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Got a small problem, well two I have this four bladed thing and I don't know where it goes and I can't find the jetpipe! :tease:

You know, jet engines have blades too, they're just inside, instead of stuck on the front. ;) Actually, in effect a turboprop is a jet engine with a propellor attached to the impeller shaft.

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Good progress today, managing to get by on limited paint selection.

Anyway ladies and gentlemen, please let me introduce LTJG W T Patton USN serving aboard USS Intrepid with VA-176 'Thunderbolts' October 1966

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In his 'office

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Cockpit in the fuselage.

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Fuselage halves together

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Nice work there Mish.

The pit and pilot look great. :thumbsup2:

I've had one of these in an unfinished state for......well, years.

Gonna keep an eye on this thread. Maybe, it'll inspire to get off me bottom and finish mine.

:popcorn:

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A fair amount done today. First off the engine.

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And installed on the plane.

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Undercarriage bays started.

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Wings assembled.

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And on the plane, now she's looking like a real plane.

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Right that's all now for a couple of days. Got a road trip south to do.

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Nice work Mish .................and fast too!!

:popcorn: This'll be good, after all its a USN machine in gull grey and white. Doesn't get much better for a sucker for a USN bird that I am.

Hope you get the acrylics sorted. If you are going to airbrush, I would reccomend the Gunze aqueous hobby colours for the Gull Grey - simply sublime.

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TBH Mish, Tamiya handle as well as Gunze, just they have not such a good range of colours, eg Gunze do H315 Gull Grey which is spot on for USN stuff. Tamiya do spray beautifully though.

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Right finally we reach the point of painting. So this afternoon I masked up the beast and spayed her top surface the nearest I could get to gull grey.

I was going to leave the speed brakes open but have decided not to.

Just the one pic this time as there isn't a lot to see.

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Thats lookin good, Mish. Cant wait to see it painted and decaled, keep it coming :clap2::popcorn:

Ian

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