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  1. Canute
    I'm in, too, Craig. Interesting paint schemes.
  2. Canute
    Andy, yes that's what they used back then for inflight calculations. A circular sliderule with some aviation specific items in the face. In the tanker, my boom operator was responsible for the sextant. I just had to supply him with the settings to put in for him to take his sightings. He read me his results, I plugged them into my calculation sheet and plotted the results. Of course, I cross checked it with my dead reckoning poition, my inertial nav system and later on the GPS. A nice tight grouping, normally. 😁
  3. Canute
    The Nav should have some kind of hand held calculator to do his multiplying and dividing on one side and figure winds on the other. I think they were called EA-6s or some such. We called 'em the whiz wheel.. And a sheet of paper to write up his log, about the size of your chart. Maps are what grunts use to drive on the ground. 😉 Where is his sextant? That astrodome wasn't just a place to hang out and dazzle the pilot with the names of the constellations and stars. 😁 Normally, it lived in a box near the astrodome. It was about the size of a box your sneakers/athletic shoes come in.
  4. Canute
    Nicely done with your detailing, Andy. Give the aircraft personality. 👍 In the big airplane I flew, that was called a honey bucket, although my unit converted them to the chemical toilets used in RV campers and boars. We only used the honey bucket when the jet went back to the Air Force maintenance depot. Same thing for our digital radar sets going back to the old crt set. If we forgot and sent the good stuff, it disappeared into the labyrinth at the depot, never to be seen again. That thing above the stretcher. No idea.
  5. Canute
    Rob, the bird is looking good. All you need in those wheel wells is a little grease, oil and tire shards. Tamiya makes some beautiful aircraft. 😄
  6. Canute
    Take a look at the model railroad paints. Many boxcars have/had galvanized roofs. I like a shade called SP lettering gray. It's a gray with bluish tinge. Look thru the paint racks for a shade you can use. You may have to paint your aluminum with a flat clear to get paints to stick to the aluminum.
  7. Canute
    That explains a lot, Jack. 😁 I had Xaverians for high school.
  8. Canute
    Nice, taking the People's Choice Cup. Well done.
  9. Canute
    Nice that they have you flash the awning/wall connection. Most kits don't. Looks good, Grant. 👍
  10. Canute
    Artistic license over historical accuracy. Chalk it up to budgets. 😒
  11. Canute
    Sad to read of your old pup. My condolences. They new pup is a cutie. 👍 Biplanes.
  12. Canute
    Our seatbelts usually laid on the side panels; too bulky to fall between the seat and the side panels. I think it was the same in the big airplane; the lap belts were draped over the arm rests.
  13. Canute
    Those 3D decals for the cockpit are a vast improvement over the kit supplied ones. 😁 Too bad the seat-belts are so hard to decipher the construction sheet. 😕
  14. Canute
    Nice work there. The cleanup of that plastic tween the ribs really makes it look so much better.
  15. Canute
    Pretty neat, excavating the bones out of the plaster. Just like the paleontologists. 👍
  16. Canute
    OC, the Spang birds were just across the "gulch" from Bitburg. That was one of our nicknames for the Kyll River valley. That's were the famous Kyll River Fog Monster dwelt. I think we spent a third of the winter grounded because the visibility was less than 1 mile, our minimum world wide for flying weather. I can't wait to see the 1/32 E model. The old Revell one was a little rough. The Hasegawa in 1/48 was much better.
  17. Canute
    Nice work on the boat racks. And your aft stack is looking good also, 👍
  18. Canute
    I'm in, Craig. And yes, EG, it is. I suspect that with the excellent products Z-M has released of late, they will get all the nuances right. I see they show the speed brakes interior paint. I hope they droop the aux air doors on the belly, over the centerline rack system, assuming it's on the ground. These doors pop open inflight to "burp" the air intakes at high speeds. On starts, when cycling the generators on, they could slam shut, so we always checked with the crew chief before doing that.
  19. Canute
    This supports both wings? You didn't have to rig the second level from home.
  20. Canute
    Excellent job of weathering, Grant. Your diorama will look great. I like your chalking work. 👍
  21. Canute
    Detailing is coming along nicely, Rob. 👍
  22. Canute
    I had a similar reaction to a pneumonia shot last year. I think part of my issue was letting one of the nurses in my doctor's office. She was a little rusty giving shots. My pharmacist is so much better, but she administers a lot more injections. Hope she recovers quickly. 🤞
  23. Canute
    Rob, nice work with your Corsair.👍 I'm a big fan of bent-wing birds. EG is an excellent source and has a little experience building models. 😉
  24. Canute
    The intrepid KGL rifleman versus T Rex. Talk about a B movie plot. 😁
  25. Canute
    Left one looks like a green the Russian used on their radomes/antennas on certain MiGs.

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