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  1. Canute
    It'll make you a believer.
  2. Canute
    My very first launch was like that. Got pressed into the parachute container and felt like I'd never get my hand up to the throttle for the radio mic switch. It was a real boot in the butt. I miss it.
  3. Canute
    Busy looking tank. This from a fairly new company. The fit looks really good. Nice shade of primer, Craig. I'm building a batch of circus wagons for a circus train; since it's Ringling Brothers, they are primarily red, so I'm going to use a yellow primer. Don't think it has a descriptive naming like yours.
  4. Canute
    As they say down here in the South, that's a passel of straps. These more Lineburgers, OC?
  5. Canute
    The monsoons in SEA could produce rainfall rates exceeding 2 inches an hour. Veritable gully washers. We had big canals around the runway to route the water away from the concrete. No fun landing in the water. You turn into a big tricycle and need the tailhook to stop. Really disrupts flight ops. 😉
  6. Canute
    In full AB, we could blow both tires holding the brakes too long. We could roll the wheels off the rims. The brakes got a tap if we weren't pointed straight down the runway. We steer with our feet, as do most fixed wing aircraft. I assumed you'd figure it out, Luigi, since we were on the runway and cleared for takeoff. It should be obvious to the most casual observer, no? We just looked like we were in a hurry , cause we could. 😉😁
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    Used to love listening to the Hog's gun when they strafed APCs at our range back in Jersey. I pulled duty as Range Control officer at Warren Grove. Very distinctive sound. And they chewed up the APC's armor. Our targets looked like Swiss cheese after a few weeks. You may want to hang some AGM-65 Maverick missiles on the wings, instead of those iron bombs or fuel tanks you showed in post #3. As a two seater, this would allow them to operate with more standoff weapons, such as the Mavericks.
  8. Canute
    We were 2 turning and burning, the wing tips were down and the canopies were down and latched. Once that was done, push 'em up, select Afterburners and roll on down the runway. Simple, huh?
  9. Canute
    I think you've nailed the trouser color. It's inline with the color used by the Union Army during the American Civil War.👍
  10. Canute
    Chris, thanks for the steer on the glue dispenser. Nice fix on the Sharpies for edge-coloring. No bleeding?
  11. Canute
    Where did you get that dispenser, Chris. My working time for wood glues is too short. I have a plastic sheet where I squirt some glue, then dip a wire paperclip to pick up a drop or so of the glue. I use Borden's Wood Glue. If I'm cutting and fitting, that glue will skin over before I get the new parts ready for glue.
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    EG, I hope the drugs don't alter your color visualization. NMF finishes are very cool, but hard to achieve the subtle variations of shades. Fingers crossed for a great outcome. Lou, as far as drooping flaps or setups, it varies by jet. Hard wing F-4s (no slats) were flaps 30 for T/O, 60 for landing. Slat birds only had 30 degree flaps. EG would need to consult the Dash one for the F-86. Couple of things usually missed by model companies is the auxiliary air doors and speed brakes on F-4s. They droop on the ground if no hydraulic pressure in the system. Once the engines start, the speed brakes slam shut (3000 psi system). Maintainers avoid them, but it's easy to do so, since the jet sat fairly low to the ground. The aux air doors stayed open until takeoff. I think they were wired thru the landing gear handle circuits.
  13. Canute
    Evergreen Styrene is your friend here, my brother. Well done in fitting that. The RL news ain't great, but your attitude will go a longs ways in beating that diagnosis. You'll be in my thoughts and prayers, too. Nihil Illigitimus Carborundum - Don't let the bas...rds grind you down.
  14. Canute
    Interesting design. Openings look significant, but it would take the "golden BB' for an effective strike on the hull Never was much of a tread head, so this is extremely informative. Thanks.
  15. Canute
    Beautiful prints. Very sharp looking. The blast bags look like canvas.
  16. Canute
    That's the break in the fuselage for removing the engine, isn't it.? Many older jets worked that way. I remember seeing F-105s opened up that way. That shrinkage was huge. Luckily it was only one direction. This plastic glues up normally with the usual Tamiya and Testors glues? Understand the GatorGrip for the strong joint without letting the plastic sag. I sometimes use a gel CA to glue styrene, especially gluing very thin stock. The solvents turn thin strips into bacon strips.😉 Should be a simple fix, but preserving any detail will be fun.
  17. Canute
    Nice job setting the dihedral. Be interesting how that affects the fit in the wing roots, if any. Are the tailplanes OK? Many manufacturers miss the subtle bends and twists in the airframes.
  18. Canute
    The American component of the Lafayette Escadrille still exists at Seymour Johnson AFB, flying F-15Es. The 335 Fighter Squadron, the Chiefs, claims descent from the Escadrille.
  19. Canute
    Another Stuka, Dennis? Those Special Hobbies kits look interesting. If you want a big challenge, size and otherwise, this is a new release of a Stuka in 1/35 scale: https://www.hyperscale.com/2022/reviews/kits/borderbf002reviewbg_1.html Has it's pro's and con's, per the reviewer, but overall, he thinks it's a good one. Not cheap, but he sees a lot of aftermarket goodies to fix the more egregious errors.
  20. Canute
    Quite nicely done, Chris. More food for thought. I can be distracted too easily. Looking forward to your next build.
  21. Canute
    Battering ram? That's intriguing.
  22. Canute
    Good job finessing the back end of the Nose wheel well and the ammo bins. Some injection mold makers make some thick castings. May have to resort to CA to tack that seam. I tend to lay on some spot putty, very roughly smooth it out and leave it over night to set up. Of course, I do the initial patchwork out in the garage and wear a mask, since the Bondo has toluene and who knows what else in it. The chemicals etch into the plastic.
  23. Canute
    If I can dig up some concepts I learned in power plant designs, we'd take the hot gases to heat the feedwater, since it was more efficient to raise the pre-heated water just a few degrees, rather than the cold water from the cistern/tank and dumping it into the boiler. This is what the more modern steam locomotives do, warm up the feed water going into the boiler. That was the fireman's job in the engine, tending the water level in the loco. Sometimes you got a nervous engineer who was paranoid about letting the water level in the boiler sight glass drop too low, permitting exposure of the crown sheet and resulting explosion as water is dumped into the boiler. This was usually in hilly country. The fireman ran the injector from the feedwater heater; the engineer had an injector fed directly from the loco tender (colder water). This colder water would drop the pressure and the engine would slow down. Safe, but showing a lack of faith in the fireman and possibly late arrival.
  24. Canute
    According to Wiki, it was designed for carrying a 1,000 kilo (2,200 lb) bomb or the twin cannons. The couple of operational pix I've seen only show the Kanonevogel version. According to William Green's Warplanes of the Third Reich, it was an either or; primarily the cannons for tank busting, bomb racks in place of the cannons when there were no tanks in the area. No mention of the weight of bombs fir a G without cannon. Bottom line is don't sweat the expendables. It's a Kanonevogel. 😉😄
  25. Canute
    All the end grain makes it difficult to cover. And sanding sealers aren't much help for that either. Overall, though, a nice job building that rig.

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