U.S. Naval Aviation GB!

go to ron georges site, look for it in general modelling discussion. upload for free !

thanks for the info reg. I downloaded and I am seeing how it works. It's a nice site that ron has set up. later.

I'M BAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!!!!!!!! LOL, finally got power and phone restored here today, so i think i'll mosey over to the bench after i get all my chores done tonight, and dust off that ol' iwata and see what gives!! haven't done any modelling in a while!! thanks for the concern here on this thread about me guys, now, i'll be trying to get some building done in between rebuilding my town!! later.

Glad to see you back Salty! I can't believe all the storms...Thank god for the Pacific Northwest
Leon

good to hear youre back salty!

can i join the GB ? i got a 1/144 F-14 dio from dragon i would like to enter.

hey saltydog, glad your not breathing from a tube underwater! Up here in Western NC people are deciding to build houseboats due to the flooding. I imagine down there must be worse. Time to get back in the groove...

Jonathan, we got about 8 or 9 inches but the wind must've blew it away!!LOL no flooding to speak of, but you guys got hammered by the rain eh? by the time i got to a TV, thats all the news guys showed was the immense flooding!! i wanted to see some footage of the coast, but had to buy news papers and get still shots. i thought for a while that the whole state of NC was gonna slide off into the ocean or something!! BTW, my wife and i went to Cashiers NC for our honey moon 6 years ago to a place and stayed in bed and breakfast for a couple of days. then, we swooped over to Asheville to see Biltmore. very cool state you got there. later.

Hey Chris, I'll see if I can send you some dig photos that a cop-buddy of mine took of the Biltmore Area. It was all under 6 feet of water, no kidding. One of my territories included Cashiers and it's a really nice place, especially with fall on the way. Unfortunately one of my LHS got washed away in the Biltmore area. Now, i am down to one. Anyway, guess it's back to working on the cockpit of this Hornet. If I don't get to work I'll never finish by Dec 31. Later

IM part of the tomact group build I originally suggested it But Iv always got room for another project, Hey Salty It good to hear your still with the rest of the world.

Dec 31st? Ahh, got plenty of time I think I'll open the box now on this F4F Wildcat.

Welcome back Salty, glad to see you didn't have to build an ark or tred water.

build an ark ? that would be unlike us A/C people, we would build a catalina !

OK my credit card has been charged so i guess my Eduard stuff is on the way,finally be able to make a start,all iv'e done up to now is paint the interior green and clean up most of the parts..........................
Once the pit is done i'll post up a couple of pics.............J.S...........

I just got my Aries cockpit for the Corsair.... it looks GOOD!!!! already mostly cleaned up out of the box too... about done with the instrument panel and gonna tackle the cockpit probably tomorrow... I am excited about this.. it's a good detail kit.

Look for pics soon! (After I get my addition lighting so you can actually see what is in the photo)

thats cool Tom!! i love aires cockpit sets!! i've never been disappointed with one, i especially like the right blend of resin and PE they accomodate you with. later.

QUOTE: Originally posted by saltydog thats cool Tom!! i love aires cockpit sets!! i've never been disappointed with one, i especially like the right blend of resin and PE they accomodate you with. later.

Man I tell ya what Chris... this instrument panel is gonna look the nicest thing this side of next Tuesday... it's got some nice detail to it... crisp film dials...

cool!! can't wait for a peek!! i know, the P-51D stang pit from aires is excellent too!! take a look at this pic of the IP..............

Chris that's exactly how this one is looking so far... SWEET!!! and so far real easy to get together... got the main cockpit tub cut off the casting block and sanded in like 15 minutes (cut by hand, not dremel) figure I am gonna wait till tomorrow to tackle more... then I will post a pic...gotta little more cleanin to do on that IP before it's ready to sdet aside and wait for the rest to be assembled...

I was really surprised at the price too... I think it was only like 11 dollars for the Ares kit.. PE, resin and film altogether! gonna go out and see what else they might have for my stash of kits waiting to be built...

hey chris thats lookin great! your work humbles mine.

QUOTE: Originally posted by armorman hey chris thats lookin great! your work humbles mine.

mine too armorman,nice pit Chris

I guess I have better get crackin. I go and get this thing rollin and then dissappear! I am still finishing up my F-4S. I was going to do a Heater-Ferris bird, but I am now whimping out applying a low vis scheme. I recently bought a F-4B/N off of E-bay to add to my efforts. I was sad to see that the kit has the raised panel lines so I guess I'll be doing some scribing. Just can't seem to get off of this Phantom kick! I have the old Monogram Intruder in my stash - I think I may do it before the F-4B. Have you guys ever built the 1/48th A-6?

