Jim Pearsall
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Blue Angel CougarsPublished: April 5, 2015 Furball Aero Design is a new decal company. They have teamed with Detail & Scale who I have admired and trusted for many years, to turn out interesting and correct decals and marking schemes for 1/48 modern US aircraft. They also have vinyl mask sets for those kits. This decal sheet consists of all of the markings you would need to do two Blue Angels aircraft, either two TF-9s or… more |
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Mignet HM14 Pou du Ciel (Flying Flea)Published: April 2, 2015 Brengun is a fairly new company in Brno, Czechoslovakia. They make resin and photoetch kits in various scales. They have some VERY interesting kits and PE detail sets. I recently reviewed their 1/72 shopping cart. It’s got to be part of a street diorama, as soon as I find a 1/72 young lady to go with it. The AircraftIn the late 1920s - early 1930s France was very much taken… more |
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Dassault Mirage IV - Refueling Probe BoomPublished: March 25, 2015 A while back (2009 if you want to know) I built a Heller Mirage IVP with the Pavla recce pod. Last week I got a new refueling probe for this kit. The new probe from Master Model is a single piece of turned aluminum, exactly the same length as the Heller probe. All I had to do was remove the plastic probe from the nose of the Mirage IV, drill a larger hole where the probe goes, paint… more |
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Pitot and Refueling Probe for the Airfix BuccaneerPublished: March 18, 2015 Master Model produces some fine metal components for aircraft kits. The metal pitots are really super, especially after you’ve broken the plastic one provided in the kit. In this case I found the pitot had totally broken off the Buccaneer. I had to replace it with a part from a new kit. The pitot was a direct replacement. The instructions give a very good idea of what needs to… more |
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Victor B.2 Landing Gear (GW)Published: March 11, 2015 A bit of explanation here. I try to do full-build reviews with photos taken through most of the process. When I hooked my memory card into the USB port on my computer, it said, “there are no files”. And there weren’t. It had erased my photos, so all my pictures are GONE. It did the same to another memory card. I am quite unhappy. On with the review. Scale Aircraft Conversions… more |
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E-4B Advanced Airborne Command Post Limited EditionPublished: February 1, 2015 The AircraftThe E-4B is obviously a modified Boeing 747, or VC-25. It started out as a 747-200, but has had equipment added to make it an airborne command post. There was an E-4A, but these have been modified to B standard. The big visual difference between an A and a B is the fairly large hump on the top near the front. This houses the SHF SATCOM antenna. The E-4B has a… more |
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T-6 TexanPublished: January 18, 2015 The North American T-6 Texan was the premier advanced trainer through World War II and later. It was also used as a FAC (Forward Air Control) aircraft in Korea and Vietnam. The AT-6 was also known as the SNJ by the US Navy and the Harvard by the RAF. 61 countries have used some variant of the Texan. If you can’t find markings that interest you, just keep looking. My personal attachment… more |
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RAF Strategic Bomber Victor B.2Published: January 17, 2015 Britain had the V Bombers, Valiant, Victor and Vulcan, from the 1950s through the 1980s. They were large bombers designed to carry the large nuclear weapons of the 50s, and they served the RAF well, with the Victor and Vulcan serving as aerial tankers and the last Vulcan tanker retiring in 1984. This model is of the Victor B.2 bomber version of the aircraft. The bomber was never used… more |
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Shopping CartPublished: December 31, 2014 There’s not a lot of military history for this kit. It’s a pretty standard European-style shopping cart. I have pushed a bunch of these around stores in Italy when I was TDY at Vincenza. From my experience working at Kroger’s I know that the American version has a different wheel setup and a shelf below the main basket. This kit is a marvelously done piece of photoetch. Everything… more |
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MiG-15 WeekendPublished: December 27, 2014 Way back when, I built the Airfix 1/72 MiG-15. I was more than happy to get Eduard’s new Weekend MiG-15, because it’s a far superior kit. So this review is going to tell you the wonderful things about this kit. But because it’s a review, there will be a couple of things that could use improvement. Since it’s a weekend kit, there is no photo etch or additional detail parts. On the… more |