Kevan Vogler

I recall taking a tour of Boeing's Seattle plant back in the mid 80s and seeing a 747 at their paint shop in that bluish green colour. As I recall, its an anti corrosion coating.

Hello All: I have the the Revell Fairey Gannet (new tool, not old Frog) and would like to turn it into a trainer variant. I did pick up an Eduard PE set recently aimed at the Trumpeter trainer gannet but beyond having a different centre cockpit, the set looks pretty much like their AS.1 cockpit PE set. My main question is regarding the rear cockpit in trainer Gannets. How similar was the rear cocpit of the trainer Gannet to an AS version? As the trainer had no radar, I'm assuming it also had no radar scope in the rear cockpit. As near as I can tell the rear cockpit of both Eduard PE sets i

If you don't care to spend a lot of money, I think the Gannet is your best bet. You can likely find the old Frog Gannet for very low prices in either Revell or Eastern Express boxing. If all you want to do is have a kit to experiment on, it should serve the purpose quite well.

Weren't Avionix the ones with the 1/32 Buccaneer?

Hello all: I'm considering building a 1/72 Bell P-59 Airacomet and my local hobby shops have both Amodel and Special Hobby kits of it in the offering. I've looked at both of them in the box and they both look like pretty sound kits. Is there one that's better than the other, if yes, in what ways? Thanks for any insights.

Wow! if Amodel will kit something that butt ugly there may be hope yet that we'll see an injection kit of a PZL Belphegor.

Isn't the Revell Yak-25 an ancient kit from the era of "box scale" kits?

I hope they did the Global Flyer better than they did the Rutan Voyager from a few years back.

For those interested, Here's a couple of pics I took of a Ukrainian Il-76 when it was in Ostrava, Czech Republic in September 2008.

Hmmmm....I had no idea Tamiya was reissuing the old Lanc, guess I have to crawl out from under my rock a bit more often.

I don't know, I'll believe a new tooled 1/48 Lanc when I see it. Tamiya seems to be in no hurry to reissue their Lanc and perhaps that's a reflection of the current market demand (or lack of demand) for the subject in that scale. With two new Lancaster toolings in 1/72 (Hasegawa and Revell) and Amodel giving us a 1/144 Lanc series in recent years, I have a feeling most people's hankering for new tooled Lancs has been served for the moment. Lots of people and companies are being conservative with spending anyway these days. Maybe once the recession abates we'll hear more about larger and ris

Nice! Hope it comes around to one of the shows in the Czech Republic in the autumn.

I think the trickiest mod you'd have to make is backdating the tail gun radar unit. The Monogram kit has the later double radar unit with longer housing running into the vertical tail root while the early B-36s had a single radar unit with a short housing. I tried to make the mods once to the old Monogram kit and wasn't successful. It's a lot harder than you'd think and getting the modded area smooth enough to take metalic paint convincingly after all that cutting puttying and sanding is a Hercualean task in itself.

MER = Multiple Ejector Rack As for which type of MER unit that is, I'm not really sure but it looks distinctly different from the type of MER I've seen on preserved SU-22s.

Does anyone know of any reliably accurate three or four view plan drawings of the Morane Saulnier MS.230 either in print or on line, preferably in 1/72 scale? Thanks in advance.

If I'm not mistaken, that's an F-111G, not an E. The small disk on the top of the nose between the radome and the cockpit was a feature of the FB-111, which the G was derived from, no other versions had the feature as far as I'm aware. The really curious thing about the picture is that it has the UH tailcode of the former USAF base at Upper Heyford in England, but I don't think FB-111s were ever assigned to the F-111 units that were there and I don't think the F-111G was ever assigned to a USAFE unit or base either. I'd be interested to know if the UH tailcode was reassigned to another unit

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Thanks for the extra info on the Mexican Herc. I knew Spar had contracts for work on several countries' Hercs, but it surprised me to see a Herc at the municipal airport, I though Spar did all their Herc work at the international.

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Thanks Ken: The Czech International Air Fest is a bit of a two edged sword event for photography. You get great morning light just like you see in my above photo (and a photo I posted in the B-1 thread) for pictures in the static park if you show up for gate opening. However, once the flying starts, usually around 11:00, you're pretty much shooting straight into the sun all day when trying to take flying shots. Unfortunately, I don't have an SLR rig that I can play around with lense filters and the like so all I can do for flying shots is point, shoot and cross my fingers, occaisionally I'