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Another issue with thin styrene and solvent cements is too much cement can dimple the thin styrene. Tack it in place, then cement it with brushed on cement. Good technique there, Patrick.👍 -
Lou, I was in a Hunter-Killer team during Linebacker II. Mostly carried CBUs, 2 Sparrow air to air missiles, 2 jammer pods and a fully loaded gun. The Shrike antiradar missile (ARM) was to make the North Vietnamese (and their Russian SAM trainers) think a Weasel had expended one of his rounds. I think we may have done it twice? The crazier idea was dropping flares over Hanoi at night to see the SAM sites.That place was so lit up from their air defenses that the flares were redundant. I don't think the proposer ever flew up North, so had no clue as to what he was doing. I remember the team leads telling him we would need 8 extra jets to do it and that was enough to convince them not to do it. We were pretty maxed out with maintaining 2 sets of crews for both day and night ops over the North. And the USN was faced with similar issues, so we couldn't beg for their help.They were hitting targets an hour or two either side of our strike packages going in. That's when the NVA finally relented. That was cathartic. 😃
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Ah, but did your landings match your takeoffs? Luckily for me, mine did. We figured it was small price to pay, doing all the egress/life support training. Uncle Sam was paying us to fly the top of the line fighter in air to air training. We rarely fired missiles (6 deployments for weapons system evaluations), although we shot both radar and infrared when we dieployed, And I did shoot an anti-radar missile in SEA, during Linebacker II. Whoopity doo.😉
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Interesting tool. You have been doing some beautiful work. Nice job.
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It's heck, getting old. Definitely not for sissies!
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Your bridge sure got busy, Chris. Cutting, fitting and edge coloring parts the size of a dust speck. You are a master.
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As one of the guys actually driving a jet around, we got a shot on every conceivable way to get out of a plane and then what to do as we made our "silk" descent. Seat trainer was an old T-33 seat rigged on rails and fired with a 37mm cartridge (some boot in the butt). Parasailing on land and sea. Water survival in Biscayne Bay, near Miami. Jungle survival in the Philippines, being chased by some local folks. They got 50 pounds of rice for every Gringo they caught. I think they smelled us, cause I got into a good hide under a log. Still nabbed by my pursuer. Quarterly egress training, getting out of the cockpit with the lid down in a pitch black room. Suspended agony outside, hanging in our harnesses and manipulating the personal lowering device to get out of the trees and onto terra firma. Boy, I don't miss that stuff.
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Pulling up a chair, too.
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EG, I got a package of boxcar parts from Ontario to western NC last week. 5 days from order to package in my mailbox. In state mail is about 3 days.
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Glad you liked it Dennis. There are some good sites around for getting ideas.
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Colors look good, EG. Like the combuster section, suitably burned. 👍 The afterburner (AB) section (reheat for some of us) had what looks like a spider web in it It was inset several feet in from the eyelids. Spray mechanism for the extra fuel for the AB. Our fuel flow in AB jumped 4 times over the normal numbers. We didn't stay in AB any longer than we needed to. The newer jets are higher fuel consumption ratios, but the cruise flows were better with the turbofans they used in the F-15, 16, 18. And they didn't need the thrust of ABs to do air combat maneuvering flight.
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There is a longish article on builds of assembly ships over on Hyperscale: https://www.hyperscale.com/2022/features/assemblyships48jm_1.htm
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Yep, you are. The AB eyelids almost look like the ones on an E model, but ours were J79-GE-17 models. Keep on digging up this stuff.
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Outstanding job, Greg. Those last few guns and bridge gear are beautiful prints.
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More of an issue as to how much the Admiral is annoyed by the odors. But they all should be vented away from the painter.
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The burner cans and nozzle eyelids were a lot of titanium, burnt bluish gray as a dark color and almost ash gray for highlights. I'd go with the colors on that last F-104 engine for an in-use one. The one from Wright-Patterson is way too clean. Yep, they definitely had a howl, as did the Cs and Ds. The E model had more of a rumble, since the visible eyelids were longer. No mistaking that sound.
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been looking at mine occasionally. I'll follow along, too, OC. Kinda busy with other builds, so no spare time right now for this.
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Well done, EG. Good move, omitting the unseeable PE. The work you've done on the gear looks great. Looking forward to see how you J79 turns out.
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Finnish T26 tank by Baker - FINISHED - Mirage - 1/72 - PLASTIC
Canute replied to Baker's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
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The clutter looks very appropriate around the seat. You need some instrument approach books and maps in your "magazine" racks. Nowadays they have a tablet or some such tied down, with all the same data. Never leave home without them. I'm not sure if the Zipper had a safety pin bag for safing the ejection seat. F-4s did, I think there were 7 pins for all the pyrotechnic charges used on a Martin Baker seat. I have one down in my archives. I know the pilots wore "spurs" on their boots. If they had to eject, they jammed their boots back against the front of the seat to lock their legs so they couldn't flail at high speeds. The F-4 and F-105 used garters attached to lanyards that ran from the floor thru the garters to the seat. Again, it was to prevent flailing of legs. Arms usually ended up in your lap, so no special gear.
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There are some companies with those 3D decal cockpits, but no 1/32 F104 yet. Yours looks great.
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EG, it's good to go, bud. Side panel decals(?) look very good. Instrument panel is very good. Too bad it will be almost hidden in your cockpit. Bet you're crossed-eyed from that detailing job. What's on the radar screen? It has that appropriate green glow of 50's CRTs. Nicely done. 👍👍
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It had a J79 GE engine, same as the F4 and A5 Vigilante. Heck of a lot less iron around it. Great acceleration.
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