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  • From: Jacksonville, NC
I have two questions
Posted by Wolfp on Thursday, September 15, 2005 6:46 PM
First: Does anyone know where I can lay my hands on a 1/700 carrier airwing circa Korea. I am building a copy of the Coral Sea for my father in law and have come up with zilch. Maybe my search string is incorrect.

Second: I also have an civil war ironclad, USS Keokuk. I have been looking at the colors on the box top but cant get a good feel for the color of the iron plate. It looks kind of like a burnt iron or darker lead like color but not sure. Any suggestions?

J.B. http://photobucket.com/albums/a303/jbrunyon/

    

On the Bench: !/350 TOS Enterprise; 1/72 Tie Interceptor

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Posted by scottrc on Thursday, September 15, 2005 7:35 PM
White Ensign Models has the AD1 skyraider and the F4U, which in 1/700 scale isn't so critical if it is a F4U-1 instead of a F4U-4 / 5.

http://www.whiteensignmodels.com/acatalog/index.html?http%3A//www.whiteensignmodels.com/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_White_Ensign_Models_Products_3.html&CatalogBody

Skywave/Pitroad also has the AD and Corsair.

WEM also has a F7 Tigercat and the AM-1 Mauler, forerunner to the AD, that really didn't see much, if any, carrier action in Korea, but these were put on the Coral Sea and Midway a few years prior to the Korean conflict.

And they have the F9F Cougar, which didn't become operational until the end of 1953, but if you cannot find the F9F Panther, made by Pitroad, which I have been trying to locate myself, then the Cougar could be modified to a Panther with scratchbuilt wings and wingtanks.

Pitroad seemed to stop production for the time being of their Korean War supplements such as the Panther and the Sikorsky H5 Dragonfly heli. The later is a must for any carrier of this time period.

I have called Pacific Front Hobbies, Trident, and Hobbylink Japan, which are all suppliers of Pitroad and they say these aircraft being on the market are hit and miss right now.

Another plane that I cannot locate a manufacturer for is the Banshee. This aircraft was more common than the Panther yet nobody makes it in either 1/700 or 1/350 scale.

I'm building two carriers of the Korean conflict, one in 1/700 and 1/350, and I can tell that this really was the "forgotten" war when trying to find aftermarket parts for these projects.

If you want to make airwings from late 1953 to 1959, then WEM too has a great selection with not only the F9F Cougar, but also the TF-1 Tracker, F7 Demon, F11 Tiger, Sikorsky S55, Douglas Skyray, and the Cutlass.

Scott

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Posted by Wolfp on Thursday, September 15, 2005 9:18 PM
Thanks Scott...I now have a starting point

J.B. http://photobucket.com/albums/a303/jbrunyon/

    

On the Bench: !/350 TOS Enterprise; 1/72 Tie Interceptor

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Posted by qmiester on Friday, September 16, 2005 6:34 PM
Another aircraft you might think about adding is the TBM. Seems that nearly every carrior had two or three aboard being used as COD aircraft. Have to modify the turret to represent the COD aircraft but I don't think that would be very hard. Would add something a little different.
Quincy
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