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  1. Canute
    That last may have been for some of us attending a Tiger Meet, although it may have been a stateside version. Fighter wing leadership was proud to play up the Tiger heritage (all fighter guys). The tanker leadership folks weren't nearly as fired up for any Tiger Meet activities. Our Ops Group Commander was an F-4 guy, but above him, they were tanker folks. I was at one meet at Bitburg, on peacetime alert. Crazy good time for the Tiger folks. I wasn't in the Tiger Squadron there We were entertained by a doozy of a low altitude airshow. The F-111 leading the fly by lit off his fuel dump, without announcing it to the folks following him during the fly-by. A lot of airplanes disappeared into the clouds to avoid. We ground observers were very surprised. The two security guys I was up in a guard tower watching the show both turned to me and asked what happened. It was pretty dangerous. There is no mistaking an F-4 by any of our senses. We were top of the heap for a long time, until supplanted by Eagles and Vipers.
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    Nicely done, Jav. And good luck at the show.
  3. Canute
    Beautiful work with the multiple weathering mediums. Outstanding work.
  4. Canute
    That F-4E is a Korat bird, where I lived one year. Ours were parked in steel revetments. Needed a medium sized Cushman and that tow bar you showed to maneuver the jet around to push it back into the revetment. You'll need an MJ-1 bomb hoist aka a jammer to load bombs and a couple of bomb carts loaded with MK-82s or CBU49/52/58, along with a -60. The F-4E they did was my jet at McGuire, 68-388, tail code NJ. Grey overall, with a Tiger head on the nose. There used to be a decal set with our scheme for both the early green paint and later gray paint. The Tiger head is a looker.
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    Just some fuel and oil stains under the jet and tire marks. Simple. So, they make a -60? Very cool. I should put one with a Phantom the local modeling club made for me back at McGuire. I got them flight line and runway supervisory unit access. Probably wrecked a few ear drums among that crew, but they loved hanging at the end of the runway, watching the jets being armed and then blasting off to fly training sorties. Afterburners are loud. And I brought them back to watch the landings. I'm a lifetime member of their IPMS chapter for that and the gave me a custom Hasegawa F-4E. State of the art in 1989.
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    Glad you are OK, Craig. Buddy of mine has a daughter NE of Ft Myers and they were OK. Lot of tree debris on their horse farm. All folks and animals OK. I'm sitting in Greensboro, ready to attend a train event and we have a tropical storm warning. Gusty winds and 5 inches of rain. Supposed to start in the morning. Back home in Hooterville it should be a little gusty and some rain. Track seems to have shifted east.
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    Glad to se you still plugging away, brother. All those acquisitions bring back memories, except for the GPU. We used MA-60s usually; it was an all in one unit instead of the multiple pieces you're using. Gawd, that MA-1A start cart trailer was loud. It had the same engine as the T-37 trainer planes and was just below a dog whistle in pitch. Ruined the hearing of a lot of us. Gonna be fun watching this dio unfold.
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    Nicely done. They look great. 👍
  9. Canute
    Well done on your construction. Very nicely done.
  10. Canute
    Looks like a nice day in Graf down in Bavaria. US Army equivalent down there.
  11. Canute
    Three seems best to me.
  12. Canute
    It's looking like a real doozy. I hope and pray you all come thru okay.
  13. Canute
    Special Berlin Garrison rules, maybe? Probably some peacetime requirement. If it gets hot, I as tank commander, will shoot out the light. 8-)
  14. Canute
    Never, ever believe 100% that the weather guessers got it right. The storms seem to drift a wee bit east of the computer estimates, at least in eastern Gulf. Being west of the eye is better than east, especially for the storm's landfall/coast in.
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    MA Deuce looks good, Craig. Ya'll be careful, ya heah? 😄 We're possibly in the cross hairs, but it should be a depression by the time it hits, thanks to being over land on the current prognostication. The threat for us is flash flooding and the usual losses of power. Hope you and yours weather it OK.
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    Looks good to me, Richard. Nice work.
  17. Canute
    Well done, Dan. The sunlight shots really show up well.
  18. Canute
    There a PE set for the boat or are you using some ladder stock? Whatever you did, it looks good. 😄
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    Interesting, Richard. You bring up some fine points.
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    Your work is excellent, Grant. 👍 Those sashes are the hardest part of any build with windows. I'd work about 20 min on them, then go do anything else to rest my aching eyeballs.
  21. Canute
    Eric, looks good. Timber framing looks so good. Norm Abram (This Old House) would be proud. 👍
  22. Canute
    Interesting painting. Looks like some salvage work in progress.
  23. Canute
    Interesting, looks a LSM/LST. I'm in, Greg.
  24. Canute
    Wow, there's a ton of detail in that jewel. Rye Field does a beautiful job and your skills enhance it. 👍👍
  25. Canute
    Good tip with the chalk dust on the white. 👍 I made up a plastic jig to assemble wood windows. It's just two strips glued at 90 degrees and thick enough the layer all the parts. Works well with PVA glue. CA isn't a player, but I normally don't use it with wood kits.

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