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Nice find. Where is the decal set when you want one
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Sometimes amid the doom and gloom I think the human race does have a chance after all https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-68559211
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EE Lightning - Double Row of Vertical 'Dashes' ?
JohnT replied to Airbusboy's topic in Aircraft Cold War
@tweeky the mind boggles at the thought of even thinking about tying down a frightening and powering up a double reheat ground run. Even with just one running I have to ask were the ear defenders much use -
1967, Airfix and Woolworths were my intro to the weird but enchanting beast that is the 177. That they wanted it to dive bomb as well beggars belief. I do like what you are doing with the Revell version James
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"Old" Heritage S.1 conversion on new Airfix Buccaneer, would it work?
JohnT replied to Giorgio N's topic in Aircraft Cold War
Giorgio. As I bet you know the set will be tailored to the old kit. That said it might work. Only trial and error will answer and hopefully someone has done it already I have exactly the same question but in 1/48 scale ! -
I dont have any drawings but I think I read that no two airframes were identical. I am guessing a degree of latitude allowed. I have the Modellers Datafile which has drawings by Mr Caruana but I often hear mutterings about accuracy there. Welcome to a copy though if that helps
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Serious bit - I find I wake up every night (and I do mean every for the last ten years at least) at some point and find that my mind has been chewing over some clients problem and how I might try and save themselves from themselves. Of course once they are so saved they then try and find 101 reasons not to pay the bill for saving their life - metaphorically at least. Which means I also end up waking and wondering how to pay mine at times. A client recently mentioned his Irish ancestry and on the subject above he told me of an old Irish proverb - "Bread once eaten is quickly forgotten"
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Back in the day the Danes were regular attenders at the annual Leuchars air show with their F-104’s in the static. They had to be seen to be believed. The back end of their F100’s and F-104’s were rusty brown and the Matt green was just all shades of worn. I particularly recall looking at a Starfighter after a shower. It was September and Scotland after all. The wet areas were almost a black green and dry various shades of what was once a uniform colour. That Matt green paint did not wear well at all and rather reminiscent of the RAF sooty black on Beaufighters and how that wore badly. As @Chrisj2003 says they changed to a glossy finish later presumably to avoid the earlier wear issues.
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Hilarious thread and much enjoyed. So much that I forgot my favourite grammatical peeves - or is that peeves'/ peeve's? Two pronunciations that make me want to throw myself into a pile of nettles when they come on the radio "We buy any Ca-ah" and that girl that was found in a cocktail "Ba-ah"
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JohnT started following Czech Air Force Mig-15 Help Needed
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Hi and thanks for any help in advance as always. Some time ago I got a kind donation of the Frog/Trumpeter 1/32 Mig-15. I was looking to do something a wee bit out of the usual with it and came across the 1955 Czech Aerobatic Team. I've acquired a set of Profimodeller decals so all good so far. I was looking for some photos online for guidance and so far I have not found any but I have come across two other decal sets of the same aircraft and none of the paint schemes match up. Looking at fellow modellers completed builds there does seem to be some inconsistencies. Profimodeller - They have red paint above the fuselage mid line nose straight to tail through the wing root line except for the canopy frame which everyone seems to agree was unpainted (why I wonder?). The underside and leading edge of the upper wing from wing root to outer edge of aileron is "silver" / left unpainted (again everyone agrees on the demarcation on the upper wing) . The underside of the tail is also red. No cannon shown (would they bother removing them and indeed would it change the CG if they had !). Eduard - the same as Profimodeller but they have the underside of tail in silver/ natural metal - not red and the aircraft canon are not removed Modelmix decals - this time the red/NM demarcation on the fuselage in front of the wing continues down lower onto the lower fuselage but not wrapped around all the way round the underside. The rear fusleage demaracation though is as per Eduard and Profimodeller. - i.e. higher up making a demarcation only half way down the fuselage. They show canons and silver/natural metal under the elevators and horizontal tails surfaces like Eduard Another eastern European profile agrees with Eduard but has a variation in that the upper elevators in silver/natural metal with the upper horizontal tail surfaces in red. Another set of decals has the rudder in natural metal but I don't rate that because its NM on the port side and red paint of the starboard side and I cant see that happening to a team aircraft that's being displayed even in 1955. So far nothing quite agrees entirely and that is reflected in the builds I have seen. Google is not being my friend and the Mig-15 Books etc I have do not have the 1955 display team shown but do have a later team. I am leaning towards copying the Eduard scheme and configuration as the most likely. Its the same as Profimodeller except the tail surface undersides are left in NM and not painted plus the canons are included. Any thought from the BM Massif? bestest John
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Preferably issued by a real bank and not Waddingtons
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Would some of the decals used for WW1 tapes on wing fabric be any good?
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Masters of the Air - first episode in January 2024
JohnT replied to TheKinksFan's topic in Entertainment Central
One thing about GCI in movies etc (in cheaper productions anyway) where it has aircraft in formation is that the aircraft all rigidly stick to the same separation and each aircraft does not move in the air currents in relation to each other. An odd error I have thought but perhaps corrected these days. No doubt though that good GCI is getting much better as computer power etc increases.