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Yeh, G'day Sentenced - Crimson To/Die/For - Epilogue Slayer - Raining Blood Oratory - Beyond Earth Anthrax - Among the Living Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales Beseech - Souls Highway Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica Therion - Vovin Iron Maiden - anyone in which Blaze Bayley is not on vocals 😁 Def Leppard - High 'n' Dry Nightwish - Oceanborn Metallica - Ride the Lightning Accept - Restless and Wild I wholly concur there. A Passage to Bangkok and Afterimage respectively, are tracks you just can't do without.

Yes, they did; that'd be the AN/ARN-21D TACAN which was installed on the A-4Q. It operated the Type AN/URN-3 navigation beacons and the antenna below the cockpit in the aircraft was the LB 147. I quite don't recall whether or not this equipment was operative during the Falkland conflict.

That Morpheus won't take

Hi Ben, Looking awesome! Hope you will notice me as soon as I can get mine, + two of your A-4B/C intake sets. Cheers, Igna

That'd be the loop antennas on the fin of every Argentine A-4P/Q and C for the Collins 51RV-1 VOR/ILS PN: 522-2450-014 VHF Receicer. Local installation which doesn't occur elsewhere. But besides of VOR, it did also provide a defelction indicator and glideslope for the ILS. Cheers, Igna

I'm done for, hardly

Ah, no, no, señor. 😄 What scale and aftermarket, please? The Hobby Boss Vark, perhaps?

Hi Dennis, This is going to be behind you anytime soon, mate. That's a very positive attitude you have. I'm going to pray so that you get better soon. Never fancied the Hill scheme myself either; the Chilean MLUs are also in the Hill scheme, so... Hope ours are not in that scheme. But the Have Glass scheme, on the other hand, is much better than that. This is one of the proposed schemes for our birds, which I don't quite like (look at the artist's rendition of the wheels 😁). Also, the Danish MLUs should have the parapack extension on the fin.

Wants! Could we please see it in action? How much did you pay for it? Very nice tool. Does it bring the different grades/shapes of sanding paper or you could adapt your own as you wish? Much needed tool that is. Cheers, Igna

Monkey see, monkey do 😄

Hi Tom, I take it that these are the original sheet of decals which came with the kit? Might have to warn my mate with regard to the kit decals, if so. Thanks for the help, chap. Hope you're in the mood for your Vulcan build anytime soon. I understand how frustrating this has to be. It's high time someone came up with a nice 1/48th scale Vulcan decal sheet for those having any of the three or four offerings of that kit in this scale, huh? Hi James, Nice piece of info there! I've just Googled those three MRP numbers, and they look good. Will have to order them from Poland. Thanks lots, chum. Hi Ed, I tried looking the colours up on this chart here by Rob (De Bie), but ended up losing faith. Many thanks, fella. Cheers, Igna

I apologise to you, @Mike, and everyone who might have felt I drifted into a subject other than that of the OP. It's just that the new generation of Argies are sort of sick and tired already of having always to bear the burden of a war we didn't even experience. How long? We are given a handful of stones, a bow and an arrow, and somebody somewhere will always raise the ugly subject of an invasion? Fourty two years have already gone by since then. Leave it in the past now. Please. Hi Ben, Our preznit, Mr Javier Gerardo Milei, is to travel in Denmark next week for an acceptance flight. Cheers, Igna

