Vietnam Air War GB - Extended!

Hi Prof......send me your models......but I'll not return to you!!!Seriously...I don't think next 5 years to make again a work like that.Ciao from Italy Enrico.

I hear you Enrico! I have rescribed a few kits myself and it is certainly a chore. Your Hun looks great with all of the effort you are putting in to her!

professordeath

Oh...I found the Monogram F-4C to be a nicely detailed kit. I really don't like raised lines because I always destroy some dealing with seams. Sure, with the mono kit you have to do a good deal of filling and sanding. My disappointment was with my paint work. Something dried into it and gave it a texture. The Tamiya phantoms are nice. I had them all. Built the E, but the others were lost in a storage flooding. I just don't have space anyway. Heck, I don't have space for the 1/48 kits in doing now.

Hi ProfessorDeath,

I apologize for telling you something that you obviously already knew!  I misunderstood what you meant by your disappointment with the Monogram F-4C.  That is actually good news for me that you liked it.  I would like to build an 1/48 EF-4C and I can buy a new Revell/Monogram F-4C for $15 vs. paying through the nose on eBay for an Hasegawa kit.

Ken

Nice work there tcepilot!  Great job on the weathering, looks very nice!

Ken

Very nice detailing Enrico on your F-100, looks sharp!

Ken

Enrico, you’ve certainly more patience than i but it’s definitely going to pay off. Looking awesome!

Didn't get any pictures of the cockpit before I assembled the fuse,  but here is my F-8 with pre shade ready for paint.

John

Son Of Medicine Man

Nice work there tcepilot!  Great job on the weathering, looks very nice!

Ken

I have been hiding my hun from this GB for about a week. I will gets pics up soon.

I have not been up to the task for a few days and will return to the bench tommorow.

well, you can take me off the roster. my camera took a crap and i can no longer take pics.

RP, do you have a cell phone with a camera?

You can stay on the roster. Plus, you have a year to show your work :)

tcepilot, you said you read McCain's book, did he say what his aircraft was armed with

on his last mission?

Jeff

An A-4E Skyhawk US Navy VA-46 "Clansmen" #416 Tail #149996 (June, 1967). Shot down by a NVA SAM. He broke an arm and a leg and nearly drown in a few feet f water. He was rescued  by I believe an NVA ssoldier but maybe a villager, and was stabbed in the foot on his way to the other soldiers. He was release five years after that, but decided he woul'dnt leave without the others and was sentenced to five more years as a POW. The book is called "Faith of My Fathers'' I highly recomend that book to any Nam' or aircraft guy.

Oh sorry, no I don't know what it was armed with.

Are you sure of that info? #416 was the one that burned on the Forrestal and he

transfered to VA-163 on the Oriskany since Forrestal had just arrived at Yankee Station.

Jeff

416 was the Forestall bird that he escaped from and I think it's a curious subject for Hase to do.

Also no "villager", McCain was shot down over downtown Hanoi

McCain was shot down in A-4E  Bu. No. 149959, Modex AH300, on Oct.26,1967 while assigned to VA-163. He was part of a strike on a power plant on the outskirts of Hanoi and after ejecting landed in a pond within the city itself.

This is the same A-4, 6 days earlier, recovering aboard USS Oriskany with a wounded pilot, Lt Jg Denny Earl.

I was thinking the same thing... while at least two of its' last pilots did survive, neither had a good day on their final flight in that bird.

I'm trying to make the decals for McCain's A-4 but have no idea

what it was armed with. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

It's for a future build so no hurry, If you believe that........

Jeff

Part of an Alpha strike on a powerplant. Go to www.skyhwk.org to see if they answer your questions.

All I could find was "Bombs".

Jeff

I am pretty sure that they have a Q&A forum on that site where you can ask questions of that sort.

Here`s a question for the experts....was the A-7 Corsair II flown in the Viet Nam War? I had the A-7 and A-8 kits on top of each other and started building the A-7 (was supposed to start the Crusader)..oops. I think it wasn`t flown in the war but want to be sure. TIA.

Len

stik,

Thanks for the info, I asked their modeling sight and their rep said "maybe Mk 82's".

So I guess it just wasn't documented.

Jeff

troublemaker66,

Nov. 1967 on the Ranger. By 1972 the Airforce had it.

Jeff

attila1@earthlink.net

troublemaker66,

Nov. 1967 on the Ranger. By 1972 the Airforce had it.

Jeff

Did a quick check and the A-7`s did see combat in Viet Nam on a couple of carriers and with the AF. So I will be building the A-7 1st, then the A-8. Thanks again Jeff.

Len

Glad I could help!

Jeff