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What kits are out there need info .
Thanks Ron
Google is your friend..
http://www.google.com/search?q=Cessna+O-2+Model+Kits&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=2&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iw&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=
Why didn't think of that thanks for answer.
Ron
Looks like the 1/48 testers kit is about all there is.
For 1/48th , yeah.. There's some 1/72 O-2s out there though, as well as a 1/50th (close enough) from Heller. They have the Heller O-2A kit for 36.00 at oldmodelkits.com...
http://www.oldmodelkits.com/index.php?detail=10443&cat=Military%20Aircraft&manu=Heller&scale=1/50
The Testors kit isn't horrible (some may argue otherwise), but it's not really good either, just kind of OK. I did one last year (got it for $2!!!), plastic was a little soft and warped, but easy enough.
My friend Frank Cuden built this beautiful Oscar Duce.
http://www.scaleworkshop.com/workshop/cessnao2afc_1.htm
Gerald "Hawkeye" Voigt
http://hawkeyes-squawkbox.com/
"Its not the workbench that makes the model, it is the modeler at the workbench."
fermis The Testors kit isn't horrible (some may argue otherwise), but it's not really good either, just kind of OK. I did one last year (got it for $2!!!), plastic was a little soft and warped, but easy enough.
Ah, hell, Fermis... Ain't nuthin' you couldn't handle... That kit was a walk in the park, right? Frankly, I thnk I gotta get one now... Never built a FACer.. Just read a rather good article about FACs in Vietnam flying the O-2 (also O-1/L-19s and OV-10s). Covered "BAT-21" too... Didn't realize the scope of effort undertaken (and the airmen killed (Eleven (11) crew-dogs and pilots were KIA trying to get him out), wounded, or captured, and over a dozen aircraft shot down) trying to get Hambleton outta there... The NVA shot down helicopters, Skyraiders, O-2s, an OV-10 , and there were over 800 airstrikes called in, even using B-52s.. I only saw the movi, and it REALLY didn't cover much of what actually happened... The only "Clark" was actually a Bronco GIB named 1LT Mark Clark (Callsign NAIL-38 Bravo), in an OV-10.. The Bronco pilot, Captain Bill Henderson, was captured, and Clark E & E'd until he was rescued.
The artcle covered in detail the in-country FAC School and the unit patch is Snoopy on his bullet-riddled doghouse "Sopwith Camel", looking through binoculars at the ground, 504th TIS (Theater Indoctrination School), otherwise known as FAC University.. Good ol' FAC-U...
great answers thanks alot for the help.going to get the testers o-2 should be fun.
Where'd you read that article Hans? Sounds interesting.
You gotta give those FAC guys credit. To go halfway around the world and get shot at, flying low & slow at treetop level in a Cessna.
Wings of Fame- The Journal of Classic Combat Aircraft, # 10, Jul-Aug-Sep-1998. The name of the article was "Vietnam FACs" by Robert F.Dorr...
WoF was a quarterly publication from AIRtime Publishing... Dunno if it's still around though... I picked up a 16-volume set from a garage sale a few years back. If it IS still around, I've GOTTA find more issues... It's absolutely the best aircraft periodical I ever found and has tons of photos and color-plates/aircraft profiles in each issue, which features 10 aircraft per, with one "Headliner" and it's got a Centerfold even, lol..
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