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John1

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  1. Thank you for protecting us from posts that some might find to be annoying. To paraphrase a very old quote - To save the thread we had to destroy it.
  2. I trust it will be locked down shortly, nothing to fear. Perhaps we need to have a discussion on a new forum, dedicated to all things WNW-related?
  3. After a quarter century of development, the F-35 is in full production!! News Flash - the USAF just announced they will begin retiring their aging fleet of F-35’s, effective tomorrow. The first of these old jets will be heading for the bone yard this week. Film at 11!
  4. I just don't get it. No one forces members to read or follow a post. Why is it felt that it's such a horrible thing to have some thread drift. Look at the count of views for those posts, obviously a (very) large number of people were following this thread and participating and yet the mods decided that this was unacceptable and locked it? I think at minimum, the decision should have included feedback from the OP. If the OP felt his thread was being hijacked, that's one thing. If the mods just unilaterally decided that were going to lock it, that's something else. Leave the nuclear option off the table and save it for threads that devolve into politics, personal shots, etc. My $0.02.
  5. I totally agree with you. I find the mod's heavy-handed approach to thread drift disappointing. Giving the demographics on this site and the inevitable decline in the number of members, I would think any discussion that people are passionate about would be welcomed and encouraged instead of being locked down. As long as the discussion remains civil, let it go wherever it goes. I recall another site that that tried to regulate posting by locking threads and bouncing members, it's pretty much on life support these days, some forums haven't had a post in months. SMH...
  6. Appreciate the offer! Think just a few closeups would be fine. Did you use any setting solutions on them?
  7. Any thoughts on the thickness of them and how they worked with setting solutions? I’m just happy that I found someone. Been hoping to do a very special F/A-18 Growler but the lack of a few decals was holding me back.
  8. I must be the only person who looked at that list and went “Meh….No big loss.”
  9. Anyone use them? He does custom decals for what seems to be a reasonable price (based on a post on another site).
  10. Beat me to it. They are currently working on the wingtip pods as well and said they’ll also be doing all the other Growler-specific antennas.
  11. Sir - I agree with others about this thread not being the place to slag someone else’s kit. That being said, I’m genuinely curious about what you feel Kotare missed. I hope you will start a dedicated post to detail your concerns. Edit - reading the rest of the posts, I see that the guy has been banned. I’d still be interested (in another thread) to understand what the issues were.
  12. One guy did. See previous posts above. Dimensional issues and the cockpit is a complete “muddle”.
  13. I must have missed the memo. When did the Kotare Spits go from “outstanding” to “garbage”?
  14. Are the intakes that critical? Same for the ECM pods. I thought the Trumpy Growler was considered pretty accurate except for the missing “lumps”.
  15. Upper deck is getting there. Still need to add all the small bits and do some touchups but it's progress. Anti skid areas were first coated with Mr. Surfacer and before it dried, stippled with a cut off paint brush to replicate the texture of the real thing.
  16. IMO, they would be better served to supersize their Wildcat series, from the early version all the way to FM-2. The 109 field is a bit crowded. The Wildcat has no real competition out there.
  17. LOL, it's always been nothing more than a wish list, just flavored with a bit of discussion regarding the business case for one's fav subject. Long may this wish list prosper!
  18. Put the toy airplanes down dad, the nice young men in the white coats are here to take you to a really awesome hobby show. May want to pack a toothbrush.
  19. Had a chance to acquire a Fisher conversion, sans decals, at a very reasonable price from a kind LSP'er. Passed on it, just couldn't justify it with all the kits I had in the queue but still have regrets. Really have a thing for a A-1E, something about a family model, single engine prop-driven combat aircraft that really ups the "cool factor". Maybe one day. Dragon - thanks for posting that video, those pics are of amazing quality. I'll watch the thing in full this weekend.
  20. Funny though - I only “fly” this sim once a week or so, usually only the 737 (although the Cirius Vision Jet is starting to attract my attention). When flying the 737, I did start thinking that if I had to make multiple flights a day, every day, it would start to get pretty old, pretty fast. My admiration and respect goes out to those who fly commercial jets for a living.
  21. Plugging away on some sub-assemblies. First up are the engine inlet sand filters. These were fairly common in Iraq due to the "moon dust" that was so prevalent. Less so in Afghanistan and other areas. These come in the kit, the filter elements themselves are pretty nice PE. Got a bit of touchup to do and I'll tone down the start paintwork when I get to the weathering phase. Here's the real thing. The forward part of the sand filter has a door that can be opened once at altitude. Since my UH-60L will be on the ground, I'm keeping the door closed. A few more subassemblies. The horizontal stab is from Werner's Wings. The one in the kit is for later H-60 versions. Thanks for looking.
  22. LOL, as someone who has zero interest in doing this for a living, I can assure you that it's a quite enjoyable way to spend a couple of hours on a rainy Saturday AM. It's funny, on the flight sim forums, there are more than a few RL commercial pilots (both US and European). They are pretty hard-core simmers. I asked one why he spent time replicating what he does in RL. He said he truly enjoys the time spent simming, he can try different approaches, different weather conditions and "fly" other aircraft besides his assigned jet (737). He acknowledged that MSFS is no replacement for the simulators he uses as work but the 737 in particular is high enough fidelity to allow him to practice failures, challenging approaches, etc. He said he knows of plenty of other pilots who are simmers as well. He said the split is 50:50 between older pilots who are counting down the days till retirement and look at commercial flying as nothing more than clocking in for a job they really don't enjoy and younger pilots who look forward to flying every day. I guess that's the same in every profession.
  23. The Fairchild crash was heart breaking. Everyone on the base knew Bud Holland was going to kill himself and his crew at some point, he had a long track record of flying up to and past the limits of the B-52 but upper management turned a blind eye. On the day of the flight, the squadron commander was so concerned, he opted to pull another crewmember and fly instead. It was supposed to be his final flight, his family was there to congratulate him after he landed and witnessed the crash. Great case study here: Darker_Shades_of_Blue.pdf (convergentperformance.com)
  24. Hey Zero, can’t remember if you are a local guy or not but if you’re interested in NAS SoWey, there are a couple of FB pages which have lots of awesome pics. Worth checking out. I was thinking the same thing about doing a Mike since it sounded like someone was working on a new tool kit.
  25. Any idea how one could fix those vortex generators? The thought of trying to sand them down to a more realistic thickness makes my head throb. Wasn't someone else working on a large scale Scooter?
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