Dez

The biggest thing you would have to do in the "minimum modification" option from an "A" is to scratch build the 105 and rearrange stuff back there to accommodate it. The more modern you get, the more work you'll need to do. When did your buddy get out? That would tell us what time frame you'd be building. There are people here FAR more knowledgeable than I am on what they looked like during a given time period.

Oh come on! Go for the custom build! All you need is the A model gunship and then scrounge up some 4 blade props. Depending on what time frame you build it in will determine the severity of the scratch building you'll need to do. :D

I'm still kicking. Just been a busy time here. Getting ready for my E6 board, just got refractive eye surgery done, got German jump wings, holidays are consuming time, PCS move coming up soon, wife's pregnancy is percolating right along (it's a girl, woo hoo!), and bla bla bla. You get the point. I have been eyeing it though. The itch to complete it is getting bad though. Thanks for checking in on me! I've been keeping tabs on the 2 AC-130 builds too, those guys are doing a great job!

Don't forget that the engine nacelles need extending too.

They are going well indeed. After I finish up one of our NCO schools, CBRN school, and jumpmaster school (senior wings should follow shortly thereafter), I'll be switching MOSs. Somewhere in there will be another promotion and a nice fat re-up bonus right about the time the next kid pops out. Fortuitous timing indeed. Like I said, busy busy busy. My apologies for letting this work languish and leaving all of you hanging. It will get finished, I just don't know when.

That's the one.

All you have to do is make identical bases, then have separate turrets. Easy cheesy! And I vote for both scales.

Sorta... Upheaval times around here. Upcoming move to Arizona in the immediate future followed possibly by California and then Germany, so many schools over the next few months I can't even see straight, yet another promotion to prepare for possibly as early as January, and of course a pregnant wife on top of all that. Plus I twisted my ankle on a PT test today because they had the good sense to run it in the pouring rain, and I missed out on a totally cherry jump today as a result. But hey, now I can use my first cane! Yeah, I'm a little busy.

I swear, I'm not dead.

Archer Fine transfers. :(

Schools. Plus... a potential move when my re-up window opens here shortly.

You two... I swear. The C-130 mafia has spoken!

Hey! We're busy and stuff!

Lengthening the nacelles is easy work, just tedious. As for the interior, do what you want. The only reason I bowed out of it on my CT2 is because I burned out on doing the endless and hyper involved detailing for my CT1. Hell, I'm still not finished with the cargo bay by half! I had to walk away and try something more relaxing like a custom CV-22B and an MC-130H, if that tells you anything. :)

Try here. It's under "cargo aircraft". Everything's looking good! I'd caution you on going whole hog on the interior though, it's a beast and a half even just working around the cargo ramp. So much is lacking as far as the interior is concerned with that kit, pretty much everything has to be done from scratch.

Status? It's on hold for the time being. Lots of stuff going on at work and at home and it's absolutely sopped up all of my free time. I hate like hell to not be able to do anything about that MC-130 sitting in my spare room (which is now going to be a new baby's room in the near future), and I hate leaving everyone here hanging, but life has a nasty habit of intruding on my hobby. I will get back to it before my fun room gets converted though.

Yeah yeah, I'm a bad person. :D I have not been able to get enough time to do anything. It's aggravating me because I see it every day sitting on the table up on blocks waiting for me to finish the paint. B) As soon as I can wrench time away I will get back to it. Can't go angering my fan base. lol

Looking good so far! Try looking on airliners.net or jetphotos.net for some more pics, they have a few from the rear aspect that might help out.

When I first saw this I thought the planes were going too fast. B)

Looking great so far! If I had much in the way of u-boat pics I'd have 'em out here for you. Looks like I'd better get back to work on mine...

I remember reading a story back in the day about some government agency or other stopping the transport truck with the T-72 mock up to find out where the hell they got it. Apparently it looked real enough.

The "hinds" in Rambo III and Red Dawn are the same, they just stripped the canopy vis-mods off.

No, I haven't. However, for the DIRCM I could be talked into making a couple more of them and sending them to someone who can make copies. Every resin copy attempt I've made has turned out badly. The nose is just too difficult to do again, in that it would require a whole new C-130 kit. I sawed the original radome off and used it as a base for the new radome. Even with that there was a lot of work getting everything else just right. The rest of the stuff is pretty straightforward and can be done with stock sheet styrene.

Apparently. It's already spent though. Yay wife!