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| Weapon loadouts. | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 7 2015, 09:28 AM (373 Views) | |
| Olde Farte | Oct 7 2015, 09:28 AM Post #1 |
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Lt. Derek 'Smurfy' Reeve
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I don't know how many people follow Cybermodeler but they are in the process of uploading various weapon loadouts to cover many aircraft with the first being for the Phantom. They can be found here and this link also covers a whole host of subject and colour references, most useful and one I visit often. http://www.cybermodeler.com/references.shtml |
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| Disorder | Oct 7 2015, 10:03 AM Post #2 |
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Lt Paddy 'Chancer' Boyle
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Nice one, Del. Thanks for that. |
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| Olde Farte | Oct 8 2015, 07:45 AM Post #3 |
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Lt. Derek 'Smurfy' Reeve
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Vietnam era USN/USMC F-4 now added. |
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| Disorder | Oct 8 2015, 08:12 AM Post #4 |
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Lt Paddy 'Chancer' Boyle
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| Cimmerian | Oct 8 2015, 10:28 AM Post #5 |
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Lt. Ken 'Albatros' Jeffrey
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Cheers, Del. Some useful stuff there. |
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| Olde Farte | Oct 12 2015, 08:05 AM Post #6 |
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Lt. Derek 'Smurfy' Reeve
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A-4E (Vietnam) loadouts added. |
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| Olde Farte | Oct 13 2015, 07:49 AM Post #7 |
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Lt. Derek 'Smurfy' Reeve
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Su-27 air-to-air added. |
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| Olde Farte | Oct 15 2015, 07:40 AM Post #8 |
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Lt. Derek 'Smurfy' Reeve
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A-4C (Vietnam) added. |
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| Olde Farte | Oct 17 2015, 10:23 AM Post #9 |
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Lt. Derek 'Smurfy' Reeve
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A-4M (Pt-1) added. |
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| Olde Farte | May 4 2018, 11:14 AM Post #10 |
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Lt. Derek 'Smurfy' Reeve
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Nothing more added yet but this could be useful for weapon colours. https://www.cybermodeler.com/resource12.shtml |
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| Disorder | May 4 2018, 01:31 PM Post #11 |
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Lt Paddy 'Chancer' Boyle
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| RJ Tucker | May 26 2018, 01:47 PM Post #12 |
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Patrolling the MMM frontier
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Here's some info I've collected over the years regarding US aircraft munitions; keeping in mind that the codes were for safety's sake, so even though you could vary your Olive Drab body color for paint batches, weathering. NO ONE that kept his rank stripes ever painted a Red-Brown stripe where a Light Red stripe should go, etc: (All the color numbers refer to the Federal Standard 595C Color Convention) Olive Drab 34087: bomb body-varied in shade somewhat Yellow 33538 on the nose stripes: High Explosive-on bombs, missile warheads, etc Red-Brown 30117 stripes: Low Explosive- denotes rocket motors on rockets and missiles Dk Gull Gray 36231: Chemical weapon body- a darker gray than the "modern bomb color gray Red 31136: Irritant agent, such as tear gas Black 37038: Armor defeating- not used much since the sixties Dark Green 24108: Toxic Agent ie nerve gas, etc- the bomb body is the Dk Gull Gray, the stripes are Green for Toxic, or Red for Irritants, with different numbers of stripes for each specific chemical in each group Silver/Aluminum 17178: Countermeasures such as chaff Light Green 34449: Smoke or Marker (some stores would get the Light Red, instead) Light Red 31158: Incendiary or Highly Flammable ie Napalm- this is the real color of that Red "drop tank" in the Osprey Skyraider book or depicted on the original release of the Monogram 1/48th A-1 Skyraider kit. Those are really MK 79 Napalms. Also, found on stores that could be used to start smaller fires other than Napalm. White 37875: Illuminating Light Blue 35109: Training Orange 32246: Training/Tracking- this is the "other" Orange named International Orange, it is much "oranger" than the Redish tinted International Orange 12197, but, both were in use during the same years in addition, there is a newer bomb body color of 36375 for bombs and some guidance pods and some parts of modern bombs use both Olive Drab (34088) and 34095 for different parts and some 36118 on guidance pods The meaning yellow stripes on a bomb: There were three very serious carrier fires during the Vietnam conflict, causing a re-think in the bombs, and the handling of them onboard ship. As a result, an ablative coating, to slow down the "cook-off" rate, increasing the time that the fire crews had to put out a fire, and cutting down on the number of cook-offs before the bombs could be jettisoned overboard on little chutes place strategically around the edge of the flight deck; these Ablative Coating bombs got two of the Yellow stripes, spaced the same distance apart as one stripe width There are photos of "two stripe bombs" as early as 1971 being dropped and on the flight deck of carriers, so for Vietnam era loadouts, check your refs. At the time of the Linebacker campaigns, Navy bombs would have the two stripes. During the '72-'73 period, Navy, Marine and USAF aircraft could be seen on land with only one stripe. Two stripes became somewhat common on any Navair aircraft but, USAF still used one stripe since they didn't need the Ablative Coating. Another stripe was added in more modern times to denote a bomb filled with a certain explosive filler. For example, the Thermally Protected BLU-111A/B, which is a bomb (1st stripe) with Thermal Protection (2nd), filled with PBXN-109 Explosive Filler (3rd stripe) with a 36375 Light Ghost Gray body Today, all NAVAIR bombs have the ablative coating. Hope you find that useful. Edited by RJ Tucker, May 26 2018, 01:48 PM.
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| Olde Farte | May 27 2018, 08:49 AM Post #13 |
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Lt. Derek 'Smurfy' Reeve
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Thanks for this RJ, it will indeed be very helpful for any 'Modern' builders. As an addition for those who are unaware what the FS numbers actually mean this may help. Lead number FS-1 denotes Gloss. Lead number FS-2 denotes Satin/Semi-Gloss. Lead number FS-3 denotes Matt. |
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