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  1. Jon: I, too, have struggled with this MiG-25 PD intake color issue, and, after looking at many pix on the web, as well as many reference books, I'm still not sure what the answer is. It appears that the gray wraps around into the intake for about 6 inches and follows the edge of the intake lip. This is how I painted my Kitty Hawk MiG-25PD. The rest of the intake is distressed metallic colors; a clean coat of steel color would not look right even for a factory-fresh aircraft. That's the front part of the intake to just past the airflow stabilizer tree. Aft of the tree, the intake reshapes into
  2. The Castle Air Museum just put a F-16A ADF on display. It is in beautiful condition, but they painted it in a bogus paint scheme, similar to the 144FW C model that had the reverse marking black tail. The story I got is that the major sponsor for acquiring the F-16A from the boneyard wanted it painted that way. Anyhow, it's there if you need to take some pix.
  3. Mark: Thanks for your help on these RAM decals. I am still enthusiastic about these decals, especially after seeing them up-close. The RAM decals are really needed for the Kitty Hawk kits, and yours are the only game in town. Thanks again.
  4. Thanks, Mark, but I think Vodniks' post is pretty convincing...the Wolfpack F-35 decals in 1/48th are too dark. I will not be using the ones that I bought, simply because the color is wrong.
  5. I bought 48-005 (F-35A) and 48-006 (F-35B) and they are printed in the same dark grey. The grey looks very much like FS 36118 Gunship Grey. I don't know what the FS # of the RAM panels should be but these decals look a bit dark to me; I suspect the decals may be unusable due to wrong color.
  6. Mark: My order has been placed, and paid through PayPal. Thanks for making these decals; they have been needed for a long time.
  7. Finally!!! Thanks for posting this info, Mark. I will be purchasing some of those, for sure.
  8. I have "fondled" both the Kitty Hawk and Hobby Boss Su-17/22 kits, and I have a couple observations. First, the Kitty Hawk kit includes an amazing amount of Russian-designed ordnance...basically, if it isn't in this kit, it probably doesn't exist. The Hobby Boss kit includes a representative amount of rocket tubes, bombs, and missiles, that will allow you to make the model look great; the kit just doesn't have the amount or variety the Kitty Hawk kit has. Second, and perhaps the deal-maker (or -breaker) is the multi-piece fuselage in the Kitty Hawk kit. as opposed to the Hobby Bo
  9. Just remember, those pix are of a modern warbird in someone's interpretation of what they thought the 356FG paint looked like. It's probably pretty close, but find some period pix, if you want to be sure about the actual markings and colors.
  10. Model Master "Chrysler Engine Red" is a perfect match for that warbird restoration.
  11. IIRC, the Hasegawa F-15C kits have turkey feathers. What are you going to use for the "featherless" burner cans? I have the Academy, Hasegawa, and GWH F-15C kits, and none really do a good job in this area. Perhaps aftermarket is what I will have to do.
  12. The F-111C is essentially an F-111A with long wings. Building it as an -E, or -F, model would entail lots of work, especially when there are kits available to make those marks OOB. The biggest modification would entail changing the intakes to make the -E and -F, and adding a Pave Tack pod if you were doing an -F. My recommendation is to make it either a -C model, or an -A model by shortening the wings. Otherwise, buy another kit to do the -E or -F. Sometimes a bargain means lots of work. FYI: I worked avionics on the old -A models at Nellis.
  13. Thanks for the reply, admiral. I suspect that ongoing MSIP II upgrades probably included the hardware/software to make dropping bombs possible from an F-15C....
  14. Some ANG units have equipped their F-15C's with the Sniper AN/AAQ-33 Advanced Targetting Pod, apparently so these air superiority fighters can ID air targets at a greater distance. My question is: does the Sniper pod give the F-15C an air-to-ground capability? The Sniper pod has many features, in addition to the long-range ID function, such as laser designator, laser spot tracker, GPS, etc., which, if used, should give whatever aircraft that is capable of carrying the Sniper pod an A2G capability. Does anyone know if this is possible? If it is, then mounting some GBU's/JDAM's on a F-15C would
  15. According to Dana Bell's book"Air Force Colors, Vol 2", the white square/block S belongs to the 34th bomb group of the 3rd division of the 8th bomber command, after 13 September, 1943.
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