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Hi ch4vetrep, I sent you pm about the parts.

Hi ch4vetrep, Sent you an PM about this. Do you still need some?

Duncan, Sent you a PM on this. Mark B.

Hi apatish, I sent you a PM on this. Let me know if you still need the kill markings. Cheers!

Thanks. So it was a CoG thing then. I was wondering because sometimes heat and humidity mean adverse aerodynamic performance and other times they mean adverse electrical circuit performance.

Not meaning to hi-jack this thread, but one of my middle names is "rampant curiosity" but this statement makes me want to know what the weather had to do with the # of AIM-7s? Was it a weight thing or was there something about the AIM-7s in the front bay on hot humid days? If a weight thing, did the birds sit alert sans center line tank as well? TIA

Well it's been another long dry spell. Hard to believe 5 months have gone by and all I have managed to get done is two boat cranes. Well ok still have to finish the painting but at least the hard parts over. Used Tom's Model works PE for the booms and the top part of the kit's cranes. Major sub-assemblies: Finished cranes prior to painting. I was pleasantly surprised by the robustness of the cranes once they were bent and glued to the masts. Here we have the first coats of paint on them.

Actually it happened in 1980 as a result of the federal highway appropriations bill that year. It was a condition on federal highway funds. No 21 minimum age drinking limit by 1982 no funds... Lots of money for the states in that appropriation so most of them caved in by 1982. I remember because in 1982 I turned 21 just as Ohio (I was attending OSU) raised the limit...Just got in under the gun as it were... The funny thing is that all this did was to make the bars adopt the 18 to party, 21 to drink approach. The bouncers would stamp the hand of anyone between the ages of 18 to 20 but I reme

Hi Ikar, I haven't built one (or much of anything else this year for that matter) but I did find this build thread over on the in progress section of the forum for ModelWarShips.com. http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=149568&hilit=Mikasa HTH

SNOW DAY!!! The Glacial pace continues: It's been a long dry spell but the NAS Pensacola was closed this past Wednesday and Thursday due to the ice storm here NW Florida so I got to work on the Arizona a little. I was able to get the catapult on turret no 3 finished. It is from the Tom's Model Works Arizona set. Here are couple of shots to show the overall status Here is a closer shot of the catapult. Hopefully I will get some more time between work and house projects to get the stern cat, & the cranes done soon...

Funny you should post this, I was thinking about that very movie myself the other night after watching Firefox. I believe the brief scene in Fire Fox where Mitchel Gant is recovering his fighting skills was the same F-4 v F-5 footage from Red Flag.

I was under that impression as well. The following picture is one I found back around 2006 when I was building a Tamiya F-4J and it sure does look like a plain jane TER to me...Not sure of the where I found it except that the caption claimed it was from DaNang during the Viet Nam war circa 1968. Unit code on the tail of bird in the back ground seems to be EC.

Yep you’re right. I just got home and was looking through the pictures again and it would seem I suffered a memory fault along with a GPF error. I stand corrected as it looks something like a 60% to 40% mix of Midas (long) to short muzzles. I apologize for the miss info earlier....

Possibly the long Midas muzzle was showing up stateside by then, but all of the pictures I have seen of the "In Country" F-4Es show the short muzzles. We are talking about the Phantom so anything is possible.... I know that the 33 TFW F-4E Capt. Ritchie shot down the two MiG 21s with had the short muzzle and that a/c was a summer help transfer in the spring of '72. BTW there were some 13 or so slat equipped birds in Viet Nam late in 1972 so maybe they would have had the Midas muzzle too.

The big differences will be the wings and the 20 mm cannon muzzle. The early F-4E’s had a short angled muzzle on the 20 mm cannon faring, not the long tubular one like the one on the box top. I’m not sure if the kit has a short muzzle, but that would be the one to use. The wings are the major issue because this kit has the latter (Post 1972) slatted wings, not the standard F-4C/D type wing often referred to as the “hard wing”. You would have to use a set of wings from the C/D kits or any of the standard F-4EJ kits (not the EJ-Kie kits) or modify the wings by removing the combat slats on

Not sure about paint matching exaclty, but this site has great color shots of lots of seats. Seat Gallery Link <-- Click There Martin Baker MK-7 USAF <-- Click There HTH

Well it's been a while and while it glacial in pace I have made a little progress. I got the ships boats and the masts installed. I did get the foremast yardarms done and a couple of 50 cal AA mounts in place as well.

I know. I meant that there is a scab plate above the MLG ala Hasegawa on the photo of the finished model. I was just wondering if Academy is doing the same thing Hasegawa did and including them on all wing tops in every kit.

Actually the photos look more Hasegawa to me. It's been a long time since I built the old Hasegawa F-4C, but didn't it have the scab plate on top of the wing over the main landing gear trunnion too?

Hi Tracy Ok 5-D Dark Gray it is then... Thanks for the links. All of them will help with the 1/350 Banbosseter build. Yep. This was what I thought. Varying shades of gray. I guess the white/light canvas covers would have been used until they needed replacements in peace time anyway. This answers the hard top/soft top question as well as providing a good shot of the tub for the 1.1 AA guns. One question though, why was the tube raised several feet off the deck? I thought it was so the whole tube could rotate, but this shot would indicate that this is not the case. And I take it from

Solid huh. Ok that makes it easier. I thought I was going to have to come up with a differnt shade of gray for the tops but now all I have to do is decide on white or Dark Gray D-5?

Hi Tracy, Yep that's how I've always built, so I went with the tan wood insides and brown rails. One other question though, on the officers boats (the ones with the enclosed tops) were those tops canvas? I have seen how others have modified the rear of the enclosures by opening them up. If they were canvas would they have been white or buff, or would they have been made from canvas dyed gray? Thanks for the idea. I will probably use it on the next Arizona, the infamous Banbosseter 1/350 version. It is a little late for this build. Might even show up better on that version since I will

Hi Tracy, and thanks for the info here and over on HS. I got to admit though, I kind of liked the idea of wood tan insides with dark brown trim and dark gray outsides. If just to add some color to the middle section of the ship. All dull gray is a bit well dull (probably why most of my AC models are from Viet Nam to back through WW I. :) )

Thanks to the sequester and the resulting furlough (I had every Monday off for 6 weeks) I got some more work done. I have been working on the ships boats and the masts and fighting tops. The masts are almost done. I will complete them by adding the 50 cal machine guns and yard arms once I have the boats done and installed. The masts are not permanently glued in yet. I did not want to run the risk of bending/breaking the yard arms while I'm trying to add the boats. That's all for now. Hope to get the boats done this weekend.

I working on Revell's 1/426 kit and have made some more progress past what I posted in the WIP board below. I have the main mast and fighting top worked up and most of the fore mast and fighting top. I am going to be starting the ship's boats next and I am wondering on how to paint them. Are the exteriors for the boats the same color as the rest of the vertical surfaces for the period from May of 1941 to October of 1941? And are the insides natural wood or were they painted white? Thanks Mark B.