Scooby, I didn't ever say that the weapons were high technology, did I? A-4s and Mirage III/5s were not precisely high technology. Nor were the bombs they carried, of course. I'm not as nearly informed about the Argentine Army as I am about the Argentine Air Force and the Armada, but the SuEs were high technology in the region by the end of 1981. Such was the importance of those first 5 aircraft which reached the region that the French technicians arriving in the country to do the aircraft fine-tunning, who in turn were supposed to homologate the Agave radars with the AM-39 missile heads, were hastily ordered by the French government - asked by the British - to leave the country without finishing their task. The Argentine Armada also had a Type CL42 destroyer; the ARA Hércules (same class as the British flag ship HMS Sheffield) sunk by the SuE/AM-39 combo, by the way. I don't know whether the Military Junta could have ever expected that the war was going to be won by the Air Force and Armada aircraft, because I agree on your point that they sent conscripts to fight on the land. Also, with the evidence that, after the ARA Belgrano was sunk by the HMS Conqueror, every asset on the waters was immediately withdrawn. But I did learn for a fact that the Argentine Military pilots (both Air Force and Armada) were HIGHLY trained by then. And it's a proven fact you just can't deny. Now, had it been that the Military Junta started the war just as means of distraction from an awful economy, I'm quite sure they ought to have started a war the minute they set bottoms on the throne, back on March the 24th, 1976! This is were you fail to interpret the signs, as the economy was worse in 1976 than it was in 1982. In fact, this country's economy started to dwindle in 1945, to tell you the truth. No; as @John T said, the Military Junta were getting all the messages wrong. They knew people no longer wanted them in charge because the war they were asked to stop was over - this is the war between both factions of the Peronese party: the rightitst "Alianza Anticomunista Argentina" vs the leftist Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo/Montoneros, which is the main reason why civilians put the Military in charge. Isabel Perón's government was a disaster. The Military Junta had picked up a fight with Chile regarding the sovereignty on the Beagle channel, almost going to war in 1979. There was a referendum to avoid the conflict and the Military were left without their war. Back to the time before Operación Rosario; the Military Junta thought kelpers were not being supplied by the British government because kelpers needed to cross to Río Gallegos in order to get medical attention (critical surgery) spare parts and supplies. This, according to them, created an anti-colonialist stir on the islands. The Military Junta thought that the British were not going to cross 13.313 km to support the islands. The Military Junta was of the idea that, in case the British did cross the 13.313 km from Port Stanley to Southampton, the US were going to be on our side because of the Río Treaty (you know, the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance) As my father (in the Air Force) used to joke with; "Yeah, son. Brits and Yanks fought together in WWI and WWII, but this war... Oh, this war are certainly going to be on our side." I mean, Jesus... Argentina is comprised of 23 provinces and an independent territory (a Federal district). Over half of them the Argentine government had trouble maintaining. What do you want to append another one? For the resources? We've had the largest deposit of crude oil and gas in the region, and we've been endlessly argueing on how to extract them and how to distribute the dividens. For sovereignty? You'd be surprised what my thoughts are about that, but out of respect for those who died fighting, I might speak to you about that on private. But if it were for sovereignty; for instance, why is your Barrick Gold taking our natural resources for free like they're doing? Come on, why are all those Chinese Fishermen crossing over the 200-mile limit day and night in order to steal our natural resources? Isn't that about sovereignty too? Why are the drug dealers from Bolivia and Paraguay crossing under the radar in order to export their stuff through our ports in Santa Fé? Or is that not about sovereignty either? Why don't you go take care of those problems first? Governments/Politicians want to stir the "nationalism" on the useless ones, and the best cue word they ever come up with is Malvinas. Then, nothing else matters, and if you don't play along the line, you're a turncoat. At least, I'm not that fool. But my point is, you can only fathom Argentines if you are Argentine. You can't even repeat something someone said or tell you about that war, Scooby, because it's just a shame. Hope this long rant serves a very good purpose. Cheers, Igna

Indeed! I heard that the bang seats on these F-16s would be connected directly to the pilot's stem cord, instead of having an ejection cord per se...? The Armed Forces were armed to the teeth. For instance; don't ever forget how the French were desperately asked to embargo over 10 of the newly acquired SuEs and their respective AM-39 missiles before the outbreak of the conflict.

How about this one then? I kind of dig it because it was the favourite tune of my Rugby coach; an outstanding, aged chap that certainly taught me a lot more besides just a sport. I really miss him. How are you hanging, mate? Cheers, Igna

Hi Ed, Thank lots for the info; highly appreciate it. Incidentally; I'm building mine (XM607, I mean) during her first Black Buck mission raid, all with Dash-10 and nose vortex generators. I take it that the colour of the lower grey was darker than Light Aircraft Grey? I'm planning to use MRP. Any idea what MRP numbers these specific BS would match? Thanks once again, mate. Cheers, Igna

Shelly couldn't get any

Just round the corner now, aren't we, Martin? Can hardly wait.

