech RU-21A "Ute," but have been unable to find one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechcraft_King_Air#/media/File:Beechcraft_U-21_Ute_US_Army.jpg I think the RVHP King Air C-90A might be close, but the cabin windows in the Ute were square, so that's a major modification, made even more difficult because it's a resin kit. Mach 2 makes an RC--12K in plastic, but I it has different en
  13. Thanks, Jester. I'll check out the sources you mentioned. My in-line regulator and moisture trap are mounted on my compressor.
  14. I bought a cheapie regulator and gauge when I bought my compressor a few years ago, and would like to replace it with a better one. I use an Iwata Eclipse HP-CS airbrush. The regulator I have tends to leak air (not from a connection) and the scale is wrong for the low pressure (15 - 20) that I use. Could anyone suggest a good one?
  15. I'm holding off doing anything for a while, Milo. If I don't use the F-3D set of decals, I'll let you know, but I might go ahead and build one.
  16. jpk: I'm not sure what I'm going to do with this thing yet, so I'm going to put it on the shelf for a while. A lot of guys who used to fly in and maintain the Skynights are still alive. What I'd like to do is find someone who was close to them, maybe someone in armament or a radar tech who took some photos. This has worked for me on other Vietnam-era birds. I've even ended up with a few good friends doing research on the Internet. (I even married one!) Thanks for your help, and I'll keep you in mind.
  17. Thanks, jpk. I don't have the Ginter book. I'm wondering about differences in antennas. Also, did the EF retain its guns? What about chaff dispensers? The doors for these would've been visible. According to Dog Bodkin in his on-line article "Remembering the EF-10B Skyknight," the EFs were capable of carrying two jamming pods (ALQs) on active ECM missions. It would be cool to hang these on the wings, if I could either build them from scratch or if they were available. Do you have any photos of them? As an Air Force radar tech, I used to maintain the Hughes radar on the
  18. Besides the decals, what would it take to convert my Sword 1/72 F-3D Skyknight kit to an EF-10B?
  19. I, too, have stopped doing things that cause me pain, Thommo. I try to avoid fingerprints, minor scratches, overspray, etc., but often I just stop sweating the small stuff. I'm as careful as I can be without it ceasing to be fun. I tell myself that I'm building models that are (were) in a shooting war. Lots of the aircaft had overspray, dents, patches, corrosion, grease stains and smoky panels. A few scratches and fingerprints under my finish flat coat make scarcely any difference, and they might even add some "well-used" look that I could never achieve on purpose. I'm 79, and
  20. "I have a Honeymoon relationship with each kit, after about 12hrs fun on a kit, the Honeymoon is over! When the sparks don't fly anymore it becomes work not fun! So it may go on the shelf until it's time for the second Honeymoon...or third...lol! " I think this probably happens to everyone, at least to some extent. Having been married four times, I can testify that the excitement of newness wears off quickly. With modeling, I've found that all I have to do to restore interest is to get involved. I do this by reading about the history of the aircraft and its varied uses, and the
  21. It has never entered my mind to give up on model due to a seam problem, or on any other problem. I make an effort to smooth out the worst of the seams, but in 1/72, even the worst aren't visible from the usual viewing distance in my man cave—either "flying" or on a shelf, almost always in dim light. The worst of them get put in a dark corner, so high they are almost forgotten. I no doubt have finished and proudly displayed models that many modelers would have trashed. IMHO a lot of "perfect" models look too much like toys. I like for mine to look like they've had a lot of hard use, and ar
  22. I like this idea. My wife sews, so I'll have her sew a strip of Velcro along the bottom, and I'll glue a strip under my workbench. (Well, I call it my workbench, but it's actually the breakfast bar between our dining room and kitchen.) While she's at it, she can make me a white one and a black one, so I'll have the correct Part Catcher for different colors of styrene. While I'm gluing on Velcro strips, I'll glue a strip under the edge of the coffee table, where we eat 95 percent of the time, and where I regularly spill food on the carpet. Great idea, SBARC. Thank you! I've
  23. This morning, I was on the floor on my hands and knees, looking for the third tiny part that had flown from my tenuous grasp this morning, and my moaning and cussing gave my wife an idea. "Consider the times that you have to get up and look for parts as part of a physical workout," she said. She had a point. Other than trips to the bathroom and coffee pot, my main form of exercise these days seems to be looking for stray parts. My latest build, a Toxso 1/72 M-102 105mm howitzer that I plan to sling-load under a CH-47, has a couple dozen teeny parts. It occurs to me that kit m
  24. I use acrylics for the same reason as you. I'm not bragging about this, but I don't have a paint booth with a fan that exits outside. I do use a good mask with a "prefilter" for painting, including spraying acrylics with my airbrush. I, too, live where it's usually too cold to paint outdoors, so when it's cold, I use rattle-can primer and spray it in the bathroom with the fan running. I use Tamiya "fine" light gray primer mostly, as it shows the places that need additional work better than the white. It goes on smooth, dries fast and most tape won't pull it off. I've had Tamiya primer co
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