Helo H-34

 

 

Anyway , you guy's might think I'm a little nuts , you know that little voice inside your head that say's " go on , you know you really want one - just buy it " ...... Well , I just bought the 1/72 Anigrand Craftswork C-124 Globemaster II resin kit . Everytime I visit Hannants web site I always go looking at the kit ; After 3 months of torturing myself , I just gave in

Gamera, the K1A1 is looking good!  I really like how you have the stuff stowed in the gypsy rack.  It has a very realistic look to it.  I can see what you were saying about all the little bits you had to put on the hull and turret.  You have way steadier hands than me.

The Panther looks good too.  Did the flaps come seperate?  Whose markings are you going to use?  If it looks this good now, just imagine when you get some paint on it!

As for the Nightfighters, you have a good selection there.  That would be tough to pick from.  I don't think I've ever seen a Judy before.  The Widow, of course, is classic!  I was thinking of the He 219 myself, but I was looking around in my stash and found a forgotten AMT P-70, and it is calling my name now.  They are all pretty interesting, you might just have to do the "eanie, meanie, minie, moe" thing.

Cheers,

Greg

Wow, great stuff guys!

Aggieman: Hate to say this but I think I like your double pony a smidgeon more than even your terrific Panther! Great NM and I love the red wings panels, are they day-glow orange?

John: The Corsairs look great!

Greg: I like the nightfighter PV-1. Crazy all the medium bombers that ended up converted over.

Anyway I promised photos of the K1A1 and here she is in primer green. I did a little camo on her later and will post when it is done.

Very impressed with the Trumpy F9F, the kit falls together, I used some putty but not much. Still need to add the nose when I figure out how much nose weight I'll need.

Ransacked my stash and found these night fighters- Allied:

Axis:

Funny I forgot about having Beau and Judy (they sound like a nice couple don't they?) I should be able to jump in a GB if it starts sometime next year. Not sure which I'll do - if anyone has any suggestions?

I couldn't find reference to the brownish color.  From pictures, it almost looks like it has a tiny bit of purple to it.  Could just be me though.  If anybody has Aeromaster Mid-Life Corsairs Part 1, maybe it's color guide tells???  I plan on building a 1/48 version at some point, so if you find out for sure, please share.

By the way, the Corsairs are looking good!

Cheers,

Greg

I'm close to finishing the first two F4U-4B Corsair's ; I have also made a start on another 4B as well

I'll be using the VMF-323 Death Rattler decals from the Hobby Boss kit on the Italeri F4U-4B and the two aux fuel tanks too .

I've had some issue's with the under wing rockets on the Italeri 4B's , Italeri's locating holes for the launch rails are spaced to close together , so when you go to attach the rockets they won't fit . I discovered this while trying to fit the rockets onto the Navy bird , quite frustrating .

It will be a lot easier to attach the rails to the rockets first and then glue each one to the wing .

Aother thing is with the VMF-323 build , part of the front cowl where the rattle snake is located seems to be painted a dark brown color , does anyone know what the actual color is ....

Reference pic's in the osprey F4U Corsair units in the Korean War , show the USMC VMA-332 'MR' Corsair with the rockets in the staggered position , so I'll do the same .

                                                  John .

Greg , thank's for the article on the PV-1 Ventura . I printed out a copy for my files .

There are a couple of photo's in my Korean Air War books of refuelling trucks ....

This might seem a little ambitious on my part and I'm not sure if it would work , However I bought another Revell M19 Transporter and a Airfix Refuelling set ...

I'm thinking of trying to kitbash an old Bedford Q.L fuel tank with the new kit fuel tank to extend the length of the tank and then try and modify one of the chassie's to suit , to attach to the M19 Truck .

Like I said I'm not sure if this will work out , I guess I can only try .

cybermodeler , has a nice in-box review of the 1/72 scale C-124 . the kit doesn't seem to have seperate clamshell doors for the front , I guess I'll have to wait until my kit arrives and see how difficult it would be to cut and pose them open ??? .

                            John .

Aggieman, nice twin stang!  I am working on one myself.  It is a nice little kit, isn't it? 

John, that C-124 sounds nice.  Sometimes, kits just call out to you.  Ok, all the time kits call out to me! 

Cheers,

Greg

And the kits just keep on coming!

Helo, very nice on the tank transporter and Sherman!

Aggie, a beautiful Twin Mustang!

Keep up the fire!

For me, personally. I'd like a start date of next year sometime, I dont get much bench time 2 out of 3 weeks so it would allow me to do some catching up.

Hi everyone, I recently finished my Panther for this GB.  I thought I'd share my latest build with as it is also a Korean War bird, a Monogram P-82G Twin Mustang.

Gregbbear

WWIIpsycho, and anybody else interested, I was thinking about December-January timeframe for a nightfighter GB.  I have never hosted a GB before, so I hope Stik and others who have can give me some pointers.

Thanks for the interest guys!  I appreciate it. 

Cheers,

Greg

Yeah , I'm in ; Although you probably knew that already !!!!!!!!

