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Nuclear weapons in 1/72 scale ?


Dave T

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Do you mean the Belcher bits set mentioned in post #3 and pictured in post #4 ?

Thus...

http://www.belcherbits.com/lines/172conv/bl3.htm

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WE177 as seen on Bruggen Q, the land of a decent meal :D

Dave,

Considering I could'nt remember what they were called,then yes.

Do try to keep up.

Tony...

A few pints of Dutch Lager in Roermond followed by a Scwarma in the Jerusalem!!!

(Failing that,Currywurst from the Chicken Inn,staggering down Singlystrasse on the way back from the bop!)

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Gents,

Dave T. alerted me to this thread. I'll have by the end of May the 3 and 4 fin variants of the B83 along with a short nose B43-0 and a long nose B43-1 with nose cover on sale in my Spectre Resin line. Additionally my Wolfpak Decals line there are two decal sheets featuring Victor Alert Aircraft.

http://www.millcreekconsultants.com/

Regards,

Mark S.

Wolfpak Decals and Spectre Resins

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There was that cook on Q that wanted to become a professional chef when he came out so he often volunteered to do Q to use us as eager guinea pigs, He had got hold of a Gourmet recipe book and used to try them all out on us.... his food was stunning and far fetched from the normal fitter and turners the mess had ( fit perfectly good food into containers and turn it into sh*t)

A few pints of Dutch Lager in Roermond followed by a Scwarma in the Jerusalem!!!

Was that after dropping off the Honey Monster that used to work in the mess? :P and don't forget the Jager schnitzels served up in the Ratty outside the gates :Tasty:

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There was that cook on Q that wanted to become a professional chef when he came out so he often volunteered to do Q to use us as eager guinea pigs, He had got hold of a Gourmet recipe book and used to try them all out on us.... his food was stunning and far fetched from the normal fitter and turners the mess had ( fit perfectly good food into containers and turn it into sh*t)

Was that after dropping off the Honey Monster that used to work in the mess? :P and don't forget the Jager schnitzels served up in the Ratty outside the gates :Tasty:

Was that the blond cloggie bird with the hairy legs & armpits?...

Mmmm...Gyros!

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I'm a little dubious about the tail fins in the 12 Squared kit. Although there is a picture of the Mk 4 with thinnish looking fins (see here), if you look closely, they look like they are a thick wedge. For a comparison with a depiction that shows this more clearly, see here

The illustration and drawing of the bomb in the 12 Squared instructions are of a weighted mockup (the same drawing was published in the Week in Review section of the New York Times Sunday, September 3, 2000 issue). It's likely that the Mk 4 in Canada's Cold War Museum near Ottawa was also built from this drawing. My guess is that the fins were a simplification of the actual design, particularly if the mockup was only going to be used for loading practice.

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well....and sticking my neck out here..the one i have is the one you have linked as the matchbox one...revell kit number 04321. however, its certainly NOT the old matchbox one...that one had an rf-101 option in the kit and NO weapon details at all...the one i have is the 04321 boxing which looks EXACTLY the same as the one on your first link but with slightly different decals.

the only other voodoo in 72nd that i know of is the old hasegawa rf-101c (which, if anyone has and wants to part with it, let me know)

hope thats not TOO confusing.

steve

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little bit of trivia for you here...the f-89 scorpion was the ONLY aircraft to fire a live genie, as part of operation Plumbob, 19 July 1957. Fired from US Air Force F-89J 0-32547, Captain Eric William Hutchison (pilot) and AF Captain Alfred C. Barbee (radar operator) over Yucca Flats, Nevada Test Site at an altitude of ~15,000 ft (4.5 km).

..maybe i should get out more...

steve

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Has anybody done the Nuclear Falcon, AIM-26 (in any scale)? This was carried by F-89s and F-102s before Genie came along? Genies are also in Monograms 1/48 Voodoos and Delta Darts

Joel

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Has anybody done the Nuclear Falcon, AIM-26 (in any scale)? This was carried by F-89s and F-102s before Genie came along? Genies are also in Monograms 1/48 Voodoos and Delta Darts

Joel

possibly, but not where you would think. according to wikipedia...

The AIM-26 saw little widespread use in USAF service, retiring in 1972. The conventional AIM-26B was exported to Switzerland, however, as the HM-55, where it was used on Swiss Mirage IIIS fighters. The AIM-26B was produced under license in Sweden as the Rb 27, arming Saab Draken fighters. It was retired by the early 1990s.

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Thanks Steve,

Just had a look myself, looks like only 102s carried them, sorry about that. On a similar vein, what about the AIM-47? Isn't that included with Y/F-12 and F-108 Rapier its. They were originally set to have nuclear warheads

Joel

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Thanks Steve,

Just had a look myself, looks like only 102s carried them, sorry about that. On a similar vein, what about the AIM-47? Isn't that included with Y/F-12 and F-108 Rapier its. They were originally set to have nuclear warheads

Joel

oh yeah, forgot about those...yes they were nuke-capable with a baby (in nuclear terms) 0.25 kt warhead, W42 physics package. An interesting theory is, that as the AIM-54 phoenix was a development of the -47, wonder if that could have used the same nuclear warhead?..i know that phoenix's were not nuclear, but i cant see a reason why they couldnt have been? :hmmm:

steve

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..the one i have is the one you have linked as the matchbox one...revell kit number 04321. however, its certainly NOT the old matchbox one...that one had an rf-101 option in the kit and NO weapon details at all...the one i have is the 04321 boxing which looks EXACTLY the same as the one on your first link but with slightly different decals.

Ah right, my goof. I thought 04321 was the old Matchbox kit :suicide:

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