Sarge, USMC

Great photo. Thanks for the info.

After MANY MOONS, I decided to dust everything off and get back into it. In process builds...paints...airbrush...tools....all now dust free! So I'm looking at this F4E I started, and if I wanna be correct, I guess I gotta do a ZOOMIE airframe/color scheme, because MARINES didn't fly the "E", or so I'm told. I wasn't looking forward to a camo paint scheme, but I guess Zoomies did have an all grey scheme that would fit better into my level of painting experience, so I'm gonna try that. Anyone got some insight into what "FS" gray would be best to use? I ha

Ya I know......I dropped outa sight. Figured I owed it to all you guys to pop in and let ya know whazz goinon. I guess you couold say that I just lost it. Haven't had the urge to sit and do any work at all in quite awhile. I have this Prowler almost completely scribed, and I just put it down and never got back into it. It won't be done for the GB for sure, but I will be sure to get a thread goin with some photoze when I get back into it. Got a SLUF goin too that I MAY get done before that GB deadline, but I donno. I donno what it is......the desire to build just left me.............I liked

ratzratzRATZ.......well I noticed that my intakes have a few flaws that I am just gonna have to live with. Seems the portside sucker extends farther forward than the starboard side, and the starboard side is kicked out away from the fuselage a bit more than it should be along the bottom edge. OH WELL..... Scribing is coming along nicely......10 lines per day...... gettin ready to tackle the SMALL stuff...... pixx to follow.....

A few questions on the proper painting of the aforementioned ordinance, that I'm loading my GB A-7 with. Ok, Snakeyes are OD with 2 yellow stripes around the circumference at the nose end, right? Walleyes are red, aren't they...with a white nose and mavs are all white? Are there any other markings on this ordinance, and does anyone know if there are ordinance stencil / decal kits avail for 48th scale boom booms?

Ok, Snakeyes are OD with 2 yellow stripes around the circumference at the nose end, right? Walleyes are red, aren't they...and mavs are white? Are there any other markings on this ordinance, and does anyone know if there is an ordinance stencil / decal kit avail for 48th scale whizzbangs?

KAP....do tell what you used to do....Navy...Marines......avionics....what?

An update....the reccribing has begun! Can you say, "Oh my GOD?!?!?!?!" Yes this is tedious........I'm gonna try to do 10 lines a day.......at that rate, I should have the rescribing done by the 1 March deadline! I gotta seriously kick it up a notch if I am gonna get this baby done in time.........now that the holidays are over, I got my workbench back! Pixx to follow.......stay loony tooned!

Attaboy Tom.....keep these fellas on track! Have you been gettin any heat from the fellas to join the GB? Lookin good Greg!

I wanna build an Eagle! :lol:

SWANNY.....of COURSE....hehehehehe thanks

copy that...thank u

ok, what do the numbers that suffix Mr Surfacer denote?

I was just lookin at pictures on your site of the Gator you built! I like it I LIKE IT!!!! How'd you make out with that 32nd scale Phantom?

Thazza handsome little fella ya got there mate. Now I gotta go back and look at the Phantom he built! Ya I think that instead of getting a 48th scale kit and dropping 150 bones for AM goodies, I will just go out and get 32nd scale kits from now on!

Looking GOOD man.....didn't know they made a 2 seat SLUF........

Come on GA....get to work on that ordinance....or SOMETHING........hehehehehe

Gregg-o...lookin good man. Nice rescribing job. Gonna make my 1st attempt at it here real soon with these 2 on the bench.

WUTZUP Koz??? Nice ta seeya.......where do you guys get these cool green workbench mats I see all over? ( dint see none in mah full color Squadron catalog! ) Sounds like yer Lindberg and my ERTL are runnin nek n nek for dog of the month kits!

Freekin ERTL! I just noticed that I got AA missle rails for this kit but no missles! Had to go to my ordinance dome to dig out a couple AIM-9's.

Roger that....what is this product? I don't know if I can get it locally....I will have to check. What is it thinned with....mineral spirits?

Roger that...thank u. The freekin ordinance on this baby is gonna be a job.........18 pieces...all with nasty seam lines from this ERTL kit. 2 pods that I donno what they are... The fuse on this baby is 4 pieces....got that together and started the seamwork. Got the wings, and flaps and slats and the taill all put together....all need seamwork. This is my 1st ERTL kit....I would have to say at this point that I've seen better.

Ok, I am learning to watersand parts to get them ready for paint........progressively finer grits.....looks good to the eye with all the putty and plastic surfaces sanded...then when I shoot the paint, all the imperfections show up. I've never primed a kit.....usually just shoot the color....so what can I spray on the surface to hilite imperfections that isn't gonna build up on the surface.....if you understand what I am asking. I wanna shoot something on the surface that will allow me to see *** is up, but I don't wanna build up the surface with undercoats of whatever it is I should shoot....

Pull the needle out from the tip?!?!?! NICE tip...I never thought of that!

An update........I got the tailhook into the fuse from underneath without too much trouble OR putty. So now I'm getting the rough putty work done on everything I have installed, and then its gonna be scribing time. YES I am gonna atteempt it with this build........I feel confident that I can do it if I just remember some of the kind tips I was given in the thread I posted on the Tips board......namely TAKE MY TIME and don't scribe with too much pressure. We shall see.....stay loony tooned......