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AKA "Hush House" they have them at a lot of loud jet bases. Usually one is the test cell for engines just repaired and uninstalled, and one that you can fit half a jet in for installed runs.
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14 hours ago, camus27 said:
Well, I don't know what you order. I meant they were out of everything on MY list, across a wide enough range of products to be frustrating. Although, I'm not sure they have ever had everything on my list in stock at once. More concerning is their restocking process, I've been watching items for six months and they haven't been refilled, which seems longer than normally necessary.
Why don't you drop them a note, Gordon seems very customer oriented.
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In the US 48th scale is the most popular A/C scale. Most aftermarket decal companies don't make 72nd versions of their sheet and when they do, the sit on the shelves and the 48th scale will sell out. I have hears in Europe that its the opposite and 72nd scale rules. From what I am seeing, it appears that 48th scales are out selling 72nd scale. If so its only logical from a business sense to concentrate more on the more popular line.
Disappointing as I wanted to more of the later gen fishbeds such as the SM and the bis as there are some really neat marking options out there.
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Probably stickers from a Gerber machine.
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25 minutes ago, 11bee said:
Out of curiosity, why would you have to? I get having to cover intakes, exhausts due to FOD concerns, but a seat in a sealed cockpit?
Just normal wear and tear, when the jet isn't flying guys getting in and out of the cockpit, I guess it also keeps the parachute straps and seat cushion out of the sun. That type of stuff.
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12 hours ago, 11bee said:
Cool picture. Having these jets on amphibs is a real game changer. Wonder why they have to cover the ejection seat? Haven’t seen that done on land-based 35’s.
I don't know if there is a F-35 specific thing. But we covered the Sets on our A-10's at the end of the day. Most ejection seats have covers that are part of the A/C's "inventory" such as intake/ exhaust covers etc. In the USAF we called that stuff -21 equipment.
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You need to blame the people that package the book, there is obviously not enough padding at the corners. The people handling the packages don't have time to read everything that is written on the box as they probably handle a thousand or two parcels every shift and they are not given a a lot of time to do it. I work at a large airport and while the people I have seen packing containers don't go out of their way to damage your parcels, accidents happen. Its just a matter of numbers.
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I can say that they molded the belly reinforcing strap on. For a 3d print it was pretty well detailed. I am waiting for a hard wing Vietnam era bird as I found one of the Zotz F-4e decals sheets at the nationals!
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I think the "stealth" coating is chameleon skin!
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40 minutes ago, 11bee said:
From the article linked above - how long as the Raptor had that largish green O2 tank in the aft cockpit?
Wonder if that has anything to do with the OBOGS problem they had on that jet?
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AKAN paints seemed a little fragile to me when I airbrushed them. However this was over bare plastic, I haven't tried them over primed plastic.
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They will have a "prototype" of their "Late F-4E" at the US IPMS Nats next week. My guess its a rapid prototype and not from the tooling, But that's just my guess.
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3 hours ago, Solo said:
Is it difficult to make F-14B from F-14D kit?
Different Instrument Panels and different Ejection seats. No evidence of glove vanes. Is just of the top of my head.
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I have never seen a photo of a PD with the ventral fuel tank fitted. I've read they were capable of using them buy I have never sen a picture of a interceptor Foxbat with that big ol tank. I would love to see one!
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The Aqua gloss is water soluble, but it dries very hard and self levels nicely. Just don't shake it, kind of counter intuitive for most modelers but that will introduce air bubbles in it. I have never tried Klear Kote so I cannot contrast and compare. Sorry
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For gloss I really like aqua gloss by Alclad. Future is for floors.
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On 5/19/2019 at 10:30 PM, TheRealMrEd said:
I have stopped going on Hyperscale, as well as 1/72 Modeler, since they converted to Tapatalk. I don't WANT to join anything else, and I do all my modeling communications via computer, not phone. The straw that broke the camel's back for me was that someone with a Tapatalk account was using they same screen name, even though he apparently doesn't do modeling sites. I've been using TheRealMrEd since AOL in 1994, and I'm sure not gonna change now. Any site that changes to Tapatalk loses me, period.
Ditto S.V.319 above, it's here and Britmodeler for me!
Ed
You can still use the computer! Seems silly but I respect your choice.
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I think if you could do that it would be a gross violation of OPSEC. I can tell you in my AF career our squadron used the same call sign for training but when we went in theater, the callsigns were chosen by higher headquarters.
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Personally I am hoping for a straight Su-27P Lot of neat marking options on that. The announce KH kit will be a SM and while that has more interesting configuration options the markings are pretty limited.
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They have always showed some innovative molding. Some of the detail on their earlier MiG-21 kits was very nice especially around the exhaust nozzle.Looking forward t this kit even though I am a later MiG-21 fan.
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7 minutes ago, Raptor01 said:
I have some 36170, poly, & thinner I want to try. Aren’t you supposed to mix up only what you want to use & not contaminate the source? My bottles are stored at room temp.
John
They have some great tutorials on You Tube and on their website has some tips on as well. Trick is to use their thinner and it's going to look a lot thicker than what you are used to. I usually go with 10 drops of paint, 2-4 drops of thinner and say 4 drops of poly. I spray at 10-15 psi usually around 12.
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The poly additive is not mandatory.
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I think there is one in the BB F-16 cockpit
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104th FS MD ANG please