Well that sucks about the gear doors. Worst case if you can't find them, I want to say that Quick Boost makes some resin gear doors in 1/48. And their products are Sweet!!! Not too pricey either.

I think that my F-20 is gonna look real sharp once I get some paint on it. The design just looks deadly, like a single seat fighter should.

Thanks SP, I'll keep that in mind. I stuck them with poster tack on a large piece of sprue so they wouldn't get lost!!! They've got to be somewhere, I just have no idea where. If worse comes to worse I've got two old Minicraft F4Us I got for about five bucks a piece that I can rob the doors off, if they aren't a perfect fit they're going to be open anyway.

Hey and welcome Lewbud!!!

Hey I see where Roger Wilco finished his F-86 and a nice one too.

That was not on this GB, was it?

He posted it independently, in GB.But I see he's on your roster, although there's no subjects associated by the host with the members.... I thought we talked about not sticking your head out the door of that Starlifter.

I just put the names down, no kits. Just in case somebody has a change of course that I miss. Roger Wilco said that he was gonna do a "soccer war" Mustang.

Correct me if I am mistaken, but I can not think of any Latin air arm that has used the F-86.

Hi everyone,

Thanks for the kind words about my 1/144 F-86F.Stik,the following Latin American countries used the F-86: Argentina,Bolivia,Colombia,Honduras,Peru & Venezuela.The Bolivian AF Sabres were the very last ones in military service,not being retired until 1994! I'll be starting a Academy / Minicraft 1/144 P-51 very soon in El Salvador AF markings very soon...Douglas (aka Roger_Wilco)

Thank you for filling us in on that Douglas. That is cool that the Sabre had such a long service life south of the Rio Grande. I will have to look into those countries and their F-86s. Maybe something interesting will come up.

FYI, there is a better badge for this GB on the front page now, that one which you have displayed was only a prototype.

Ok, first off, my most sincere apologies to all here and especially to Wayne. Somehow I overlooked posting the beautiful badges that he created for us here on the front page as I thought that I had. This was brought to my attention last night, and I guess between all I have had going on, I goofed that up bigtime. So go have a look, they are now on page 1, 2nd post on this thread. I personally love them. Many thanks to Wayne for his work on those.

roger_wilco

Hi everyone,

Thanks for the kind words about my 1/144 F-86F.Stik,the following Latin American countries used the F-86: Argentina,Bolivia,Colombia,Honduras,Peru & Venezuela.The Bolivian AF Sabres were the very last ones in military service,not being retired until 1994! I'll be starting a Academy / Minicraft 1/144 P-51 very soon in El Salvador AF markings very soon...Douglas (aka Roger_Wilco)

Now this makes for some timely subject material here

Argentina

Bolivia

Columbia

Honduras

Peru

Venezuela

And Aztec makes a decal sheet... sold out unfortunately...

Cool photos stikpusher!It's neat how many parts of the world that the Sabre served in.I did get to see one put on a show in 1987 at the Wings over Houston airshow.That was one loud aircraft! Oh,cool badges by the way.Thanks for posting them and to Wayne for the creation.

Very cool SP, always nice to see something you expect in plain jane aluminum in colourful camo!

Well, have turned the place upside down looking for those blasted gear doors. I can't find them anywhere- since I had attached them to a sprue for painting I wonder if I threw them out...

Anyway, I pulled out the Minicraft F4U tonight. I paid five bucks for the thing so I'm not too upset about stealing the gear doors from the kit. They are very close in size to the Tamiya ones and look like they'll work without any modifications.

I would hope that those would be close, if not identical. Same plane in the same scale...

Finally I am on vacation and last night I made serious progress on the Neptune. The entire PE set is for the cockpit plus a bunch of little blade antennas, so I've put that off while I glued together all of the components of the airframe.

This kit has a nice pair of R-3350s that would be a hood basis for super detailing, but I am going to skip that and close them up.

Wouldn't you know I have "temporarily" misplaced the decals El Jere gave me. I will hope they show up before they are needed, otherwise I will paint the flags and cobble up the codes elsewhere. Not very complicated.

Gamera, I usually make my own gear doors from aluminum can material. In 1/72 the plastic ones are always way too thick. The Neptune has really simple doors.

I'll post photos soon.

Here's my progress so far on the Academy / Minicraft 1/144 P-51.The humidity is quite high right now,so the primed parts will need another day or so to cure.( Canopy and base not pictured.)

Coming along there nicely RW!

Certianly Johan. What Latin American markings are you planning to use?

As for me, no progres worth photos this weekend. I did seam clean up on the forward fuselage half and attached the rear fuselage yesterday. No sure if I will have any time for hobby stuff between now and Christmas.

I've promised a Uruguayan T-33 for this GB, but I'm having some serious thought's about a Uruguayan Hellcat and P-51 too, as I've decals for both, and I've really wanted to do the Hellcat for about a decade now. Don't put me down yet, but if I can get through the T-33 quickly (I originally bought the Superscale T-33 decal sheet so as to use the national markings on the Hellcat, which has since been released) then I'll go for it.

Cheers

Tony

Hi Stik,

Thanks for the kind words!I'm about to come off duty for a few days,so will do my best to get some serious work done on my project.

Tony, the Hellcat sounds great to me. But it's your choice. Any one ( or two) of the three you mentioned will go quite nicely here. But if you have been wanting to do it for a decade... Put that at the top of your choices. 

Roger, I am looking forward to your progress pics.

RW: Nice, you're moving right along there!

Johan & Tony: Those sound pretty darn cool, looking forward to them!

I did get some work done on the Corsair this weekend. I know the doors should be the same size but then again I've seen some weird differences between kits of the same aircraft. Good idea there GM on scratchbuilding them for better scale but I've got the Minicraft kit, I didn't pay much for it and I'm too friggin' lazy not to use them!!! I got the third and final camo colour about half laid down when my airbrush started to gunk up so I dropped overnight in some cleaner. Hopefully I'll get her cleaned out, put down the final paint, and get some photos up before much longer. Cross your fingers...

Thank you Stikpusher! Wops, this is realy big news in Sweden, Brazil have decided to buy the 'Super' JAS 39 Griffin. Winning the bid in competition with the Rafael and the F-18. Rumor says 100 aircraft. Anyone who has a reference to Brazil camo pattern? Best Regards Johan

Looking at the Wiki page on the brazilian Air Force, some of their stuff such as Mirages wear the French camo, while many other aircraft such as the F-5 and much of their ground attack stuff is in a two tone gray and greeen camo. I suspect that since the initial batch of Griffens will be leased until the "super Griffens" arrive that those will be in the low vis two tone gray scheme with low vis Brazilian markings.

Brazil F-5

AMX A-1A

Mirage 2000

Super Tucano

As for me, more minor, non photo worthy progress on my F-20. I finished seam sanding on the fuselage and masked the inner surfaecs of the intake ducting so I can paint the lips to match the outer colors. Getting close to some progress worth taking pictures.

Thank you stickpusher :)

I was thinking along these lines...
I will pick up the kit from the LHS tomorrow.

Best Regards

Johan

Ohhhh Johan that's awesome looking. I'd love to see you build it. A guy in our club did a beautiful digital camo - Czech MiG-29 I think it was. He said it wasn't hard just crazy masking.

Johan, that would be great. I look forward to seeing it here.