boom175
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It will probably be like when the USAF released a purposely distorted photo of the F-117 and Hasegawa came out with a kit that looked like the photo. The real A/C ... not so much! 🙂
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From the unit I retired from, celebrating its centennial. MD ANG 175th WG 104th FS
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Welp, there ya go! Outstanding!
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Well,,,,if you count the fake canopy its three tone!!!!.....🐒
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I'm still waiting on official Tamiya Confirmation. That could have been a photo shopped "leak"
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IMHO The ZM LG attachments both main and nose are the best engineered out there in 48th F-4's Very positive mounting. I have yet to see the Tamiya kit though.
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My LHS got them in yesterday.
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Pardon my Eagle ignorance but isn't the E model and later marks have thicker wheels and brakes than the C/D 's? That's why they have the bulged MLG doors on the newer two holers.
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The Instrument panels are different as well
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I do a section of the model at a time. I actually do it upstairs on the kitchen table so I can have the TV on for some background noise. When I get a little tired/frustrated I get up and leave the table for a while. It will take me several sessions but I think a full set of stencils does make the model "pop" a bit. Just use Qtips and tissue paper and make sure the decals is fully down on the surface use a good solvent to insure that they fit over the details. Keep a eye out if you accidentally dislodge a decal that you put it back in position.
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I go there whenever I visit my Aunt and Uncle. Awesome shop!
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1 hour ago, haneto said:
The uploaded version seems to be compressed to lower quality due to forum attachment size limitation, so if you guys are interested in originl high resolution version I can upload to some online file share website.
That would be great!!
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6 hours ago, haneto said:More R&D content added: fuselage, vertical fins and stabilizers.Enjoy the reading!
If possible could you make this into a downloadable file, it would eb great to have on hand as a reference. I am sure I am going to build more than one Flanker!
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We started adding little "legs to our travel pods in the mid 90's I would say maybe a little earlier. It was about the same time we added handles to them. I think a TCTO came out authorizing units to add them to the pods. We used to store them on racks that had 6 " wide rubberized canvas straps between the racks. We finally made a towable rack that had sets of two hooks on it and you could hang8 pods on a rack. Made it a lot easier to transport and load them on the jets.
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Does anyone have a spare part # C-25 from a Zokei Mura F-4 kit? Its the parachute pack. Please message me if you have one, I lost one of mine,
Thanks
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Does anyone have a spare part # C-25 from a Zokei Mura F-4 kit? Its the parachute pack. Please message me if you have one, I lost one of mine,
Thanks
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1 minute ago, Ratte said:
It's part E49 - there is an errata to the instructions which you can find at scalemates.com .
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I maybe having a "Senior moment" but where is the cannon on this kit?? I don't see it in the instructions. I doubt it they left it out of the kit.
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1 hour ago, GeneK said:
I've seen a lot of Phantom models with the "tinting" overdone. The windshield is not tinted ... the greenish/blue color results from light waves playing in and between the two layers of thick glass that make up the flat center section. The color and intensity varies depending on conditions and viewing angle ... but the glass is clear.
Gene K
Thank you Gene!! I think this is true of any windshield that uses that thick Glass in the center section.
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I wrote in another thread that asking roughly the same question I hope it helps. For reference I am a retired A-10 crew chief
I would say in the Mid 2000's, I was asking our egress shop about that mod and if it was going to happen on our jets. They said they doubted it would happen to the A-10 seats. I was still a crew chief then and I went up to MOCC in 2008 and retired in 2011 so 2005-2006. But It wasn't a TCTO for the jet it was a TCTO for the seat.
Hope that helps
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10 hours ago, seawinder said:
Does anybody know when the TCTO was first implemented? Is there any way to predict whether or not a plane in, say, 2010, would have the upgraded seat with folding pitot tubes?
I would say in the Mid 2000's, I was asking our egress shop about that mod and if it was going to happen on our jets. They said they doubted it would happen to the A-10 seats. I was still a crew chief then and I went up to MOCC in 2008 and retired in 2011 so 2005-2006. But It wasn't a TCTO for the jet it was a TCTO for the seat.
Hope that helps
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I work at BWI
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16 minutes ago, Alpagueur said:
thin everything (wings + wheels)? from the drawing (and the Academy kit) it looks like this, thin.
where are these bumps? can't see them. To me the Tamiya kit seems all thin (wings/wheels). Am I missing something?
They are above the MLG struts. There was a mod to F-4's that made the MLG Trunnion mounts bigger which necessitated a bulge in the wing skin above the MLG mount.
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What is a good match for the Flanker wheel wells? I have MRP-049 which advertises itself as a pale blue-grey for "Russian aircraft Interior Cockpit, Wheel Well, Seat etc.." however while it looks good for a MiG-21 wheel well, it doesn't seem to match any of the picture of a Su-27 wheel well that I have seen. Also are the gear struts the same color as the wheel wells? P.S. this is for the GWH Su-27UB in which I want to do a Russian Jet not a Ukrainian one ( They seem to have there wheel wells repainted )
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What do I need to convert Tamiya's F-14A (Current kit) to a Block 126
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Ok Gang, I want to do "Miss Molly" from VF-111 using the existing Tamiya kit mainly because my shelf space is a little limited so I will do it with the wings swept. From what I understand the Tamiya kit is a block 95 or so with the pitot tube on the nose but doesn't have all the appropriate bumps and such.
So what do I have to change/add etc. to get to a block 126?
Thanks in advance