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Mike J. Idacavage

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  • Birthday 07/15/1952

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  1. Colin, your Rafael B is excellent! This is one good looking model. Mike
  2. Outstanding YF-4E!! You did a fantastic job with both the paint scheme and the decals. Have fun modeling! Mike
  3. Wow, the B57B/BOMARC combo looks really cool! Thanks for posting this, Dutch! I wonder how good the SOVA-M decals will be for the combo? Have fun modeling Mike
  4. Should there be any extra space on the RF-4C Part 2 sheet, it would be nice to squeeze in the minimal markings for a QF-4C drone. This would be a nice way to honor the end of the career for the F-4C! I shot these photos down at Tyndall AFB in 2010. Of course, I would not want to bump of any Birmingham RF-4C Desert Storm Phantoms with their nose art... Have fun modeling! Mike
  5. Your Aoshima ATV looks great! After seeing your build and final photos of the completed model, I think I should pull my Aoshima kit out of my stash and get started on it. Well done, Ricardo! Have fun modeling! Mike
  6. Hi Fred K! One of my favorite modeling subjects are airliners. My go to gloss white for years was Model Master Gloss White as I liked its "refrigerator white" color along with its adhesion and its ability to be sanded and polished. As my supply of MM Gloss White is about to run out, I have come up with two options that work. Use the small bottles of Testors Gloss White enamel (#1145) that comes in the 7 ml bottles. This seems to be the same or very similar formulation as the larger MM gloss white paint. True North Gloss Artic White enamel (4007) looks to be a great substi
  7. I ordered and received several copies of the 1/72 A-4 Skyhawk wheels earlier this week. They look great! These look to be a significant improvement over the kit parts. Excellent work, Jonathan! I plan on picking up more of your products when they are for a kit/scale that I am interested in. Have fun modeling! Mike
  8. For me, that's an easy answer. The number 1 benefit is the ability to easily sand/polish the paint once it thoroughly dries. I build a lot of subjects like airliners, Display Team aircraft, etc. so being able to polish out any imperfections prior to decaling is a real benefit. I also like the usually better adhesion I get with enamels onto a primer coat. With that said, I not only have enamels in my paint rack, but also shoot acrylic lacquers such as MRP or AK and straight acrylics such as Vallejo depending on the situation and availability of colors. However, I have never seen any
  9. Hi dann Coincidently, I had the same thing happen to me last week. I recently picked up a few bottles of True North enamel paints and decided to test one (International Orange)on a test plastic spoon. I diluted it with MR Color Leveling Thinner and it sprayed well. I then tried to clean my airbrush with Klean Strip lacquer thinner from Home Depot and got the the same pigment sludge that you saw. It about doubled the time it took to clear my airbrush as it clogged the nozzle tip. Since then, I did two more test sprays using True North Gloss Artic White and also Gloss Bla
  10. Building a model from this and hopefully a follow-up sheet on the RF-4Cs used in Desert Storm will become much easier with the announced RF-4 series from Zoukei-Mura next year. I talked with some of the ZM staff at the recent IPMS Nats in San Marcos and was told that work is now underway in the development of these kits. Here's the official announcement that they had on their stand. Have fun modeling! Mike
  11. There are quite a few aircraft that have been used to support manned space programs. I would include the NASA F-104s, T-38s and F/A-18s in this category. They have been used as flight chase planes, testing shuttle tile materials, crew familiarization flights, etc. Another candidate would be a NASA B-52 as one of them (need to look up the tail number but likely Balls 😎 test dropped shuttle solid rocket boosters while testing recovery systems. Then there is the Gulfstream jets configured as Shuttle flight simulators for landing practice..... Have fun modeling! Mike
  12. Tony, that is an outstanding Have Glass Viper! You nailed it in 1/72. Have fun modeling! Mike
  13. Hopefully, the RF-4C sheet will cover some of the Birmingham RF-4Cs that flew in Desert Storm. They had a wide selection of cool nose art! Here's a small group of photos I took on their flight line on a poor weather day after they returned from the desert. Have fun modeling! Mike
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