Question: I've been looking through my stash, and I found the Revell AH-64 Apache, realitively un-built (I'd say about 5-10%) Are Apache gunships in use in Korea today? If so, I may change my kit for the build

Well to wander completely off subject I was a big fan of the A-Team back when I was a kid, I think all of us at my school were but haven't seen the show since then - about 25 years. Then I picked up the boxed set of all five seasons about a month and a half ago and have been watching an episode a day. Dang but it was a fun show, it's funny the stuff I remember and what I've totally forgotten about. Haven't seen the remake film as I generally avoid them.

Plus it came in the coolest box ever:

The back folds down and the DVDs go inside:

Funny you should mention it but I'd just watched an episode where the guys steal a M24 Chaffee light tank and smash though Col. Decker's MPs of course driving over a couple of police cars in the process.

To get back on subject yes Stikpusher it's a single big chunk of resin from the Korean company of Legend. It's very nicely detailed and a great deal less work than gluing together all the parts of the bustle rack and then trying to attach the plastic screen to the bottom. It came with about a dozen separate parts as well including a cooler so the crew can keep their beer cool.

All 5 seasons of the A-TEAM on DVD!? I know what I want for my birthday (or Christmas)!

[Then again, mabe not, because I would start a never-ending marathon, and I would get nothing done, other than memorizing every line in every show]

That was probably my favorite episode, where they take the Chaffee. Particularly because of the diversion they had a few minutes earlier (Col. Decker's copy of the "Sounds of War" reccord with a remote-operated/rigged record player) causing the MPs to pump thousands of rounds into a vacant house (I love the sounds of automatic gunfire)

Also, did anyone else hear about North Korea's threat to use Nuclear wepons agenst South Korea and the U.S. troops over there? Very scary stuff. It sounds like WW III may be happening sooner than we think (I hope not)

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/07/23/north.korea.threat/index.html?hpt=T1

I am willing to bet there are AH-64D Apaches in Korea today. I'm gonna have to check up on that. Ill get back to you on that Railfan.

Alright stikpusher. I'm in no hurry (at least untill the day before this build ends, if I'm not done by that time)

I was checking the US Army website for info. 4/2nd Attack Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division is staioned in Korea equipped with Ah-64D Longbow Apaches currently.

http://www.2id.korea.army.mil/organization/units/2cab/4-2ab/

Thanks. I'll start looking for refrence for an AH-64, and getting the kit out and continue building it

HAHAHAHA yes I must admit the A-team show was quite funny and memorable. Mum and dad even enjoyed it. Some of the most memorable lines for me has been from Murdock.

BA: your nuts man!

Murdock: I am not!! I've been promoteted to condiments.

.. and as he is running to get away and rounding a corner in a wedding dress Murdock yells out, "I'm a bird, I'm a plane, I'm a choo-choo train!!" as he bowls a goon over.

Classic stuff!! Sorry to drag it off topic again!

N. Korea is threatening nukes? I tell you what!!! That thing they call the leader had better start wearing kevlar suits.

simpilot34

HAHAHAHA yes I must admit the A-team show was quite funny and memorable. Mum and dad even enjoyed it. Some of the most memorable lines for me has been from Murdock.

Same here. I started watching A-TEAM when one of the DirecTV channels had a 2-day long marathon, and I have been hooked ever since. I have since gotten mom, dad, my sister, and 1 of my friends hooked.

But, on the serious note, Yes North Korea is thretaning nukes.

 I don't think a kevlar suit will stop a .50 Barret round or a Big Blue 82 (Yep, a 15,000Lb. love letter dropped from a C-130 would fit nicely)

I just hope that the Korean War doesn't start up again, or we will have to call it the 60th Aniversary (and Re-Start of )Korean War Group Build 

Yeah, I watched the one with Murdock in the wedding dress about a month ago again, and this was years before Dennis Rodman became famous for the same sort of thing!

And then the Captain Cabbie persona he adapted in the cab wars episode!

Murdock with sock puppet: 'I'm Captain Cabbie's sidekick and my name is Socko!'

BA: (shoving fist into Murdock's face) 'I'm BA's fist and my name is Knock-out!'

And then at the end Murdock goes on about Socko and his friend Knock-out and their fight to rid the world of evil...

On a more serious note Kim Jong Ill is just @$$#@# nuts. I swear the guy would be funny if he wasn't so friggin' dangerous.

Back in the '70s when his dad was running the country he offered to put Jong Ill in charge of something to keep him out of his hair. Jong Ill decided to get the world to love NK he should do a giant monster movie (I am not kidding!). So he kidnapped a Japanese director and his actress wife and told them to make him a Godzilla movie or else. I think it's available on DVD now called Pugisari or something like that after years of being banned.

Then more recently the SKs found a tunnel dug under the DMZ. The NKs said it was a coal mine (again I am not kidding) till the SKs pointed out a number of banners with captions like 'Death to the South' found in the mine. Still the NKs insisted it was a mine, even painting some rocks black and placing them inside. Painting rocks black for crying out loud! One of NKs few exports is coal- they couldn't even get some friggin' REAL coal and place it inside.

