Procopius
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An Argentine Hurricane!? That's a new one on me. What's next, a Soviet Hurricane - oh yeah, right, the Soviets used hundreds. Still, the Hurricane got around, didn't it. Did any appear in American markings (like during Operation Torch, for example)?
Regards,
Jason
I know some Sea Hurricanes used American markings in Torch.
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I'd love to see Suez Crisis decals for Egyptian Air Force aircraft in 1/72, although unfortunately that's a trifle before your cutoff date, and I don't imagine that beyond me there'd be a huge demand. But perhaps I'm wrong. There doesn't seem to be much in the way of decals for the EAF in this period.
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Ficus elastica is an ornamental plant which when economically exploited as a latex source was found to deliver inferior rubber, but far better than that from a contirtionist.
Commercial rubber was from plantation grown South American plants (Hevea brasiliensis). The 3% of rubber received after Japanese occupation was actually at sea when the invasion took place. The plantations in Kerala State were still very young in 1942. Alternate supply was almost entirely from wild trees in South America and plantations in the Belgian Congo. Very labour intensive. Did Dunlop ever actually grow rubber?Actually, if I may interject here, on the subject of the Allied supply of rubber, after the fall of Malaya, I believe Ceylon was the major producer of rubber for the Allies in WWII; so much so that they accepted the risks of overfarming(? that may not be the word, I'm at work) to increase output, and additional rubber was grown in the United States. I will happily dig up figures when I return home, if anyone cares. I stand ready to possibly contradict myself, since it's been a few years since I was interested in graduate studies on Ceylon during the war. But I'm confident enough to hazard making a fool of myself online.
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Instead of me writing down the entire list, here's a link you'll find useful (also has info on camo & markings):
PS. Are you Greek? Just curious...
Oh wow, thanks! I feel a little sheepish about my weak googling skills about now.
I'm afraid I'm not Greek, but I am a big fan of the Byzantine historian whose name I've appropriated.
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So what would the Egyptians have used? MiG-15s and MiG-17s? IL-28s as well, right? Any prop-driven planes? Are there any Suez-era decal sheets for the EAF?
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Wowsers Max, that's quite a lot of information. I'm probably going to try and build this guy largely out of the box, as that best works with my limited modelling skills, but I think I'll make a sally at at least re-scribing the door; do you have a photo of it, by any chance?
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Wow, I'm quite jealous of everyone's work areas. Here's my own humble spot:
And my dove-proof cupboard for finished models:
My wife's birds have shown a remarkable faculty for wrecking the landing gear of Fujimi Spitfire XIVs, fat flying rats that they are.
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It's filler time! (A cultural reference particular to the USA which also predates my birth? Why yes.)
So I mixed black food coloring, baby powder, and black food coloring to make a gap filler. I'm struggling with the mixture; sometimes it dries too quickly, other times, it's thin and runny like water. Is there some kind of ratio?
At any rate, I've gooped up the wing roots and any other likely gappy areas and given them a friendly file-down. I've yet to procure sandpaper, so I'm still relying on a small metal file set from my days as a miniatures wargamer.
After filler applied:
After sanding:
I also discovered a local hobby shop near me, much to my intense delight. My family's descent into penury begins now. I've already special-ordered a Trumpeter Sea Fury and the forthcoming Cyber-Hobby Sea Venom, and the shop owner has set aside a grungy old Mach 2 TBM-3W for my Suez project.
Annnd, just for kicks, a look at everything in my work area awaiting my loving attention:
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A lovely Wyvern! Makes me very excited to build mine.
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I'm rather vague on British aviation history post-1945, so I've only recently come to wonder...how good a plane was the Hawker Hunter? It seems to have had (like many other British aircraft of the era) a great number of teething troubles, but it also seems to have largely surmounted them (unlike the Swift, Wyvern, and Attacker). But how good of a combat aircraft was it? How did it stack up to US and Russian aircraft of the era? It's certainly more attractive than the MiG-15 or the F-86, and the general sense I get is that had they been ready for Korea, they would have been stupendous (provided they had the range to find any MiGs), but how were they in comparison to the jets of the later 50s, or how good were they in actuality compared to Korean War-era jets?
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Quite nice! I wish I could build and paint as well as you.
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opps! do you want the French F-84 decals from the superscale sheet? I will never use them.
Julien
Oh my goodness, yes! Thank you for offering!
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This might interest Douglas AD4W / AEW-1 Skyraider conversion with suez stripes
http://www.aviationmegastore.com/?shopid=&...&art=105035
Its a bit pricey tho!
Julien
And, alas, in 1:48 scale. Although it is quite impressive; I'd love to find something like that in 1:72, although it'd tax my meager skills to the limit.
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Ah one of my favorite topics. I've built most of the UK front line aircraft, except for Sea Venom and the Valiant...
Czech Propacteam offers a Hunter F.5 decal scheme.... though I don't know if its accurate. There is some evidence that the F.5s had sand colored stripes.
Dang man, I hope my efforts end up looking even half as nice as yours. That ol' Wyvern's so ugly she goes right back around to beautiful.
Do you know of a good place to get the Propagteam Hunter decals? I could only find them online at their website, which doesn't take credit cards.
That's it!!! I'm making my Hobbyboss Seahawk this those stripes!!!That was roughly my response as well.
I know you are not interested in Transport aircraft in the Suez crises, but I plan to make the HP Hastings (AIM kit) with the black and yellow invasion stripes, one of my late fathers friends was at Suez and probably parachuted from these aircraftCool, I hope you post it up here to be seen when you finish it!
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Wow, thanks for all the information so far! Are there many Suez decal options for these kits? I've seen a Suez F4U-7 boxing, but my limited research hasn't turned up an F-84 or Hunter F.5 decal option. (My interest lies more towards the fixed-wing combat types, rather than the helicopters and transports.)
