Jay Gee

Beautiful work Roman, well done.

I have a few decal sets and had no problems at all when using them with Micro Set & Sol. Their subjects are right in my wheelhouse (mainly WW2 RAAF) and from all reports, along with my own research they are very accurate. Only downside is a few decal sets that I'm after are no longer in production. I'm also not involved with them in anyway, just a happy customer.

Great work so far. Those under wing seam lines are pretty tricky and you've dealt with much better than I did.

BAK-12 is the name of the cable system and there is also a portable system for airfields that are not equipped. If you search for RAAF F-4 (s/n 69-7234) landing accident that occured in 1970, you will get some good info on when the runway cable doesn't work as advertised.

Sorry Tiso, I'm not sure if the AC-130A kept their wing tanks fitted. It will be best if you can find a photo to confirm that. I imagine they would have been removed, due to the amount of fire power passing under the wing.

Shorter wheel sponsons, the bulges on the side of the fuselage where the main landing retracts into. Flush mounted air-conditioner intakes and exhausts on the right hand side below the cockpit and at the fwd end of the right hand landing gear sponson. Extra fuselage windows. Change the APU that is fwd of the left hand main landing gear to a GTC (different intake and exhaust). Scribing in the forward cargo door just aft of the crew entry door. But these were bolted shut after a while. If you look up some pictures you'll see what I mean. I think the ozmods conversion was made for the Italeri C-130E/early H kit which had these main features.

Called a Goofy configuration. One centre line tank and one wing tank to give the pod a greater field of view.

Excellent work Russ, I'm about to start one in 1/72 scale. Shark mouths make an already nice looking aircraft look even better.

Great work! I was not expecting this scheme when I opened it, nice to mix it up a bit.

Beautiful job Roger, especially the stencil and decal work on the nose art too.

Brilliant work! I'll be coming back to this thread later on for some tips. I've been honing my NMF skills on some 1/72 Mustangs before taking on my own Hasegawa B-24. Luckily Airfix have the new B-24 coming out so it won't be too costly if/when I stuff it up.

Great work Dunny, just like watching the Aussies win a test series. Look away for 5 minutes and its mostly wrapped up. Lovely work with the stencils too.

Brilliant job Dunny, a very nice paint finish.

My wife has a list of sayings stuck on our fridge. My favourite is "Don't take yourself so seriously, because nobody else does." This is something I try to remember every day and especially when it comes to building models. At the end of the day we must remember that it's fun sticking pieces of plastic together and painting them. Another thing to consider, just like looking at other people's lives on social media. You don't see how many photos are taken to get that perfect shot.

Thanks Sabrejet, that looks like a good technique and a nice finish too. Nice to know if there's no measurements available the eyeball will give a good result.