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Looking very good! Wonder how many crewmembers had little girls from being close to that radar??! By the time you get it done you can put it back through depot to be re-engined to a B-52J model! LOL! Cheers...Ron

The Black/green Talon (actually SAC bomber tan) had the full color 15" national insignia aft of the paratroop doors. Nothing on the wings upper or lower. The tail number on the tail was just the number with no USAF above it. Cheers...Ron

The MC-130E also had the aerial refuling receptacle and the slipway markings were white. Next weekend at Hurlburt Field is the MC-130H Combat Talon II retirement ceremony. I remember seeing them being built at E-Systems at Greenville, Texas in 1989. Cheers...Ron

There is a company that makes paint masks for the MC-130E black/green paint. There are enough pictures of that scheme on the net that you can do it. Markings they just had the tail number on the tail. No USAF above it and national insignia on the fuselage only. Just forward of the paratroop doors there were 8 slots for the old chaff dispensors. Prop foul lines from the wingtips to the nose. The 8th SOS is going back to being a MC-130J squadron. Cheers...Ron

I think it would be possible. The Fulton nose would probably fit since the Zvezda kit has 3 radomes. The RWR tail would fit...the the QRC-84-02 pods will fit the external tanks. I think the kit has the GTC panel in addition to the APU extended wheel well pod. I have thought about doing the same thing but a T1 in Black/Green paint and no refueling pods. I have the flightpath pre MOD-90 Talon parts. We have 64-0559 here at Kirtland. Cheers...Ron

Those are awesome herks! Really like the Israeli 130. I have the -30 and two of the E/H's to build. The -30 is gonna be a "what if" flying with Southwest Airlines Cargo. And the E/H will be a SEA painted one before that tail number was our slick herk at Kadena. The other may be a Israeli Herk from the Entebbee raid. Cheers...Ron

That's awesome! Love those TopGun Skyhawks! Viper approves! Cheers...Ron

You can get by with some thin angle on the door. They had some gusset plates every few feet to give it strength. The carriage rolled out on the door with the MA-1 rescue kit on it and then dropped all 5 bundles about 1 second apart.

Greetings all...yes those are pictures from the old HC fuselage trainer here at Kirtland. She's long gone now. But he flare tube would hold the parachute flare in a spring loaded ejector. the lanyard hooked to a clip inside the tube to ignite the flare when it left the tube. That's a door on the outside...if it opened the flare would eject. It was powered by hydraulic pressure from the aircraft. There were 3 panels to fire flares. You can see some bolt holes on either side of the tubes where the ODS rail mounted to the door. We had the same flare launcher in the MC-130P bu

Today is the anniversary of the first flight of the first production C-130A. April 7th 1955...and Lockheed is still sending the 130 down the production line! 53-3129 eventually became an AC-130A gunship and served time in with the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing with 16th SOS. She currently is on display at the AF Armament museum at Eglin AFB. Cheers...Ron

Thanks for sharing those pictures! Some fantastic models there and it was among real airplanes so that makes it even better! Sooooo many favorites to choose from! Cheers...Ron

Gorgeous Weasel...the wraparound scheme is one of my favorites too! Cheers...Ron

Awesome! They look good together! Cheers...Ron

Gorgeous! Now...that picture of it with your F-117! Cheers...Ron

I have the 32nd sheet and now the 1/48th! Very cool can't wait for it to arrive! Cheers...Ron

Cool...a Clark Weasel! Loved flying into Clark and seeing the shark nosed F-4E/G's on the ramp. Your's is looking really good! Cheers...Ron

73-111 had a regular speedbrake with a stiffener on it. A model wheels were the black ones and if I remember ACES II seats after block 11?? Might have been later blocks but those air superiority blue Eagles were cool looking! Cheers...Ron

That station looks to be aft of the right wheel well. I can see the seat bar for the wheel well in the picture. That guys got some big eyebrows too! LOL! Cheers...Ron

Michigan had some of the best painted F-4's in the years the guard flew the F-4. Great job on yours! Cheers....Ron

I was at Travis from 1975-80 and everything was that color! Being in the bay area we got to calling it San Quentin green cause I guess the dept of corrections used the same color. LOL! Cheers...Ron

Awesome SLUF...will be gorgeous when finished. Cheers...Ron

That 105 Wild Weasel is awesome! Cheers...Ron

The Benson tanks used in the C-130 came out of old KC-97's. They bolted into the cargo floor. The green and blue arrows point to the fuel lines that go up into the plumbing to the wings for fuel. They could fill the benson tank from the single point refueling panel in the right aft wheel well. they could burn the fuel out of those tanks and then go to wing fuel or externals. The red hard line was part of the fuel system as well. Those cutouts in the cradle were so you could get up under there if you had a gear problem and had to inspect/chain the gear. And you

As much as I love the Phantom II, the Eagle has earned it's place among fighters too. I really, really liked the Eagle in the compass gray paint and high vis national insignia. The 33rd TFW distributed a lot of MIG parts during Desert Storm. Great job on the Desert Storm MIG killer! Cheers...Ron

That's funny with that E model and "HO" on the tail. Cheers...Ron