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                        AIRCRAFT - Latinamerican Air Forces

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                        cote1995
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: Mexico
                        AIRCRAFT - Latinamerican Air Forces
                        Posted by cote1995 on Tuesday, November 30, 2004 2:45 PM
                        Dear friends:

                        There are here an aircfrat or armor Latinamerican modeling related group here at FSM web site? Please send me information about it...if not, some one who want to participate?

                        Please contac me.

                        Best regards

                        Manuel

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                        tho9900
                        • Member since
                          July 2004
                        • From: SETX. USA
                        Posted by tho9900 on Tuesday, November 30, 2004 9:23 PM
                        not a group here that I know of, but there are a lot of latin americans here, I am sure they will find this topic.

                        It would make an interesting group build idea though. It is where a group of people get togehter and build something of the same subject. Like Latin American models. If you would like to start one I would be there! I would build a Colombian AT-6 SNJ trainer!!!!

                        My wife is Colombian Wink [;)]

                        try posting this in the General Discussion topic. under a title like "Latin American Modelers"
                        ---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 8, 2004 3:44 AM
                        I got nearly all the Aztec decals for Peru's AF! In fact, I just posted in the Attack Helo GB that I was thinking of joining with a 1/72 Peruvian Mi-24! ( My girlfriend is from Peru.)
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                        cote1995
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: Mexico
                        Posted by cote1995 on Wednesday, December 8, 2004 4:29 PM
                        Dear friends:

                        Thanks for your response, I am thinking about do you have some Latinamerican models pictures to share with us? Let me find some of mine to show you.

                        Best regards

                        Manuel

                        P.S. Do you think in a Latinamerican Airplanes GB logo? Some suggestions?

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                        djmodels1999
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: United Kingdom / Belgium
                        Posted by djmodels1999 on Thursday, December 9, 2004 1:46 AM
                        Sounds good, but at this moment, I can not contemplate yet another GB..! Late 2005 would be fine though.
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                        tho9900
                        • Member since
                          July 2004
                        • From: SETX. USA
                        Posted by tho9900 on Thursday, December 9, 2004 5:16 PM
                        sure I am in! If I can find the decals, I have a T-6 SNJ just begging to be done in the Colombian AF colors! Spring of 2005 or even closer to summer would be good... a lot of people are finishing up other Group Builds right now so won't be free until then... do you want just aircraft, or all builds, armor, cars etc? people could build what they want... A Land Rover done in the Andean taxi style would look great too!!!

                        I am not good at group badges but I can play with this a little and see what I can come up with! Unless there is someone else with some experience here?

                        I look forward to it! In the meantime we can all talk about what we are going to build and maybe build a few models for fun to show our models to each other!
                        ---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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                        tho9900
                        • Member since
                          July 2004
                        • From: SETX. USA
                        Posted by tho9900 on Thursday, December 9, 2004 5:26 PM
                        Ahhh!!! I just clicked on your profile and saw the SBD picture on there!!! I have built 3 of those, and could build another to put it in Latin American markings as well, I love that plane!!!!
                        ---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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                        cote1995
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: Mexico
                        Posted by cote1995 on Thursday, December 9, 2004 6:09 PM
                        Dear Tho9900:

                        The A-24 picture from my profile comes from an article about how I made my own Mexican A-24, this article is at:

                        http://www.laahs.com/art21b.htm

                        and is a part from other brief article about the history of the A-24 at the Mexican Air Force; this article is at:

                        http://www.laahs.com/art21.htm

                        Please read other well Latin American airplanes articles, I hope you enjoyed.

                        Best regards

                        Manuel

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                        tho9900
                        • Member since
                          July 2004
                        • From: SETX. USA
                        Posted by tho9900 on Thursday, December 9, 2004 7:14 PM
                        An interesting story Manuel! I knew the Mexican Air Force flew in WWII, but it is very interesting getting more history of this!

                        An interesting note, my uncle flew in the SBD-3 and maybe the SBD-4 in WWII as a radioman/tailgunner. He ended up in Harlingen, TX teaching aerial gunnery to the SBD and A-24 pilots for most of the war. He got orders to a carrier in the Pacific and as his ship was nearing Hawaii the war ended... We have something in common!

                        I am looking forward to this GB now... I'll tell my father about it, he is very interested in Latin American history. (he is a translator, Spanish to English for the oil company he works for) Maybe I can get him to building models again as well!

                        ---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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                        cote1995
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: Mexico
                        Posted by cote1995 on Saturday, December 11, 2004 11:05 AM
                        Dear Tho9900:

                        Your uncle story sound very interesting, in fact, my father flew too in the A-24B during late 40's-early 50's, so you are right, we have something in common...another Latinamerican A-24B used was Chile, but by now I dont have the scheme at hand, but let me search some for you.

                        Best regards.