Ray

yeah, the monogram kit is nice. It's got a nice cockpit to play with. Goes together well.

hey tom, that hull in your signature pic reminds me of an old ship we sunk in the carribean during training ops!! that was really cool!! we had 2 tomcats "escort" our harpoon missle all the way to empact, then, sent the film to our ship for our entertainment. the missile didn't have a warhead on it, but it knocked a hole about the size of a basket ball right at the waterline!! the hull was about 60 miles from our ship when we shot, so when we got the ship in view, the hornets and intruders were straffing it..............now that was triple bad to the bone to watch!! crap flyin' everwhere!! then, the aft part of the target lifted up out of the water and slipped to the bottom of the ocean!! that was the highlight of my 4 year stint as far as cool military stuff went!!LOL later.

hey armorman........and mr. harrison.............that photo of the stang pit....................when i got to the painting stage...........................i tried to use krylon gloss black for my base under alclad...........................ended up have to strip the sucker back to bare plastic with easy off oven cleaner..........................spayed the kit down good and wet with oven cleaner, shoved it in a plastic bag and tied it in a knot and left it over night.................the canopy had slipped off in the plastic bag during moving i guess, and it melted all the paint off of the pit..............all the way back to the resin color!!..................so, now i have a beautifully crafted aires cockpit installed inside of a nearly fully assemble kit...............any ideas how to paint the detail back on the pit?...........................so..........please don't be "humbled" by my clumsy efforts!!LOL........but thanks anyway guys. later.

Saltydog sounds like a bloody disaster,i have no idea short of pulling the halves apart how to repaint the pit once it's in...................
BTW Lobbie advised me to use Tamiya Black enamel as a base coat for Alclad11 i havn't tried it yet but i'll definatly give it a go...........
Anyways i'm still humbled by the deatil you get in your pits,while mine arn't to bad there not as good as yours but give me time and i'll eventally get there.......Jules.........

my dragon 1/144 shake n bake dio is looking like a dio ! here are some pictures, hope you enjoy



the bird and the fire truck. the fire truck is half painted, the bird is ready for its final coat of primer before going for its three-gray paint scheme.



slightly different angle





the base


please give me comments ! i am still learning and making plenty of mistakes, give me feedback !

QUOTE: Originally posted by saltydog hey tom, that hull in your signature pic reminds me of an old ship we sunk in the carribean during training ops!! that was really cool!! we had 2 tomcats "escort" our harpoon missle all the way to empact, then, sent the film to our ship for our entertainment. the missile didn't have a warhead on it, but it knocked a hole about the size of a basket ball right at the waterline!! the hull was about 60 miles from our ship when we shot, so when we got the ship in view, the hornets and intruders were straffing it..............now that was triple bad to the bone to watch!! crap flyin' everwhere!! then, the aft part of the target lifted up out of the water and slipped to the bottom of the ocean!! that was the highlight of my 4 year stint as far as cool military stuff went!!LOL later..

YOU!!!!! You did this to my Guam????? Why I oughta....

haha no the Guam was sunk about 300 mi off North Carolina in 2001, the other that I remember was off SC in 98.. I'll have to check the others in its class... all but 3 of them were targets... hmmm maybe it was the Tripoli... no one seems to be able to account for her... serious... all the paperwork lists her as "disposition/location unknown"

i think the one we sunk was an oiler. it was cool to watch though.

Julian, a word of warning friend, it has been stated more than once not to use acrylic primer under alclad friend. i've never tried it and i'm sure Lobbie knows what he's talkin' about, but i've heard it's not a good thing. i use alclad gloss black base, which is pricey, but it goes a long ways. i've done about 4 NMF jobs with one bottle, and i still have about a 1/2 a container left. well worth the extra money IMO. good luck, later.

I've never tried that Chris. I never have used alclad either. Stil learning the force. Nice pics reg. It looks like it is coming together nicely.

friggin airbrush finally crapped out... on my way to michaels to use the coupon from the paper. Not bad for an 8 year old badger.

QUOTE: Originally posted by armorman friggin airbrush finally crapped out... on my way to michaels to use the coupon from the paper. Not bad for an 8 year old badger.

ack! I am thinking of buying a gravity feed soon... my aibrush is brand new... but want to try a gravity feed, and also want a backup... I don't want to have sit around and wait days to get another one etc.. especially if I am in the middle of a kit... and fixing it would probably take longer... questions to MikeV here, playing with this, playing with that...

So which one did you get?

Lucked out big time... I got a Badger 150 Pro for 38 bucks after the discount! I've already started to use it... it's nice... real nice. Back to work, I guess. Hope everyone had a nice weekend!