F-111, FB-111, EF-111, Aardvark, Merlin, Raven, Sparkvark, and Pig

[PR19_Kit]

Ahah, so the later ones had the correct Triple Plow II intake moulding?

Does anyone, or did anyone, do a conversion from the earlier versions?

It's a BITCH to do it from scratch, I did it twice in the early 70s on an Airfix and a Revell A to make two Es for Scale Models. It was a total pain and I really don't want to do it again.

[Gondor]

Ahah, so the later ones had the correct Triple Plow II intake moulding?

Does anyone, or did anyone, do a conversion from the earlier versions?

It's a BITCH to do it from scratch, I did it twice in the early 70s on an Airfix and a Revell A to make two Es for Scale Models. It was a total pain and I really don't want to do it again.

I might have a spare lower fuselage with the earlier intakes but I will have to check which version it is as.

Gondor

[Librarian]

They were definitely two different air intake options, and a third for the EF-111. These were on separate sprues as is Hasegawa's habit....you HAVE to buy the right boxing . There was a conversion available for the F-111B at some point....

[PR19_Kit]

They were definitely two different air intake options, and a third for the EF-111. These were on separate sprues as is Hasegawa's habit....you HAVE to buy the right boxing . There was a conversion available for the F-111B at some point....

It's the EF-111 kit I have and it has the earlier Triple Plow I intakes with the big splitter plates, and until this morning I had an F-111C and it had the same intakes.......

It's a conversion to later Triple Plow II intakes that I could be interested in.

[Librarian]

My mistake...memory gone all Basra. I just vaguely remember there was something different about that area .

Consider the Italeri kit, that's also very nice for a F-111A...you can sweep the wings as well.

[NeoConShooter]

I'd say the bad press from the first Vietnam deployment in 1968 was a factor, not to mention the failed USN F-111B version. The RAF's cancelling the F-111K program was another contributor in my opinion. GD did offer the F-111 to West Germany, Italy, Turkey, and even Israel, but no takers.
The main problem was that the plane was rushed into production and combat before all of the bugs were worked out. Once that was done, it was a great tactical bomber, but the B would have been a lousy carrier aircraft (too heavy, pilots lost sight of the deck just before touchdown, took up too much deck space, etc.) Great weapons system, though, and Grumann took the AWG-9/AIM-54 combo developed for the B and put it in the F-14. Finally, MacNamara's Whiz Kids (who knew very little about the military when they got to the Pentagon in 1961) seized on the program as one plane for the AF, Navy, and Marines (who never wanted it in the first place); and that was the first of many foul-up those \"bow-tie bastards\" created.

Those "reasons" why the F-111B was not bought are all BS! It was all politics in Congress and the Senate over which congressman's district would get the fat payroll contracts, not which was the best plane. Grumman was in New York and GD was in Georgia, IIRC and that was the whole story.

[jsport]

F-111 ovr all others

[ysi_maniac]

Single seat F-111

[zenrat]

Looks Soviet like that.

[Captain Canada]

It does look rather Russian ! Cool.

[DarrenP2]

EF 111 was only a Jammer aircraft of did it have Anti Radiation missiles?

[TsrJoe]

http://www.boxartden.com/gallery/index.php/Machat-article/Grumman/Grumman-EF-111A

[JayBee]

Wow! A Sparkvark in SEA Camo. 

[thundereagle1997]

F-111 with wings from f-16xl

[thundereagle1997]

B-1R with the wings of the an f-16xl