                        Manuel

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                        tho9900
                        • Member since
                          July 2004
                        • From: SETX. USA
                        Posted by tho9900 on Saturday, December 11, 2004 2:14 PM
                        Manuel,

                        The trouble I am having is finding decals for Latin American aircraft... I might just do an A-37 Dragon Hawk as they have several latin american countries in decals for this. Colombia, Venezuela etc... Other than that it is mostly modern aircraft, which I do occasionally but not much..

                        I will keep looking, the only decal company out there that seems to deal heavlily in this is Decals Carpena from Canada I believe. their website is: http://www.decalco.com/
                        ---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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                        cote1995
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: Mexico
                        Posted by cote1995 on Wednesday, December 15, 2004 8:39 AM
                        Dear tho9900:

                        I find at Aztecmodels decals for the A-37 from Dominican Republic, please try:



                        I hope helps you.

                        Best regards

                        Manuel

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                        tho9900
                        • Member since
                          July 2004
                        • From: SETX. USA
                        Posted by tho9900 on Wednesday, December 15, 2004 7:26 PM
                        Manuel,

                        Thanks for the site! I will look through it more later. I see several possible builds in there. It looks good! Looking forward to spring where we can start this!

                        Tom
                        ---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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                        cote1995
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: Mexico
                        Posted by cote1995 on Thursday, December 16, 2004 10:14 AM
                        Dera tho9900:

                        In response to your post: "Ahhh!!! I just clicked on your profile and saw the SBD picture on there!!! I have built 3 of those, and could build another to put it in Latin American markings as well, I love that plane!!!!" I found the other Latinamerican A-24 user, the Chile Air Force, please try at:

                        http://www.fach-extraoficial.com/ingles/dauntless.htm

                        this article was writen in english and have good pictures, I hope help to you and to try to build a Latinamerican model.

                        Best regards

                        Manuel

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                        tho9900
                        • Member since
                          July 2004
                        • From: SETX. USA
                        Posted by tho9900 on Thursday, December 16, 2004 8:55 PM
                        Well unless something else catches my eye, I plan on building a Colombian T-33 and possibly a Colombian or Venezuealan AT-6. I talked to my father tonight and he IS interested in maybe joining this group build. I am sending the link to this page to him, so hopefully we will have another member soon! It has been a long time since he has modeled, but he used to build models for me when I was young and he did as good of a job on the models with the limited kits and supplies in the 1960's as the builds you see here now!!! He was very patient with his building I must say!
                        ---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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                        tho9900
                        • Member since
                          July 2004
                        • From: SETX. USA
                        Posted by tho9900 on Sunday, December 19, 2004 8:32 PM
                        ok Manuel, since we have no takers I will attempt to do a group badge (it may or may not work!)

                        Any ideas on what it should be? I thought about using flags of different countries, but that would not look good so small... and an Aztec figure would not work as most of S.A. would be more familiar with an Inca motif... just trying to find something common to most of the countries... any help you have would be appreciated!

                        I am also thinking of doing a P-47 with markings of FAEM esquadron 201 if I can find them or make them.... we in Texas are very aware of them... (being so close to Mexico) ... there was a very big article in the newspaper here in Houston a few years ago about this unit....

                        here is a short article on them:

                        http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FWK/is_n4_v18/ai_19838758
                        ---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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                        tho9900
                        • Member since
                          July 2004
                        • From: SETX. USA
                        Posted by tho9900 on Sunday, December 19, 2004 8:41 PM
                        Ok, how about a start date of Apr 22, 2005? (It's my birthday, no other reason hahaha) Or we could pick 5 Mayo if you think that would be more appropriate!

                        Tell me what you think, I will go and advertise this in the aircraft section. And try to find the latin american users I know who are here and let them know about it... this will be fun! And definitely something different!


                        ---edit---

                        I just looked at your profile... I see you are from San Luis Potosi... I know a girl here in Houston from there... she is very nice! The only placed I have been in the interior are San Jose los Cabos en Los Cabos, and in the D.F. I think I enjoyed San jose more... much more friendly!!! But the museo en ciudad de México was wondeful!!!! I loved the history.. we also went to las piramidas Teotihuacán and it was GREAT!!! a truly advanced society! I noticed recently they found some more discoveries there, it will be on television soon and I will watch for it!


                        ---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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                        cote1995
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: Mexico
                        Posted by cote1995 on Monday, December 20, 2004 5:42 PM
                        Dear tho9900:

                        I am thinking about the group badge, and what about a South America profile (Including Central America and Mexico) like a map, wich include letters of the subject, and maybe profiles from most famous aircrafts today: Mexico's F-5E, Venezuela's F-16, Peru's MiG-29, Ecuadorian's Mirage F-1 and so on. About the start date, I am OK, but if some one have suggestions, come on.

                        I read the Escuadron 201 article and was very nice, let me find pictures of those P-47 wich include Mexican and USA insignias.

