Vietnam Air War GB - Extended!

Great progress everyone! Be sure to post or email me (tcepilot@gmail.com) the final shot for the front page!

mig19fan

Hi- I would like to enter with a handful of helo's-

H-21C Shawnee Italeri 1/72

H-34J Sea Hound Italeri 1/72

H-34A Hobby Boss 1/72

All of these will be in the 1961- 1963 era.

I like your Hun, MKelley, nice job.

Cheers

Tony

mikeymize

Hello, was wondering how you did the yellow rings around underwing ordinance. Were they decals or paint? If paint, how did you get them so symmetrical and clean?

I have tape that is about  1/16 in wide. I paint the tip of the bomb yellow, wrap the tape around the tip where I think that it looks about right and paint the OD. The tape is flexible enough to follow the curve and that is how I did that.

Lots of Huns showing up! Nice

all ready for a 'Broken Arrow' call...

@MKelley:Your Wip is more fast I ever seen......Congrats.....we have the same baby......But even if twin ..yours is born first!!Ciao Enrico

Hello, was wondering how you did the yellow rings around underwing ordinance. Were they decals or paint? If paint, how did you get them so symmetrical and clean?

Here is my F-100D it is the Pahodee Tiger 308th TFS/31stTFW Bien Hoa Ab RVN 1965. Super scale decals and pretty much straight from the box. I did add sway braces for the bombs that I had in the spare parts box. Of course it pales in comparison to Stikpusher's Hun but, I am showing it anyway. Comments welcome.......

I really need a better camera for close up pictures.

Hi all....same update.....the wing was separated in two parts to better fit the semifusolage joint and to minimize the need to putty.I've no used putty only ciano and a little of surfacer500......the under wing will glue after......Ciao Enrico

I believe we asked 4 them ;) Oh n my copy of that book is Autoghraphed!

tcepilot

 And distraction one has set in.. girls.

Oh that is one that never really leaves... 

"Women! Were they a mistake? Or did He do it to us on purpose???!!!"

I'm also begining to read " Bury Us Upside Down".

Ok, Im back on my workstation has water in it so as of now can't do much. And distraction one has set in.. girls.

Thanks Ordie 

Nice looking Hun, old son.  

Here are a few more shots of my Hun. 

I have a one or two armor kits VERY near the finish line I need to take care of, and then my F-104 will be up.

The trick is dissimilar layers. Enamels over acrylics or vice versa. That way the weathering coat cannot "attack" the base coat beneath it. In this case I had arcylic paints sealed with a top coat of Future. The enamel wash and thinner clean up would never remove that.

when i try that the paint comes off! ahh

I just used a wash of MM Enamel Burnt Umber along all panel lines. After the wash was dried, I go back with a thinner moistened brush and smear the wash back in the direction of air flow, and/or down with gravity.

And as of today midday here, she is done...

Stik what weathering techique did you use on your hun and what materials? It looks great!

Thanks Stick......Enrico!!

Italian Starfighter

Hi Stick... very good work on the Hun....your Hun  like mine isn't NMF but was painted with silver laquer:what paint have you used for it?Tell me samething about the colur of burned zone.....if you want.............!!Ciao Enrico.

Thank you Enrico. Yes I am doing a silver lacquered Hun. I used Tamiya Flat Aluminum for that and the overcoated with Future for the decals. On the rear fuselage it is Tamiya Gold Titanium (mainly) and Silver Titanium (selected panels) with Model Master Jet Exhaust on the afterburner and rear most portions.

You're very correct about the appearance of US aircraft in SEA. They sat out or flew in the tropical weather, monsoons and harsh sunlight, 24/7 during their entire time there. They were not in hardened shelters like the aircraft in Europe. And carrier aircraft had the added wear of salt air and sea spray.

@Professordeath........if you let your phantom in this way it's a sin.....even if there 're same small imperfection I think with a good washing,same armament improvment and also with the anti fod protection to the air intake the look is very impressive.These planes was very dirty and wethered...not shiny like same modellers like to show........Ciao Enrico

Hi Stick... very good work on the Hun....your Hun  like mine isn't NMF but was painted with silver laquer:what paint have you used for it?Tell me samething about the colur of burned zone.....if you want.............!!Ciao Enrico.

Im doing the same ''pretty penny'' scheme on my 1/72nd Hun

My Hun is now back in the lead of the "to do" list. Today I applied a wash to all panel lines of Burnt Umber.

Tomorrow depending upon weather conditions I may apply the final top coat, and then attach all the last parts. As of right now too hot and humid for airbrushing...

Check out this thread of Vietnam F-4C pics. Old's bird 64-829 was later transferred to the 366TFW and is on page 2 almost half way down in photos of both sides at Cam Ranh Bay. Neither the external rear seater mirror or tail bumps are there to be seen in 1967-68 when the photo was taken.

http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=96478

Yeah, but like those two bumps on the tail cone those are later fittings. Not as that F-4 was originally built.

No the mirror on top. you can't see it very well here but here is olds in dayton ohio.. (my pics.)]

tcepilot

i think you should set it aside and fix it up nice later. Looks great form what I can tell. (the second seat's canopy had a mirror on the top of the frame (outside the canopy) directly on the top center of the frame. you can use the extra mirrors provided in the kit (x2)

Those external mirrors were installed on later production Phantoms and retrofitted to surviving operational early Phantoms. They would not be correct for Scat during the time Col Olds flew her.

Professor, I think that it looks really good in spite of the setbacks you had happen.

tcepilot

Thank you guys! And yes it's McCain's bird. I'm currently reading Faith of my Father by him and Mark Salter.

I read that book back in ’08; very inspirational story. I don’t know how those guys got thru that nightmare. Not sure I could have done half as good.