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  1. Egilman
    Good deal my friend... Don't miss that appointment brother, chest pains can be anything from pancreatitis to blocked arteries... And please don't ask me how I know this.... (some experiences we wish we don't get) Take care of her....
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    Yep, should be a great Kit....
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    Yep, reinforced fibreglass, but the fasteners were steel and would eventually rot away in hot salty environments, that's what your seeing on the Greek bird, and I saw it at AMARG as well... From the look of it on your washed bird it looks new, the black tip is shiny as well as the fiberglass, which is reflecting concrete markings from the ground near the join line with the fuselage... Also the join line is clean with no damage, so I'm speculating that it's new... Thank you for the info on the slatted wing, since the kits all show them as closed, and when on the ground they were closed, there is no need to replace them with slatted aftermarket wings, that takes a bit of expense off the plate... Much thanks.... It's going to be a while before I get to these 3 Phantoms, but, I promised a purty Phantom from the USAF when I did my F-4J, And yours as retired is about as purty as it gets!!!! I have good shots of yours, Good shots of the Missouri ANG Bird in Hill Grey II, and will finish it off with good shots of hopefully the bird from Korat as the kit decals depict.... Beautiful airplane.... I'll try to do them justice my friend....
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    That is correct, most motion power transmission engineers understand this... I think what Mark was commenting on is the pully surface appears to be crowned too high, the curve is supposed to be a very gentle one, hardly noticeable otherwise you lose power in transmission cause only the center is transmitting power, the edges remain slack... It was also found that such a large crown also wears out belts faster... The drawing shows a very gentle equal radius curve with edge broken corners when compared to the crowned pully... Which has a high crown and a large radiused edge... The crown on the pulleys of such equipment was barely noticeable on the full sized machine.... A 9" south Bend.... A 6" South Bend Headstock... Those are smaller lathes so it isn't very noticable, but here is a 12" South Bend headstock where it is clearly noticeable... The edges are just broken and not radiused, and the crown is maybe 1%... The first lathe I ever ran was a 1909 12" South Bend that started life running from shafts along the ceiling with 20 foot belts that drove the pulleys... It was converted on the late 20's to electric drive from a motor underneath the headstock with much much shorter belts... I hope it helps... EG
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    Ok, I think I know what your talking about.... 68-0381 HR (cn 3463) just a dozen airframes before your bird in the same manufacturing group... (68-0388 HR (cn 3475)) Larissa, Greece July 15th, 2009 And Larissa, Greece June 6th, 2011 The Greek boneyard, {chuckle} but it doesn't have any wing tanks which for some reason are always present on USAF birds and obscure the slat mechanisms... So yours was a slatted wing bird?, Correction a leading edge flap/ boundary layer bird.... so the question becomes, when sitting on the runway were they up or down? I know the flaperons usually hung a few degrees down when the hydro bled off, but I hardly ever see the forward edge down on the ground... And in the last pic, notice the bottom of the radome, it's rotting out after only two years...
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    Well I don't know, when I do her it will be with a fully black radome.... But do notice one thing, she is in the wash shed... Lots of deteriorated paint but no dust and dirt, the radome might be a replacement to cover up the innards from the high pressure stream.... They were pretty well stripped after they were sent to AMARG... Saw that with my own eyes when I was living in Tucson and got to do the tour, (several times) before everything went all ITAR... Trying to track what happened to her after 2007, but have had no luck so far.... but one thing we do know, she is preserved....
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    Hey Ken, I found a few photos of 68-0388.... 2 from 1975... (SEA Scheme 36th TFW, 53th TFS, Bitburg AB, Tiger Meet 1975 held at Leck, Germany September 7th) Sure looks to me like she had slatted wings... 2 from April 1981... 313th TFS/50th TFW - this former 32nd TFS Phantom revisited Soesterberg for a.o. target towing duty. And 3 from 2007... We know she went to AMARG in August-November of 1990... She was wearing Euro I and that beautiful Tiger head when she was retired... Here is the decal sheet from the Revell/Monogram #85-4668 F-4E "Mig Killer" Just swap out a few numbers.... 17 years in the Arizona desert didn't do much for the paint did it...
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    Any questions just ask away, that's what we are here for, to help.... Best modeling site on the net bar none...
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    Yep, The Dornier Do 31... in all respects to the extent they tested it, it surpasses the Osprey... (it was never flight tested to it's full capability) They simply ran out of money and when they tried to sell it to the US Navy for onboard replenishment, they Navy wasn't interested... The first truly successful V/STOL aircraft... And one that most know nothing about... It was actually capable of doing an aileron roll, or what would pass for one in a conventional airplane.... (demonstrated in public, and the test pilot was told to never do it again) It was definitely an example of forward thinking, and of others without that capability deciding what to do...
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    If that makes sense to you, your reading skills are a lot better than mine....
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    Thanks Mark, Yep the Thunderbirds at the top break in the High Bomb Burst.... 0:09 sec in right after they rotate and separate.... (these are F-16's of course, there is no video of the F-4E's performing this maneuver) I had them suspended each on their own invisible 5lb monofilament line from the nose and connected to each other in a ring from the wingtips which drew them close so they slanted a bit away from each other... I had it for three years till my little brother decided to bounce the basketball off the walls of the bedroom... {CRASH} You don't know how much I wanted to court martial the brat but mother wouldn't let me... We laugh about it now, he has several of my creations in his mancave...
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    Here we go, another captured imagination.... Thankfully we have a great card modeler to show us the way... It's just something about the Phantom II that makes your heart speed up and eyes glint... It's a bad a**ed warplane...
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    Given the RL pics that grey/green is about perfect brother...
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    Hiller was the first one to get a tilt-wing to fly the X-18 in 1955... They were followed by Curtis-Wright with the X-19 in 1960, followed by the Ling Temco Vought XC-142 in 1964, then the Bell X-22 in 1966 and finally the Canadair CL-84 "Dynavert" in 1972.... But is is important to note that these are all tilt-wing aircraft, the V-22 Osprey is a Tilt-Rotor aircraft, same aeronautical theory, completely different mechanical arrangement... But they are all amazing engineering accomplishments...
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    Hi Paul, don't know if Tim is still posting but the answer to question #1 is the sheet is thin enough to form to the contour of the airfoil and from what I saw done in one or two long pieces... #2 They would be applied with the grain of the wood following the span of the wing or length of the fuselage... #3 Yes, Basswood, like any other wood becomes pliable when soaked... (but at 1/32" the wood would be so pliable as it shouldn't need soaking for most except the tightest compound curves) and #4 I've never had an issue gluing basswood to any other wood with the usual glues for such, wet or dry... I hope that explains the process, it's much like sheeting a ships hull, an identical process in fact... EG
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    Thank you Ken, I always prefer direct knowledge over speculation, I've seen too many models of F-4's loaded to the gills with ordnance so heavy they would never have got into the air much less made a turn without the wings breaking off... AJ when I was a younker, I built a ceiling diorama of four 1/72nd scale F-4E's in formation, they were vertical right on the four way break at the top of the climb.... (and yes the stabilizer on #4 was smoked black) can you guess what scheme they were in? My friends all asked how the heck I did it, it was spectacular... You can never build more than one... A note on the two kits, the recent Academy and the 90's issue Revell-Monogram 30th anniversary "Mig Killer" they are the same kit, identical in all respects... just re-boxed into an Academy presentation... Thanks guys for all the info.... I'll probably do the three of them all at once cause the basic airframe is the same on each, the differences will be in the painting and weapons loadouts... A lot of aftermarket to acquire... But first I need to get the Sabre done and then a quick little project involving tracks and big bullets.. (something simple) Thanks for following and sorry for the diversion into Phantomness... EG
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    Amen Brother...
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    In the end brother, I'm sure you will be very happy with the change, but it will take some getting used to...
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    Nice case brother, I would suggest small lifts once you find a place to put it... we both know it's not that heavy, but it's bulky and massive so care needs to be used to get it into a position where it can live for a long time.... I've also had some of those "Don't TOUCH" with some of my creations, my USS Constitutions namely, I've built it seven times primarily cause of people who just have to touch... My eighth is under the bed waiting for me to get back to it... So yeah, case that beautiful sucker up before you have to throw someone out of the house cause they can't control themselves! Beautiful work, well within your capabilities my friend, the evidence is in the pictures, you got this... Thanks Alan, for allowing us to follow your excursion into expanding your modeling world... It was a long sometimes dreary trail, but we hiked it with you and are very happy we did...
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    Thanks Ken... Ok, Drop the centerline tank for an MER loaded with Mk 82 slicks, 4 CBU's (SUU-30's) on TER's mounted to the inboard pylons... Wing mounted drop tanks on the outer pylons... No need for the ALQ-71 or 87 in this configuration... What about the 4 sparrow mount slots? leave them? or fill them? Ok the Missouri ANG aircraft in Hill Grey II with 4 sparrows and 4 sidewinders with full tankage... And the New Jersey ANG 141st TFS with an ALQ119 in the right forward sparrow slot, an AN/AVQ-23 Pave Spike in the left sparrow slot, two Aft Sparrows... With 6 GBU 12's (Mk82's slicks with paveway laser seekers and control system) on TERs on the inboard pylons (I have pics of this setup on F-4E's in the 80's) with or without the center tank but always with the outboard pylon tanks... Sound like a plan my friend?
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    Well I'm not too much into flights of fancy like Luft '46 and that stuff... But the Germans had a lot of very talented people that could forward think really well... And given time, they would have made a lot of these speculative design ideas a reality... I'm in brother...
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    The ALQ-71 is available in 1/32 aftermarket, but the -87 isn't, I'll have to raid my Trumpeter F-100 D for that one... And the Revell/Monogram kit comes with an ALQ-119, It has to have it for the NJANG Euro I scheme... I just picked up a third F-4E Revell/Monogram... Now I've got three of them to do so I'll probably do the Academy as the SEA Korat Bird, (armed up with Mk-82 slicks and SUU 30's) and the two Revell/Monograms as the two ANG birds in Hill Grey II and Euro I schemes... (Sparrows and Sidewinders with triple drop tanks) This will mean I'll need an F-4C to do Col. Olds Scat 27... A fourth to do the T-bird and another F-4J to do the Blue Angels version... I'm gonna need a separate display case for the Phantoms alone... {chuckle} (you can never build just one, kinda why I've held off it for so long)
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    Fly cutters, a machinists dream or nightmare... They have been both... I'm here brother wouldn't miss it for the world...
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    The Japanese Nieuport... Excellent choice!!! Enough technicals to get your blood up and enough detail to be proud of when finished... I'm in brother...
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    Like all things brother, you will reach that level of skill, all it takes is repetition.... Although I think you are already there...

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