Anyway , you guy's might think I'm a little nuts , you know that little voice inside your head that say's " go on , you know you really want one - just buy it " ...... Well , I just bought the 1/72 Anigrand Craftswork C-124 Globemaster II resin kit . Everytime I visit Hannants web site I always go looking at the kit ; After 3 months of torturing myself , I just gave in

I also picked up Steve Ginters C-124 Globemaster book . With the book and kit combined Hannants gave me a discount on the shipping charges , $16 down from $39 .

Another addition to the Korean War GB , as the rest of the family looks at me with absolute bewilderment , I'm trying to explain that the C-124 is an important and integral component of the Korean War ; Kinda difficult to explain while everyone's rolling their eye's around

                                   John .

WWIIpsycho, and anybody else interested, I was thinking about December-January timeframe for a nightfighter GB.  I have never hosted a GB before, so I hope Stik and others who have can give me some pointers.

Thanks for the interest guys!  I appreciate it. 

Cheers,

Greg

Id be interested in a Night Fighter GB if I can catch up on my other GBs. I have a Tamiya Mosse with night fighter markings.

John, you have quite the collection of nocturnal warbirds.  You are a man after my own heart.  All of those birds are very interesting.  I found this article on the Owl PV-1.  Pretty interesting.

Cheers,

Greg

Greg , I hope you can get some painting done soon ;

Well I ordered the Owl Night Fighter decals and conversion sets for the four aircraft and I saw that Squadron Signal USMC Night Fighter 1942-1953 book and ordered that as well . It should have some nice pic's of Korean war aicraft as well .

Tower Hobbies sent me a $10 discount voucher , so I decided to order the 1/72 Academy TBF Avenger and F6F-3 Hellcat along with the Minicraft PV-1 Ventura and the Tamiya F4U-1 Birdcage Corsair .

These four will go well with my P-38M Night Fighter and P-61 Blackwidow as well as the F4U-5N , F7F-3N and F2D-3 for the Korean War GB .

                       John .

Looking forward to seeing your -4B's.  As for a -2, they were the -1 birdcage Corsairs.  In 1/48 Tamiya makes a nice one that comes with the stuff to make a -2.  I have the Owl decals for that one.  I have the kit almost done, ready to decal, I just got sidetracked.  The -2 decal is the bird on the cover of the book "Night Wings, USMC Nightfighters 1942-1953" by Squadron Signal.  It is real nice book, and I believe Owl used it as their reference.

I am kind of stuck right now.  Work, wife and kids have made it impossible for me to find some paint booth time.  The weather has been beautiful too.  Low humidity and moderate temperatures, am I still in Texas???  If I could get a decent finish from spray cans, I could paint at work.  Other than Tamiya Gloss colors  (for car bodies) I have no luck.  Maybe this weekend. 

Cheers,

Greg

Thank's guy's .

Greg , I was looking around Hannants again and I saw the Owl conversion sets for the four USMC night Fighters . I'm not sure what F4U kit to buy for a F4U-2 bird , there are F4U -1 Corsair's available , are they suitable for a 2 version .

I can probably pick up the four kits locally and just buy the Owl decals and conversion sets from Hannants .

Also while searching around Hannants web site I came across a "Future Release" listing of a 1/72 Minicraft PBM-5/5A Marina ; The 5A version has a similar type of retractable landing gear as the PBY-5 catalina .

So I added the kit to the 'watching list' and Hannants usually send an email when these kits arrive in store .

Gamera , I wont add any more weathering to the M19 and M4A3E8 , I just go with the dusty-slightly dirty look and call them finished . Today I'll add the decals to the two F4U-4B Corsairs and post some finished pic's tomorrow .

                             John .

John: They both look great. Are you still going to add a little mud to them?

Pepper: I'm using Photobucket and this may not work with every web photo hosting site.

1). Placing your mouse cursor on the photo on Photobucket you'll get a list of options under it.

2). Go down to IMG Code and left click to highlight the information in the box.

3). Then right click it and select COPY.

4). When posting on the FineScale forum right click and select PASTE.

It should paste the same information in the post you see in the IMG Code box on Photobucket. When you click the post button the computer will change it into the photo.

I hope I haven't confused you any more  

The tank and transporter look great.

Cheers,

Greg

Here's some finished pic's of the Revell 1/72 M19 Tank Transporter and Trumpeter M4A3E8 Sherman Tank .

The M4A3E8 has markings from the 64th Tank Battalion ,

3rd Infantry Division , near Sokchon-ni , March 1951 .

I'm very happy with both builds , my first armor project ...

Thank's for looking .

                                 John .

John, is the PV-1 decals, the one's from Owl?  If so, that is a neat set.  Marine Nightfighters from WWII.  They have a conversion set for the PV-1 (Academy/Minicraft).  When I ordered my decals from them, they were out of the conversion set.  Now the US dollar is so weak, Owl's prices are almost double what they were (for me anyways).  Cool stuff though.  They have a decal set called Nightfighter Experts that has a US P-39Q, P-61, German Me-109, and Ju-88, British Hurricane and Mosquito.  They are www.owl-czech.eu.  Seems like their stuff is mostly WWII, although I think they might have some Mig-15 stuff.

