Beyond The Sprues
Current and Finished Projects => Physical Models => Aero-space => Topic started by: Aeroplanedriver on January 14, 2019, 01:57:25 AM
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First whif of the year was my 3rd overall build.
Academy Hunter as USAF F-99C serving in Vietnam
(https://imageshack.com/a/img924/5177/9NJKnb.jpg)
(https://imageshack.com/a/img922/4329/xOA7tq.jpg)
Napalm and CBUs for a CAS mission
Hasegawa 1/48 F4F as a Naval Ordnance Test Station Sidewinder testbed
(https://imageshack.com/a/img924/5963/An1nr7.jpg)
XAAM-N-7 Sidewinder ready for a test firing
(https://imageshack.com/a/img922/5033/9rPU12.jpg)
HobbyBoss 1/48 AMX A-1B as a RNZAF A-1B+ Kārearea (Falcon), RNZAF 75th Anniversary scheme, 2012
(https://imageshack.com/a/img922/8661/A4esuJ.jpg)
Airfix 1/48 Gnat as RAF Gnat FG.3, Phan Rang, Vietnam, 1969
(https://imageshack.com/a/img921/7630/F0E1ha.jpg)
Left Slipper Tank converted to gun pod with M154 7.62mm Minigun
(https://imageshack.com/a/img923/7470/gL4u6l.jpg)
Hasegawa/Eduard 1/48 F-8E as RAN F-8E (AN) with Shrike SEAD loadout.
(https://imageshack.com/a/img922/2050/iRgfxc.jpg)
(https://imageshack.com/a/img923/2387/KxS9BX.jpg)
Nice kit and the Eduard extras are great, but clearly designed to be built with the wing raised. It took a lot of work to get it to sit anywhere near flush.
So that's is for my 2018 Whif builds. More to come in 2019!!
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Outstanding group. :smiley:
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Good stuff! :smiley:
Really like the early Sidewinder on the Hellcat.
USAF Hunter looks great, as does the Kiwi AMX (man, I really wish Kinetic and Itaelribteamed up and released a 1/72 version).
And you can't go wrong with a Crusader what-if build. :smiley:
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Good stuff! :smiley:
Really like the early Sidewinder on the Hellcat.
USAF Hunter looks great, as does the Kiwi AMX (man, I really wish Kinetic and Itaelribteamed up and released a 1/72 version).
And you can't go wrong with a Crusader what-if build. :smiley:
Concur missiled-up Hellcat is every bit a stunner!
Brian da Basher
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Thanks fellas! The Sidewinder on the Hellcat is based on pics I found of the real XAAM-N-8 trials. IN the real trials they used Skyraiders, but it seemed to me a Sidewinder needed to be carried by a fighter.
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Love 'em all. For that Crusader, I'm surprised it had Sidewinders instead of AGM-122 Sidearms, built from a AIM-9C Sidewinder (the only Sidewinder with a radar head), for SEAD purposes.
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Love 'em all. For that Crusader, I'm surprised it had Sidewinders instead of AGM-122 Sidearms, built from a AIM-9C Sidewinder (the only Sidewinder with a radar head), for SEAD purposes.
I thought about Sidearms, but that entered service after the timeframe I was working with for the model. Mid 80s if I remember correctly.
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Thanks fellas! The Sidewinder on the Hellcat is based on pics I found of the real XAAM-N-8 trials. IN the real trials they used Skyraiders, but it seemed to me a Sidewinder needed to be carried by a fighter.
Kind of revenge when one considers that in the real world, the Hellcat was the target:
(https://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e68/GTwiner/Grumman-F6F-5K-drone-at-NAWC-China-Lake_zpsu7zp0ff0.jpg)
(http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e68/GTwiner/1024px-AIM-9B_hits_F6F-5K_over_China_Lake_1957_zpsrtzbwivv.jpg)
The missile in question under the wing of the AD-4:
(http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e68/GTwiner/hhar_zpsl9ydgoou.jpg)
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That's the pic I used as a reference for the missile. Base for it was a 1/48 Matra Magic.
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Love 'em all. For that Crusader, I'm surprised it had Sidewinders instead of AGM-122 Sidearms, built from a AIM-9C Sidewinder (the only Sidewinder with a radar head), for SEAD purposes.
I thought about Sidearms, but that entered service after the timeframe I was working with for the model. Mid 80s if I remember correctly.
Yep, just confirmed that from available data. Still, a pair of Sidewinders for self-defense makes sense.
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Just like the Real World builds, all totally awesome! :icon_alabanza: :icon_alabanza:
However, this time around I have a favourite - the RAN F-8E. 8) 8)
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They are all wonderful, but that USAF Hunter just looks sooo right! :-*
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I too am liking the USAF Hunter and would really like to know what pylons you used for the Sidewinder launch rails/missile. I have been trying to find the right shape for a modernized Hunter that features additional stores pylons. All that wing area, seems a shame to let it go empty with just the four OEM stores pylons.
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I too am liking the USAF Hunter and would really like to know what pylons you used for the Sidewinder launch rails/missile. I have been trying to find the right shape for a modernized Hunter that features additional stores pylons. All that wing area, seems a shame to let it go empty with just the four OEM stores pylons.
The Sidewinder pylons are outboard pylons from an A-1D. They were small enough to look right with a Sidewinder launch rail on it. The belly pylon is a standard US style TER mounted directly on the belly as seen on this Singapore Hunter that also has the inboard Sidewinder pylons. I considered this configuration, but the spare parts I had worked better further outboard.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9d/RSAF_Hawker_Hunter_%28front%29.jpg)
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Thanks for the clarification. I have an abundance of stores pylons from the Skyraider in plastic and resin. Will certainly give that a second look. In the interim, I had opted to use the stores pylons from the Monogram AV-8B Harrier or the AV-8A/AV-8C Harrier due too availability from several scrapped Harrier kits but the details are soft and almost invisible (thanks Airfix and Tamiya).
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I think the Sidewinder pylons used on the RAF's Harrier IIs on the outrigger would work pretty well for the inboard position as seen in the Singapore pic.
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Nice builds