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With all that has befallen the UK in the last few days, it has been all too easy to overlook other worldwide events. Yesterday, 11th September, was the 21st anniversary of the massive co-ordinated terrorist attacks on the United States. This year also sees 50 years since the F-15 first flew. To mark both events, I have built the 1/72 Academy F-15E kit, with Two Bobs decals for "Lady Liberty" of the 48th Fighter Wing (The Statue of Liberty Wing), USAF Europe, based at RAF Lakenheath in the UK. This aircraft also bears the image of the Twin Towers along with the text "Never Forget". ... and with my other build of the month, more of which later !
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Hi I have the Hasegawa F-15C kit and wish to combine it with the Two Bobs sheet with the Grim Reapers End of an Era scheme. I am not too up-to-date with F-15 evolution so my question is: is the kit accurate for this scheme or does it need work to bring it into line with how they are/were when retired from Lakenheath? Thanks in advance Rick
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Here's my just finished 1/48 Hasegawa A-4N finished as N432FS, used by BAE Systems Flight Systems on a target towing contract for the Luftwaffe. Build thread is here. The kit is the A-4KU boxing, the extended tailpipe is from Quickboost, and I also used a Quickboost seat and an Eduard zoom set in the cockpit. Decals are from Two Bobs. Nobody seems to produce the RM30 target towing equipment so I scratch built mine. I found some of the manufacturer's promotional material online, which helpfully included a scale drawing, although I had to estimate the dimensions of the target. The body of the RM30 started life as a drop tank from an Eduard 1/48 MiG-21, and the front end is part of a JT3D engine from a Minicraft 1/144 DC-8. The target started out as one of the missiles in the Eduard MiG-21 and the side pylon was one of the MiG-21's pylons. Never tried scratch building like this before, really enjoyed it - I'll be doing it again. thanks for looking Julian
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North American T-2C Buckeye Training Squadron VT-4, Pensacola, Florida, 1973 I started the old Matchbox kit with the aim of correcting all its faults and producing that perfect model that we aim for, but I gave up on that after many months and just decided to finish it. It was those Two Bobs decals that did it – they looked so nice on the sheet that I couldn’t wait to use them. I wasn’t disappointed. They were excellent decals and went on flawlessly, though I must admit I used Klear to float them all on just in case they thought about silvering. Mine was an original Matchbox kit from way back when with grey and white plastic, but the same moulds were fairly recently released by Revell in one colour of plastic. The cockpit needed a complete makeover. Pavla do the business for you in resin if you want, but mine was an old fashioned plastic reconstruction including scratch built seats and a crash-moulded clear acetate canopy, carefully blended in with Milliput. There are plenty of Matchbox trench lines to deal with. I filled the whole lot with Milliput, sanded it smooth and rescribed all the surface detail. You come across all kinds of things when you do this – for example Matchbox show the aileron chord on the upper surface to be shorter than the flap chord, but they are in fact the other way around! Anyway, you get the picture – far too much other stuff to mention here. So in the end I was glad to have a canvas on which to display those Two Bobs decals, even though it does have a few dodgy shapes here and there.- 32 replies
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