Then recently sinking the SK ship, the NK have been rattling the saber for years - I hope to God it's more of the same and they're not serious.

I don't think I've seen the Cab Wars episode yet. I'm looking foward to it now.

A tunnel under the 38th parrallel? Man, it sounds like the South Korean army should be on high alert. That was one tunnel they found. I'm sure there will be more.

Seoul may be captured early in the war if it starts up again.

The stakes will be much higher this time, they didn't have nukes back then. Crazy people running gov'ts are bad news. Just hope he goes before things get worse!!!

I've been gone the past week, but I did get a little work done, now it's mostly blue. I bought a new camera and I'm still figuring out some of the settings so the colors are a bit off.

Nice Panther Aaron! She is coming along quite nicely. One of the early jets with those classic lines.

I gotta agree with most of the stuff that was written above about the A-Team. It was  a very fun show to watch- pure entertainment and action fun. Nothing serious going on there. I think that one and Magnum PI were the only shows that I used to watch in those days. I was not much for sitcoms. Except for perhaps Threes Company- that one was usually a hoot. Ah yes, the early 80s...

Korea today... what a situation. Old Kim is making as much noise as he can without quite crossing the line enough to rate a fatal smackdown. Although I never served a day there I served alongside many who did back in the 80s and 70s, and their tales were certainly ones that make you think. Most (say 98%) of what happens along the DMZ with tunnels, other NK activitives and such never reaches mainstream media here stateside. With North Korea having deveoped nukes and some ballsitic missile capability, and in the hands of an unstable ego centric ultimate ruler, the possibilites are terrifying for those in range of such madness. Only time will tell what will happen there.

stikpusher

I gotta agree with most of the stuff that was written above about the A-Team. It was  a very fun show to watch- pure entertainment and action fun. Nothing serious going on there.

That could be where the A-TEAM can stake their claim to fame: it was purely action-packed, explosive, shoot-em-up TV show, that always kept you on edge (even if some of the story's details were a little far-fetched) That's where I got hooked: I watched the last 10 minutes or so of one of the episodes, and the first thing I saw was a car exploding, with a huge gunfight.

It truely is terrifying when a crazy man is in control of a country with nukes and ICBMs.

Does anyone remember what I said a while back, with the Korean war still going on, but staying dormant? I got a feeling that the whole thing may start up again soon.

Your Panther is coming along nicely Aaron ,

I always feel better about my builds when I get some paint on them , I finally feel like I'm getting somewhere .

Good luck with your new camera , I updated mine earlier in the year and I still haven't figured out all the features , I thought as long I can get a decent picture of my scale models I wont try and fool around with the other options just yet , Knowing me I'll probably stuff something up for sure !

                                  John .

Good to see everyone's progress. No photos yet. Things have been a bit hectic round here. all ive managed to get done in the last 2 weeks is attach the horizontal stabilisers and the cowling on the nose. Working on my white undercoat. im thinking a rattlecan might be easier lol. Nearly at the point where i can take photos that will look different from the last ones lol.

Sorry for the lack of progress. everything seems to have stalled atm.

Despite having six builds in the spray booth and at least another nine builds to come , It probably isn't a good idea for me to add yet another potential kits to the GB.

However my curiosty got the better of me when I saw the amazing work Gamera is doing on his K1A1 tank and Railfan looking at building a AH-64D , for the modern aspect of the GB .

I started to look around the stash at what I might have ; and I found these two 1/72 scale possability's

I'm not the brightest bulb in the pack and you will have to excuse my ignorance as I had to go and look up the world atlas to see where Osan was . Also a quick check on google and it confimed that the USAF operate A-10A Thunderbolts in South Korea . I also looked inside the Academy 1/72 M1126 Stryker and saw that option two on the paint and decal instructions is for a U.S.Army , South Korea , 2003 version .

So I've added both of these to the pile

Now it's back to the spraybooth

                                          John .

If the balloon were to go up on the DMZ tonite, the Osan A-10s, 2nd ID Apaches and Strykers, and ROK K1A1s (along with Wolfpack F-16s) would be holding the line against the NKPA. Good choices!

Plugging away on my corsair.  I'm going to have to shoot some primer on the seams.  Especially the wings.  I have to say that other than the engraved panel lines, I am disappointed with this kit.  It is not "a tamiya corsair without the folding wings" as I read in a review.  Four really bad sink marks on the wings, crappy fit and lots of ejector pin marks.  I really haven't dealt with Hasegawa planes very much, cars yes.  This one is NOT living up to the hype.  Luckily, the other Hase kits I have, I got reasonably priced.  It would be wonderful if Eduard took up the later Corsairs!  Enough crying by me, I am having fun regardless.

