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  1. I think the easiest route is to just use some thin clear acetate and make your own. There are plenty of images out there. You will have to fashion a little projector optic on top of the glare shield but again, easy to fashion from scrap. The F-4B should be particularly easy. Best!
  2. Very nice jet there. I concur with Rich. Refer to photos from that era. I’m a USAF’r and can attest to the fact that as time wore on, stenciling became minimalist. I saw plenty of USN/USMC F -4s in the late 70s and early 80s. You’d be super safe with servicing markings (O2, hyd. Etc) and safety warning markings. My opinion is the honeycomb markings remained on both USAF and USN til the end. Best wishes on finishing that thing!
  3. Hypersonic stuff is outstanding but the vey best seats are from Sparkit. The former are from cast resin, the later 3D. You’ll want Mk5 up to about 1967-8. Opt for early H-7s after that. Late H-7 showed up around late 70s early 80s.
  4. Just a great discussion and wow, some great seat collections. It is worthy of noting the differing philosophies between service branches and nations. The Brits and USN were initially big in to face curtains for actuation while USAF went for leg guard triggers, man seat separators (butt snappers) then between the leg D rings. On the MB seats, the harness European style harness was rated to 20 Gs while the US integrated design was rated to 40 Gs. Surprised there’s not a Northrop seat in the mix here.
  5. Gene K is bang on. Unsee it. He flew them, I was a maintenance officer on them and I still trying to figure out what’s so awful about the ZM C/D/J! I think the 40 something Monogram with a little tarting up still builds in to a nice replica.
  6. Dave Roof will know for sure.
  7. Habu nailed it. I pulled the attached from NATOPS. Though not real detailed, it gives a good explanation of gear actuation. The one actuator in your images does the work. Springs and air loads assist with alternate extension.
  8. I’m with Dave. I talked to the Tam. Reps at last year’s nats. They said the reason no new variants of the F-4 have come out is because they have 3 engineers that do all their scale airplane development. The F-35 was the “priority”. Considering the success of the A and B, I’m betting they're going to round out the series with a C. It’s different, it’s big, it’s got a tailhook and it’s got markings. If they’re going to do one, I’m thinking a November 2024 announcement is plausible.
  9. Without question the main assembly comprising the bucket and structure were dark gull gray. The seat cushion as depicted above was light olive. The parachute was sage green or sort of light bluish green as were the chute risers and lap belt. These did fade out. The face curtain, harness release and lower ejection handles were yellow as was the “head knocker”. this was a narrow handle in the middle of the headrest that when puled down, safed the seat.
  10. I’ve built 2 Hasegawa AV-8Bs and one Kinetic FRS2. They are both quite good so it boils down to version. Overall I kinda lean toward Has.
  11. Quinta-cockpit Reskit-Augmenter and nozzle, wheels Flying Leatherneck-Reinforcements Master -probes
  12. Weird thing is I was at Nellis at this time. Those jets pretty much flew clean as I remember. There was a ramp full of them down by base ops and T-Birds. they were very active but I think most of their work was around giving stealth guys stick time and supporting their work. The most memorable thing I remember was a late afternoon when one blew a tire and ground looped right in front of me. You could tell the pilot was hanging on for dear life! He ended up in the infield in a cloud of dust and that was that! I remember another incident was a fatality one night on the range. Not much said abou
  13. Well for sure the thing is based on a BLU 27 napalm canister that has been modified to become an MXU 648 travel pod. These were standardized and were governed by their own Tech Orders. They could be locally manufactured or at least they used to be.
  14. Not a whole lot to fuss over. On some the slipway door was natural metal color
  15. Curt, although the MB H7 is depicted here, the GRU 7 harness concept was pretty much the same. Basci ally, the pilot wears a harness without a parachute. The harness hooks to the risers/shoulder harness and to the survival kit. There is a sort of conventional lap belt and four leg restraint garters. The risers are connected to an inertia reel behind the crew members upper back. Even though foreign nations used MB, their harness assemblies were somewhat different. USAF/USN are rated to 40gs. RAF to 20 on those older seats. The MK 10 and up are probably common for every user I think
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  17. Personally, I don’t know where the idea that 17875 is “off white”. When freshly painted insignia white is well, “white”. I think the exception is obviously heavily weathered or dirty areas. Turbine oil in particular leaves an oriangeish stain. So, missles of that period were white but might show hand prints etc. I think off white would look, I hate to say it this way, but off!
  18. Holy balls! What a sheet! And it’s Cartograph. What’s not to love!
  19. sigtau indeed, the boeing spec is for mms 425 non organic primer. It comes in yellow and famously blue-green metallic on the F-15. I believe it comes in white as well. PPG, Desoto and others make it. In the end what matters is matching the color to your specific modeling endeavor, zinc chromate or not.
  20. I’m talking about F-111s, F-15s, and 16s. Those are way beyond 30 years and none had zinc chromate from the factory. The Air Force stopped ZCs use in the 70s due being highly carcinogenic.
  21. Being yellow green in color does not make it zinc chromate. Modern day primers may be yellow or yellow green but their compositions are different.
  22. I’m thinking now that 34552 is not the right shade for the primer used on the A-7. That is the color for the F-16 and I believe the ‘111 however. Either way here is a good example of the A-7s color: BTW, zinc chromate’s use was stopped because it is highly carcinogenic.
  23. Compare polymide primer to yellow zinc chromate side by side. They’re not the same. Polymide epoxy was used throughout the F-16 and F-111 as well. I saw lots of them especially at Nellis when the 4450th used them in the ‘117 program.
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