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Thanks TimB and Tramatoa, 4 standard blades it is then.

Resurrecting a really old thread I know.... but can any please confirm if the 84 Sqn HC5C's (and in particular XS485) had the yellow SAR blade fitted to them during the 1987 time frame when they were in the Dark Sea Grey/ Dark Green over Black scheme. I cannot find any references to them having the yellow blade...maybe the SAR blade came out at a later date? Thanks in advance

Here are a few of mine from Temora - Kevin (kpc7676) has given good account of the Weather conditions in his post. Firing up the radials... IMG_8898 by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr IMG_8904 by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr And the V12's IMG_8958 by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr 1DM48500 by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr You don't get to see one of these every day of the week - actually this was the first display with the bomb bay doors operational since...well WWII or thereabouts... 1DM42872 by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr It wasn't all about combat planes...with older trainers represented IMG_9088 by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr IMG_9444 by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr IMG_9606 by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr 1DM42784 by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr 1DM42704 by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr Along with a small 'Russian' contingent 1DM48623 by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr 1DM48711 by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr The big radials and V12's did grab the lime light though IMG_9980 by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr IMG_0054 by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr IMG_0130 by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr IMG_0054 by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr 1DM48432 by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr Jets were represented by David Lowy, onwer of Temora Aviation Museum, who took to painting lovely patterns behind his Dragonfly... 1DM43100 by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr 1DM43156 by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr 1DM43154 by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr Jeff Trappett's F-86, and the RAAF who brought along a couple of twin stick F/A 18's 1DM48897 by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr 1DM48956 by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr As well as a C-17 and a Wedgetail... IMG_0007 by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr 1DM42412 by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr But the highlight for me was being ably to watch the activity on this apron all day. 1DM42502 by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr 1DM43218 by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr 1DM42689 by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr Roll on 2017 for the next show. More images can be found on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/108656521@N02/albums/72157661105548790 if interested. Thank for looking

Hi Antonine - yes, there are a number of pictures on the net ... I found them by googling 'F-4n vmfa-323' and selecting images ( most of them are found on other forums so I won't direct link here ). Hope that helps

That thought came to me too just after I replied so I will try that and hopefully do not take out a canopy or anything else whilst I do it. Text corrected to reflect the stripes being on the 'other' port wing

F###ark (and thanks) for pointing that out...... You know the number of times I looked at photos of that bird and I still didn't pick up on that . Oh well, still a bit of (re) work to do as he retrieves the correct IR seeker from the spares box and works out a plan of attack!!

April 1980 saw Operation Eagle Claw and the abortive attempt to stage a rescue in the Iranian Hostage Crisis. The USS Coral Sea was on hand and was to provide air support with the F-4N;'s of VMfA-323 and VMFA-531 providing top cover. This was also the first time that air superiority on a US carrier had been provied by two US Marine Squadrons. To help in identification, the F-4's, A-6's and A-7's aboard the Coral Sea wore coloured stripes on their starboard (corrected, originally wrote port) wings, in the case of VMFA-323 they were Red and Black. The US Navy was also transitioning from AIM-9G Sidewinders to AIM-9L's and as such there was a mixture of both types aboard the Coral Sea and it was not uncommon for 2 of each model 'winder to be carried on each of the inner wing pylons. A pair of AIM-7F's fill the rear fuselage wells with a 600 Gallon centreline fuel tank completing the load out. Outer wing pylons were not fitted as they only added drag. In summary it is the Academy F-4B kit with Eagle Strike decals, Eduard interior, exterior P/E plus their resin and P/E bang seats, Hypersonic A/C inlet vents and slotted stabs, Master metal Pitots, Hasegawa weapons kit AIM-9's and various other bits of detailing from wire, plastic card and anything else that suited. Finish is in overall Light Gull Grey custom mixed using Tamiya Acrylics, various washes and oils and lightening/darkening for weathering, the walkways and the yellow diamonds on brown stripes were masked and painted and the metalwork for the exhausts and around the rear fuselage and stabs is aluminium foil coloured by boiling in water with eggshells. Thanks for looking.

Great shots Rad...I reckon you have got this night time photography lark well and truly mastered now.

