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No Monday would be complete without a new sheet announcement; so here goes: CD48074 "Fighters of Austin" would be a tribute to the city I live in, and would feature markings for several fighter types that were once based at Bergstrom AFB (now the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport). F-4D, F-4E and F-16s from 924 TFG "Outlaws", and possibly an F-101A from 27th FBW.

I will make this a limited release of 300 sheets, mostly because I expect it to be of somewhat local interest. But those cloud camouflage F-4Es sure look nice!

Coming sometime in the near future. It will be my first multi-subject sheet, and I will definitely do more if the concept works out for me.

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I was the "Outlaws" maintenance officer during those years. I've got copies of the unit's sketches of that scheme submitted to AFRC/LG for approval prior to the unit painting those jets. I still have photos mostly of the "E"s including one with a copper tinted windscreen. I never saw that on another E anywhere. The light gray is one of the ghost grays. The darker gray was another FS 26000 series color I can't recall from the keyboard but have it with some swatches I actually collected while they were getting painted. Everything on those jets was pristine; the gear wells and struts were repainted, the hook shanks sanded and polished etc. They won first place for appearance at Gunsmoke but I can't remember which year(s).

As a footnote, that was an interesting unit...very "Austin" in culture so full of interesting people. I was assigned there 'til we shut it down.

BTW, I've emailed Kursad over the past years to share info but never got a reply.

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I'm genuinely sorry : I try to respond to every e-mail I get, but on average I get more than 10-15 lengthy e-mails a day; many of these containing photos, documents and suggestions for subjects. Occasionally things fall through the cracks and I can't respond to them in time - it would be impossible to respond to everything and sustain the release schedule I have. I would appreciate it if you can let me know if you find out what the colors were - there is a lot of interest in this project and I would like to get things right.

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Final draft of this sheet; coming sometime in mid December. I will post profiles after I deal with the huge backlog of orders/preorders for this month's releases. The options on this limited (300 sheets) release are:

-F-4E 74-1040 (924FG flagship)

-F-4E 74-0629

-F-4E 72-0135

-F-4D 66-7740

-F-4D 66-7768

-F-4D 66-7641 (SEA camouflage)

-F-16A 82-1007 (704FS flagship)

-F-16A 83-0078

all belonging to 704FS, based at former Bergstrom AFB in Austin.

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Looking very good, KursadA :thumbsup:/> :thumbsup:/>

Just curious - is the gray tail markings dark enough to show op well on FS36270 background colors?

Sorry, but have to ask as I have been dissappointed on this in the past with other Suppliers who messed this up, and the sheet above seems a bit light in color?

Just a reference to show what I mean; http://www.f-16.net/g3/f-16-photos/album38/album67/82-1022

Thanks!

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Hi Niels,

The printers do not match the colors on the original design visually - they get a listing of what exact color to use for every individual color on the decal sheet. In this case these markings will be printed in FS36118. I tend to use a lighter color on my designs; but the printers know to match it to FS36118 in the printing stage.

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The light gray is one of the ghost grays. The darker gray was another FS 26000 series color

I was always under the impression that the Cloud Grey scheme was a variation of the Hill Grey scheme with a semi gloss sheen, which is FS26118 and 26270? Look forward to your clarification.

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