Met An Interesting Person Today

AeroplaneDriver · February 02, 2007, 07:54:00 PM

This week Donna sold a house to a gentleman moving to our part of NC from Las Vegas. Turns out the guy was a right-seater on F-111s in Vietnam. He flies back to LV tomorrow so he wanted to take us out to dinner tonight where I enjoyed a few neat war stories over a beers (for example, the Easter Sunday that he had a mission scheduled and showed up to find his -111 loaded with 24 x 500lb bombs, all painted like easter eggs!).

Anyway, a really neat guy, so I was thinking that as part of the 'welcome home' gift that Donna leaves for all her clients I would build a nice SEA F-111, mounted in inflight mode with the wings back on a nice wooden base with a set of USAF Nav wings on the base.

So the request is; are there any 1/48 F-111s other than the Monogram one? And, does anyone have a 1/48 F-111 they would be interested in parting with for fair market value or a trade? I know I can find them on eBay, but would rather spend my $$$ here if anyone is looking to get rid of one.

Thanks!

Nick

Shasper · February 02, 2007, 08:03:56 PM

Go Academy, stay away from Hobby Crap and Zhengdufuk, simple enough.

Shas B)

BlackOps · February 02, 2007, 08:08:37 PM

Ya gotta add the "Easter Eggs" he would surely get a big kick out of that

A very nice gesture I might add!

Supertom · February 02, 2007, 08:25:45 PM

Yep, get the Academy. The Zhengdefu and Hobbycraft ones are copies of the Academy, but poorly molded.

GTX · February 02, 2007, 09:00:13 PM

If you don't mind, what was his name? There weren't too many F-111 crew who served in Vietnam.

Regards,

Greg

AeroplaneDriver · February 03, 2007, 08:22:08 AM

Duhhh....forgot all about the Academy ones! One of my LHSs have several in stock IIRC.

The gentlemans name is Don. Cant remember his last name. He and some friends joined the USAF after college and he did his service and left in the early 70s. Since then he's been out of aviation, but you could see the twinkle in his eye when he talked about going supersonic at 200 feet.

So...next request; where can you find USAF wings online?

Captain Canada · February 03, 2007, 08:51:52 AM

Awesome idea, Nick ! I'm sure he'll love it when he finds that sitting in the new shack !

Leigh · February 03, 2007, 09:22:03 AM

This any help?
They have other types bit hard to find though just do a search for "wings" and plough through the results