Vietnam Gallery - Poll Closed

[Enzo the Magnificent]

Post your completed builds here. No more than five photos per entry.

Please do not post comments in this thread. All comments should go in the subject's build thread

Edited January 7, 2021 by trickyrich

[stevej60]

Afternoon folk's,here's Hobbyboss' Huey in it's famous Dustoff casevac guise judging by the decal's if HB got it right I'd say in the early days

of the Vietnam war.

 

 

 

 

[theplasticsurgeon]

My Revell 1/72 Bell AH-1G Cobra.

[PeterB]

This is my build of the 1/72 Italeri Martin B-57G - a fairly rare and obscure old bird. It was a standard B-57B modified by the addition of a Low Light TV camera (LLLT), Forward Looking Radar, Infra Red scanner, and an early form of laser designator in the new bulbous nose, allowing it to use the first generation of Laser Guided bombs - the Mk 82 500lb Paveway. 16 were converted and about 11 of them entered service in great secrecy in September 1970 with the 13 BS "Grim Reapers" based at Ubon Royal Thai Air Base.They served with some distinction for 20 months before being withdrawn, specialising in night attacks on trucks and tanks moving along the various trails.

 

 

 

And as I have been asked for an underside view, although the contrast is pretty poor with the black colouring-

I have built it OOB except for adding a few more aerials and a pair of warning beacons on the top and bottom of the rear fuselage.

 

I had a great deal of help from other modellers working out the colours and location of some of the parts as Italeri were a bit vague at times, so thank you to them all.

 

I enjoyed that, and now it is time to build a pair of "Wild Weasels".

 

Pete

 

Edited September 6, 2020 by PeterB

[Corsairfoxfouruncle]

     Hello everyone... Id like to present my Airfix Cessna Birddog. Built as Raven 2799 Laos October 1971. This is the plane I tried to recreate. 

 

 

 

Please feel free to ask questions, post comments, and or add thoughts in my build thread. 

https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235078399-raven-one/

 

Dennis

[SoftScience]

Hello Hello, Here are a few pictures of my contribution to this build. Tamiya's 1/48 A-1J built as a 602nd Fighter Squadron special ops aircraft operating over Laos. 

 

 

 

 

More pictures and work in progress thread here 
Work In Progress

[John Masters]

 

Sorry...posted that link above, not below...anyway...here is my first build for this GB.  Not my last.  This was a fun build until it came to the Berna decals.  Ghastly.  The rudder decals still stink.  Someday I might just hand paint the tri-colours...So don't look at that part of the aircraft please!  Thanks to Hewy for saving my bacon with the roundels!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

--John

 

[reini]

VPAF MiG's, Part 1: MiG-17 'Fresco-A' (Zvezda 1:72)

Shenyang J-5 (MiG-17 'Fresco-A'), '2310', pilot Pham Ngoc Lan, 921st 'Sao Do' FR, Noi Bai, 3. April 1965

 

'First Kill'

 

This early Shenyang J-5 (license built MiG-17 'Fresco-A' by the chinese), number 2310, was flown by Pham Ngoc Lan on the 3rd of April 1965 when the first recorded VPAF kill was achieved. This happened over Thanh Hoa province and Pham Ngoc Lan claimed to shot down a F-8E of VF-211 flown by Lt Cdr Spence. But in fact, Crusader was only badly damaged in this incident and Spence made an emergency landing at Da Nang.

 

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Kit: Zvezda Soviet Fighter MiG-17 "Fresco" (#7318)

Scale: 1/72

Aftermarket: Master pitot tubes & guns, Eduard brassin main wheels, Eduard PE

Paints: Vallejo Model Color, Model Air & Metal Color, Tamiya Lacquer

Weathering: Flory Models Wash, Mig streaking effects

 

Decent all-around good kit from Zvezda (originally from Dragon). I did enjoy the build, no big issues.

 

Build thread:

 

 

 

 

 

[Hewy]

 Rodens Ac-119 k stinger in 1/144 ,  i used the superb  aoa "raining fire" decal sheet , and did it in the "fly united" scheme ,really nice kit , caused no problems , painted in mr hobby paints . 

Thanks to all , great gb!

