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Shawn Hull makes resin JDAM's and the ALE-50 towed decoy. He does great work...I bought a couple of ECM pods for my F-4G. His website is www.shull24.com check it out for some nice resin. Ron
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That time frame is pretty close...but remember...it took awhile to get them all painted the same! And then later you had airplanes painted overall gray with flat black bottoms till maintenance could put the airplane on jacks and put the gear up and spray the bottom of the fuselage to match...
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The AC-130A's and the AC-130E's were painted an overall flat black toward the end of combat operations in SEA. The AC-130E's started out with the same weapons as the "A"...2x20mm 2x7.62 and 2x 40mm...when they added the 105mm in the troop door the aft 40mm was removed and the engines were upgraded to T56-15's...that changed the MDS to AC-130H. After the war...late 74 early 1975...they started painting the 36118 gunship gray paint and added the air refueling receptacle to get gas from the KC-135. HTH...Ron
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For years I've wanted to build a derilict Japanese aircraft from WWII. I'm now kicking around the idea of using the Italeri landing craft, a 2 1/2 Ton truck with a local fabrication crane in the bed lifting a captured/wrecked A6M2 to be put on the landing craft for the Air Technical Intelligence boys to take back and study. Maybe stick a captured Japanese tank on the beach for future transport. With the Warrior's and Verlinden WWII Marine figures I should be able to find enough to do the scene...scary part is that water around the landing craft!...The other idea I have is a jungle grown over WWII aircraft (Pacific) and a nowdays repatriation team at the crash site recovering the "bones" from the cockpit after 60 plus years..."Welcome Home MIA"...Ron
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RC Resins makes a replacement radome with the right shape as well.
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I would love a 48th or 32nd J-79!!!!
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"Only the dead will see the end of war"...it's on the challenge coin of the 16th SOS...the AC-130H gunship squadron. Everybody was talking up the AC-130 model at the Atlanta nationals...that airplane has killed more people...animals and equipment than most. The 8th and 15th SOS drop the BLU-82 15,000 lb bomb for "currency" every year...wouldn't want to be on the recieving end of that guy. Read "flyboys" or "The First Hero's" and see what the Japanese did to downed American Fliers...I think it was a very good diorama of an actual piece of history. If more countries don't get on board with the war on terror...you'll be seeing a lot more of the same kind of incidents around the world. Ron
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The first C-5A tail number was 66-8303...The first "B" model tail number was 83-1285...it was supposed to be delivered to the 443rd MAW at Altus in December of 1985 but didn't show up till Jan 86. I picked up 6 new "B" models at the factory and took them to Altus. It was a very good airplane. I logged just over 3000 hours in the C-5A/B before moving on to another Lockheed product...The handsome, sleek, high performance MC-130. Ron...22MAS/ Travis AFB 1975-80, 56th MAS/ Altus AFB 1980-1989 "Charlie Five Loadmaster"
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AFSOC aircraft don't carry a lot of markings...quiet professionals that fly at night and don't like a lot of publicity. The gunships do carry the spectre emblem on the nose and the "U-Boat" is different cause it can track and shoot two targets at the same time. The markings consist of USAF and tail number on the tail with four national insignia. The top of the airplane will have the walkway outlines in a lighter gray. Under the left side cockpit windows is the AF Data Block and in the back fwd of the troop doors is the chopping locations. Isra Decals made some nice C-130E/H decals for some Israeli AF C-130's. Google up AC-130 images and you will see quite a few gunship images. HTH...Ron...retired quiet professional
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The C-130J kit seems to have the right engines but now the fuselage is the problem...Lockheed eliminated some of the kick windows up front and the troop doors have square windows. The forward fuselage has big pull out side doors for ground evacuation that have a round window in the door. The center window of the three round windows in the forward fuselage is lower than the other two, and that's the pull out hatch. The beaver tail is different...no pylon tanks...rollers in the cargo compartment stow in the floor and the flight deck is way different as well. The "A" model engine extended back on to the flap on the inboards and stopped just short on the outboards. There are so many changes to the basic C-130 that unless you are building a slick "E" you just about have to do a walkaround of that tail number to get it the way you want it.
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Hi Ed...How's the "HC" coming along? The engine deal get's me as well...I flew C-130E's and the MC-130P for 7 years before I retired. The C-130E had a GTC in the standard wheel well extension just like the C-130A and B. The HC-130H was the same airframe as an "E" but with -15 engines and still used a GTC. When the AF started getting the C-130H (1974 tail numbers) airplanes they added an APU in an extended wheel well faring on the left and with bigger air conditioning the right wheel well faring was extended with an oval air intake...not the NACA duct on the previous models ofthe hercules. When the MC-130E was re-engined to the -15 engines to give it more power to haul around it's defensive systems and fulton gear and have power to stay behind a KC-135 during air refueling...the prop warning line did not move on the fuselage. When we re-engined our slick at Kadena (63-7842) with -15 engines for common engine and parts. Unless you read the forms you would not know it had -15 engines vs -7's that came on the "E" from the factory. The same thing happened with the AC-130E gunship...they added the ability to air refuel and carried more 105 ammo so it needed more power to fly....re-engined the gunship with -15 engines and changed the designation to AC-130H. Even though the origional 4 bladed gunships were built by Lockheed as 1969 model C-130E trash haulers. The AC-130E/H gunship had an even longer wheel well extension to house the FLIR turret which has been moved up to the nose now. The 20mm guns have been removed to save weight and the altitude they have to fly now made them not very effective. Googe up C-130A images and then do it for the "E" and "H" and look at where the prop warning line falls on the fuselage. Take care...HTH...Ron C-5A/B, C-130E, MC-130P LM
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Ed, The RO sat on the flight deck right at the top of the stair and his seat is just about under the forward overhead escape hatch. Doing radio duties he would face to the right side of the airplane and for takeoff and landing he would swivel the seat to face forward. The Nav was on the far right side and the Flight Engineer sat between the pilot and co-pilot. On the "MC" there are dual Nav's on the right side and the RO and all his gear moved to the cargo compartment right forward scanner window. The Loadmaster has the left forward scanner window and the 2nd Load sits where ever he wants in the red side wall seats. Ron
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The area that you are wanting is the snorkel vent for the cargo compartment air conditioner. On the C-130E it was a NACA vent and when they went to the "H" with bigger air conditioners it went to the current snorkel there and up front just aft of the cockpit is another one for the flight deck air conditioner. I think they are the same one's that were used in the S-3 Viking. Anyway..."google" up "C-130H images" and you should get what your looking for. The C-130 walkaround book has a bunch of pictures of the "H" model. Also...the "H" has an APU in the left forward gear pod wich was extended about 20 inches forward to get it in there, so that is different as well. I have access to the MC-130H Combat Talon 2 here at Kirtland but getting pictures on the flightline has become a big pain lately. HTH...Ron