Cheers,

Greg

Hi All:

Note the # of missions painted on the nose - is it possible that someone flew 350 in Korea ? ... whew !! ...

John - what steps did you take to get this image included in your post ? ... I'm still at a loss how to post a photo and see nothing that refers to ADD IMAGE or UPLOAD FILE or, or, or ...

Thanks,

Helo H-34

Gregbbear:

 I don't really know the difference between the TBM and TBF versions

The TBF was built by Grummans - the TBM was built by General Motors ...

Gregbbear

Oops, my bad!  I meant a PV-1 Ventura, not Neptune. 

The tank and transporter are looking good.  How many builds have you completed for this GB?  I lost track.

Cheers,

Greg

If I include the M19 and Sherman , I've only completed 7 builds so far ; With 16 other builds under various stages of construction . The two H03S-1 Dragonfly's are waiting for decals as well as two F4U-4B Corsair's , I would like to get those finished in the next couple of day's and I'll post a group pic of the first 11 builds . After that , hopfully , a C-47 , F-80 and Short Sunderland III flying boat by the end of this coming week.

You also mentioned about the TBM avenger being used in Korea . The LHS have the Academy TBF Avenger for about $10 ; I don't really know the difference between the TBM and TBF versions , apart from a slightly different front cowl ring [additional air scoops I think] . I was thinking of picking one up next time I go on a "paint run" to the hobby store .

I'm sure the last time I visited Hannants web site I saw a 1/72 decal sheet for USMC Night Fighters which included markings for a PV-1 Ventura , might go back and have another look and see what kits are available as well .

                                   John .

Oops, my bad!  I meant a PV-1 Ventura, not Neptune. 

The tank and transporter are looking good.  How many builds have you completed for this GB?  I lost track.

Cheers,

Greg

Here's a sneak peek at the M-19 Tank Transporter

I'm quite happy with the build and later tonight I start adding all the bits and pieces onto the M4A3E8 Sherman .

                      John .

Greg ,

Thank's for the list of Night Fighter aircraft , I copied down the different aircraft for reference . It's interesting about the PV-1 Neptunes , some hobby stores only seem to have the P2V-7 Neptunes . I have two of those in the stash along with a Falcon vacuform conversion tail turret and other bits , for a AP-2H version , that one is part of my "Gunships over Vietnam" collection . I was wondering if this same type of Neptune was used in the Korean conflict as well ?

Another Korean War reference book arrived during the week , 'Korea The Air War 2' by Warren Thompson .

Each page has full color photo's of lots of Korean War birds including some awesome photo's of the B-26C Invaders . There is one photo that caught my interest is this one ;

1st Lt Clarence Klenk 90th Bomb Squadron ...

There seems to be some type of belly radome between the front landing gear well and the bomb bay , I was wondering if anyone knew what this was ?

I also like how the cockpit canopy windows are posed open , I was thinking of maybe trying to cut mine to pose them open as well .

It's a great book with chapters on the F-51 , F-80 , F-84 , F-86 , B-29 , B-26 , Navy/Marine Airpower and some other types , excellent reference

                                               John .

Great info guys!  I am going to have to go to a shop that does trains and check it out.

Another invader?  Cool.  That is such a neat plane, and to be effective in 3 wars even.  One of the books I read recently had quite a bit about B-26 missions over Korea.  Those guys had some serious stones!  They even rigged some up with spotlights to aid in night hunting.

Gamera, those are some good selections.  I have a magazine article somewhere on a US Mosquito NF pilot.  Really interesting stuff.  The sky over Europe at night was a busy place.

Since necessity is the mother of invention...lots of different types were pressed into night fighter roles.  The Marines used PV-1 Neptunes, Corsairs, Hellcats, and almost Tigercats in WWII alone.  Korea had a lot of cool types with the Marines using Corsairs, Tigercats, Skynights, and even TBM Avengers.  The USAF's Invaders, F-82's, and Starfires.  I really like a lot of the Luftwaffe types too.  The He 219 looks good.  I like the Ju-88 night versions too.  And as random as this post is, B-57 Canberras in Vietnam.  While looking through my stash, I was amazed at how many night-types I have picked up.  Hopefully, we can put something together later in the year or early next year then.

Cheers,

Greg

Lucky Model  have the 1/72 Italeri UH-19A with the Hot Dog floats listed as "in stock'' , I just ordered one along with the Italeri A-26C Invader with the clear nose .

I was happy how my first A-26B Invader build turned out and I'm pretty sure the 26C has Korean War markings included , so yet another couple of additions to the stash .

                      John .

John, you could just buy one jar of the cheaper railroad pastels in tan just to give it a try. Or of course airbrushing it should work just as well.

If Greg doesn't mind me jumping in a few night fighters that come to mind:

RAF: Boulton Paul Defiant and some De Havilland Mosquito versions.

US: P-61 Black Widow and some P-38 and Hellcat versions.

Germany: He-219 Uhu (Owl)

Japan: Nakajima J1N1 Gekko (Moonlight)  Allied code: Irving