As for the modern Korea...  In '96 and '97 I went to Korea for Operation Foal Eagle.  Yes, stupid name.  Our little part, was an amphibous landing.  A lot of fun.  Makes me want to buy one of the Hobbyboss AAV-P7A1's, and build my own little memory of Korea.  Same crap rhetoric was coming from that dork "dear leader" during our ops back then.  The best part was when an LCAC got stuck on the beach.  We had to share the well deck of the USS Germantown with those  jerk-wads, so it was a laugh when they screwed up.  Traded our mre's for Hite beer, soju and moonpies.  Good times being a Jarhead.....

Cheers,

Greg

John [jeaton01] the landing gear parts for the F-80 Shooting Star  you posted to me arrived today ; Thankyou very much Sir

The P-80 re-build will include a couple of firsts for me , first time using PE and I'll have to do a fair bit of rescribing as most of the raised panel lines have long since gone .

I went through my stash of FSM magazines and found an article on getting started with photoetched detail .

I'll make a start tonight , I'm a little nervous about the PE , hopfully the FSM article should keep me calm .

                          John .

I was thinking of adding a couple more 1/72 scale tanks to go with the Trumpeter M4 Sherman I have . I was searching around the net and saw that British Centurion Tanks operated in the Korean War , but I couldn't find anything in 1/72 scale . I also read that the North Koreans used T34/85 Tanks . There is lots of different versions of the T-34/85 in 1/72 scale , some kits mention T-34/85 1944 , T-34/85 with D5-T gun or S-53 Turret ; I also saw a T-34/85 Recovery vehicle as well in 1/72 scale , were any of these versions used by the Nth Koreans and was there any othe type of tank used by the British in Korea ?

                                      John .

I came across this pic on the net...

I'm still not sure what type of T-34 tank was used , some sites say it was the 1944 model , other sites give mention to the T-34/85 with the S-53 Turret ??? . I did order the Armor in Korean War book , I guess I'm just getting a little impaitent , hopfully the book will arrive soon .

Also there is a kit manufacture down here in my neck of the woods called www.highplanes.com.au  ;

I found a listing for a 1/72 F4U-5N Corsair with Korean War decals , High Planes say their version has the correct length fuselage for the 5N version , they also have a 1/72 Yak-9P/U with Nth Korean markings . so I ordered both .

                                    John .

Helo H-34

I was thinking of adding a couple more 1/72 scale tanks to go with the Trumpeter M4 Sherman I have . I was searching around the net and saw that British Centurion Tanks operated in the Korean War , but I couldn't find anything in 1/72 scale . I also read that the North Koreans used T34/85 Tanks . There is lots of different versions of the T-34/85 in 1/72 scale , some kits mention T-34/85 1944 , T-34/85 with D5-T gun or S-53 Turret ; I also saw a T-34/85 Recovery vehicle as well in 1/72 scale , were any of these versions used by the Nth Koreans and was there any othe type of tank used by the British in Korea ?

                                      John .

The T-34/85 was the late war / post war version of the T-34 but I don't know enough about the T-34 to distinguish the various versions armed with an 85mm gun.

The British also used the Comet and Cromwell in Korea, probably some of their WW2 armored cars too.

And of course the good 'ol M4 Sherman! I think most used by the US were the E8 'Easy Eight' suspension system. I'm not sure if any of the older suspension were used or not.

The Chaffee was used as well both by the US and allies. I was reading some interesting stuff about a Filipino armoured unit with Chaffees that ended up in some brutal fights.

And the S. Koreans were supplied with both M3 halftracks and the M8 armoured cars. They were promised by the US Army tanks but there weren't enough to equip them.

Helo, Aaron: If you find out anything more about the T34s please post it. I've one of the new AFV Club models with the full interior that I'd like to do up as a knocked-out/blown-up vehicle. I'm not sure if it's the right model, I'm going to have to do more research.

The RVHP , PB-1W , ''AEW Fortress'' resin set arrived today .

Good timing as well , as I was about to airbrush some interior green on the P-80 Shooting Star , so I'll add the fuselage halves and interior pieces of the Academy Fortress

The resin set includes both roof and belly radomes , I must say I kinda like the roof top version , so I'll build that one first .

The conversion  looks reasonably straight forward , It looks like I need to make the cut for the resin roof piece to fit , along the panel lines on the Academy fuselage .

                                    John .

Looking forward to seeing the humpty bump bomber come together John!!! Very interesting subject that just has to be done!

There were no problems cutting the cockpit roof section to fit the resin replacement piece

I dry fitted the two fuselage sections and held them together with some masking tape to check the fit and everything lines up very nicely...

The AEW Fortress are unarmed birds so there is no need for me to fit the bomb racks and bombs , that will certainly speed things up .

                                       John .

Glad to see the surgery went well John!!!! I christen the 'Igor'!!!

I have to agree , when it comes to the AEW Fortress , the word pretty doesn't seem to fit all that well !

With the airbrush loaded with interior green , I grabbed these two 1/72 Italeri F4U-4B Corsair's from the stash and will hit some of the interior pieces with some green while I'm at it .

One F4U will have markings for VF-53 USN , Korea 1952 ; The other is a VMA-332 USMC , korea 1953 bird .

OOB , with some nice underwing rockets and 2 x 454kg bombs on each aircraft .

                                          John.