 

 

 

 

 

[Triet Cam]

This is my Tweedy Bird A-37B Dragonfly,  Monogram 1/48 with some homemade, but mostly "improvised" markings. Build with helped of Airwaves interior photo etch, QuickBoost seats, and homemade intake sleeves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[PeterB]

A few years ago I bought the Trumpeter F-105G Wild Weasel kit. When reading up on it I found that a small number of F-100F two seaters had been modified  as an interim measure before the F-105 version entered service and decided to model one of them too. Looking around I found this Trumpeter kit which claimed to include a Weasel version and was on offer cheap so I bought it. On opening the box I found Trumpeter had been somewhat economical with the truth as the saying goes - along with two NMF trainers they included the markings for one of the first 5 converted to Weasels, but had not included any parts for the conversion. I have therefore added a fairing for the  AN/APR-25/26 under the nose which is probably hidden by the probe, together with 3 small antennae further back and modified the kit RHAW fairing on the tail so now it looks like it should AFAIK.

It went together pretty well apart from some vagueness in the instructions, but by all accounts has accuracy issues, being supposedly too long at the front. Whatever, this is meant to represent F-100F-21-NA serial 581226 of the Weasel detatchment of 6234 TFW, one of the first 5 conversions to Wild Weasel configuration, which carried out the first successful mission against SA-2 Guideline sites. Based as the Royal Thai base at Korat from late November 1965, this is how I imagine it looking on that mission in December of that year with the paint already beginning to burn off the rear fuselage, as was normal with the Super Sabre. As was also normal, I have shown the leading edge slats drooping a little as hydraulic pressure bled off after landing.

 

Cheers

 

Pete

Edited September 24, 2020 by PeterB

[John Masters]

Another A-37B, this time in the Gentleman's True Scale...1/72nd...Many thanks to Triet Cam for his.  It helped me with some added touches.  Vallejo Air, OOB all the way, even the resin additions.  They came with the double boxing from Squadron/Encore.  Noy's Miniature's for the backdrop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

--John

 

 

 

[PeterB]

Following on from my build of Trumpeter's F-100F as a Wild Weasel, here is their version of the F-105G. I have modelled it as 52-4440 from the 17thWWS, 388TFW based at Korat in Thailand between 1972 and 1973 and I have gone for what is supposedly the normal armament of 2 Shrikes and one Standard ARM.

The Thud was slightly unusual in that the speed brake was mounted behind the engine exhaust in the form of 4 "petals" and after landing and as the hydraulic pressure bled off, they "relaxed" with the top and side ones moving slightly apart and the bottom one gradually drooping down as I have modelled it.

 

It is a pretty good kit apart from some vagueness in the instructions, and little or no info on decal placement, particularly for the pylons and missiles, so if you are building the 1/72 version like this, I suggest downloading a copy of the instructions for their 1/32 version which are far more detailed.

 

Cheers

 

Pete

Edited October 8, 2020 by PeterB

[SoftScience]

I forgot to post rfi photos of this. This is the 1/72 Meng kit.

 

WIP thread is linked below.

 

 

 

[Brad]

B-26K Counter Invader, Italeri, 1/72.

 

 

 

 

 

[modelling minion]

Monogram 1/48 A-1H Skyraider.

514th Fighter Squadron 

Bien Hoa AB

Republic Of Vietnam 1965

 

 

 

 

 

[PeterB]

Here is my build of the Hasegawa 1/72 EKA-3B tanker/EW plane, in the markings of Det 1 of VAQ 130 "Zappers" serving on board USS Constellation during her 1971/72 cruise off Vietnam. This particular machine was retired after being replaced by the EA-6B Prowler and converted back to a tanker, and as such remained in service into the 1980's.

As you can see, the Light Gull Gray is sensitive to lighting conditions, varying between a slightly brownish/Mushroom shade to a cooler almost bluish colour.

 

The kit has been released several times over the years as an early and late A-3B bomber, a KA-3B tanker, a straight EW version the EA-3B, and this combined EW and Tanker version, and it goes together well with not that many parts. It is well worth building if you can get one.

