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Carl, that Spit is looking good. 👌 -
The F-104 was designed with a downward firing ejection seat, for it's interceptor role. A high altitude arena. When we sold these jets overseas, they made fighter bombers out of them and flew them at low altitude. If the pilot had to eject for whatever reason, .... The jets were eventually retrofitted with conventional upward firing ejection seats. With those tiny wings, there wasn't much lift generated, so landing speeds were very high. Could have been a problem for an inexperienced pilot. I didn't think the USAF did much bombing with the F-104. They were used in combat as fighter bomber escorts and combat air patrols in Viet Nam.
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M-50 Israeli Sherman - FINISHED - MP Models - 1:35 Scale
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Nice fade with your body color. And the suspension looks great, too. -
The Zipper had a General Electric J-79 turbojet engine. Probably the most responsive jet engine of the day. Push the throttle(s) up and the engine gave you what you wanted, more thrust. The other fighters of the day (F-100, F105, F-106) had Pratt engines. Pushing the throttle up in those was, as one former Thud pilot told me, like sending signals to the engine room on a seagoing vessel. You asked the engine for thrust and eventually you'd get it. Once you got it they were pretty quick jets, but if you were in aerial combat, you wanted thrust immediately, not eventually. Had something to do with the afterburner nozzles and how fast they programmed closed for the requested thrust. The plastic in those early Hasegawas was kind of brittle, so cut the part free from the sprues. I know I'm preaching to the choir, but we need to be reminded occasionally. I just picked up an A-7D/E and there's a story coming, but I need some additional paint and a Furball decal set. 😁
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Aston Martin DB5 by Fnick - FINISHED - Revell - 1:32
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Nick, yeah, the Alclad must be sprayed. Not sure about brush painting large areas in silver. Too bad, you did some nice work there.👍 -
Aw, I'm in, too. 😁 Zippers are cool looking jets. We played with the F-104Gs in Europe way back when, before aviation got too PC. Fast, but we could out turn them in the F-4. Tried many a time to snivel a hop in one, especially when a NATO unit would come visit us for a week. Usually the bras would get those.
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Ernie, I have one X29 express box, the rest of mine are Red Caboose. I do remember the Sylvan cars, sounds bad, I only have a few of his vehicles, fire trucks and trailers, mostly. Not so bad, but I'm not a fan of white resin. Ever build an early Westerfield car; metal filledgray polyester resin. I should have had stock in the drill bit makers.The gray styro-resin is great to work with. I'm an RPMer, so I still dig kit building.
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Aston Martin DB5 by Fnick - FINISHED - Revell - 1:32
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Some model RR passenger car builders use Alclad for the stainless look of "lightweight" cars. They put down a gloss dark gray primer, let it dry, then shoot their stainless, chrome, what ever color metallic. It's a lacquer system. And some aircraft modelers use it, too, for replicating the panels on early jets. Just sayin'. -
Nice stash there, Ernie. What dies your Admiral think of all those? Got a few in there I'd like to have gotten when they were new. Resin fanatic, huh? A lot of my freight cars are in resin. I've got a few very old Funaro kits cast in a yellow resin; very brittle stuff. I destroyed a car floor, trying to drill locating holes. Replaced it with styrene sheet and strip stick.
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A late model Stuka will be different. I'd like to see it, too.
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OC, P or PD.? Radar and weapons differences as I recall. Gotta dig up references and then acquire the appropriate paint colors. Soviet paints are rare. It's easier with the older jets, silver normally.
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May have to ditch this Amodel kit for that, although it's the wrong scale for the rest of my Soviet era jets. I have some ICMs and a Kondor of Foxbats and Foxhounds.
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Paint job looks good, Andy. Yep, Scalecoat in either formulation will dry to a gloss. Great for decalling.
