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F-86F-30 Sabre by Egilman - Kinetic - 1/32nd scale
Canute replied to Egilman's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
It'll pay off. You've got a lot of "try" here. 👍 -
I'm in too. This is a big bird. 👍 Seems Trumpeter really went to town on all the weapons. My Hasegawa kits all needed aftermarket weapons, most of which were more specialized to the period of the jet I model. A-7D Search and rescue carried LAU-7 rocket launchers and CBU-52/58 bombs. Need aftermarket. And Soviet/Russian jets. Rare, but better availability now.
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The 3D HA AA wins, since the rest of the build is so detailed.
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F-86F-30 Sabre by Egilman - Kinetic - 1/32nd scale
Canute replied to Egilman's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Surprising for a relatively recently printed decal, but I suppose every batch has a lemon or two. All in all, a very well done job. And an interesting fact about those stripes. Thanks. -
F-86F-30 Sabre by Egilman - Kinetic - 1/32nd scale
Canute replied to Egilman's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
The checkerboard looks like it was painted on. Too bad that one decal disintegrated on you. And it's a major part of your scheme. -
Pardon my miserable French spelling, but head to the coast around Arromanche, for what remains of a Mulberry used as a temporary port until facilities in Cherbourg were liberated. St Lo was another town that was battled over. On a lighter note, Villedieu le Poele was a town in western Normandy, famous for it's copper cookware. And if you get the chance, go to Mont St Micheal. Sits a little ways off the coast in a tidal mud flat. I think it's an island at high tide. And no vehicles inside the gates. Very medieval.
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F-86F-30 Sabre by Egilman - Kinetic - 1/32nd scale
Canute replied to Egilman's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
I fell into the camp of "Speed is life". Most VC couldn't lead far enough to hit a fighter with rifle fire, unless it was the "golden BB". But they had bigger stuff that was a threat. The helo guys were the gutsiest, low and slow with maybe the aluminum foil between them and the unfriendly fire. Did you sit on your flak jacket? The F-4 had armor plate on the belly, over some important gear, such as generators and hydraulic pumps. Unfortunately, our maintainers took them off because they interfered with their work? The doors were heavier and the bolt heads recessed in the armor. Plates disappeared, never to be seen. -
F-86F-30 Sabre by Egilman - Kinetic - 1/32nd scale
Canute replied to Egilman's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Get your eyes checked regularly. You may have cataracts. -
F-86F-30 Sabre by Egilman - Kinetic - 1/32nd scale
Canute replied to Egilman's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Or you can work under a lit magnifying lens. Works a treat for those teeny details and PE parts. leaves both hands free to do your modeling tasks. -
F-86F-30 Sabre by Egilman - Kinetic - 1/32nd scale
Canute replied to Egilman's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Shading turned out well. The gun panels didn't quite stand out as much as pictures show, but you did capture the differences. -
EG, that data point is long gone from my memory banks. We dropped a nominal 45 degrees, but sometimes got steeper. What's a few degrees among friends. 😉 Release was supposed to be 7K, but sometimes the nose gunner pressed the altitude. I'd give him a 1 potato, 2 potato and then start squawking about altitudes. With precision guided weapons,the art of dive bombing may be going away. That being said, the weapons release computers can turn darn near anyone into a sharpshooter.
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Looks like the fuselage closed up nicely, Denis. Well done. Surprised the cockpit paint was so dark. They liked RLM02, a gray shade. New research showed otherwise? Coming along nicely; a variant rarely seen. 👍 I think the Stuka was a near vertical dive bomber, so pulling out of a dive like that required a certain minimum turn radius. And with unboosted flight surfaces, probably a two fisted grab on the control stick. Our high angle dive was 45 degrees and I can say that that was a red ticket tide.We rolled in from 14-15 thousand feet, released around 7K feet. But some of that was to stay above small arms envelopes. I forget where we bottomed out, because I'd be looking over my right or left shoulder to see where the bombs went and look for bandits trying to shoot at us.
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USS Samuel B. Roberts found. Sunk during the Battle of Samar
Canute replied to mtaylor's topic in Nautical/Naval History
I'll second that for Hornfischer's work.
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