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Post by phil on Feb 15, 2009 22:33:04 GMT 12
Nope...
Maybe Kiwi colours did a set at some stage.
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Post by phil on Feb 9, 2009 16:32:27 GMT 12
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Post by phil on Feb 9, 2009 11:27:54 GMT 12
Better go for the Humbrol paint then. That will brush quite well.
You can pick up a useful airbrush quite cheap, that will do overall coats very well.
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Post by phil on Feb 9, 2009 10:27:25 GMT 12
Yes the Hercs are FS26118. Humbrol make this colour (well they make 36118, but it's the same colour, just matt). www.ipmsstockholm.org/colorcharts/stuff_eng_colorcharts_fs.htmlists Hu125 as the correct colour. The chart also lists Tamiya XF-24 as being a match. Are you airbrushing it? Tamiya is great through an airbrush, but you'll struggle to cover a Herc using a hairy stick.
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Post by phil on Feb 8, 2009 17:41:26 GMT 12
I don't think I kept a copy of that one, I'm not even sure we registered the image, it was just a piss take.
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Post by phil on Feb 8, 2009 17:14:48 GMT 12
The C-130s were not grey in 2001, they were still 3 tone cammo. I did the photoshop mock ups for the all over grey scheme in 2002, along with the Iroquois.
We even had a very fetching purple Iroquois with flowers and butterflies, but they weren't so keen opn that one
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Post by phil on Feb 8, 2009 17:10:54 GMT 12
They certainly never got to OH!
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Post by phil on Feb 8, 2009 7:45:48 GMT 12
You need to update your fire engine though - we ditched the unipowers at Ohakea back in about '04!
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Post by phil on Feb 7, 2009 23:08:04 GMT 12
I don't think there was a lot of photoshopping going on in 1996 in the RNZAF.
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Post by phil on Feb 7, 2009 22:52:40 GMT 12
There wont be a tamiya colour for it. I think its FS 26118. If it is, Humbrol make this colour.
I can confirm the colour off the official drawings at work on Monday.
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Post by phil on Feb 7, 2009 22:45:13 GMT 12
That macchi actually flew past Mt Ruapehu. The photograph was taken by Jason Love, I've seen the negative, it was not photoshopped.
The F16 image simply replaced the macchi with an F-16. It was most famously used on the box top of the Kiwi colours 'RNZAF' F-16. There were no 'real' RNZAF F-16s, they never got that far.
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Post by phil on Feb 6, 2009 16:39:02 GMT 12
over Christmas I went through my stash, which takes up several cupboards around my house. It was just like visiting a model shop as I kept opening boxes and finding kits I swear I've never seen before!
I've got quite a few rare goodies stashed away. I'll have to retire soon otherwise I'll never finish any of them.
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Post by phil on Feb 1, 2009 20:49:12 GMT 12
How could she spell air force wrong? There were even big signs up!
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Post by phil on Jan 30, 2009 17:33:24 GMT 12
Santoft Beach would be adjacent to Raumai Air Weapons Range.
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Post by phil on Jan 28, 2009 21:45:04 GMT 12
Hmmm.... we've got some jato bottles lying around at work somewhere too...
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Post by phil on Jan 26, 2009 20:15:34 GMT 12
Most anything Skyhawk - arming 5002 rocket launchers. The no volts check was complicated and the intervalometers were knackered, you could never be sure which tube you'd selected as there were rarely any 'clicks' to be felt. And no, you couldn't put your head around behind to check visually incase Mr CRV7 went off and took your head with it. Even more of a pain when there were four aircraft sitting burning avtur at the ORP.
Setting up the barrostat and G limit switch on the BTRU on a Martin Baker Mk10 when the air force is too cheep to buy the correct test set!
And my most recent least favourite - inspecting 250 feet of hoist cable, which by the time you've turned it around to see all the way around the circumference really equals 500 feet of cable!
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Post by phil on Jan 24, 2009 21:55:20 GMT 12
I got sick of Jims blatherings. And it was pretty embarrassing the way they both kept labouring the whole female pilot thing ad nauseam. The bit about the lost drivers licence was shocking, they sounded like 13 year old boys seeing a photo of a girl for the first time.
At least Kate did her usual good job. She seems to be the voice of the RNZAF - She does the reading of all the bios at the pilot grad parades too.
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Post by phil on Jan 22, 2009 21:22:54 GMT 12
As long as you have to look hard to see the corrosion it must be ok.
Obviously only the corrosion you see easily is bad, this must be the good kind!
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Post by phil on Jan 18, 2009 9:37:01 GMT 12
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Post by phil on Jan 18, 2009 9:15:56 GMT 12
I wouldn't be too sure about that - we will still be flying them until 2013 at this stage.
Nice pics, I'll get some of mine up in a few minutes.
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