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pastafarian

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  • Birthday 02/12/1975

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    Lubbock, TX
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    Started in here with WWII props, but the helicopter and jet folks are corrupting me! Currently prepping my book for publication (An Evening With Venus: Prostution During the American Civil War). Tricking my students into thinking that history is fun. :)
  1. Any auto and armor stuff you folks have would be great. I seem to be moving in that direction lately. :P John
  2. It might be just me, but it seems like I've been seeing a whole lot more re-pops by model companies since the economy crashed. Not so much on the armor and aircraft (since accuracy is more of an issue there), but I've seen a bunch more re-popped car models and revell aircraft. ecto-1a just came back out, rommel's rod, a bunch of those tom daniel show rods, as well as a bunch of other re-issue looking car kits that I've seen at the LHS and Hobby Lobby. Makes sense because they don't have to make molds for a new kit and several of these are being picked up by people that are nostalgic for
  3. They have Harrison's K-Bar that he carried with him in the cockpit along with some of his other stuff. I'll take some pics and post them here when I visit. A couple more very cheap, very good books: West Dickens Avenue: A Marine at Khe Sanh Slightly more expensive at .63 haha Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills ---about Carlos Hathcock. This one is also about a penny. As an aside, can you fill me in on how "councils" work over there? It seems like they almost act like local governments, but with more responsibilities. I've heard of "council housing," which I'm guessing is ak
  4. Thanks Holmes. Going to experiment with several ways to mimic bamboo (read about a fac that hid overnight in a stand of bamboo). The book on the fac was A Lonely Kind of War by Marshall Harrison. After reading it, I found out that the Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech in the middle of Lubbock has a bunch of his stuff from the war. Might swing over there next week to check it out. :) It was a pretty good book and I would recommend it. For the price, you might as well pick up a copy. I think this comes out to 2 cents. LOl http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/1846040582/ref=dp_olp_used
  5. Made a bit of progress. I used joint compound to smooth out the hospital walls and provide landscaping on top. Paint are tamiya acrylics with a blend of brown and a smidge of red in an attempt to get close to the red dirt of Vietnam. --approximate positioning of LRRPs and helo pilot up top. I'm going to throw up a bunch of vegetation around the guys (it would be sort of stupid for my pilot to just sit out in the open like that haha). --these two facing out are supposed to be keeping the trail covered. Carpet monster ate one guy's hat, so I've had to replace it and haven't painted
  6. Hey folks, This diorama idea came from several books on the Vietnam War that I've read over the last year or so. Most of the books were from the American side of things with several going into the Bright Light missions of rescuing downed pilots. So, the ground level of the piece is going to depict several LRRP's picking up a downed helicopter pilot. The underground aspect came from Dang Thuy Tram's diary Last Night I Dreamed of Peace. She was a doctor for the VC that was ultimately killed and her diary recovered by a US soldier. From a historical viewpoint, the diary is pretty interesti
  7. Hey folks, I'm looking for a 1/32 pilot for a small diorama of a pilot being rescued on a Bright Light mission in Vietnam. I'd rather get a pilot from the Vietnam time period, but since I couldn't tell a modern flight suit from a 1960s version, I'll take what I can get. :P Also, sitting or standing doesn't matter. I haven't decided whether the pilot will be sitting in the bushes or hobbling along with a Seal (my pilot possibly broke a leg during ejection). Anyway, any help would be appreciated. I can pay you or I have some different figures that we can swap. Thanks, John
  8. Threw on a base coat just to see how things would look. I'll get the engine exhaust and the glass installed in a bit. There is a ton of framing on the front, so I'm working on masking it. Other than that and a few more paint spots to hit, I just need to close up the end of the wings. I replaced the front gear so that I could do a cat shot if needed (along with a tail hook on the back). John
  9. Alright, since you folks won't help out by raising the ceiling height of all of the carrier hangers, the engineers at Pasta Aero Industries have opted to place a rotation joint in the wing so that they will lay back like an E-2C. Gah, you folks are difficult. LOL I was thinking of going ahead and attaching the wing drop tanks with the wings folded back, but I think that having them hanging like that will be problematic. soooo, would it be ok to leave on the pylons? Or would these get jarred around too much? John
  10. Cool deal. I'll run a pipe out of there. did a test fitting on the wings yesterday. I'm going to place some bracing inside, but I think they look good so far. I tried the winds laying back like an e-2c, but didn't really like it. As always, comments, criticism, even "that looks like crap!" hahaha are welcome. :P John
  11. Shortened up the engines quite a bit. I removed the kit nacelles all the way back to the wings and cut about a half inch off of the grey engine cone. I attempted to place the prop blades onto the engine cones themselves, but I couldn't get them to line up right so I filled the holes and went back to the b-17 props. How far back should I put the exhaust pipe? I was thinking either near the very back of the white pipe fitting or just aft of the silver cowling. Thoughts? John
  12. Thanks. I was thinking that the engines looked pretty strange, that's why I was going to shorten them. But I like your suggestions better. I'm gonna run with that. Also, I think I'm going to cut off the prop blades and afix them to the actual cones. Looks weird with them sticking out like that. groovy, off for more surgery! LOL John
  13. Thanks guys. I made a smidge more progress on it today. I wanted to build contra rotating turbo props so that I could get the most loiter time possible on the patrol area. The nacelles are pvc pipe fittings that I got from Lowes and the silver cowlings are from a parted out B-17 (the p-61 cowlings wouldn't accept the pipe fittings). I was going to use the extra props that come with the B-29 kit, but they would have cut into the nose of the aircraft. :P So, I went with some b-17 props: I think I'm going to cut another half inch or an inch off the grey cones. they look too long a
  14. Thanks guys. The wings are going to just fold over the top. I did consider folding them back, but that would hide the radome a bit. I was thinking that I might have to put the radome on the top because of ground clearance, then I would have folded them back. I was thinking about tacking on some wing tanks to extend the range on it. For a super long loiter time I wanted to use something bigger than the kit drop tanks. I have some 1/35 wing tanks from a blackhawk helicopter that I was thinking of shortening and using. They'd have to attach to the folded part of the wings. Would there b
  15. Ok, here's what we have so far. :P I was pretty surprised that the radome fit underneath with some clearance left. There is nearly a quarter of an inch gap on each side of the radome that I'll need to fill. The wing cuts were actually pretty easy since there was a panel line that went straight from front to back just outside of the engine nacelles. John
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