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I recently got the Trumpeter Wyvern kit in 1/72, and since I had resolved to paint it with those swell-looking yellow-and-black invasion markings for Suez, I thought it would be best to get some other period appropriate kits so that it didn't feel lonely. I also have the HobbyBoss Seahawk FGA.6 and am planning on picking up the Cyber-Hobby Sea Venom, but what other aircraft participated in the war, and, even more importantly, have available kit/decal options so they can be modelled in 1/72? Any particularly nice kits I should look out for?
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This whole thing has been probably my favorite modelling project ever on Britmodeller. Watching Battle of Britain on a Saturday afternoon was a highly formative experience for me as a lad back in the early 1990s, and it's phenomenal to see you recreate the planes from it with such fidelity.
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Wow, it's been a busy week...wait, what? It's only Wednesday? Oh dear.
In between struggling to master my new airbrush, assembling two Ki-43s, proofreading fifty pages worth of grad papers for my wife, watching modern-day cinema classic Roadhouse for the first time, and intermittently sleeping and working, I've not spent much time on the Hudson. Tonight I decided to fix that, and glued on the wings. Having learned of the amazing powers of blu-tac through Britmodeller (thanks, Britmodeller!), I'm using it to hold the wings on while the glue dries. As it stands, the Hudson is a little gappy around the wing roots and engine nacelles. I also recently learned of a trick for filling gaps with a mix of CA and talc, so I may investigate this as a solution to the gap issue, marking the first time in my modelling career that I've ever been proactive about gaps.
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My local autoparts store cheerily sold me a length of hose for the princely sum of $3, and the hose was easily replaced, as Kev and Jetblast suggested.
Thanks everybody for all of your advice, it helped a bunch.
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If it's what Drewe usually uses, it's either a rubberised super glue, or (more likely) it's a CA/Talc/pigment mix (The pigment added to show where the CA and talc is!)
Sorcery! Does it have to be made at the time of use, or can it be prepared in advance?
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While reading this, I spotted some weird but effective looking goop used as filler:
What is this stuff? It looks almost like a liquid. Does it work as well as it looks to?
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hi
I would suggest asking this on Hyperscale, as you are talking about a piece of US hardware, and while there are a few US members here there are a lot more there, who might know about this specific compressor.
Troy, thanks! I'm in the process of signing up on Hyperscale now. As for the tape, yes, it's PTFE. I misunderstood something I read online, and thought it was the best choice. Sadly I appear to have been dead wrong.
HiThat looks very similar to the Ripmax (made by Holding, I think, as I had a second Comp that was identical and made by them) compressor that I use. The white box is the only apparent difference.
Yes, that looks very similar, minus the white box. How did you remove the old air pipe without wrecking anything? How did you ensure the new one didn't blow off?
I really appreciate the offer of spare hosing, I may take you up on it once I figure out all of my options. Thank you!
The issue with the compressor leak should be relatively easy to fix - you could either order a replacement hose from Paasche or remove the hose & it's fittings & take them to hardware store / plumbers merchant / motor factor or garage & get something that will work as a replacement. Braided high pressure fuel line for a high pressure diesel system would do the job.Sadly Paasche apparently no longer makes the hoses for this particular model. A friend also suggested going to a car repair place to see if they could fix it, which seems like it might be safest given my level of mechanical aptitude.
Thanks everyone for all the advice so far! I'm feeling a little less nervous, and more like this is recoverable.
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So I bought a used airbrush and compressor on craigslist for $140. The airbrush is a Badger Model 175 Bottom Feed Dual Action Internal Mix, and the compressor is a Paasche D3000 with a 1 gallon air tank.
The compressor looks like this:
Shortly after I brought it home and got it set up, the black cord leading from the carrying handle to the white box (and from there, I gather, into the tank) split. I patched it with plumber's teflon tape, and that seemed to hold it for a little while. When the split widened, I patched more. Air is now leaking through the patch, though, and the compressor has to run constantly.
The compressor doesn't have a regulator. I bought one in a local Home Depot, but it's of the kind where it's a sphere that slowly rotates to obstruct the passage of air, and it can't seem to lower the air pressure below 35-40 PSI. Additionally, the cable connecting the airbrush to the compressor has an integral water trap that's sort of between two cables linked to it on either end. The white filter(?) in the trap appears to be a little yellowed and wrinkled. I've never seen any water or moisture collect in it.
When I use the airbrush, I get terrible spatter of the paint. It's almost impossible to do anything but basecoating, and even then the spattering is so bad as to be noticeable.
This was kind of a big purchase for me. It's not like I'll starve to death, but it was something my wife and I had to talk about a lot, and I asked the advice of three of my friends who owned airbrushes. If this is screwed up beyond repair, it's not like I'm in trouble, but I will feel bad for spending part of our very finite fun money on something useless. So, here are my questions:
What is causing the spatter with the airbrush? As it stands, it's almost unusable for anything. Is it the pressure regulator? The moisture trap? The brand or model? Both? Me?
Can the compressor be fixed? Who would be able to fix it? Does it make more sense to get rid of it?
How badly have I screwed up?
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Oh my gosh, that looks lovely.
Commercial rubber was from plantation grown South American plants (Hevea brasiliensis). The 3% of rubber received after Japanese occupation was actually at sea when the invasion took place. The plantations in Kerala State were still very young in 1942. Alternate supply was almost entirely from wild trees in South America and plantations in the Belgian Congo. Very labour intensive. Did Dunlop ever actually grow rubber?
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My wife accused me of trying to put one over her when I told her these were photos of models and not real aircraft.