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Yep, quite the jet. You notice the only way to make the smoke disappear was to select afterburner/reheat. -
Even if the speed/Mach meter said we were subsonic, parts of the jet were already supersonic. If you ever had a Phantom show up over a crowd and it's quiet until it's not, that's the effect. I think the military demo teams (T birds, Blues) made use of that with one of their solos, back when they were flying the F-4. Main team out front, dazzled everybody with their precision formations and that pesky solo (old 5 or 6) would come over the crowd from behind the viewing stand and rock your socks off. We couldn't go supersonic over the North American landmass except for designated training areas like the Nellis or Hill AFB ranges in Nevada and Utah. Big reason why the SST was a flop for Braniff, since they were restricted to sub sonic use over the US. Who'd pay premium fares for a cramped ride at the same speeds as a DC-10. Ever since that time, the experimenters have been working on getting supersonic speeds without propagating the shock wave to the ground and irritating the citizenry.
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The farm will look great, OC. Very nice build. The KGL will keep the grognards at bay.😉
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Yes, I'll look into that drone Warthog.😁
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Nice job with the grain legs. Those things must have been a sight getting moved around the harbor. Well done.
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Gee whiz Gary. I never heard a non-Phantom Phlyer (I'm presuming 😉) wax poetic over the Rhino, our nickname for Mr McDonnell's creation. I'm gonna blush. (I have about 4,000 hours in the old girl) Years ago, while checking out in the Phantom, one of my instructors opined on the fact that Mr McDonnell could take a commercial freezer, strap 2 General Electric J-79s to it and make a supersonic, fighter-bomber, interceptor. capable of Mach 2 flight. Ours (USAF) never got those spiffy paint jobs. More like that old Ford pickup, hauling what needs hauling. I miss the myriad jobs we did; every mission/flight was different. But I especially the guys I flew with. The folks here on this site approach that camaraderie, but the worst thing would be somebody slicing up themselves and leaving their DNA on a model.. 😊
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The F-4E was 64 feet long with a 38 foot wingspan. As I remember, the other versions were 6 feet shorter. The E needed the extra space to stuff a 20mm Gatling gun with 640 round magazine into the nose. That was 10 seconds worth of firing time or 5 2 second bursts. Any long and the gun-barrels melted/twisted. Weapons Officer flashback.😁
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Some straw clipping strewn about will look good, too. Maybe a bucket of feed or water, too. Our stable doors were too narrow to run a front end loader into the stall. Best we could do was throw it thru the doorway into the bucket.
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That jet would be grounded on a red X without those items. A wise pilot indeed. Turned out well, despite your omission.
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Nice work on that stable floor, mate.👍 Really looks like it should be in one's foyer, instead of the stable. My old barn stalls were mostly bare dirt with straw and other detritus scattered about, needing frequent cleaning. 😉
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I kitbashed some gas stations for a display my train club built. Had to do it in N scale, about half the size of Gary's beautiful work. It was fun doing the old style pumps with the glass bowl on the top of the pump. We didn't get into the interior details, although both stations did have work bays and offices. One was Sinclair, the one with the green dinosaur in more modern times. The other was Pure Oil, a common brand down South in the USA. Anyway, this service bay is outstanding. Gary is working on a best in show here. 😉
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They look very good, 👍
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Nice build, Egilman. Had a buddy build that same scale E model while we sat air defense alert in the Florida panhandle. He was tracing all the little hydraulic and pneumatic lines, along with the wiring harnesses, in the wheel wells. Yeah, Mike had that prototype appearance bug. 🙄
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Sure, but you can prime all those little soldiers in one fell swoop. After you practice a bit with the airbrush, though. 😁
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I use the thinner for the brand I'm using for thinning/conditioning the paint. Some paints curdle with generic thinners. Additional ingredients in the proprietary thinner? Cleanup is a different matter. The branded thinners aren't cheap, but you can use some homemade cleaning thinners. Here's one take on a homemade thinner for acrylics: https://www.cybermodeler.com/tips/thinner.shtml My blogpost here has a link to a model RR site with another brew for homemade thinners. It's in post #1
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May try putting an "old/used" nylon stocking over the exhaust duct to trap any particles. Several train buds do that, spraying acrylics.
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I'm in Phil. I've been a fan of this medium bomber.
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Yeah, Dennis, AHM went the way of the bison, but some of the cars are now sold by other companies. The brake wheel is easy to find in a good selection of detailing parts. Guess you even got some blocking for the tank load. May want to cut some stripwood to replace the plastic chocks, then tie the tank down with fine chain (A-Line 40 links per inch, pre-blackened). Have fun with that one. Wright Flyer #1, what a great find. 👍
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Count me in too, Kevin. I'll join the big boys, over at the bar. 😁 Had a flashback to John Wayne's first starring role movie, "Stagecoach". Yeah, it's Hollywood, but it's highly entertaining. And I'm a fan of most of his flicks.
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Great airbrush, that H&S. Practice with spraying water onto a surface to get the feel of operating the brush. Watch some of the videos Ron T posted in this forum: You're going to like using the brush.
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Don't try to do them all at once. Take breaks. Repetitious builds are hard because you keep doing the same thing over and over. I've build N and Z scale structures with multiple multi-part windows. Very tedious.
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