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I think this whole spark proof fan thing is highly overrated. A while back I actually loaded my air brush with lacquer thinner, held my mini butane torch in front of the air brush at about 18 inches and started spraying. The only thing that happened is a eventually blew the torch out. I suspect the amount of spraying you would need to do in a very small space would gas you long before it blew up. Spray cans put out a lot more paint than our modeling air brushes, but I doubt if explosion is as much of an issue as the exposure to all those fumes. I think even just an ordinary fan plac

Flaps and gear doors on the Mustang are hydraulic. To prevent over pressuring the system due to solar heating that could damage seals, the hydraulic release handle on the lower right hand side of the instrument sub panel (behind the stick) was pulled after shut down. As the label sez, this released pressure in the system and as a result the gear bay doors and flaps would slowly bleed down.This could also occur if the a/c had a leaky hydraulic system. As someone mentioned, the B-29/B-50/C/KC-97 all had electric motors that drove a jack screw to raise and lower the flaps. Thus no bleed

Chris, No, it would not be at all common. Flaps increase lift, allowing quicker take offs and slower approach speeds. Once on the ground on landing, that increased lift works against you by keeping the weight off the wheels, thus not allowing the brakes to work their thing. They also tend to get dinged up by rocks and stuff thrown up into the flaps. So the flaps are usually raised on roll out and left retracted on shut down. With big birds they also are a great head cracker if in the lowered position. On airplanes like the Mustang, with hydraulic flaps they tended to bleed down.

Why not go for something a lot more colorful. The 479th had some great markings prior to the TAC edict to remove everything in the winter of 1959-60.

Well, the issues with the kit really don't change no matter what version of the Minicraft kit your dealing with. Props wing issues, front of engines, lack of cockpit etc. are common to all the kits.

Kingoalie, Be glad to. The attached photos should show the differences between the kit and the real bird. I did not do a prop comparison drawing, but the differences are pretty obvious to me. The kit blades are just rectangles while the real prop has curves on both the leading and trailing edges. That is fixable with reshaping (16 times!!??). The unfixable part is the base of the blade is too far out from the spinner . http://smg.photobucket.com/user/nfiler/media/C-130 Tail comparison_zpsnbn38u8x.jpg.html?sort=3&o=1 http://smg.photobucket.com/user/nfiler/media/C-130 Prop_zps

Well, I am a bit late to this conversation, but here is my opinion. The props are poor. The engines are terrible The wings lack the proper dihedral on the underside. Absolutely no attempt at any cockpit. The vertical tail is not accurate. It is grossly overpriced. Fit is poor almost everywhere. The A Model kit is a little better, but not by a whole lot. Sure would be nice to see a decent kit of the Herky in this scale.

Alclad Dull Aluminum works just fine, and I don't understand " Much more forgiving than the metalizers ". It is a lacquer. If you use it as a lacquer and don't fool around with a bunch of other products that might or might not be compatible it works.

The slats did not "work", they were fixed in the extended position. The four supports are even in different locations from the fairings. And from looking at other photos is does not appear to have the EMC antenna on the wing tips. The B/N (153088) sez it is an F-4J.

One of the F-100s is a C model from the 479th Wing, 343th Sqd. out of George AFB. Those were gone by Oct. 1958. Traded in on F-104Cs. And the Black trim was quickly changed to White early on. And in the winter of 1959/1960 all the fancy squadron markings were gone. Replaced by the TAC Emblem and Lightning bolt. My guess would be 1957-58 time frame. Norm

I have both the ALPs printer and the Silhouette Portrait and do use both for 1/72nd markings, so I think I can give you some first person help. First, the ALPs printer would do that decal just fine. But getting a functional one and supplies today is both expensive and difficult. If this is your only decal project both the expense and learning curve is gonna be impressive. Assuming the layout is in vector format it looks like you have the graphics program well in hand. No, the Portrait will not cut most of what you have on the sheet. Even at the slowest speed it will tear up text smaller th

jinmmydel, It is not victim blaming at all. I owned two hobby shops and worked in a third over the years. It is called taking care of business. Theft is a foregone conclusion in almost any business. Store floor plan and traffic control is a basic part of your business. If you start looking at most successful retail stores you will find that there are few places in the store that are not in direct sight from where the staff usually works. And you also usually have to pass by the front counter to get out of the store. And if you notice most retail items of even marginal value now come with a el

Well, you can't see much of the shop, but one thing is very clear. The layout is terrible. The stacks are so high that there is no way to see what is happening in that aisle.And that door just begs to be a quick exit. Yeah, they have video cameras, but you can see what help that was. All it provided was proof they got hit. Any retail store that does not consider security in its layout will quickly discover that the theft level is high and getting higher. This in no way excuses the thieves. But why make it easy for them?

