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  1. The FICTIONAL story told by this model begins and ends with a zap, and has a 'crash!' and two 'bangs!' in the middle. Sometime in the late 1960s, and the day before the main events of the story, our crew, pilot Capt. Charles (Coolhand) Myers And Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) Lt. Ted (Ping) Grandes, were unfortunate enough to have to land their (Tamiya, 1/48) F-4B Phantom II on the wrong aircraft carrier. It wasn’t even their fault, their own deck was blocked by someone else's landing mishap, but trapping on the wrong ship has always earned some punishment in paint. VF-114 Aardvarks, the resident squadron on the other carrier, painted a cheeky little memento on their uninvited guest, while the VF-111 Sundowners crew were away for coffee. The positioning of the zap was well thought out. No-one would even know it was there until the wings were folded back on the deck of the USS Coral Sea. Imagine the embarrassment of Myers and Grandes, but worse than embarrassment was to come the next day. The following morning saw all of the Sundowners over North Vietnam determined to move some mud with several tons of high explosive. The target was an unexpectedly well defended power station. The crews were aware of the flak menace but were flying above its effective height. Until the SAMs arrived that is; while manoeuvring to avoid the deadly missiles with a full bombload, Myers inadvertently lost height and brought their aircraft within range of the guns. A shell made a direct hit on the underneath of the starboard wing. It entered the large fuel tank from the underneath and, missing any solid structure, failed to detonate before passing through the thin skin on the top of the wing. Even without a detonation the kinetic energy of the 30mm artillery round caused the tank to burst open violently ejecting gallons of fuel into the slipstream. It happened that Myers was looking out to port and was unaware of the impact at the time but Grandes was looking over his right shoulder for SAMs and saw the fountain of fuel erupt from the wing. It’s fair to say that he was not a happy man. He was just about to call Myers’ attention to what he saw as the impending explosion of the aircraft when… …a second shell hit the aircraft under the tail, penetrated the titanium heatshield and exploded inside. The explosion was partly contained by the structure of the tail but the shockwaves and overpressure caused a lot of damage. The heatshielding was ripped open revealing the stabilator control system inside. Fortunately the aircraft was not in afterburner at the time and a serious fire was avoided. (Sorry for the poor quality photograph taken from the wingman's aircraft 🙃) The fin blew up like an aluminium balloon before the skin gave way and released the pressure. The rudder, or most of it, departed the aircraft entirely as the tail whipped violently from the shockwaves Fortunately, the rudder is perhaps the least important of all the flying control surfaces! The stabilators stood up to the impact slightly better but lost portions of the lightweight honeycomb structure of their aftermost sections, leaving one trailing edge reinforcement flapping in the breeze. Amazingly the mechanism continued to function. All this was more than enough for RIO Grandes, who was already spooked by the damage done to the wing a second before. Convinced that the impact in the tail was the aircraft blowing up, he pulled first and, like the rudder, departed the aircraft. He landed unhurt and was soon beginning a ten year, all-expenses-spared, stay in the Hanoi Hilton. Oddly enough, the rudder also found a home in Hanoi, displayed in a propaganda museum no more than a mile from Ping’s new home. All that was left in the cockpit was the seat main gun, and a few connecting cables, and hoses. Coolhand felt, and saw in his mirrors, the ejection of his RIO. He expected to follow automatically when the command ejection system fired his seat ¾ seconds later. However, nothing happened! The Single/Dual selector was in the single position (oops!), but the pilot assumed that his seat was unserviceable and returned his attention to flying what was left of the aircraft. (The selector is the topmost black and yellow handle and should have been turned to the horizontal position) A good first move was to hit the ‘Clear Aircraft’ jettison push switch which explosively removed not only the bombs and missiles still on board, but the ejector racks, pylons and the big centreline tank too. This considerably improved the Phantom’s capacity to manouevre[DS1] and Coolhand soon had the nose up and the aircraft under control. He didn’t realise it at the time but Ping’s sharp exit with the loss of the weight of canopy and seat so far forward of the centre of gravity, was of considerable assistance in pulling out of the near fatal dive. A tendency for the aircraft to drop the port wing due to fuel imbalance was uncomfortable without a rudder but could just be managed with ailerons alone. This situation eased as the tank emptied. Myers was surprised that he was still flying at all and delighted to be leaving the target area. The whole incident up to this point had lasted less than 15 seconds but it had seemed a lifetime to him. Now he had a little time to take stock of the situation. He had lost his RIO but his wingman was still in contact and joined up for an inspection of the battered bird. Apart from the damage already mentioned, the wingman could find no further concerns. The fuel leak had slowed to a fast flowing river now that the wing tank was mostly empty, but fuel continued to leaking into the burst tank through fractured pipes and valves connecting it to the fuselage fuel cells. He now had two good reasons not to use afterburner. It would be a long trip home. While the wingman arranged for emergency air to air refuelling, Myers extended the AAR probe. It seemed to be working and he determined to leave it locked out and ready for use in case of problems with the hydraulic systems. Pretty soon a tanker showed up and the two Sundowners headed back to the nearest concrete runway available in South Vietnam. (It had to be concrete because