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  1. Oldbaldguy
    Word of advice for all us aging modelers: Do not attempt to paint a model the day after cataract surgery no matter how bored you may be. The results can be less than epic. Do not ask me how I know.
  2. Oldbaldguy
    Those are some really old and unlikely looking Ensign’s in Thomaz’s last photo. I would guess they are definitely not aviators.
  3. Oldbaldguy
    Dude! Did you actually put a star washer on the hex fitting coming off the instrument panel??
  4. Oldbaldguy
    Wait. I am VERY confused. Are those photos of clusters out of a real airplane or are they something you scratched??
  5. Oldbaldguy
    Mystery solved. You found her.
  6. Oldbaldguy
    Oh! Back to the wingtip: It appears that the infallible Tamiya may have missed this little tidbit because their kit doesn’t seem to show the obvious break on the wing tip where the fabric would start. Am I wrong in this? Will Jay be the only builder in the entire modeling universe to get this right?
  7. Oldbaldguy
    Noted with interest that the break between shiny and not shiny on the nose looks be a soft sprayed line and not a sharp, masked break like we almost always depict. And in some of the photos above, the glare panel looks like flat sea blue rather than black which coincides nicely with the flat sea blue panel called for on an early blue jet I’m finishing up. I wonder if this carried over to later model Corsairs as well?
  8. Oldbaldguy
    I’d bet these lights were pretty much universal across The Nav for a while, at least on the tactical side.
  9. Oldbaldguy
    Tommy over at his Tailhook site opines that yer formation lights have a blue lens covering the bulb. A transparent blue lens coupled with a lunar white (essentially soft white) bulb would result in a light that put off a comfortable blue glow when lit rather than a harsh, bright light that might impact night vision if stared at for too long. Makes sense to me, so I vote for transparent blue lenses.
  10. Oldbaldguy
    Thanks guys. I have the colors you mention except for the Vallejo offering. All your models look correctly 1950s dark blue so it’s off to the paint booth I go with an already in hand bottle of MRP sea blue in hand. Life is good. Or at least better.
  11. Oldbaldguy
    I have an early Navy jet on the bench awaiting its obligatory coat of gloss sea blue. Trouble is, I can’t find any in or amongst my many bottles of paint. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Must have been eaten by the moving monster last year because I could have sworn I had several new bottles. I have several bottles of various shades of dark(ish) blue and was wondering if anyone out there has any idea if there is another blue that’s pretty close right out of the bottle or if I’m better off mixing my own? I’ve noticed over the years that some dark blues that are close but not really GSB either are too bright or have a bit of a purple cast to them. I’d like to avoid either of those issues if I can ‘cause I don’t want to paint it but one time. Open to any and all, as they say.
  12. Oldbaldguy
    Then I will absolutely not mention to Jay that he might want to consider a 1/18 P-82 for his next project rather than another P-51 since he already has one. I’ll support your premise and keep that to myself rather than muddy the waters any further, etc.
  13. Oldbaldguy
    There is something very Viggie-ish about F-15s. There, I fixed it for you. The Vigilante is a much older design than the F-15 and pioneered some of the aerodynamics and many of the systems so common today. It was as if NAA forgot to read the rule book and did whatever they wanted to with great success.
  14. Oldbaldguy
    What a wonderful story as we approach the celebration of American independence. When I was a teenager living just north of Orlando, Florida, I would stand out in my yard at night and watch Connies and other big prop airliners fly low overhead on their way into Orlando. Cabin lights glowing, exhausts trailing blue flame in the night and the glorious sound of four big radials with their props in sync. Great way to grow up.
  15. Oldbaldguy
    Many years ago, a guy (Clay Lacy?) raced a DC-7 in the unlimited class at Reno. I don’t think he ever won anything, but it was a real crowd pleaser. Can you imagine rounding a pylon down in the weeds in your Mustang and glancing back to see that thing barreling down on you.
  16. Oldbaldguy
    This airplane has an enormous amount of military history behind it. I’m glad to see it has survived and is doing well.
  17. Oldbaldguy
    Wow. Five hundred bux for a quarter-inch kit plus whatever it would cost to build it. On the other hand, five hundred is one good trip to Starbucks these days. Still, I think I’m gonna pass.
  18. Oldbaldguy
    For some reason, it took poking about the P-47 in storage at The NASM Silver Hill facility decades ago to realize that the supercharger gizmo was located so far aft in the fuselage and that the Jug’s distinctive shape is the result of having to accommodate all that plumbing somewhere inside the airplane.
  19. Oldbaldguy
    A 1/32 Bone would be a lifetime endeavor if you did it justice. Of course, the USAF has 3D printed otherwise nonexistent replacement parts for operational Bones in the past, so who knows? Maybe somebody with a big enough printer will give it a go someday. Even if they made only one, that would be one more than we have now. Then we could spend months arguing about how it should be painted, nose shape, rivets/no rivets, etc. Could be a lot of fun.
  20. Oldbaldguy
    I’ll admit I had my doubts at first, but, dang, you pulled it off nicely. The last batch of photos reminds me that 18 year old kids routinely rolled under that thing between the main gear and the ventral strakes to hook up the holdback when the airplane was on the cat. They had to wedge themselves into the scant few inches between the deck and that whopping big motor with it practically sitting on their heads, install the holdback pretty much by feel and then un-wedge themselves to get out of the way, all in a matter of seconds. Different Navy back then, I guess.
  21. Oldbaldguy
    Not sure it’s worth picking that nit. This is a real airplane that was lovingly brought back from the dead, not a contest model supported by faded photos from a dog-eared magazine. It is flying again and that should be plenty good enough. I’d love to see, smell and hear the thing in person, too shiny or not.
  22. Oldbaldguy
    Looks like it. Might even be retractable when the canopy is closed. The camera in this shot is HUGE! That had to be a sorry ride squished in between the guns and that enormous thing.
  23. Oldbaldguy
    Not to mention adding significant weight in a bad place, that turret thing must have pretty much completely blanked out the rudder. What’s with all the hoses running to the gun?
  24. Oldbaldguy
    Pretty much nailed it from every angle. Much more so than anyone else.
  25. Oldbaldguy
    What a wonderfully articulate account of the action by the good lieutenant.
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