 

Cheers

 

Pete

[PeterB]

So, when the USN decided to buy the A-3B bomber from Douglas, the USAF decided they wanted some too. Initially they were thinking about a combination of bombers and recce aircraft, and soon identified a need for an Electronic Recce plane which became the RB-66C, Later they realised the need for jamming capability and converted some 13 B-66B bombers to EB-66B, and upgraded the RB-66C to the EB-66C. The C version was the electronic "spy" used to identify enemy radars and radios with limited jamming capability but the handful of EB-66B conversions actually accompanied raids to provide a jamming screen, using the info from the C version to set up the jammers before take off. Later a larger batch of surplus B-66B, probably over 50, were converted to the more capable EB-66E and this is one of them.

I had intended to convert the Italeri 1/72 B-66B in my stash to either an EB-66C or EB-66E, but the more I thought about it the harder it looked, so I chickened out and bought a cheap second hand Italeri EB-66E. It is in the markings of 42 TEWS, 388 TFW based at Kotat RTAFB between 1971 and the end of 1972. A colour photo in the Aerofax book on the B-66 confirms that it was one of the very few such planes given a shark mouth, and it may also have had a non standard coulour scheme with not only 2 greens but also 2 browns, but that could just be down to weathering and a partial repaint, so I have used the standard 3 colour SEA upper scheme.

 

By the time the USAF had finished messing about with the spec, the design ended up somewhat different to the A-3B and whether they saved the intended time and money by buying "off the shelf" must be open to debate. The various EB-66 versions did a lot of useful but dangerous work as reflected by their losses, as the North Vietnamese soon realised what they were up to and set up SAM traps and sent their Migs after them. 

 

I have enjoyed this GB, and might even add another build if time permits, but now I need to concentrate on another GB, with a further one due to start in a few weeks.

 

Thanks to the organisers for great GB, and thanks for watching.

 

To those still building - good luck!

 

Pete

[klr]

Trumpeter T-34/85, "Tet" offensive, bought especially for this GB. Build thread here:

 

 

 

 

 

 

[reini]

VPAF MiG's, Part 4: MiG-19S 'Farmer-C' (KP 1:72)

Shengyang J-6 (MiG-19S 'Farmer-C'), '6066', 925st FR, Noi Bai, 1974

 

Shengyang J-6 was the Chinese license built version of the MiG-19S 'Farmer-C'. Even if MiG-19 was the first supersonic fighter to go into mass production - it is overshadowed by it's predecessor and replacement. One reason is because it had quite short life span, just filling the gap between MiG-17 to MiG-21. Even if it had better performance than it's US counterparts - for example MiG-19 had superior rate of climb when compared to F-100 Super Sabre - the type was plagued with all kinds of technical problems, engine issues and design 'features' that made it somewhat dangerous to fly in inexperienced hands. Many of those flaws being caused by the hurry to get the plane type into production. '6066' is one of the 24 Shenyang J-6's that the Chinese provided as combat attrition replacement in 1974.

 

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Kit: KP Shenyang F-6C 'Farmer-C' "late" (#KPM0160)

Scale: 1/72

Aftermarket: Master pitot tubes & guns, Pavla resin seat and Print Scale decals

Paints: Vallejo acrylics

Weathering: Flory Models Wash, Mig & Tamiya weathering products

 

Newly tooled MiG-19 from KP is good all-around kit and probably the best kit choice for this subject in this scale.

 

Build thread:

 

 

 

 

 

[Creepy Pete]

Sword 1/72 Lockheed RT-33 Shooting Star, USAF, Project Field Goal

 

Out of the box build, painted with Vallejo.

 

 

 

 

[modelling minion]

Roden 1/48 T-28D Trojan.

Royal Laos air Force.

Flown by Lee Lue 12th July 1969, battle of Moung Soui.

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

Thanks for looking.

Craig.

 

[John Masters]

This was a very fun build.  I don't build a lot of American aircraft so the Skyhawk was fun.  And the double build was fun too.  The WiP is here...

 

I call this one..."A Close Shave"

 

 

 

 

 

 

--John

 

[Creepy Pete]

Academy 1/35 M50A1 Ontos USMC.

 

Here's my 1/35 Academy M50A1 Ontos. Quite an enjoyable build, I must say. Painted with MRP and weathered with some Mig stuff.

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for looking.

[Lifeline]

Academy 1/72 F-8E Crusader.

Depicting VF-162 The Hunters, USS Oriskany, 1966.

Eduard PE Zoom, Mr.Color paints mostly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cheers,

Mario