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  1. Canute
    Looking good, Denis. You'd think they had a good marking guide for this a/c, since it survived and came back to the States for bond tour, with all the photos those usually entailed. Oh, well.
  2. Canute
    Well done and appropriately tricked out. The depth of your research is outstanding. What's next in your armor builds?
  3. Canute
    Must have been fun, putting in those springs. I'll be following the use of that Mr Color paint kit. Interesting concept with the different shades. And it's lacquer, isn't it?
  4. Canute
    Be careful bending the stainless parts. Make sure of every bend before you make them. Study the drawings included with the parts. I've busted a few parts, either overbending or bending the wrong way.
  5. Canute
    These were jump over the side bailouts, with a seat pack parachute. Needed the space. Ejection seat aircraft had pretty hard seat ki (fiberglass box top with a nomex cloth cover), with either backpack or built in parachutes. F-4 and A-7 onwards had built in parachutes. We just wore a harness to clip all the rest of the gear to, along with a personal lowering device built into the back of the harness. Needed that if you got hung up at 100' in the triple canopy jungles in South East Asia.
  6. Canute
    Don't look now, but the 3D printed parts are looking very good. I just got replacement doors, ends and roof to turn a 40s era refrigerator car into a late 60s era flour loading boxcar. There are also templates to drill holes in the ends for appropriate details. All based on some real good CAD work. The printing sprues are heavy, but cut off easily. The parts do have striations, but sand up fairly easily.
  7. Canute
    Craig, I figured it out pretty quick. I like the Engineer vehicles and decided to go with the big EOD vehicle to start, since the task is ubiquitous to the Army, Marines and AF. And the UK also uses it. Couldn't find too many builds, just unboxing reviews. I pulled the plug on the build, but may get back to it in the Fall. Got some higher priority builds of refrigerator cars used up and down the US East Coast. They've been on the back burner for a while, collecting parts (sounds familiar, eh?). It's a group build, mostly kit bashing. The cars are Fruit Growers Express line, a consortium of some 23 major railroads and their subsidiaries. Gotta get those Florida oranges up north so the big cities have their orange juice. They hauled a lot of other fresh fruits and vegetables, too. Think they were the 3rd largest fresh produce hauler, behind Pacific Fruit Express and Santa Fe Refrigerator Dispatch.
  8. Canute
    Outstanding job on the gate complex.
  9. Canute
    Had a CO in Thailand that expected us to be in our 1505s if not on the flying schedule. And he didn't do much flying himself. He didn't last long as squadron CO; got booted to a "training" position to get his ticket punched for a remote combat tour. Another REMF.
  10. Canute
    Craig, I'm in, brother. I just picked up a Panda Cougar 6x6 Joint EOD Rapid Response Vehicle (JERRV). Looks good but very heavy casting sprues holding parts. Instructions have 1 paint call out for Mr Color C-19. And the slots and tabs need work, sometimes. Meaning one side might fit fine and the other one needs refining to fit properly. Lots of extra time tuning up the fit. I started a Stryker from AFV and if the parts don't fit, it's usually the builder's fault.
  11. Canute
    Yeah, it's for the birds. Well, usually goodies from the UK seem to get here via SR-71. Stateside mail has been pretty fast from the usual mail order outlets we use. It's getting into our mail system that's the issue. I've seen it before, getting wood from Toronto to Chicago to here. Chicago customs just took forever.
  12. Canute
    Well done, OC. Turned out well.
  13. Canute
    I always liked the Renwal kits. Thought the details were much sharper than Revell or Aurora. Their ships looked sharp.
  14. Canute
    Hey, the USPS still has a shot to screw that timetable up. I ordered parts from Hannant's, in the UK. It was out there door and shipped out of the UK in 3 days. It ended up in LA ten days later and then took (Slow) Pony Express back to the East Coast. Took 2.5 weeks. Ordered parts (CBU cans primarily) from the 48ers, on Malta. Took 10 days.
  15. Canute
    Yer slowing down, matie...
  16. Canute
    Nice job. I really like the weathering, subtle understatement. 👍
  17. Canute
    You might see an A-7D first.
  18. Canute
    Nah, you done good, OC. The kit tried to trip you up, but you hammered it into submission. 👍
  19. Canute
    You're too easily amused, Andy. Looks like something I'd do. Looking forward to your next update.
  20. Canute
    It has been, Joe. The stuff I read about today on my AF news-feeds was all a pipe dream for us in the 80s. I got shunted into KC-135s in '91 and missed out on all the new stuff in the pipeline. I was a squadron/wing weapons officer for a long time. It was my favorite job. I've been looking at doing an F-15E aka Mudhen. The weapons carried nowadays vaguely resemble the gear we used in Desert Storm.
  21. Canute
    Thanks, Joe. I flew the Spike pods and looked at a Tack pod on a Philippine based USAF F-4 during Desert Shield/Storm. Dropped laser weapons thru Paveway III. Watched the bunkerbuster development, but never saw one. We had video cockpit recorders for Spike/laser work, TV for Maverick work and radar video. Mission dDebriefs were always media shows of some sort. HD and downlink was a sci-fi dream.
  22. Canute
    Hey, they work. I use them like that all the time.
  23. Canute
    When I was based in both Sacramento and Merced, the major highways all had notices about carrying chains. Both times never spent the wntire winter there. Out here in western NC, we have some roads over the Smokies with similar notices, but they're deep in the TN/NC/GA border area. My main road thru the Smokies, I40, only gets closed when the rocks slide down and block the roads. Those take much longer to clean up and the detour, Asheville-Bristol, TN-I26 to I81, takes a long time.
  24. Canute
    Joe, are these laser designator pods? I'm familiar with the names, but my training was with Pave Zot/Knife/Spike/Tack weapon systems.
  25. Canute
    Really like those Interwar biplanes, Mike. Trials and tribulations working in 1/72 scale bi-wingers, especially for those of us needing visual assistance and some loss of manual dexterity. Well done.

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