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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 8 2017, 02:23 AM (1,328 Views) | |
| Harold K | Feb 12 2017, 04:27 PM Post #16 |
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A little background for Tim (et al) http://www.rb-29.net/HTML/36HwdMyers/36hmyers2a.htm Note the other B-45 links, same site, at the bottom of the page. The overall black a/c (not the one shot down) would be very distinctive. I've seen photos of the RAF examples, but I have to wonder if they wore those roundels on clandestine ops over the USSR. Gary Powers' U-2 was in overall black, no US markings, wasn't it? |
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| J.C. Bahr | Feb 12 2017, 05:08 PM Post #17 |
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More like Dark Sea Blue...
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J.C. Bahr "A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP" - Leonard Nimoy | |
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| Greenshirt | Feb 13 2017, 12:07 AM Post #18 |
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Tim Holland, Southern MD - USA
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Bookmarked; thanks for that. Overall black instead of NMF...very interesting. Great read as well. |
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Tim Holland I'm a "green shirt" because I work on the carrier's flight deck and maintain US Navy aircraft. Safe sorties are my life so we can be anywhere, anytime -- from the Sea. http://greenshirt-modeler.blogspot.com/ | |
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| Graham Boak | Feb 13 2017, 09:59 AM Post #19 |
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Well, as you've nothing else to be doing, you might as well rather then just twiddling your thumbs. |
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| Greenshirt | Feb 13 2017, 12:51 PM Post #20 |
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Tim Holland, Southern MD - USA
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:lol: What!?, I must stay ahead of my stash, keeping it at 30 years' worth until I'm 90. Then I can hope science & medicine find a way for me to live to 125 or more (quality, mind you as I must be able to continue sticking plastic bits together and slapping paint n stickers on it). Rhetorical mostly...I will wait until someone here buys one and confirms whether the plastic is engineered for the RB-45C. Today I can't see two B-45's on my shelf. That may change of course. |
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Tim Holland I'm a "green shirt" because I work on the carrier's flight deck and maintain US Navy aircraft. Safe sorties are my life so we can be anywhere, anytime -- from the Sea. http://greenshirt-modeler.blogspot.com/ | |
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| woody | Feb 13 2017, 08:06 PM Post #21 |
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I am currently reading Shadow Flights by Curtis Peebles. In it there is a photo said to have been taken during the overflight mission of a RB-45 on the boom over the North Sea before entering Soviet airspace. The a/c in question has full RAF markings. Date given as April 17 1952. Cheers, Woody |
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| dknights | Feb 13 2017, 08:42 PM Post #22 |
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The court of LAST RESORT!
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As for me and my house, we will wait to see if Valom releases an RB-45C. (I am almost certain they will.) |
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David M. Knights Fortes fortuna adiuvat 14 Finished: Special Armor V-2, Airfix P-51 15 Finished: SBS Gladiator engine 16 Finished: Brengun C2 Wasserfall, Merit SS-N-2 Styx, World's smallest diorama, Airfix Hurricane. 17 Finished: Japanese Carrier Deck, 18 Finished: NONE The bench:Platz T-33, Trump. T-34/85, Meng F-106, Airfix P-51 #2, Airfix P-40 Revell MiG-21F-13, Ace Citroen V-11 | |
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| Harold K | Feb 14 2017, 01:24 AM Post #23 |
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Interesting! Thanks Woody. |
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| Buz Pezold | Feb 18 2017, 03:02 AM Post #24 |
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"There's no slack in building a vac"!
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Woody and Harold K., Another interesting book is BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY by William E. Burrows about the photo recon, electronic warfare and intel during the Cold War. There are a couple chapters that talk about the RB-45 missions by the USAF and the RAF. A very good read and we read this book at our military book club a few months ago. I recommend it and here's a link to amazon that can be picked for a penny! https://www.amazon.com/Any-Means-Necessary-...means+necessary Buz P.S. I have the GERALD J. ELLIOTT vacuform kit of the B-45/RB-45 which I do plan to build sometime in the near future......if I live that long! :lol: |
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Geaux Tigers! currently residing in Powder Springs, GA (USA) | |
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| Starfighter Decals | Feb 18 2017, 02:56 PM Post #25 |
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If I recall correctly, it was called Indigo Blue. FS 15035? SR-71s, U-2s, and TR-1s. Fresh it looked a lot like Japanese Cowl Black/Blue. I can't recall it looking like anything but black on an operational plane though....not that I was allowed to get that close back in those days. |
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| Greenshirt | Feb 18 2017, 05:00 PM Post #26 |
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Tim Holland, Southern MD - USA
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Gunze H77 Tire Black is a good looking Blue Black (IJN cowl color, RAF Night) to my eye. For variation, I mix it 1:1 with Tamiya flat black (XF-1) to get a blacker blue-black, and with Gunze Midnight Blue (H55) to get a bluer blue-black. |
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Tim Holland I'm a "green shirt" because I work on the carrier's flight deck and maintain US Navy aircraft. Safe sorties are my life so we can be anywhere, anytime -- from the Sea. http://greenshirt-modeler.blogspot.com/ | |
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| otard | Feb 20 2017, 05:09 PM Post #27 |
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Acording to AviationMegastore.com the B-45 is expected in october from Valome. In 4 versions, B45A, B45C, and two RB45C (one in RAF scheme). |
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| Harold K | Feb 20 2017, 08:43 PM Post #28 |
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Surprising that Vaclav shows nothing on his site, yet. |
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| dknights | Feb 21 2017, 01:35 AM Post #29 |
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Yea! |
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David M. Knights Fortes fortuna adiuvat 14 Finished: Special Armor V-2, Airfix P-51 15 Finished: SBS Gladiator engine 16 Finished: Brengun C2 Wasserfall, Merit SS-N-2 Styx, World's smallest diorama, Airfix Hurricane. 17 Finished: Japanese Carrier Deck, 18 Finished: NONE The bench:Platz T-33, Trump. T-34/85, Meng F-106, Airfix P-51 #2, Airfix P-40 Revell MiG-21F-13, Ace Citroen V-11 | |
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| otard | Feb 21 2017, 08:32 AM Post #30 |
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Anyway, they have different numbers at AviationMegastore. https://www.aviationmegastore.com/?action=u..._publisher=2212 |
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I recommend it and here's a link to amazon that can be picked for a penny!
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