the extended hook was likely to rip up any PSP runway on touchdown, with possible catastrophic consequences.) Coolhand was able to plug in to the tanker and refil his fuselage tanks, avoiding fuelling either of his wing tanks, but that internal leak remained a problem and on the slow trip south several more exhausting stabs at the tanker were required. Seemingly as fast as the fuel went in, it leaked out again, cleaning three month’s muck and grime from the wing and washing most of the grease from the flap and flapperon hinges. Arriving overhead the friendly runway, Myers allerted everyone on the base by the screaming of his aircraft. With everything dangling in the wind and a wing turned into a huge flute, the Phantom howled like a banshee as it turned finals. The approach end cable had been de-rigged to allow Myers to land without engaging it with his damaged hook and, unsurprisingly the braking parachute would not deploy. No problem, Myers almost enjoyed the long rollout allowing his trusty steed to come to a gentle halt, followed by fire trucks, an ambulance, the ATC jeep and tech support from VMFA-333, a Phantom close support squadron based at that airfield. Out of habit, he folded the wings and seeing that only one side moved, decided to leave everything else exactly as it was. He shut down with a sigh of relief. Myers was speedily removed from the hand painted cockpit to the Officer’s Club for a liquid debrief. In fact he left so quickly that he left his helmet hanging from the gunsight. The marines had two priorities. The first was clearing the runway which required lashing the hook clear of the ground. Their second priority was staking a claim to the Navy aircraft in the traditional way. And why not, it could not be denied that 206 had now made a second unplanned landing on the wrong ‘carrier’ in only two days. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you have read this far, thank you very much for indulging my whimsy. Now I’ll give you the conventional RFI information. This is a Tamiya 1/48 F-4B released last autumn. It’s a beautiful kit as you probably already know, probably the best one that I’ve build in the last 50+ years. Except for the decals, which were stiff and uncooperative. Much of the decaling came from the Italeri F-4J kit so there will be inconsistencies in the markings but this is a fictional story, based on real events, Hollywood style so don’t expect accuracy here. Having a good time and telling a tale was always my priority. That said, I made many modifications to get as much consistency as possible, for example I set the wing fold lever in the cockpit to the ‘Fold’ position, not a Tamiya option. There are more than 20 mods in the cockpit alone. For more details see the WIP here. The following photographs were the inspirations for the battle damage. They are all real, but did not all happen to the same aircraft at the same time. Nevertheless, I think it’s just about plausible that a Phantom could survive the events described. This is genuine damage from an exploding SAM This is a pilot standing in the hole made by his exploded wing tank This is a Phantom drone which survived a direct hit from a sidewinder (without a warhead). I hope that no RIOs ejected in these circumstances but this picture shows the possibility ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As usual all comments are welcome and I will reply to every one of them. The wide angle shots which I forgot to include here are in another post a few comments down on this page, sorry.
  2. Hi peeps This is meant to be my last kit for 2015, the recently release Revell boxing of the ICM 1/48 C-45F Expeditor I completed this in Fleet Air Arm, Hal Far, Malta markings, which come provided in the box, I've added eduard etched seat harnesses and interior, wanted her to look clean as the were kept up to very good condition in service, thanks to some BM advise. Hope you like
  3. This is what I have been working on while waiting for my 1/24 Spitfire's wingspar from Steve. I posted this on LSP but I figured I'd post here as well as my "first" build. It will be built OOB as per usual by me, with cushion made of milliput, and crudely made belts of Tamiya tape and extremely stiff and annoying fuse wire. It turned out alright though. The instrumentpanel was painted with artistic license to some degree, as all reference pictures I found via Google varied enormously. I put some Microscale Kristal Klear in the dials and it looks really sweet once dry. The cockpit floor (that a lot of people helped me out with in regards with colours in an LSP thread) was painted up to the best of my ability, and then I noticed these two mysterious holes in it. Apparently they're dials (!) - for checking fuel in either wing, if I understood it correctly. So, I filled these holes with Micro Kristal Klear as well and it turned out better than expected. And with the seat in place it looks good enough to me. And then there were a couple of boxes on a rack that needed to be painted, so I did that... along with the machineguns. The ammo belts were painted up, and then the propeller got some love as well, just need to glosscoat it for its decals. Here are some rough pictures taken with the instrument panel and cockpit floor dryfitted inside the right fuselage half... very awkward to photograph, but I think yous will get the idea... And the rearwings.. tailplanes... horizontal stabilizers? Whatever they're called: And finally the engine, which is more or less completed... I'd say 99%. Exhausts dryfitted:
  4. Here's my trumpeter A7 corsair has an aires cockpit set. Very nice kit to build but was a little scary when you have to cut it up to get the aftermaket cockpit to fit. The worst bit was when it fell off the table and broke into 4 bits . I've tried to make it look sun bleached. So hope you all like it? IMG]http://i1143.photobu...ir/P1010570.jpg[/img] IMG]http://i1143.photobu...ir/P1010620.jpg[/img]
  5. I took these in 1993 during Operation Deny Flight in the Adriatic 1993 whilst I was on 846 NAS aboard Ark Royal. And one of the Clemenceau....... Smudge Please feel free to move to a walkround if needed..............
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