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CF-105 Arrow, F-35, Sikorsky H-19, CH-124 Sea King, CF-100 Canuck 

Looks like you are creating the entire Canadian aircraft arsenal! Well except for the F-35.

Will #8 and 9 need hinging, or will they fit through fully upright?

4 hours ago, CDW said:

modern and up to date tooling.

I think it is more the modeler than the model. Congratulations 

2 hours ago, Egilman said:

Doc said no cancer

😁

3 hours ago, Egilman said:

The sabre's in Korea weren't equipped for night fighting, they were day fighters only

I knew that, I was just trying to make a joke about your primer. Sabre's were day hunters.

Yes some of the marking on US night fighters both prop and jet were red but not the national insignia. They still used the white stars and bars THEY stood out like a sore thumb in the dark but I suppose no one wanted to risk having red stars on a US aircraft.

Even with then there was at least one occasion where an F3D Skynight made several passes on a Polikarpov PO-2s, (Wood and cloth biplane used at night)  without firing as the pilot was worried that any 20mm rounds that missed would hit ground forces. On his third pass I think it was the ground forces opened up on him! 

3 hours ago, CDW said:

The Uzi's and 30 cal's are for shooting around corners.

Showing me that I'm not thinking it  through again. Told you that I didn't know anything about tanks!🤪

Lucky you didn't put the rocker in Mike. I would have been tempted to grab it up and get a front row seat! Looking very clean and nicely done.

AH a night fighter!😁

Isn't that for shooting around corners?😇

Perhaps you will end up with some spare railing when the build is done and can use that to try a fresh install.

Good to hear that he is well and all is functioning again. I think you will be happy with what you get.

9 hours ago, cog said:

I hope not to many crossing from red to white and vice versa ...

That would make them look like barber shop markers here in the US.

The A-10 firing 50-75 rounds per second can place 80% of them into an area the size of a tank from about 2.5 miles away. (4000 yards) The missiles of course are from much further. Only ballistic bombs would be considered close up and personal depending on what they were going in against. I think we would task something to take out the radar or SAM ability just before a strike if possible if we had a proper deployment of US forces and equipment. The biggest problem facing the Ukraine as far as I see is that they never built a force that was intended to take on an army like the Russians It was intended for internal or possible border issues that would not require nearly the resources.  

7 hours ago, Egilman said:

He was, it's part of the gun stabilization system... The Abrams has a similar one as well

Yes I was but Jacks movie taught me about the question I didn't ask so I still learned something new. Not too hard as I know almost nothing about tanks. 

I have seen similar items on tanks like the Abrams but on those barrels they look like some kind of electronic device. I suppose that this is what holds the barrel on target so the tank can fire while still moving as that gizmo is holding the target in the sights. 

13 hours ago, Egilman said:

 

I wish I could have experienced all that action that you guys lived... I'll bet there is nothing else like it...

You hear about the good and even fun times but like Mark says not all of them were so good and fun on the day they happened. Some of them became better later and some will never make that grade. Nothing will ever change the impact of hauling a guy you saw in the chow line that morning or last night and know that you will be hosing his blood out of the cabin as soon as you get time. Sorry for the gloom, but that is the stuff that is better left to read about somewhere than to wish you had experienced personally. Enough said, OUT.

Now, answer me if you can, and I suspect you can. What are the lines at the rear of the canopy? They look like range markings of some sort. (Or vertical defroster ribbons like on the back window of my car😁) 

6 hours ago, wefalck said:

It would take me years to get that far building it the traditional way

I know as one of the proud owners of one of Haze's fantastic ships that it does take him years to build them. It just takes that long mostly on the computer before it is possible to make plastic dust!

They not only have incredible accuracy to the prototype but he has gone to considerable engineering effort in designing the attachment points and mounting areas that are needed to make the model. 

HG

The more you get done on this the more I like the ascetics of the ship. The real ship may have had its issues, but it still has a certain flow to it that is pleasing to look at. Kind of like a ship of the line. Slow and cumbersome in real life, but still possessing a grace and majesty and presence beyond the pure functional.

Do you know what weapons they are using on the drones Mark? I thought they were mostly bombs and missiles. I was also under the understanding that at first they were highly effective but as the Russians have increased their air defense and EW presence they are being shot down much more often and losses are compounding.

It is my understanding that the newer A-10s have a much better stand off ability. 

Amazing work, at least to me, considering source material you are working from. And it is also amazing that you have accompliched so much while undergoing surgery, COVID, and bronchitis/ sleep deprivation.  I hope things get a little better health wise and a little easier building wise.

6 hours ago, Canute said:

It was a real boot in the butt. I miss it.

I suspect that may be a bit of an undestatment.

I still miss doing a leasurly100kts almost close enough to the trees to grab leaves. And that was 40 years ago! I don't think that is even lift off speed for an F-4.

Other than one being somewhat out of focus on my computer the two finishes look pretty much the same to me. Possibly if you place them both vertically in the picture so that they have the same focal length at some point the compairson would be easier or more reliable.

We had big canals around the runway to route the water away

19 hours ago, Canute said:

We had big canals around the runway to route the water away

We had them on the field and on base. One of my buddies had to jump into one on a night when we received some morter rounds during monsoon season. It was mostly empty but it had rained for several hours that day and was more mud than anything when he went in partly face first! Took him an hour to bet showered down and look human again. We called him "Swamp Thing" after that.

Craig

Do they explain what the bump on the barrel is in the instructions? I suspect not as that kind of information is a thing of the past in model building but to me it looks like an iron sight on a rifle????🤔

You can certainly tell it was a ship intended to operate in warm enviroments. 

That was possibly the SU-25 Frogfoot. It was designed to be a contemporary to the A-10.  Both the Ukrainians and Russians had them at the beginning of the war, but as far as I can tell almost, or all of the Ukrainian planes have been lost since the war started. Russian reported losses are much less reliable, plus as usual I believe they have/had more of them. Without going into a long comparison I think the A-10 is a much superior weapon for it's intended use than the SU-25 even though on paper they seem more equally matched. But that is paper.

We used condoms as well but it was for the rain especially during monsoon. Plenty of oil present to stop rust, (In most cases) but the rain was sometimes heavy enough to fill the barrel!

You may consider the inside of any of the larger wing mounted weapons as additional weight locations.

I think that they could be close quarters, close range weapons only and would be stored in this location only when engaging in urban actions. Not as much dust as everyone is moving relatively slowly as well as probably having paved roads. Most times the crew, other than the driver, will also be more fully exposed and a personal weapon on the outside would be quicker to deploy and have a broader field of fire.