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Yeah, some of these limited production run kits can give you the fits. Minimal or no locating pins, flash up the kazoo, warped parts. I've got an Amodel YAK-28P "Firebar" interceptor, with decent looking missiles and separate flying surfaces. Nary a locating pin in anything but the axle holes in the wheels. It went back in the box until I really feel like scratchbuilding the pins and such to get the kit parts to fit.
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F-5F by ErnieL - Kitty Hawk Models - 1/32 - PLASTIC
Canute replied to ErnieL's topic in Completed non-ship models
Ernie, none taken, crew dog. I did a penance tour in KC-135s after my Air Guard unit transitioned from F-4s to that jet, after Desert Storm. Not a particularly demanding mission, but the temp duty locations were fun. Trips to Germany, Spain, Scotland, Italy. Stateside, the trips to Edwards were the best for an airplane nut like me. I was an F-4 WSO in the USAF & Air National Guard and a Weapons School grad. Best flying job ever, being a Weapons Officer. Keep up the good work. -
T-28s by ErnieL - Kitty Hawk Models - 1/32 - PLASTIC
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Ernie, if I tell you, I'll have to kill you. And they weren't the only planes so fitted. 😬 -
Nice dio with the Guards types.
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American Wrecker Truck by kpnuts - Italari - 1/24 - PLASTIC
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Nice dirtying up the engine, KP. -
T-28s by ErnieL - Kitty Hawk Models - 1/32 - PLASTIC
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Nice work. Worked with some Laotian T-28s, once upon a time. -
F-5F by ErnieL - Kitty Hawk Models - 1/32 - PLASTIC
Canute replied to ErnieL's topic in Completed non-ship models
Ernie, nice pictures. I think the Red Arrows (UK) put on a good precision flying show with more than 5 jets. Don't knock the Aggressors as being only for fighter wannabes. The only way to get good at flying air-to-air missions is 1. do a lot of flying, 2. fly against different aircraft. I got to help train new Aggressors, flying F-5s, back in the 70s down at Eglin in F-4Es. Fighting other combat a/c (F-15/16/14/100, A-7) was less often, due to their availability. Any dissimilar air combat is better than just flying against your squadron mates. Just my nickel in the grass. 👌 -
brake systems1.bmp I'm not sure this will open. First file is 7Meg, this one is about a Meg. Three older brake systems.
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One of the railroad websites just had a series of blog entries on the retainer valves and their use. A couple of former and current railroaders were involved. They were set for descending grades to keep the cars from accelerating too fast and over-speeding the braking capability of the loco. There were older passenger car braking systems, prior to the UC system, but I'm still looking for actual diagrams for you.
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I think they are not as obvious in the steel heavyweights and lightweight, because they are mounted inside the vestibules. Air brake systems were most likely add-ons to these wooden cars, not built into them, like the steel cars. I'd bet the conductors would squawk if they had to hang outside adjusting the retainers, going down a grade. I live not far from Saluda, NC The Southern Railway had a 5% grade on their mainline between Asheville, NC and Spartanburg, SC. This was a line from Charleston, SC to Cincinnati, OH. There were special procedures the train crews had to do in Saluda proper to set retainers to go down the grade, not to exceed 8 MPH. There was a timing section of track they went through. If too fast, they went into a divert section of track that ran up a steeper grade to stop or go off the rails into the woods beyond the track. And that did happen a time or two.
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M-50 Israeli Sherman - FINISHED - MP Models - 1:35 Scale
Canute replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Oh, yeah! Played that one when I was doing air defense alert at Eglin AFB in FLA. Only 4 guys in a single wide for 24 hours. Only TV was over the air, antenna was on a rotor. We had 2 stations from Pensacola, FLA, 1 in Dothan, Alabama. Pulled alert with squadron mate who was heavily into super-detailing a Revell 1/32 F-4E. We'd go out and sit under the jet, tracing the assorted lines of hydraulics and other plumbing in the wheel wells. He'd call a line and I'd trace it from here to there in the wells. Reinforced a lot of the systems I learned in my initial F-4 training.
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