Amazes me how the single seat F-102's and F-106's looks so 'right' yet the two seat TF versions looks so 'wrong'

Nice array of 'Heavies' there Shaun,

More from Avalon, this time those big 'n' slow things... again in fairly cruddy lighting conditions Visiting JASDF KC-767 departing KC-767 depart by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr RAAF E-7 Wedgetail E-7 Wedgetail by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr RAAF C-17 Touchdown C17 Touchdown by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr And locking some brakes C-17 brake smoke by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr RAAF KC-30 with 3x F/a-18F's Rhinos on the tanker by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr RAAF P-3C Orion with C-130's circling P-3C Orion with C-130's by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr RAAF C-130J on finals C-130 Approach by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr ConAir RJ85 Water drop RJ85 Water Drop by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr Coulson C-130Q prop swirls C-130Q Prop swirls by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr

Here are some WWI and WWII vintage from the Australian International Airshow on Feb 27th and 28th Nieuport N11 by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr Bristol Fighter take off by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr Pzalf D111 by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr Sopwith Camel by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr Spitfire VIII Airborne by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr P-51 Prop Circle by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr CAC Boomerang Suzi-Q airborne by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr P-40E take off by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr Catalina taxi by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr Hudson low pass by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr

The light was kind to me and the wind was from the north so landings were on Rwy 34 on Sunday morning. Mixed in with the usual domestic Qantas, Jetstar and Virgin Australia were a good number of internationals including 7 x A330's!!! And the only 747 was a cargo one.... No A380's this time - Emirates had arrived 40 minutes early and Qantas from LA was running 3 hours late. A320 Air NZ by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr A320 Jetstar by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr B777 Singapore by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr A320 Winglets Jetstar by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr B747 Singapore by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr A340 Phillipines by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr B787 United by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr A330 Garuda by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr A320 Winglets Jetstar by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr B737 winglets virgin by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr B737 Winglets Qantas by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr B787 Jetstar by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr A330 Malaysia by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr B777 Emirates by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr A330 Vietnam by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr DASH 8 Qantas by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr A330 Qantas by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr A330 Air China by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr E190 Virgin by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr A330 Air Asia by Graham Mahoney, on Flickr The A330's coming down from Asia are showing some interesting dirt and grime streaks.... must have had some dirty rain up there.

Here are a few of last Sunday's arrivals into Melbourne. The weather started off a bit claggy but blue skies were to be had by late morning. Air NZ A-320 by grahammahoney1, on Flickr Qantas A380 blip by grahammahoney1, on Flickr qantas 737-800 by grahammahoney1, on Flickr china southern a-330 by grahammahoney1, on Flickr Tiger A-320 by grahammahoney1, on Flickr Qantas 717 by grahammahoney1, on Flickr united 777 by grahammahoney1, on Flickr Jeststar 787 by grahammahoney1, on Flickr qantas a-330 by grahammahoney1, on Flickr air india 787 by grahammahoney1, on Flickr jetstar a-320 small winglets by grahammahoney1, on Flickr qantas bombardier Dash8 by grahammahoney1, on Flickr jetstar a-320 by grahammahoney1, on Flickr Virgin 737-800 old scheme by grahammahoney1, on Flickr Virgin Embraer190 by grahammahoney1, on Flickr Thanks for looking

Noice!!

Crackin'

Thanks for all your comments, especially to Mick B for reminding me I had not added the yellow tips to the props and to Tony for putting me right with the angles of the wings...I had a feeling they were not quite right but could not put my finger on it. I worked out that the wings tilt outwards both vertically and horizontally, so I managed to removed them, made some longer wing stays and refitted them with out to much ado. I also managed to get the prop blades off, paint their tips and re-install them. Before I post new photos I will post a few showing how I made the clear wingtip nav lights. First I drillled out small holes at roughly 45 degrees in the wing tips where I had cut out the sections for the Navigation lights. A suitably sized piece of rod was painted red and blue/green to represent the globes. And these were inserted into the holes. The areas surrounding the lights were masked off, mainly to protect the panel lines in case any superglue spilled over. Thick gap filling superglue was then used to form the lenses; let to go off for a few seconds then hit with kicker. And with a very quick sand and polish we have two navigation lights. Here I have also added the Barracudacast Gun barrels...they are so much more accurate and detailed than the kit efforts. Now back to the completed model

Here is the very detailed but tricky shortish run Multi media kit from AZ with a wing fold set from Airwaves, and number of correction sets - spinner and prop blades, cannon barrels and main wheel along with a Vac formed Canopy from Barracudacast. Decals were kindly donated to me and were spares from a Grand Phoenix Firefly, and rocket rails came from the spares box courtesy of a Tamiya Mosquito with the blast plates coming from the same place, this time ex Tamiya Beaufighter. I fashioned the clear wingtip nav lights from Super Glue and the leading edge landing light was scratch built with the cover coming courtesy of a spare from a CA Fairey Battle. The wingfold tie rods are from stainless steel pins. The decals came from an original Grand Phoenix boxing of the kit kindly donated to me by a fellow modeller. As usual it is finished in Acrylics, using Xtracrylix for the Sky and Dark Slate Grey, with Gunze providing the Extra Dark Sea Grey. Flory models washes we used along with Tamiya Weathering pigments and Tamiya Smoke for the weathering. Tamiya Xf-86 Flat Clear sealed it all in. And on to the pix, hope you enjoy them. Thanks for looking.

