Pete
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Some photos from OIF in 2003, all USN official. Lots of GBU-12/16's, some JDAMS, some AGM-65E, some HARM's, and even a pretty rare SLAM-ER.
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Agreed!!
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Except for a few minor issues around the nacelle bases on the wings, the fit is excellent. One of the best fitting kits I have worked on recently. These Hs 293's, for instance, they just slide together, with no vague fit or gaps: I also put the engines together. You can have covers open all around them on all 4, but I think I will keep them mostly closed. Maybe one or two open covers. The kit provides two types of exhausts, normal and fishtail. I went for fishtail, although I have no firm evidence the one I'm building had these. I als
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You don't see many escort Thunderjets. Cool build!
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Thanks all! Hmm. Take your time with the camera assembly in the nose, it is really fiddly. The windows need to be sanded down a bit to fit, but that's not much work. The window at the underside, near the landinggear, is supposed to be recessed. I've seen at least one online build where the builder didn't notice this and thought it was just poor fitting. The surface is a bit grainy, yes, but after a base coat and some gloss, it was smooth enough for me. You might want to scribe some of the lines on the edges of the fuselage, they are a bit soft there. If you're going for o
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Something like this? http://www.rammodels.co.uk/product_info.php/cPath/71_67/products_id/357
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I got some more panels on, and part of the tail. It all fits quite decent. Before you put the wings on, you need to work on the landinggear a bit, first. One of the rods is from the kit, but the others from Evergreen styrene, as it's a bit stronger. And busy masking the clear parts. A job I actually enjoy: Next up, fitting the wings. The fit of those is a bit less good than the fuselage, it seems.
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Lol, I might add those curtains, not sure about the dog. Well, I got the fuselage together, and I put the gondola which contains the weaponsbay under it. It;s made from three clear parts, with lots of windows you have to mask and the fit is great. I also put the wings on. It's quite a big one, it has almost the same span as a Constellation, which is almost twice as long. And a peek through the crew door: Next up are the engine nacelles.
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Thanks! Gianni, I will use some Eduard ordnance on these ones. Thanks for the offer, though! Anyway, getting close to the finish now.
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Thanks Andrew. The red spiraling is painted on. The kit comes with two different decals for it, one with vertical red/white lines, and one with diagonal, but I figured I could do a better job painting it. I just used a 1mm strip of masking tape, which I cut with my handy new cutting mat, spiraled around it and sprayed some red paint on it.
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Look here for some more pics of that one, and others, with some more info on the paint they used. I suspect it's best to get something that looks close enough .
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Another F-4J Showtime 100 question about walkways
Pete replied to F4DPhantomII's topic in Jet Modeling
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Thanks! The lines do become shallow towards the edges of the fuselage parts. After I had glued the halves together and had them sanded smooth, I did some scribing to get them back. Also, there is some difference between the halves, especially around the camera bay hatches. I really like the Vallejo Metal Color paints. They're the fairly new stuff, yes. They spray easily, they're not grainy looking, they dry quick and are pretty durable once dry. One bottle also goes a long way. And best of all, hardly any smell.
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No such thing as a dumb question. Aircraft Resource Center
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There's some nice detail in the cockpit area, and where the entrance is aft of the wings. Between that, the fuselage is just an empty hull, but you won't see much of it anyway. I don't think they are beds, especially the top one is a bit too narrow for that. I'm sure a bed would be welcome for the crew, though. It must have been some long boring hours, especially later when they were forbidden to engage any ships. But, being based on an airliner, and German, I have a feeling it would have been not a super uncomfortable plane for its time and role. As you can see on the pic, it even
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Such a cool build. I've been tempted to get this kit myself. There's something about those Coastal Command planes. Maybe it's the cat and mouse game they played over the North Sea and Atlantic, vs the leveling of cities and industry by Bomber Command, that makes it more interesting. Eduard will release a Coastal Command Liberator later this year, with Leigh light and all, based on the Hasegawa kit. Might be a nice companion to this one. Keep up the good work!
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Hello, I got this ICM 1/72 Tu-2S kit from the hobbyshop a couple weeks ago, and I thought I would give it a go. It's one of ICM's older kits, and it's a bit rough, but certainly buildable. I know just about nothing about Tu-2's, or anything Soviet from the era, so forgive me for any mistakes. I'm building it OOB, and just follow the instructions regarding the colors etc. This is how for I got so far. The cockpit is fairly basic, but I suppose it will look alright with the crew in place. The instrument panel still has to be fitted in. The instructions suggest using Light
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What a lovely build. I really should get me one of those Tamiya P-47's some day.
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Hello, Here's my just finished 1/48 RF-84F. It's the Tanmodel kit, and I used Caracal Decals to do it as one from the 38th TRS, 10th TRW, based at Spangdahlem AB in West Germany between 1955 and 1958. This is part of a little project of mine to build all the different planes and units that were based at Spangdahlem at some point. This is the 5th build for that, after an F-4G, A-10A, F-15C and F-105F. The Tanmodel kit is a lovely model, in my opinion. The panel lines and rivets are a bit deep, and a little inconsistent, and the camera assembly in the nose is a bit tricky
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First of all, "Showtime" was the call sign of VF-96. Every plane in that squadron used it, followed by its Modex. So Showtime 100, Showtime 101, Showtime 102 etc. 155800 was originally Showtime 100, when it was shot down, it was replaced at some point by 155580, which then became the new Showtime 100. Since it was also the CAG bird, it showed the colors of all the squadrons in the airwing, as was usual in those days. In VF-96's case, they used the stars on the fuselage. The other planes in the squadron didn't have these. Where the bee or wasp comes from, I don't know.
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The Showtime 100 that Cunningham and Driscol were shot down in was BuNo 155800. 155779 would have been Showtime 110.
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A couple days ago, I started working on my Revell Fw-200C-5/C-8 kit. It's a very nice kit, with lots of detail, and good fit so far. I don't know much about Fw-200's, and I started quite late in the GB, so I will just build it as the instructions suggest. So if there are any inaccuracies, blame Revell! So far I have painted all the interior bits in some olive green color, and put the cockpit together. As I said, lots of detail, that will mostly be hidden, although you can leave some hatches on top of the fuselage unglued so you can see inside.
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Maybe, in theory, yes. If all the hardpoints were wired for it. But it would make absolutely no sense whatsoever. No. 74 Sqn was an air defence unit, and sacrificing fuel while also increasing drag would be not a good thing when trying to intercept bombers over the North Sea. Besides, 5 gun pods would be a massive overkill against almost anything.
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Awesome! Some nice work there. That Wildcat looks like a fun future build for me, with the folded wings and all. How strong are they like this?
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I have done this, using the long exhausts from the Academy kit on the Hasegawa inner bits. You can see how me and my little assistant did it here: