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  1. Egilman
    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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    I know that, but it sure felt like it was a lot closer.... Gots a question brother last one before I go back to the Sabre.... The F-4E loadout, Mk82's of which type? there are the plain ol' unretarded iron, the retarded iron with extended fusing and the Snakeye.... They could be carried on a TER or an MER... Which ones were the predominate ones? And the CBU's were carried in an SUU-30 casing, how were they usually mounted and how many? (oh and btw, the aftermarket companies list them as SUU-30's, not by their bomblet designations) All of these are available in 1/32nd scale... The only question is how many kits you need to buy.... The F-4 kits I have and being delivered have no bombs, they do have the centerline drop tank and the outer wing tanks though and decent Sparrows for the aft bays but I'll have to find the ALQ-119 ECM pod that fits into the right side forward sparrow bay... Could you give me an idea brother of what the typical tactical bomb loadout was? Videoaviation has most of the stuff needed to do an excellent F-4E flight line from Korat or Udorn... (and the steel revetment walls are available as well)
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    Well done brother... Looks real.....
  18. Egilman
    Of course it was, how else would the girls and boys learn about what was taught in the two different health classes, the teachers sure wasn't going to teach it... {chuckle}
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    Wonderful build brother, another masterpiece... It's absolutely amazing what can be done with paper.... I'm impressed....
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    Yeah, that Hill Grey II scheme is interesting and a bit on the attractive side as well, and that Euro I scheme is tugging at me hard.... And both of them are right up there in the skills department, real challenges to get them right... There are so many F-4's I would like to do particularly Robin Olds Scat is top of the list.... That would be a very nice SEA scheme as well... Then a T-bird, and a Blue Angels.... The classic F-4's... My into to the J79 afterburners on an F-4 came at McChord AFB during one of their open houses, the T-birds were flying and I had a seat at the base of the tower in front of Hangar #2... Didn't hear them coming until they overflew the tower... the afterburners cut in at 300 feet and they went vertical... Talk about a nice quiet sunny afternoon enjoying the views of high powered aircraft and in a split second you can't hear anything else but the scream of those engines... The air pressure change made it feel like you would get blown back off the stands, You were never in any real danger, but it sure felt like it... And the sound was unbelievable... One hell of an impressive aircraft...
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    Brother, I know how the government can be distracting and infuriating at the same time, there are a lot of brainless branches of government today... I appreciate the thoughts and well wishes my friend... I will be fine, nothing to worry about I've been told... She's looking at me with a great deal of patience right now, like she understands.... I know, weird thoughts... (but she does speak to me) Anyway, if I just happen to see she has flown the coop I would be honored if she hangars herself in your hanger... Psst: I know where you live as well... {chuckle} Take care of yourself brother, runnin a might slower nowadays but still runnin....
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    Tell ya what, I just acquired a 141st TFS F-4E the Revell/Monogram 1/32 F-4E Phantom II Kit #85-4668.. it has the decals for the tiger painted version I'll probably do both the grey scheme and an SEA scheme for them.... (But that Euro I scheme is particularly pretty) I also have a decal set coming that has the Grey Tiger decal...
  23. Egilman
    I'm in Brother... I brush paint everything most of the time my friend and I'm sure this will look fabulous when done....
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    Yeah she did a stint in the Netherlands with the 313th TFS in the early 80's tail code HR... She was withdrawn from Use in late '90 and sent to AMARC... Here is a pic of her in SEA scheme while she was in the Netherlands.. I can find any of her in the 141st FS markings tail code NJ, but I did find several others in those markings while with the NJANG... (in three different schemes as well) SEA Scheme... 68-0527 68-0413... (in ghost grey scheme) :correction, Hill Grey II scheme.... 68-0378 (without the very nice Tiger marking) I believe this is the Euro II scheme of three greens) 68-0413 I believe at Macguire AFB in Euro I Scheme And finally... 68-0464 in Euro I scheme with the very best rendition of that Tiger head I've found... A very beautiful airplane my friend... Standing next to one always sent chills down my spine... (a young mans dreams of being a fighter pilot) A spectacular airplane...
  25. Egilman
    They are definitely great guys, most modelers are... Was the model in your markings? That would've been real real cool... Still got to work out the marsden matting with appropriate light brown dirt and sandbags as well... over time like all jets they mark their territory, but I've been told that an active F-86, flown every day doesn't do that... But I'll probably put some down anyway.... Now the maintenance area was a different story.... Usually on the flight line in Korea, they would have a GPU's for each aircraft and that was it, everything else was shared... Still not sure what I'm aiming at depicting... I think for this bird, the way they designed her, you almost HAVE to put the FOD covers in place, which leads to RBF flags on them as well. so I'm leaning heavily to the normal flightline versus the Alert line as I originally envisioned it... but I'm still out on that one... This is my F-4E... the Academy #12133, good reviews on this one, I'm hoping it turns out as well as my last F-4..

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