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  1. Have the C-17 and C-46 sheets started to ship?
  2. Sword has a 1/72 North American T-39A Sabreliner coming. Needs some Caracal love.
  3. Years ago, I built the 1/72 Revell boxing of the Italeri CH-53E. I was pleased that I folded the blades correctly, but I should have shortened the landing gear. Every time I look at these photos, it looks like it is on stilts.
  4. So that's where they all went.
  5. Keep working on it. The Monogram F-4C makes a fine looking Phantom. I used the same boxing as yours to arrive at this.
  6. You amazing progress is making me weak. I might have to order one.
  7. Absolutely love it. Tell me how you got that zinc chromate effect? Please? Photos?
  8. Famous last words from Judges, "No Harrier, M48 Chaparral, United Airlines 757, '71 Mustang Mach 1, USS Alabama would ever be painted that way, weathered that way, have that shade of yellow, use that antenna configuration, have those tires."
  9. I love this part and it rings so true with me. Modelers are the only ones obsessed by "this FS is for this, during the period May 73 to Apr 74 and only at Cannon AFB" and "RLM 27 was only used on Arado AR 196 tails in December 1939." It is hilarious. I was in the Army from the 70s to the 90s and I saw our vehicles painted in strict accordance to pattern right next to another that looked like it was painted with whatever green and tan they had in the motor pool at 1645 on Friday. The variability was enormous. MERDC schemes side by side with NATO three tone. Now days you will f
  10. You cannot post a shot from "The Cage" and say it is your model. Just kidding. πŸ˜‰ You knocked it out of the park with your build. Well done.
  11. I was just going to post a link to that Twotter. Great job, but I think it should at least be semi-gloss. I would think the USAF Academy Sky Dive Team Aircraft would be a little glossy. Nevertheless, a bang up job!!
  12. Fond, fond memories of my mom and I building one back in '64 when I was seven. Stationed at Clinton-Sherman AFB, OK. Dad would have helped but he was on 12 hour shifts busting his knuckles fixing B-52s, so model building fell to my great mom. Our PBM was unpainted and covered in glue finger prints, but what fun.
  13. You brush painted that light gray? Come on, pull they other one! 😁 Seriously, good job.
  14. Gonna need these 1/72 sheets shrunk.
  15. Will the new CH-53K King Stallion be too wide to fit on a C-5?
  16. One of my favorite helicopters. I cannot wait. (In 1/72 too, please.)
  17. Paul, I dream of doing that exact F-18 one day! Well done.
  18. In the early 1990s, I flew from Yokota AFB to Chitose on a C-9B for an exercise on Hokkaido. Only time I ever used the rear air stairs. Remember stepping off the air stair and discovering the ramp was nothing but ice. Luckily I kept my footing. πŸ˜‚
  19. That livestock is in danger of being roasted.
  20. Want to know how dumb I was? As a fourteen year old Air Force brat, I bought a sealed, never opened original Aurora F-90 at the exchange at Hill AFB in '71. Sold it, unopened in the 1980s for 10 or 15 bucks.
  21. My dad (E9, USAF) told a very similar story. From β€˜65 to β€˜69 he was on the Strategic Air Command Maintenance Standardization Evaluation Team out of Offutt. They were flying from Torrejon one August in a KC-135 back to Nebraska. Dad had hundreds of hours in KC-135s as a passenger, not crew. He knew how long a normal roll was until airborne. The jet was loaded with fuel, very heavy and it was August in Spain. This time it was not getting off the ground. There’s few windows in a KC-135 fuselage and the seats near the windows were occupied by brass. Anyway, the jet was
  22. Hmmmm, invokes a semi-Shamu vibe, no? Lighter shade of gray, for sure.
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