| Image Comments |
| heywooood | 23-Oct-19 00:00 |
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| heywooood | 23-Oct-19 00:05 |
| this will be other winter project..Curtiss F9c Sparrowhawk though I have not decided on the exact paint and squadron colors just yet |
| Don C | 23-Oct-19 10:10 |
| Good choice. If you're going Navy, I have the tail color chart for the carriers. |
| heywooood | 23-Oct-19 23:05 |
| I kind of like the one pictured here..is it accurate to your chart? |
| heywooood | 23-Oct-19 23:07 |
| I don't want to replicate the overworked red cowl and red wheel spats version...prefer to do a less often represented color scheme. |
| Creosotewind | 24-Oct-19 12:42 |
| I don't believe this was ever stationed on carriers. Instead it was a "parasite" fighter, that was stationed inside US Navy dirigibles.
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| Don C | 24-Oct-19 12:47 |
| http://www.cybermodeler.com/color/usn_preww2.shtml Try this for a complete color chart. I think everyone uses that red cowl because it is the squadron leader. Here you're looking at the Enterprise (before 1937) or the Wasp after '37. |
| David Duckett | 24-Oct-19 15:23 |
| Designed to be stationed inside😂😂😂😂 |
| heywooood | 24-Oct-19 20:20 |
| funny - I just assumed Don meant 'air' carriers...the Macon and the Akron
This looks like one that was lost with the Macon - pilot Lt. Harold B Miller |
| Don C | 25-Oct-19 09:48 |
| I did see the "hook" and know what it's for, but I guess I didn't think it through. It's tough to get old. |
| heywooood | 25-Oct-19 11:04 |
| I have three chapters in my encyclopedia of dirty words dedicated to the subject.. |
| heywooood | 12-May-20 23:49 |
| well - it ain't winter in San Diego no more (if ever) so this is next..and probably in this exact livery..maybe |
| bobgood | 13-May-20 19:58 |
| Love the Sparrowhawk - not sure that I would be up for that hook-up job though! Making a good three-pointer in a Tiger Moth was just about my limit. |
| bobgood | 13-May-20 20:01 |
| I would love to see a DD or HW Tiger Moth build - or a DH 60 Gypsy Moth perhaps. Hope to,get back to some model building when we are settled in our new home in the Mojave. |
| bobgood | 13-May-20 20:02 |
| ... when the "lock-down" allows us to move that is! |
| heywooood | 14-May-20 01:16 |
| Watching some old b/w footage of both the drop - and the snag.. plus some mess hall jawboning and dirigible wheelhouse pilotage. A different time but I think the depression led a lot of young fellers to try their hands at whatever came with a paycheck. I would love to see and hear the maneuver with modern HD cameras and sound. Even a CG representation of it would be something. |
