Steve McArthur

https://www.scalemates.com/kits/italeri-015-c-130h-hercules--109980/related It looks like they are there if you look at the related products for the 1/72 C-130. I have the Bring It props for the 1/48 C-130, but Bring-It is Russian and as far as I could tell only sold through an eBay shop. They went on hiatus with the Russian sanctions.

@Bozothenutter included several links for the NP2000 prop. It's an 8 bladed prop used on E-2, C-2 and a few C-130Hs not the 6 bladed prop like on the C-130J.

You're probably thinking of this one. It's about the colour standards, like a French version of FS595. It doesn't really show which colors apply to which airplanes.

You badly missed the point of the post you quoted. It wasn't suggesting anyone was a paid shill for any particular company, but was just summing up issues people raised and the post that brought up the issue was more about freebies vs honest reviews. Do you dispute that some reviewers prefer getting free stuff instead of providing honest reviews? It's a potential issue with any reviewer receiving freebies.

I'm good, I'm not even sure what's missing. I was just pinging you for the previous person that had noted dead links. I'm glad I never had anything at photobucket.

83 Datsun Maxima Wagon.

I'm only seeing dead links from @canberra kid on this page, maybe he could update them. Considering the 1/48 Airfix kit came out around 15 years ago most of the aftermarket created for it is long out of production. You can look at Scalemates for an idea of what might be out there for the different kits. Two Mikes (now Phase Hangar) used to do a resin tail correction, but they got out of resin cast parts and all current products are 3D printed.

I've claimed nothing that required any expert knowledge, but somehow you feel think ad hominem attacks add to the conversation. It doesn't take an expert to recognize the logical fallacy in thinking a missile with a poor combat record will perform better when used from a plane with no combat record. I've just asked for evidence to show otherwise. For my expert I'll take an anonymous F-106 driver "I'd rather have a rock to throw at somebody than an AIM-4."

In my circle of friends there is only one other that considers modeling a hobby. His supplies fit in a shoebox. A few time a year he will work on a kit at the kitchen table. It takes him years to finish anything. He buys a kit when he finishes one. He's never shopped online or visited a modeling website.

Got a link to the French documents?

Since the F-106 never saw combat there is ZERO evidence to support that the AIM-4 shortcomings would not have been a factor. Just a bunch of armchair experts regurgitating the same line that the only problem with the AIM-4 is the target didn't cooperate by flying in a straight line like a WW2 bomber formation.

I still don't see how. How are you defining "luck". Or how it was "better" on the F-106 than the F-4. You have zero shots in combat for the F-106 vs 54 for the F-4 with 5 hits. The AIM-4 was garbage that we were lucky the F-106 never had to actually use.

This statement makes no sense to me. The F-106 never saw combat. I guess that makes it lucky it never had a chance to fail like the F-4 did with the AIM-4.

Before the forums many of us used these things called "books" for reference, some of us still do. Back then kit instructions often were vague, like for USAF SEA it just lists light olive green, olive green, tan and light grey. It was up to the modeler to figure it out. Model Master in the US transformed things by issuing FS 595 matched paints that were widely available and manufacturers adapted with better color callouts. This also led to one of the problems I see on forums all the time now. Everyone wants to know the FS match for any color. I don't know how many times I see questions like "What FS colors are used for a Russian Su-35?". Last week I saw a guy ask for FS numbers for all the shades of primer used on an unpainted F-16. Years ago I moved my excel paint cross reference to Google sheets in the cloud just so I could access from anywhere. It annoys me now that several makers have started using color callouts to less common paint lines like Kinetic using Mig. but I don't trust anything from a Chinese company's instructions anyway. Tamiya's suggestions are a special kind of useless with mixes for colors within their paint line and never actually naming what any of the colors are supposed to be.

1/48th, sorry, I sometimes forget people build other scales.