Vietnam War Era
- jeaton01
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Re: Vietnam War Era
Pretty high odds it's an F-4C or D unless he was with a recce unit or it was very late in the war.
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Re: Vietnam War Era
Tamiya doesn’t make any 1/48 Phantoms, only 1/32. In 1/48 for an E, your best kits are ZM or Hasegawa. And for the C/D versions are Z/M, Hasegawa, and Academy are the latest and greatest.Dragline wrote:I saw that Revell kit at Hobby Lobby before. It's a Biggun. Might be a tad too big. Tamiya is almost always a winner, so I may check out their smaller scale offering.
As for version? I'll have to ask Uncle Steve what fighter wing he was with. I'll build up something he was associated with.
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Re: Vietnam War Era
Thanks for al the info guys. Uncle Steve says they were D's. He's checking his pix to see what he has. He knows he shot a lot of pix of the aircraft he worked on so I'll be able to get pix of exactly what he worked on and can do a build with correct markings.
This place is great and I thank you for dropping the knowledge. I may go with the Hasegawa as it is very detailed and isn't too big. It is a big aircraft any way you slice it.
Edit: And post war Steve was stationed in Minot ND. This is where he spent 2 years post war until he was re-assigned to Peas in New Hampshire. He retired in 1986 as a station chief [or something like that]. He is still in good health at 77 and lives in New Rochelle NY. We plan on visiting soon since this entire thing sparked a "When's the last time were saw each other" conversation. So for that I thank you all as well.
This place is great and I thank you for dropping the knowledge. I may go with the Hasegawa as it is very detailed and isn't too big. It is a big aircraft any way you slice it.
Edit: And post war Steve was stationed in Minot ND. This is where he spent 2 years post war until he was re-assigned to Peas in New Hampshire. He retired in 1986 as a station chief [or something like that]. He is still in good health at 77 and lives in New Rochelle NY. We plan on visiting soon since this entire thing sparked a "When's the last time were saw each other" conversation. So for that I thank you all as well.
Now that we know that.... What have we learned?...
- Medicman71
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Re: Vietnam War Era
If it's a "D", I'd go with the ZM or Academy kit. Much easier to build and they're state of the art kits. The Hasegawa kits are little over engineered.
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- Duke Maddog
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Re: Vietnam War Era
I am looking forward to seeing your Phantom started Bob! This should be great!
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"Do you know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I get and beat you with 'till you understand who's in ruttin' command!"
-Jayne Cobb, Firefly Episode 2 "The Train Job"
We are modelers - the same in spirit, in hunger to insanely buy newly released kits, hustlers in hiding our stash from our better halves and experts in using garbage as replacements for after-market parts.
Re: Vietnam War Era
I'm thinking of doing my 1/48 Hasegawa F-4E as Chico. Got all the underwing goodies on order. Bummer is my kit is not the hardwing so I'll have work to do if/when we start. I did find out that the 1/48 pro modeler f-4e is a reboxing of the early hardwing hasegawa kit.
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the-sto ... etnam-war/
Other decal option is Ritchie/DeBellevue.
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the-sto ... etnam-war/
Other decal option is Ritchie/DeBellevue.
Thanks,
John
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- tempestjohnny
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Re: Vietnam War Era
I'm in. Down to two choices. Both 72nd
Academy A-37B Dragonfly
Academy OV-10A Bronco
Academy A-37B Dragonfly
Academy OV-10A Bronco
Re: Vietnam War Era
This one is coming up and running from April 1, 2021 until 12/31/2021....April Fools Day until New Years Eve. What could possibly go wrong.
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Re: Vietnam War Era
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To make each build less crappy than the last one. Or, put another way, "Better than the last one, not as good as the next one!"..