Rocky

I just bought my bottle at a Marketbasket supermarket. I guess SC Johnson hasn't told them that they aren't selling it.

Actually, that whole side of the 11 foot model was vastly different than the side that was filmed. It lacked most of the detail features and markings and had power cables running all over it. So all of you 11 foot model purists, who feel the need to match the actual model, you have a lot of modifications to do to the Polar Lights kit to get it just right...

So if the 11 foot model was painted pink, and what we see on tv is the product of special filters and processing effects, what color would you paint your model? I say what we see on tv rules. But of course, you can paint YOUR Enterprise pink.

I went out today to buy a bottle of Future, but what I found was pledge FloorCare multi-surface finish. The word "Future" isn't anywhere on the bottle, but it seems to be the same stuff. Is this the same stuff?

1/72 F-101A F-105B F-108 Rapier F-111B F8U-3 Crusader III F-14 Tomcat 21 B-1A Tu-128 C-5 Galaxy Tu-95KM Bear B SST Saturn V 1/48 T-38 Talon F-86A Saber YF-16 YF-17 L-39 Albatros Ju-87B (I will never understand why no one has made a Stuka from the Blitzkrieg.)

The only way you would ever see that missile combination on an F-14A would be with the two Phoenix mounted on the forward belly pallets. Two Sparrows would be on the wing pylons and the third would be in the aft centerline position. The reason for this is that the AIM-54A required cooling from the aircraft, and the cooling units were inside the Phoenix pallets on the fuselage. Plumbing to the AIM-54A on other stations came from those pallets. AIM-54C missiles can be mounted on the wing pylons without the pallets because they don't require external cooling systems. So you might find photos

I am using Milliput for the first time right *now*. Does it shrink? Does that stuff dry out if its left exposed to the air? Do I need to seal up the unused portion? I hope I mixed it well enough...

I sprayed white Krylon fusion on a kit last summer. I got an orange peel finish that I had to sand down. Maybe it was my technique. But that stuff has horribly noxious fumes.

"As the needs for CAS grew in OIF, it became standard to load Mk 82 500-lb 'dumb' bombs on all the TARPS jets." Photos show a pair of low drag Mk 82s on the forward pallets with the TARPS pod in back. On March 17, 2003, a pair of TARPS equipped VF-2 F-14Ds each dropped two Mk 82s on Saddam Hussein's presidential yacht. - US Navy F-14 Tomcat units of Operation Iraqi Freedom, by Tony Holmes.

So how does it compare to the Hasegawa kit? I would have bought that one years ago, but the price took my breath away.

Is that why the series got cancelled?

I have changed my plans. The 1st F-16 FSD aircraft was painted red, white and blue - very much like the YF-16. The Monogram kit is much more like an F-16 FSD than a YF-16. It even has a Stencel seat that only the F-16 FSD had. Vingtor has an F-16 decal sheet with F-16 FSD markings (and YF-16 decals), so I'm building my Monogram kit as an F-16 FSD. I sanded off the YF-16 style ridge below the canopy, and the little intakes behind the main gear doors. It will have slightly different markings than it had when I built it as a kid, but fewer alterations to the kit itself, and it will be far m

The Otaki kit has some major problems, but its the thing to get get if you want to build a YF-16. On the down side, the top of the fuselage is misshapen from the canopy all the way back to the leading edge of the horizontal stabilizors. It has a hump up front, and it has an incorrect squarish cross section the rest of the way back. The intake and exhaust are trash, the exhaust is blanked off 1/8 inch from the opening. The vertical tail has a blunt leading edge at the base. The cockpit is primative. The canopy does not have the proper bubble shape. The gun port is awful. The gear wells

I found this from a thread on the F-16.net website:

Kirk called the Enterprise "United Space Ship Enterprise" in one episode. I never thought it really made much sense ("space" isn't a political unit, or a place), but "USS" has a familiar ring to it, so I'm sure that is why it was used.

I put a Shrike and two Sidewinders on an inboard pylon of my F-4G kit. Is that a valid loadout? What can be hung on the inboard pylons of an USAF F-4 while carrying Sidewinders?

I did notice that. Point well taken, but once it appeared onscreen, it became canon! Besides, different ships of the same class often have differences, so not all Constitution Class ships need to be identical. Even the studio 11 foot model changed over time, so the different bridge/B/C decks of the Constellation are not a real error. Coool! But its the wrong scale...

I don't recommend using super glue to fill in the gridwork. Two applications weren't enough to fill the lines, but I had to sand forever to get rid of all the glue on the surface, which was where most of it ended up.

Ok, 1/48th scale is something, but I was actually hoping for 1/72nd scale...

Ok, so who is going to make an aftermarket kit to replace the bridge, B, and C decks, so we can build the USS Constellation and make it look just like the AMT kit that it was? Somehow it seems perverse to copy the AMT kit, but that was what was on screen. And BTW, the AMT kit that is still out wasn't the one that was used, so that kit isn't really correct either. And to get it right, we have to fill in the Polar Lights grid lines too...

Why is it that no one makes M118 bombs in any scale? It was the bridge busting bomb of the Vietnam War.

If it has a TRAM turret under the nose, its an A-6E, but that didn't start to appear until 1979.

Glad to hear about that reissue. I'll stop bidding on that F-101B kit being sold by a guy in the UK!

The 72nd scale Revell four plane Blue Angels kit. I put silver paint on the engines, inside and out, and the inboard half of the stabilizers, and put decals on the bare blue plastic. The models disappeared over the years. About twentyfive years later I found the same kit in a hobby shop I had never been in. I pulled it out from behind some other kits, browsed a little more, and went back to buy it. It was gone. Someone else bought it and was walking out the door...

I'm not trying to troll, just giving my opinion. I doubt they gave the question any thought when they built the set. They may have even thought both orientations were true at the same time! Just as the helm normally faces the viewscreen most of the time, but suddenly it doesn't when they need to get the camera in place, reality and logic need not apply on tv. But it still makes more sense if the bridge is offset. ;)