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I'd like to see a K2SO kit.

Ohhh pretty.

That is ultimately awesome!

So my wife suggested that I should ask the Gene Roddenberry people on twitter as they apparently have an account. I don't "tweet" I guess they call it, anybody out there willing to take up the cause lol?

Really nice Canberra up at the top. Also I know its a WIF but that was a seriously interesting concept for the A-10 although I am surprised that the builder didn't square off the nose as well.

Appreciate the answers and input gents, I didn't think there was a correlation but had to ask.

Interesting first picture you posted Sven as there is an A-10 in the background in Grey. I was under the impression that A-10's didn't lose their camouflage paint jobs until after Desert Storm, yet here you see one on the ramp at Nellis in 1980!

I'm hoping there are some Star Trek fans out there that can help me with this. So I have an English professor who, in the midst of a lecture, made a statement that during the late 1960's and the sexual revolution that the reason for the design of the NSS Enterprise's saucer-like shape directly relates to femininity. Rather than a phallic shaped like craft depicting masculinity that the creators went with something more relevant to the times and wanted to relate to feminism. Anybody know if there is truth in this? I couldn't find anything while looking it up.

Now as I recall, it was my understanding that the -B kit was going to have an additional nose included so that one could make an RF-101B. Is that still the case or no?

You can also look up A-6E loadouts in Operation Praying Mantis which was against Iran in the late 80’s as well.

Thanks for the advice. What did you do for the panel lines, a wash? Did you prime it or base it with anything before adding the final coats?

Now I know that I can try to get a kit done with a brush as I have the same fears. Plus I don’t have the space to do airbrushing. Wonderful wonderful job. Any tips on the brush painting Chris?

There's also this pinned thread in the WIP section :

Garry Owen!

You gotta stop spoiling me like this Sven!

Yeah they did that as confirmed by the book I read. It was really hard to find the launchers on in west Iraq if they were not about to launch as the heat signatures would be more prominent.

That's 1/72? Wow what a lovely job!

This is the EXACT loadout chart for the Strike Eagles during Desert Storm : https://www.dstorm.eu/pages/loadout/f-15e.html

Low-viz Scooters! Nice!

Disregard.

What's this PPP you use and it's purpose?

So coincidentally I am currently reading William L. Smallwood’s book “Strike Eagle: Flying The F-15E In The Gulf War.” It is an account of all the F-15E pilots during Desert Storm and I can list off the points that need to be made for answering your question. 1) There was only a handful of times where the Mudhen's became engaged with any Iraqi air assets. The only times that dropped tanks were ejected was during a SAM fight. When they were going out to western Iraq doing the Scud hunting they needed them as much as possible as the tanker planes only came up to the Saudi/ Iraqi border. Triple-A would not cause the pilots to lose the tanks but if the SAM's popped up and the crew could identify that it was tracking on them then more than likely they would punch the tank so as not lose momentum with the added drag. 2) I am almost done with the book and so far I've read only one mission were the crew dropped their payload early and that was the "Shaka Your Shorts Raid" on February 11, 1991. Eight ship mission that called for a deep interdiction about 15 miles south southeast of Baghdad to destroy fixed wing aircraft at the Shayka Mazar airfield. Capt Greg "Moose" Barlow, the flight lead, kicked his bombs off early because he was acquired by no less than three SAM's going into the target area. 3) As far as actually dropping the bombs, the crew had an option when pickling them. They could either do it on auto through the computers, or they could do it manually. When dropping manually bombs could be pickled 1 at a time, 6 at a time, or all 12 if that's what they were carrying which they mostly where when SCUD hunting. 4) They always carried AIM-9's. 5) I don't know the date but it wasn't until at least 2-3 weeks after the air campaign started that the Strike Eagles started to employ LGB's as well so keep in mind that they had those along with the targeting pods as well depending on which aircraft you plan on depicting. Hope this helps!

I was a grunt in Iraq. When out in the rural areas we loved the A-10 getting down and dirty with us. Hell we loved anything more or less really. I am a huge fan of the Hog. The problem of getting low and in the trenches with us grunts no matter what aircraft is the Sam threat. I don’t know if an F-35 can maintain a low cross-radar section at altitudes of 800 feet or lower. Any input to this?

That's because everyone that has had negative comments about are zoomie pilots. Think about it, the USAF got rid of all it's "non-Mach" combat capable aircraft except the A-10 back in the 80's-90's and now they are scratching their heads trying to fill these gaps that they created. It's almost as if they are trying to reinvent the wheel. IMHO it's disheartening.

Awesome looking Harrier. I just picked up 2 of the Monogram AV-8B's from my LHS on consignment (less than $20 for both!) and can't wait to get started on them. Hopefully mine cant turn out as nice as this.