                        Please tell your father thanks to join us¡¡¡¡

                        Best regards

                        Manuel

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                        tho9900
                        • Member since
                          July 2004
                        • From: SETX. USA
                        Posted by tho9900 on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 2:55 PM
                        I played a little today, so far all I have is very simple but here is one version I kinda liked the basic format of... still working on it.. I can't find my Photoshop CD since I just reformatted my machine, so I did it in a cheap program, would do the real one in Photoshop so everything is crisper...



                        it's a start...
                        ---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 23, 2004 7:41 AM
                        Nice job on the badge, Tom! I still haven't decided what to build yet! I want to do something colorful but not too advanced - my airbrush skills are pretty basic! LOL I guess we have some time to think about stuff like that. - Calvin
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                        tho9900
                        • Member since
                          July 2004
                        • From: SETX. USA
                        Posted by tho9900 on Thursday, December 23, 2004 9:13 AM
                        I was looking at the F-86 markings from Aztec... a simeple NMF with those colorful decals would look good! I am thinking about it.. likeyou said we have time...

                        Well..... actually the F-86 was my wife's idea... she decided it was cuter than the Dragonfly I was thinking of building.. Wink [;)] I dunno I figured she owuld have picked the dragonfly because it's rounder.. like a volkswagen!
                        ---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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                        cote1995
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: Mexico
                        Posted by cote1995 on Thursday, December 23, 2004 2:32 PM
                        Dear tho9900:

                        Very nice work¡¡¡ its a good start...in the other hand, maybe wee need to think to separate the aircraft and armor Latinamerican Group Build, and once again, some suggestions?

                        By now, we start first the Aircraft Latinamerican GB and maybe in few months maybe start the Armor Latinamerican GB.

                        Dear lodni_k thank you for your words, I hope to see in the future a Latinamerican model by you.

                        Best regrads

                        Manuel

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                        tho9900
                        • Member since
                          July 2004
                        • From: SETX. USA
                        Posted by tho9900 on Sunday, December 26, 2004 9:01 PM
                        hey Manuel and everyone! Sorry but have been away with Christmas and have only been on a little bit.,..

                        I will post more tomorrow but I have been talking to some more people and trying to get them in... will let you know tomorrow!!!

                        This could be a very different build for some people... I hope more will join!
                        ---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, January 9, 2005 9:32 AM
                        I'm already "IN"!!Wink [;)] I started a Peruvian Hind for the Attack Helo GB & a Fuerza Aerea del Peru Grupo Aereo No. 7 A-10P for the "A-10 What If?" GB!Big Smile [:D] I still have many sheets & mucho ideas! LOLTongue [:P]
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                        tho9900
                        • Member since
                          July 2004
                        • From: SETX. USA
                        Posted by tho9900 on Sunday, January 9, 2005 10:04 AM
                        haha you go! I am ordering the decals for the T-6 in colombian clothes, as well as RAAF.. gonna do one of each for this GB and the Aussie GB... I'll have to catch up with ya!

                        So I guess this answers the questions... start now!!!
                        ---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, January 11, 2005 5:24 AM
                        I got my AM P-51C in today! I was planning on doing this bird for the LatinAmerican GB. I'll be putting it in FAD ( Dominican Air Force) markings! I really didn't want to start right away, I'll be leaving for NAS Fallon at the end of Feb. and have (quite literally) about a dozen kits in various stages of construction!! LOL - Calvin
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                        tho9900
                        • Member since
                          July 2004
                        • From: SETX. USA
                        Posted by tho9900 on Tuesday, January 11, 2005 6:48 AM
                        cool! hey I didnt know you are in the Navy Calvin... ex-Corpsman myself... was in 84 to 94.

                        I need to go out today and see if I can find decals for 201 esquadron, FAM. the only mexican squadron to see combat in WWII... It'll honestly be my first P-47 ever... might be interesting!
                        ---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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                        cote1995
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: Mexico
                        Posted by cote1995 on Tuesday, January 11, 2005 12:35 PM
                        Dear friends:

                        I have the instrucction sheet fot the lodni_k Hind available at aztecmodels.com:



                        I will search for a nice picture of the real Peruvian Hind.

                        Best regards

                        Manuel

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                        cote1995
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: Mexico
                        Posted by cote1995 on Tuesday, January 11, 2005 2:38 PM
                        Dear friends:

                        I have a very nice picture from the Mexican P-47 over Philipines in the WWII.



                        I hope do you liked tho9900, please let me find the decals for this model.

                        Best regards

                        Manuel

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                        tho9900
                        • Member since
                          July 2004
                        • From: SETX. USA
                        Posted by tho9900 on Tuesday, January 11, 2005 5:31 PM
                        ooooooohhhh!!!! thank you Miguel!!! that's an awesome picture!

                        I will go out and look tonight but I think one of the companies I saw had them... if not I will try to find just the national insignias and print or use from another set the rest!
                        ---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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