VonL
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Gents - Am backdating the good ol' Revell 1/32 F-4J to a Marine Corps B-model; just the basics, it need not be accurate to the molecular level. It will probably end up hanging from a ceiling or similar use. Have got it mostly knocked, except for the distinctive 'dork' under the jet's nose. Don't wanna go buy an expensive resin set for this one part, so a decent scale drawing, or a spare vac part from somebody's scrap box will do. May, or may not get the proper resin exhausts.
Am also looking for a fresh set of decals for the stars-n-bars and intake warning stripes. The ones in the kit are fossilized and Superfilm probably won't save them.
Please note that I hope to present this thing to a guy who flew F-4B's in Vietnam. He is terminally ill, so there is a certain urgency to the effort.
Thanx for any help here!
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This book sounds really good. A key question: Does the book contain ANY coverage of these boats in their post-war years? Reason for the question is that the same vet for whom I built the 1/300 Eastwind icebreaker did a tour in the 83 footers in the 1950's, or 1960's, and is really nostalgic about them.
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Request some close-ups of the Shapeways figures, whenever they get primed or painted. Am a bit concerned about the layering effect of 3-D printing in the wee scale, given the cost of the SW figure sets. Ulterior motive is to get a set of the 'dungaree' sailors for the Revell PT Boat, down the road.
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What Mark said.
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"A certain pointed-nose, supersonic bomber, from the central section of the North American continent: The BONE - !!!"
(Ref: Super-fans)
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QUEXTION: Is there anything like a kit of this boat, out there? Especially 1/72...???
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Like many on this Forum, I've seen lots of "trends" come and go. If you like it, use it. If not, build how you like. Eventually it will probably come back into favor.
Concur. It's just a case of what's appropriate - to my eye. Tried out my first set of Rustall on some very cheap, plastic HO-scale autos with the intent to achieve three levels of weathering: Light, Medium and Biodegradable. Each was prepped with suitable starting paint effects. Satisfied with the results and all three cars found spots on a friend's RR layout.
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Ed - I'd forgotten about 'descriptive geometry' until I saw it demonstrated by the Keith Ferris at a seminar, some years ago. Even so, it seems a perishable skill. If so inclined, would you mind posting a few instructional diagrams alongside with your description above? This is good stuff.
I've used cardboard jigs, scaled to the model, to work Gil's method for biplanes, but the DG looks very useful for a lot more.
Love the Fox.
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These look great. Really nice work.
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Nice! Am intrigued by this, the subject and the use of the Shapeways stuff. Certainly these boats weren't ugly to the guys that they pulled out of the water!
QUESTION: What is the adhesive he's using to repair the radar?
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All of the above, plus Cold War/modern airfield vehicles - but especially the BONE - !!!
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Bottom line is that we're being not so slowly being squeezed into acrylics.
Yup. This is the same 'forced migration' routine that has me fed-up with Microsoft Everything software. Have dabbled in acrylics a few times. great for brush-painting on canvas, etc. Frequent, irritating problems on the modeling side, airbrush and all that.
< insert standard tirade about too-smart-by-half management types >
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The 1/72 civil aviation stuff intrigues me. What's possible there?
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Cool - thanx for this intell, guys. Will leave it off, as it matches a few more pix that I stumbled across. Pretty sure the Army c/c was there earlier, rather than later, when the planes went to the USAF. Just got the main OD paint on 'er, between cold snaps.
Sadly, the level of play between parochial interests never seems to improve much. Am about 1/4 through Lambeth's The Unseen War, about the big OIF air effort in 2003. Constant 'dynamic tension' between the parochial types at HQ and the operators who just wanna get it done, in each service.
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Am building up a Hobbycraft 1/72 DHC Caribou 62-4168 for a US Army vet who was her crew chief at Vung Tau, c.1964. (Yes, I am actually building something!) Fortunately, it's from 61st Aviation Co., the exact same unit depicted in the kit's decals (What are the chances!?)
I found some 1963 pix of this very bird, online. The airplane in these pix lacks the distinctive radar nose. Can I assume she was configured the same in 1964-65, when my vet friend worked on it? Or were radars retrofitted, in country? Most of these birds appeared to have the radar, prior to their transfer from the Army to the USAF, c.1967 and this one did go to a depot for repairs in 1963.
Caribou gurus...?
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How cool.
Prediction: You will really have something to be proud of here. Fun to watch.
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Badger Airbrush Co.
Have owned my trusty '200 since 1973 and they have done 'depot level' MX on it, fast and very economically, each of the few times that I've sent it to them for work.
Five Stars.
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I've got some 1/72 kit decals that I'm not gonna use:
- Testors C-47 Skytrain: US Navy (post war with cigar-smoking nose-art), generic US WWII (1942 roundels) and WWII RAF
- Italeri Montgomery's Dakota: Includes WWII RAF 5-star DV markings (Monty), USAF Camel Caravan (Berlin Airlift), Danish & South African markings.
Both sheets are complete and in good shape. You're welcome to either one. I do want to keep one set for the stencils and such.
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Way cool. I've always liked the Laotian markings on these.
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I'm intrigued by the SCUDs and the Shuttle. Who's 1/72 SCUD kits? I think I want one of those.
And - are you gonna do anything with the Shuttle payload bay, or just seal 'er up for launch on the boosters? Any sort of launch pad planned?
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Gents - Baby needs the 1/72 markings for an F-4E of 421st TFS, 366th TFW, Da Nang (LC tail & shark teeth). Wolfpak decals sheet #72-079 has these. Scrap sheets OK; don't need the other airplanes.
Am happy to trade kits or 'cals, esp. 1/72 stuff.
Anybody...???
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Holy sox, Batman! Given a decent photo background, this thing would be indistinguishable from the real deal. Absolutely freekin' amazing.
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Sure doesn't look like baby-steps. This is really high-end artwork in scale modeling. Stunning. Maybe...I need to whip out an old kit and try this.
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Wow. I'm inspired by the scratch work here.
RFI for Phantom Phanatics: F-4B nose sensor
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Hmmm - a good tip there (pun intended). Am not a 1/48 guy, but there's probably a suitable munition shape for it, somewhere in the cave. Am expecting the scratch-crafting requirement, so it's really just a decent scale drawing needed. This is a distinctive, hi-vis detail for this bird. So when it's wrong, it looks bad. Have now got partial credit with a detail/preview shot from the wonderful Mark Styling Aircraft Illustration site.
Cheers!