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are the fins on the missiles before they are loaded on the jet. Do a f-15 and f-16 bring load for a tiger meet flight.my sparrows have broken fins so I want to round off the missiles. can this be done and look right on a real flight line.

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I was a weapons loader on f-15 Eagles. The lower two fins were installed after the missile was loaded on the on the plane. The missiles came to us on the trailer with out the fins installed. We would install the other three fins on after it was lifted off the trailer.

Steve

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thanks for the info guy that helps out a lot, the fins did not look black but a bare metal. what color should they be

I use a gunmetal colour. Humbrol gunmetal enamel works well (H53 I think?); Tamiya metallic grey is close as well. It's a very dark steel-grey. Same colour as the forward fins on the AIM-9L and -9M.

ALF

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