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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #3650 on: April 18, 2020, 10:50:20 AM »



Saw that pic elsewhere recently and immediately thought of "Small brown dog's" anti-grav drives....   :D

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North American were clearly ahead of their time.  :smiley:
The "wings" stuck on the Mitchells in the background were probably just decoys.  ;)
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #3651 on: April 18, 2020, 12:00:43 PM »
It reminded me of the Shepard Paine diorama that he created using mirrors and a model of the Monogram 1:48th scale B-26 Marauder. 
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #3652 on: April 18, 2020, 03:15:02 PM »
Impressive photo!!

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #3653 on: April 19, 2020, 03:03:20 AM »
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #3654 on: April 19, 2020, 03:16:39 AM »
Some of these may have been posted before:







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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #3655 on: April 19, 2020, 03:19:31 AM »
And similar:

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #3656 on: April 19, 2020, 03:21:32 AM »
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #3657 on: April 19, 2020, 04:25:18 AM »
Some more:



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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #3658 on: April 19, 2020, 04:25:34 AM »
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #3659 on: April 19, 2020, 06:04:26 AM »
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #3660 on: April 19, 2020, 09:19:18 AM »



What a cool photo.  :smiley: And what a beat-up Seafire!  :icon_surprised:

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Hmmm. A Stuka in that scheme?
Maybe with a radial engine? Always liked Logan Hartke's Vought Viking (LINK!).....
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« Reply #3661 on: April 19, 2020, 09:32:14 AM »
Hmmm. A Stuka in that scheme?
Maybe with a radial engine? Always liked Logan Hartke's Vought Viking (LINK!).....

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« Reply #3662 on: April 19, 2020, 11:20:15 PM »
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« Reply #3663 on: April 20, 2020, 04:12:19 AM »
So, what colour is he using and is it the correct one? ;)

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« Reply #3664 on: April 20, 2020, 06:06:01 AM »
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Shuttle Endeavour, atop of the SCA, makes one final flyby salute over her workforce assembled at KSC en route to her retirement in California.

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« Reply #3665 on: April 20, 2020, 05:26:20 PM »


This would be a great diorama idea to mess with some "experts". ;)
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« Reply #3666 on: April 21, 2020, 01:56:07 AM »
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« Reply #3667 on: April 21, 2020, 03:30:56 AM »
This would be a great diorama idea to mess with some "experts". ;)


Especially if one looks closely and seas Royal Navy on the rear fuselage:

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« Reply #3668 on: April 21, 2020, 09:11:57 AM »
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Doolittle Raid was 19th April 1942. View looking aft from the deck of USS Hornet (CV-8) while en route to the mission’s launching point. USS Gwin (DD-433) is coming alongside, as the USS Nashville (CL-43) steams in the distance. Eight of the mission’s sixteen B-25B bombers are parked within view, as are three of the ship’s SBD scout bombers.



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1. Just because carriers had wooden decks does NOT mean they were TAN or Wood grain colored. Post 1940 all the CV deck were painted out in STAINED DECK BLUE heavy weathered . BLUE/ to GRAY-BLUE ..... AND NO yellow marking s on the flight decks ....dark gray to faded white dots and dashes.
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« Reply #3669 on: April 21, 2020, 07:11:34 PM »
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« Reply #3670 on: April 21, 2020, 09:40:10 PM »
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« Reply #3671 on: April 21, 2020, 09:41:43 PM »
The QE II photo-bombing a F-35B.

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« Reply #3672 on: April 22, 2020, 12:08:10 AM »
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« Reply #3673 on: April 22, 2020, 12:46:57 AM »
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A rainbow arches over the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt before morning colors April 18 while the ship is tied up in Guam.
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« Reply #3674 on: April 23, 2020, 07:55:38 PM »
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