Paul Boyer
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An additional note on the otherwise excellent variant brief from Quixote74. The military designation "C-137" spanned both "707" variants. The three original VC-137A models were 707-123 airliners with the early wing that was also common to the KC-135 family. These three were set up as transports for VIPs and were the first jet transports for presidential use. Eisenhower and Kennedy flew in them. When they were modified with new fan engines, the designation changed to VC-137B. They served as backups for the presidential aircraft when the new jets came on board. The VC-137C were 707-320 liners with a slightly streteched fuselage and the new wing that had a greater span and area - the Heller kit depicts this type. When I made my VC-137A "Queenie," I shortened the Heller fuselage and mated it to the AMT KC-135A kit wings and tailplanes. The early "organ pipe" engines were resin parts from HaHen.
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Beautiful!
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Not an expert, but my guess is that it was a factory applied standard, and that it was gradually overpainted with routine maintenance.
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I mentioned this same problem last year and there never seemed to be a solution.🤔
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Only six small decals on this one, but they came from the Caracal U-2 sheet. Academy's old U-2C:
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!!! Hope you can scale that one to 1/72 as well!!!
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Again, no F/A-18 kit needs nose weight.
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Ooooh, nice!
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I'm not a fan of drawings when it comes to accuracy. I shy away from Aviation News, the folks whose drawings brought us the shortened Italeri B-58 Hustler. Don't get me started . . . .
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The Osprey book on RF-8s over Cuba and Vietnam has very good looking drawings on all RF-8 variants.
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I chop off the wall from each fuselage half and fashion a 0.010" sheet into a half tube and glue it inside the top of the opened nose. This half tube then dives down under the cockpit and looks like the intake duct. You can't see much farther, so it doesn't really have to lead anywhere. attaching the front of the intake hides the front edge of the half tube.
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My recent 1/72 "Misty FAC" F-100F. Caracal decals on the AMT/Esci kit.
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Dark metal.😊
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Yeah, but he was talking about a NON CAG bird.
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11 minutes ago, Paul Boyer said:
Modedecal from England did it in 1/72 back in 1971 or thereabouts. Unobtanium now:
Cut Then Add has also recently done this one (No. 34).
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2 hours ago, Stefan buysse said:
Hi,
I have the Muroc conversion set for the small-nose Crusaders and what I'd really love to see decal-wise is VF-84 with the flames and the eyes done well.
Cheers, Stefan.
Microscale re-did the VF-84 flamey sheet in 1/72 scale, this time adding the "flaming eyeball" but the flame area is about ½" too long in the front. https://www.microscale.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Session_ID=bf20041d86abacac8c946bd9d65f84fb&Screen=PROD&Product_Code=AC72-0055&Store_Code=MD&search=F-8+Crusader&offset=&filter_cat=&PowerSearch_Begin_Only=&sort=&range_low=&range_high= But it can be made to look OK (my Academy model).
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Modedecal from England did it in 1/72 back in 1971 or thereabouts. Unobtanium now:
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The very first editing I did at FineScale Modeler was Bo Bosanski's article on his 1/72 scale B-50 conversion. He took the engine nacelles and fin from a RAREplanes vac KC-97 and grafted them onto an Airfix B-29. That was in December of 1982, coming up on 40 years ago! Man, I'm getting old!
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Hobbycraft Canada packaged the original Korean-made 1/144 kits of the B-58, B-47, and a B-36. Academy eventually obtained the molds, but I don't think they were the originators. Minicraft used to be in a partnership with Academy, but that ended back in the 90s, IIRC. But old molds never die. Minicraft sold to new owners back in the oughts (again IIRC), and continued with some of the Academy kits and made their own line, principally 1/144 airliners and related military aircraft. I don't think they ever made it to a B-50, although some of the parts from the Boeing Stratocruiser kit could have been used.
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Is there a 1/144 scale B-50?🧐
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Beautiful!
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1 hour ago, Dutch said:
Tommy, thanks for the tutorial on the CMV-22B Osprey kit sponson bulges. Looks like we need an aftermarket fix. K/r, Dutch
I think if I am reading it right, the added parts will work but the direction and location of the parts is unclear. I'm finding that more and more in kits these days - errors in the instructions. Things like numbers switched around or the part is turned around in the illustration.
I'm looking forward to the Osprey COD. I'm going to do some surgery to it to show it all folded and tucked so it can join my other folded CODs in the collection.
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Thanks for that!
1/72 KC-135R Engines
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That one wasn't me; I think it may have been Jodie Peeler who did the Dash 80 model?