James, If you want to build an A-4C in Argie Air Force service out of the box, you will just need to cater for an extra pair of pylons. As for the specific antennae, everything is there on the CAT4 R48052 set. The shape of the VHF and ADF antennas are okay in that set, by the way. If you needed specific decals for it, throw me a PM. Cheers, Igna

The way I see it is that it does make a lot of sense. Judging by the fact that the Chinese are planning to establish a naval base (to harbour deep-keel vessels - that's got to be Military ship instead of Merchant/Fishing that they state), in the southernmost area of this continent (that is Tierra del Fuego, which governor happens to be of leftist-Kirchnerist orientation); if the Americas are willing to fight (or avert) the presence or settlement of the Chinese, we'd better have those F-16 to cover that area along with the Chilean F-16s. China used to fund Mrs Kirchner's (pseudo) leftist government, for what the Chinese imposed that a "moon & space observation" base (China Satellite Launch and Tracking Control General) be settled in the province of Neuquén; a 200-hectare installation that no Argie is ever going to be able to set foot on, not one single Argie Peso will ever be paid for the lease to the Argie government. This installation is to be there for 47 more years, which is one of Gen. Laura Richardson's, (commander of U.S. Southern Command) concerns about the region. The least the Chinese are doing is peeping the moon. That was Mrs Kirchner and her irrefutable view on geopolitical affairs, I guess 😁 There's one artist conceptual art on Facebook, but I don't like it because it's in line with that on the A-4AR. I'd rather it be like that on the Chilean F-16Cs. Cheers, Igna

Tom! Quite an awesome progress you've made on this. I went to sleep one day, and when I woke up, I found out that your Aeroclub Vulcan build is almost done. She is still going to be XM607, isn't she? What colour FS are those that you used for the camo? Nice sheen on them both. She just needs her shoes now, and she's ready to go. Hope you're doing well, chap. I had a good laugh somewhere when they posted you certainly were going to be the one getting Airfix's proposed 1/24 Sunderland kit. 😁 Cheers, Igna

Not as old as the A-4Ms, I hope.

Hi Duncan, Thanks lots for that. And I wholly agree; I'd rather have 10 F-16As from Denmark than to have 100 of the best fighters China could ever hand us over, sincerely. The lame pseudo-leftist diatribe of the previous goverment was the outcome of how much decimated our Armed Forces are today. You won't believe that the pseudo-leftists in this country have always had this tremendous fear to endow the military with equipment because of what happened in March the 24th, 1976. But silly train of thinking is all going to change with the new administration. Our Vice President is quite a shrewd lady; she wholly supports our Armed Forces.

I guess I kind of almost did, Mike, yesterday night, at 00:44 or so. We went to get our dates, mate Daniel and I, in his van. Before we arrived at the Rendezvous where we were supposed to pick up the girls, Daniel suggested that I stay hiding in the back seat when the girls hopped in. The idea was that he could enquire one of these girls I was interested in whether or not she was interested in me. When the girls were spotted, they approached the van and one of the girls seated in front, beside the driver's seat; the other one went to the back seat. I was hiding behind the girl seating in the back. Daniel went to get something at the store and he took a while. In the meantime, I heard the girls talk about Daniel and stuff, but all of the sudden, one of them farted terribly! In my face! I mean, it was like listening to the burst of a GAU-8 Avenger cannon... Oh, and the sudden (and loud) laughter of the girls. One of them telling the other to roll down a window, still laughing like mad. I sort of started getting the giggles and had no choice but to pop up from my place, laughing myself out and getting out of the vehicle to avoid breathing in that awful stench! When they saw me, both girls were puzzled and got mad at me, like. They eventually chose to go away in shame. By the time mate Daniel came back to the van from the store, it was just me sitting in the van. What happened?

Almost over now, hurry! 😁