Jump to content

GW8345

Members
  • Content Count

    1,506
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by GW8345

  1. My pleasure, just paying it forward myself. 😉
  2. Any 1/72 scale Hasegawa aircraft kit from the 80's.
  3. GW8345

    F-14B HUD

    Bottom pic, not sure what Tomcat the top pic is but I've never seen that configuration in any Tomcat I ever worked on. The top pic looks like an Alpha or a Bravo (without the Sparrowhawk HUD) but with the ACM Panel and a few other "boxes" changed, looks like a cockpit of a test Tomcat.
  4. Everything I've read and seen is that they only carried one pod on the right wing pylon, Shrike (with AERO 5B) on the left wing pylon.
  5. Totally agree, I don't weather my aircraft that much also, seems like the trend today is a contest to see how weathered/dirty a modeler can make a Navy aircraft and I don't recall them ever being that weather/dirty when I was skinning knuckles on them.
  6. Doing a little research I noticed the the bottom of Phantoms were painted FS 17925 (Gloss White) and not FS 17875 (Insignia White). So I recommend painting the missiles a flat white and don't weather them that much, missiles were regularly cleaned and were well cared so they would have very little weathering.
  7. If the pylon has the weapons adapter on it you can add a TER.
  8. The missiles would be gloss white faded to a semi-gloss white, radome of the Sparrows would the a tan'ish flat white.
  9. There's a difference in preferences and philosophy between 1/72 and 1/48 scale builder's, what works for one scale doesn't mean it will be the same for the other. 😉
  10. If a may offer an opinion sir, I think the reason why the KC-130J sheet didn't sell out like the multiple aircraft sheet (FL72002, which I have) is due to the choice of subject and not just because the second sheet had multiple choice. I don't won't speak for all 1/72 scale modelers but I think the issue is size of the subject, I think most 1/72 scale modelers kind of shy away from large subjects due to a number of reasons, the most common is space limitations. Think of this, the 1/72 scale Monogram B-36, a lot of /72 scale'ers have one in their stash but you rarely see
  11. If memory serves me correct I believe Darren has stopped doing Steel Beach stuff.
  12. If I may, I believe the reason why they put so many different markings on a sheet is so that they can reach a broader audience and thus sell more sheets. If you only put markings for two different aircraft on a sheet, you will only sell the sheet to those looking for either one or both of those markings, by putting more markings on the sheet they (the decal guys) will reach a much wider audience and thus have a higher chance of selling the sheet. I mean, how many people are looking for decals for "Brand X" and "Brand Y"? Now, if you put markings for Brand A, B, D, G, M,
  13. Let's be clear here, this was not a "meteorological” object", it was a Chinese spy balloon that was illegally flying over the United States.
  14. There will be RBF's for the landing gear downlocks and the ejection seat pins (and canopy jettison handle in the cockpit), other than that it depends on what is loaded. Covers are only put on (while on the flight deck) when the ship is in port, going through the Suez Canal or some other rare extreme case.
  15. Not sure what this post is asking or stating but if you but if you are saying that the Mk 20 was authorized on VER's it would have to be prior to 2004, it wasn't authorized on VER's after 2004.
  16. The pitot covers were tied together and there would be one RBF attached to the rope. Note: 99% of the time, if the aircraft was loaded the pitot covers (basically all covers) would be removed/not installed, the 1% of the time is because the ordies beat the plane captain to the bird and the covers would be removed as soon as the P/C got to the bird. Covers were installed when the bird was "put to bed" for the day and rarely were planes left loaded overnight while on the beach (you had to have Wing approval to leave a bird loaded over night and you had to have an ordnance crew on sta
  17. I have no idea what comes in the kit, I was just answering your question about the Reskit BRU-55. For the BRU-33/A VER, it was authorized for; Mk 82, Mk 83, Rockets and Mk 62 (Mk 15/BSU-86 Fin) Quickstrikes. The GBU-12 can be carried by either the BRU-33A/A or BRU-55. The BRU-55 can carry everything a BRU-33A/A can, except for rockets, in addition to GBU-32/38/54.
  18. That Reskit item is a BRU-55, i.e. a smart rack based off of the BRU-33A/A. The 33A/A doesn't have the aft umbilicals, umbilical arms and only has the centerline wiring conduit on the belly. A BRU-33/A is a VER, the BRU-33A/A is a CVER and the BRU-55 is a BRU-33A/A that is capable of employing GBU-32/38/54's. Also, if you don't want to buy the Academy 1/32 scale Hornet just to get a set of Monster's you can buy the LAU-115 and LAU-127's from Flying Leathernecks; https://www.flyingleathernecksdecals.com/p/fl32-2058-lau-115ca-launcher https://www.flyingle
  19. No RBF on the back of the TER, the F-14 used ITER's which didn't have a safety pin and there would be nothing on the practice bomb. For a Mk 76 on an ITER (along with TER/MER/IMER), recommend you add a thin strip of thin plastic (painted red) to simulate the practice bomb adapter (yellow in the first two links, blue in the last - they were usually painted in squadron colors, VF-74 painted their red); Here are pics that will show you how to mount the bomb on a TER/ITER/MER/IMER (it mounted the same way on all stations) https://nara.getarchive.net/media/a-us-n
  20. For a land based Tomcat with a CATM-9M and TACTS Pod the following pins would be installed; Nose and Main Landing Gear down locks; Main Landing Gear Down Lock (Red thing on the drag brace) http://www.anft.net/f-14/f14-detail-gearmain-35.htm http://www.anft.net/f-14/f14-detail-gearmain-18.htm Couldn't find a pic with the nose pin installed so here's the closest thing I can find. The pin would go in the hole just aft of the ground power receptacle (panel on the left side of the nose landing gear drag brace, right along the edge of the Phoenix Fairing
  21. The older style could be converted for radio use, had to have a radio (usually hung from the person's belt), not sure about the new type. Most people on deck don't have radios, only a select few get radios (trust me, most of the time it's better to not have a radio then to have one).
  22. Yes, those are the new (supposedly improved) cranials, they are supposedly more comfortable than the old cranial.
×
×
  • Create New...