The scorpion mask was cut onto frisket film using a Brother Scan'n'cut http://brother.com.au/products/scanncut/cm550dx-detail ( the machine is actually my wife's ). I wish it was as easy as a fix in Future, but alas I have already tried that and the stress cracks are still visible. Thanks for the comments.

Kit – Kinetic 1/48 F-16D using kit decals, as per the contents of the box with just the addition of some Eduard P/E Seat belts. The Scorpions on the tail were masked and painted to ensure they were the same colour sand and the rest of the uppers – the kit decals were not the right colour. Camouflage work was completed with Gunze H313 Yellow FS33531 for the sand, Gunze H66 RLM79 for the brown and Tamiya XF-76 IJN Grey Green for the pale green and Gunze H308 Grey FS36375 for the lower surfaces. The Canopy received a very light green tint. Weathering was achieved using Flory Model and Citadel washes and Tamiya pigments along with India ink washes. Tamiya XF-86 Flat Clear was used to keep the whole lot sealed in. Unfortunately the canopy has developed some stress cracks - I managed to make them not visible in most shots...any one got a spare 1/48 2 seat F-16 canopy?? Thanks for looking.

First off, thanks for all the comments and feedback, very much appreciated. Re the kink in the wing..I am of the school of thought that believes the wing is more or less of the correct angles, it is just the the change in angles on the upper surfaces is too sharp. So I just filled the kink with Superglue and sanded smooth to give a gradual instead of a stepped transition. I didn't not want to change the angle of the kink as I feel the geometry of the wings is correct enough not to warrant that. Afraid I did not do a WIP thread for this build so I do not have in progress shots of the fix. Cheers

Well I am calling this one done!! Kit - Revell Re-box of Hasegawa GR7/9, with, well just one or two extras and some help from a couple of fellow Britmodellers..... Decals - Model Alliance UK Air Arm Update 2005-2006 Part 1 - courtesy of JAW from the forum, many thanks John. Ejection Seat - Aeroclub White Metal Eduard 49-291 Photo Etch Alleycat 100% LERX Pavla nose wheel bay and open gear doors Airwaves undercarriage set Wolfpack AGM-65 Maverick launchers Hasegawa Weapons Set AGM-65 Mavericks Scratch built (smash moulded) AGM-65 seeker covers Flightpath FOD cover for captive AIM-9 ( itself modified from one of the kit AIM-9's) Baggage pod, GPS dome and Intake FOD Covers by Shaun on here - great moulding Shaun and they really set off the build. Scratch built AOA sensor cover and pitot tube covers Eduard RAF RBF Tags Scratch built map holder on cockpit coaming. In the holder is a miniature map of North Wales including the Mach loop!! The mid wing kink that is an inaccurate feature of the kit was smoothed over on the upper surface. And possibly a couple of other things that I have forgotten about ... Camouflage work was completed with Gunze H331 uppers and Tamiya XF-53 lowers. As per the real aircraft the tail is not white. BMW Individual Pearl was used on the real aircraft, and whilst in the majority of shot it looks white, it does look silver under some lighting conditions. To replicate this I sprayed the tail silver and then from a rattle can sprayed Tamiya Pearl White. Weathering was achieved using Flory Model and Citadel washes and Tamiya pigments. Tamiya smoke was used for the exhaust staining on the rear fuselage - even though she was kept relatively clean, no Harrier escapes those exhaust stains!! Tamiya XF-86 Flat Clear was used to keep the whole lot sealed in. Enough of the words, onto the pictures.... Thanks for looking

Well the RAAF turned One Hundred on March 1st 2014. To commemorate this, the Centenary Air show was put on at Point Cook, which is where it started all those years ago. RAAF Williams has been operational ever since then, making it the longest serving operational airfeld anywhere. The first ever flight from point cook was at 7:45am on March 1 1914 and that was by a Bristol Boxkite. One hundred years later, to the minute, the replica boxkite flew to commemorate that. The airshow was over two days and I went along on the second. I was also fortunate to see the Boxkite fly again, With flying displays performed by more than 40 types of aircraft representing the first centenary of Australian Military aviation, plus another 30 or so types in ground displays - both outside and inside in the RAAF Museum - this really was a one in a hundred year air show. Besides where else will you see a Boomerang, a Hudson and P-40F flying in formation. Come to think of it...where else will you see a Hudson fly...period!! Click here http://www.flickr.com/photos/108656521@N02/sets/72157641741001583/ for my take on the day's flying. Hope you enjoy them

Oh my, that is rather special!!!!

I have to say I really like this.... can you tell me more about the FOD covers, I do not recall seeing them in the kit - they really set it off.