Well, you can't see much of the shop, but one thing is very clear. The layout is terrible. The stacks are so high that there is no way to see what is happening in that aisle.And that door just begs to be a quick exit. Yeah, they have video cameras, but you can see what help that was. All it provided was proof they got hit. Any retail store that does not consider security in its layout will quickly discover that the theft level is high and getting higher. This in no way excuses the thieves. But why make it easy for them?

The F-100D model was the first F-100s to be capable of carrying AIM-9Bs. They were mounted on the inboard pylon only. Later, some ANG F-100As were field modified to carry the missiles as well. One of Arizona ANG's F-100As shot up a B-52 when a short occurred in the system. To say the F-100 was designed as a mud mover is not correct. The A and C versions were fine ACM airplanes. By the time they got to the D and F models the airframe had gained about 2,000 lbs of weight with little gain in thrust. While it was still a pretty agile bird, it was overweight. We had both C and D models at George

There was a gunsight installed, but the F-106 did not have a Heads Up Display. Prior to the gun, the missile system was very much a heads down, on the scope system.

It ain't the end by any means. My wife went thru that seven years ago and it was indeed difficult for us both. But she has been cancer free ever since and everything is pretty normal around here. Hang in there. Your support is very important to both of you. You need keep her as worry free and comfortable as you can and hopefully some day soon you will look back on both your efforts with pride.

Here is what the holdback fitting looks like. They were color coded for different breaking strengths.

On one of the earlier posts I said I had difficulty dealing with them. In one of the replies Raymond pointed out that my email address was not working. So a part of the problem was mine. I got that corrected today and got a prompt reply from Elsie. At this point I would withdraw my statement that I would not deal with them in the future. I have never been a big spender with them, but I have been a customer for a long while and will continue to buy from them as needed.

Raymond, Thanks for the personal reply. I now understand more and will reconsider my decision. Elsie did a good job resolving my problem. I suspect there might be something wrong with my email address that you have and will try to fix that now.

I recently had a problem with them too. The way it was resolved was a bit unusual I thought. I had to sign in to my account, then make a "request". The only way I saw messages from them was to do the sign in and going to "My request" each time. No normal emails or any other exchanges at all. After a bit of back and forth about PayPal transaction numbers and such it was finally resolved. Nothing happened quickly and it took a couple exchanges with the same transaction data before they moved much. I have one current open order that will burn the credit from the resolution. After that is done I w

Based on my six months or so of playing Interceptor games in Spain in late 1959 with our F-104Cs and the 497th FIS F-86Ds, the alert birds stayed locked and cocked in the alert barns until either sent out on an intercept or their alert time expired. If they were sent on an intercept, the 15 minute birds moved into the barn and when they returned the original alert birds went into the fuel pits and on to the squadron ramp for normal post flight inspections and whatever write up corrections might be required. Sometimes when the alert period was due to expire they blew the whistle and the two a

There is really no comparison between the Meng kit any ANY OTHER 72nd scale kit. Complexity and methods of alignment construction and level of detail is just beautiful. With a couple small exceptions the fit and detail as great. I can't think of any other kit that has provided every option ever applied to the real a/c in one all inclusive kit. Nothing is missing. There are even a choice of two different aileron fairings under the wings! I have been studying the a/c pretty intently for the last couple year and I didn't even know there were two fairings. Then they provide enough added stuff for

Well until there is an actual contract negotiated and signed there would not be any military designation at all. The DOD does not assign a "potential" designation to every a/c out there just on the off chance it might want to buy one some day.

Why does this continue to be debated? The relevant T.O. has been posted and quoted several times. The ONLY color specified is FS 15044 Blue. The "USAF" and "UNITED STATES AIR FORCE" were to be Blue, while all other markings are Black. In a really good photo, you can sometimes see the very slight difference between the "UNITED STATES AIR FORCE" and the serial number. That level of painting/repainting is only done at the depot level, and those guys didn't recognize any deviations at all. If they had run out of FS 15044 the process would have stopped until they got more. And the inspector who wou