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  1. Canute
    I'm going counter flow, I like the North Afrika scheme, but it's your baby, Carl.
  2. Canute
    Another Popeye build. I'm in. Kind of like the Baron's scheme, but Udet's is good, too.
  3. Canute
    You could scuff it up with sandpaper, the color is too uniform. Then put some light washes on.
  4. Canute
    I did one real ground egress from a Phantom once. Crew chief called Fire as we were doing a cartridge start. Clouds of black smoke. No time to be asking "are you sure". We just did our heavily practiced ground egress out of the cockpit and climbed up on the left intake, down the side of the engine, across the wing and off the wing tank. We're standing behind the crew chief going where's the fire, boss? He turns around and and says "you had a flame flicking out of the engine". I said yeah, how many cart starts have you done so far today. He said a number. I said the crud build up on the cart breeches and it lit off. Probably should have done an air cart start to clean the breech out. 😁
  5. Canute
    Carl, easy to do. I had to look up the Messerschmidt info for after the war. It was convoluted. The Baron must have liked the maneuverability of the Dr I over the VII, with those short wings.
  6. Canute
    Mark, one of those "unintended consequences". The tankers had parachutes for us crew dogs, pax were out of luck. We were supposed to blow the crew entry door in the forward fuselage, which shot a panel down below the fuselage. We opened the deck grate, after donning our harnesses & chutes and jumping thru the hole. The panel was supposed to disrupt airflow so we wouldn't hit the belly of the tanker. Don't know if anybody ever did it, probably similar the the helo bailout procedures. The Phantom had superb Martin-Baker ejection seats.
  7. Canute
    I second your suggestion/recommendation, OC. Good fit.
  8. Canute
    Art, just be careful with these cements and fillers. They give off volatile organic compounds. One reason I went for the Vallejo filler, no odors. The acetone and other chemicals give me a buzz (not a fun one, either), so I mask up with a good 3M product to eliminate the effects. Have fun; you've fallen into a fun "rabbit hole".
  9. Canute
    Steven, you're correct, but then it's almost like you're fighting a helicopter. I'd run out a minute or two away from the Harrier, getting lots of knots. Then, pitch back into the Harrier and take a standoff shot with a radar or IR missile. Go quickly to guns and be ready to strafe. I think we only fought with some Marine AV-8s once, so my experience is limited. More time versus F-5, 15,16, F-100, A-7, F14, F18. It was fun.
  10. Canute
    BMW made radial engines for the German a/c. They did make some a/c motors in WW I and made other engines after that war. They built motorcycles and began making cars in 1928. During WW II they stuck with their a/c engines. Post war they eventually restarted making motorcycles and autos. BF became Messerschmidt after Dr Willy of that name. They ended up making some cars after the war. We even had some here in the 50s. They did make license built a/c and eventually merged with two other companies making helicopters until bought out by EADS.
  11. Canute
    Start with a sharp Exacto knife with plenty of #11 blades - cut parts off sprues, don't tear. Clean up the joints after a dry fit (if needed) and make sure the nibs are gone, too. Some older kits have flash at the edges , usually due to old, warn dies. Get some liquid cement to assemble the kit. I like Tamiya Extra Thin (green label) for gluing. It has a small brush inside the cap. This glue is mostly acetone (welds styrene very nicely), but it's volatile. Other guys should chime in on their favorite glue, too. Keep the parts clamped until the glue sets. Check the seams and fill if necessary. I like Vallejo filler, but the others will chime in with their faves. Follow the instructions for your first few kits. This should get you started, Art. Have fun.
  12. Canute
    He also banned an older air to air missile we carried, because it was a "hit 'em in the heart" infrared guided weapon. They were designed for non maneuvering bomber type a/c; obviously useless in dogfights. I carried them in Europe and wasn't impressed, for the most part.
  13. Canute
    The crew of that Apache will, too. Aviation is hours of boredom interspersed with moments of stark terror.😲 DO NOT ASK me how I know. And no, I've never bailed out of an airplane.
  14. Canute
    Put those angle irons on the front to hack through the bocage. I forget what they were called for real. You armor experten can handle that stuff.
  15. Canute
    That he was, EG. He rubbed the higher ups the wrong way too often, but the troops loved him. He is revered by most fighter pilots( and not a few WSOs). Horizontal turning was deadly because you got too slow. Speed is life was our mantra after Nam.
  16. Canute
    I was looking at the suspension and the greatcoat on the one rifleman. They're all in gloves, too., so i thought late fall/winter. Could be Huertgen Forest, too. Anyhow, looking forward to see how this one turns out.
  17. Canute
    Denis, I believe it's a "Gustav" model variant. The port side air scoop and the bulges between the guns and cockpit. An "Emil" had a smaller scoop and was leaner looking in those areas. The Germans used men's names for the Messerschmidt models. The FW190D , the inline engine that looked like a skinny radial, was the Dora model. The later Kurt Tank Focke Wulfs were Ta152 variants. Tank designed the FW, but they used the factory name/initials for the earlier A and G models with the big radials. The early Messerschmidt's were actually Bf 109s, for the Bayerische Fleugzeug Werks. They took on the designer names part way into the war.
  18. Canute
    More Ardennes stuff, huh.😁
  19. Canute
    When I did Air War College, a good chunk of time was delving into historical topics. I've always had a historical bent, but that put me over the top. ACW cavalry operations, opening of WW II in the Pacific, WW II naval ops, strategic bombing in Europe in WW II.
  20. Canute
    Bummer with the de-lamination, Bob. I know your fix will work just fine.
  21. Canute
    Lou, I flew the ARN-101 birds at Seymour Johnson a tiny bit. I was a flight inspector down at Shaw AFB, doing a penance tour after spending the previous 2 years flying nothing but daily air to air training missions. Real easy to fall into multiple rabbit holes researching various historical issues. 🤫
  22. Canute
    That's a few less trips to the loo, my lad. Are you sure the Gov will allow that?
  23. Canute
    Quite interesting to read your explanations of P-40s versus Zeroes. We had similar issues in Viet Nam, because the "old Heads" said you turned and burned with your opponent. Worked very well in F-86 versus MiG-15 fights in Korea. Different jets in Nam.The Soviets kept up their small, good turning a/c designs MiG-17/19/21. We went bigger and mostly poor turning fighters - F-105/F-4. The Thud (105) was really a small bomber(it had a bomb bay). The F-4 was just brute force. The Air Force did some minimal air combat training; the Navy guys did a lot better. Yeah, they had Top Gun, AF had the Fighter Weapons School at Nellis, but it was more interested in ground attack tactics. As Nam was ending, the AF got into more Air Combat Tactics and really hit dissimilar training hard. Finally, we were training how we expected to fight the next war. But I digress. We Phantom drivers figured out we had to use those P-40 style tactics to use what the F-4 had in bushel baskets, speed. Pass thru this mass of turning a/c , taking your shots, run away for a ways, zoom up in altitude for your quickest, tightest turn, using God's G to make it so and then slam back into the fight. Do this a few times and it's time to go home and refuel/rearm for another go. As a Weapons School instructor, I taught all my guys to fight the Phantom that way.
  24. Canute
    Ken will like that top pic bottom left😉 OC. Busman's holiday, OC. I'm looking at doing an A-7D.
  25. Canute
    Needs a pair of fuzzy dice hanging from the rearview mirror, kp.

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