WHIFS from other forums

Hotte · November 27, 2012, 08:20:27 AM

Israeli J 29 Tunnan

http://www.gaetanmarie.com/en/j29.htm

Hotte

bearmatt · January 15, 2013, 05:02:20 AM

Haven't seen this Apache on whatifmodelers yet.....

http://www.aeroscale.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=features&file=view&artid=2896

Awesome work!

lenny100 · January 15, 2013, 05:15:38 AM

love it, that paint job is worth displaying on its own!!!!!!!!!!!!

Spey_Phantom · January 15, 2013, 07:32:30 AM

wow, that looks epic

Radish · January 17, 2013, 01:47:32 AM

A steampunked La-7 from moi....

http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=2075.0

Radish · January 17, 2013, 01:50:29 AM

My BIGGLES steampunked Corsair......

http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=1944.0

More Biggles steampunk is on the way....

CANSO · January 17, 2013, 04:14:36 AM

Quote from: Radish on January 17, 2013, 01:50:29 AM
My BIGGLES steampunked Corsair......
http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=2075.0

Sorry to bother you, but I guess the above is for the "Soviet" again, not for the "Corso"... $:-\$ ...or at least I don't see it there.

Radish · January 17, 2013, 04:41:41 AM

Apologies.....I've altered the link in the post now.

perttime · January 17, 2013, 08:26:36 AM

Cannot see them

On Beyond the Sprues, you need to be a member to view attachments.

Captain Canada · January 24, 2013, 06:47:41 PM

Ya can't see them either

dwomby · February 11, 2013, 05:08:31 AM

Great USAF f-29 here on 72 Scale site:

http://z15.invisionfree.com/72nd_Aircraft/index.php?showtopic=3100&hl=

David

Captain Canada · February 11, 2013, 06:09:05 AM

That is gorgeous ! Almost looks like one of those flawless models done for the Tamiya baxes/ catalog. But, why are they delivering bread to it ?

Oh, and I think his serial number is wrong, as they wouldn't have been operational in '78

bearmatt · February 11, 2013, 06:21:32 AM

Thx chaps! This is actually one of mine....
And I posted the whole building story a while ago in this forum too.

@ Cpt Canada: You caught me!

That will be very difficult to explain, even in whifland....

Cheers

bearmatt

Captain Canada · February 11, 2013, 06:26:14 AM

LOL ! I was just kidding tho. I never bother with details like that, just couldn't resist this time. I only noticed as I gave it a really good once over....I just love the F-5 and this one just looks sooo nice.

Alvis 3.14159 · February 15, 2013, 08:10:14 AM

From "The Operational History of the F-29: Backwards into the Fight!" Published April, 2015

Many plane spotters were immediate to claim something was wrong with the tail numbers on certain F-29s deployed overseas. They claimed that the numbers assigned indicated the planes had been taken on force in the late 70s, which was obviously not correct. The USAF for many years refused to comment on the matter, often casting aspersions onto the claimants that they were "delusional UFO watchers and not relevant", but the reality was that the USAF deliberately used a block of serials completely out of sequence for very spcific reasons. Only after the F-29s had been replaced with the F-37s did the truth finally come out.

Funding for the F-29 had been difficult at times, with many in the USAF procurement system actively attacking its' capability and usefulness. One way to get planes into service without calling attention to them was to use numbers previously assigned to older planes, like the F-15 or F-16, and claim it was "an upgrade". Presumably, nobody would notice, especially if the planes were based overseas. Once the F-29 had been in service and shown that it was a capable aircraft, then it would be too late to kill the program, which is exactly what the USAF did. An accounting nightmare was to follow, however, as F-16s were being withdrawn from service, and some of the F-29s were recalled back the the US, and placed in the disposal system. None were scrapped, but it did cause some embarrasment to the USAF to have to go retreive said planes from the boneyard and restore them to operational duties.

Alvis Pi