allenjb42

Thanks for all the birthday wishes guys!

Many happy returns!

Israeli Dakotas also had the later brown/sand/green camo and eventually grey too. http://www.iafe.net/Dakota%20.htm

I think they used them in WW2. I seem to remember reading about blow-up Shermans at various bases around Southern England combined with fake radio traffic so the Germans wouldn't know which units were operating from where. My daughter thought the Russian tank on the BBC news this morning was a great alternative to a bouncy castle! Anyone know where I can hire one for her birthday party?

Have you been reading this website Spinners? http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=30764&st=0&p=332374& Some nice ideas for other potential users too - Iran, China...

PvtDK are you asking if you can have a squadron in a campaign that flies a mix of different aircraft, say like in Area 88? I think the answer to that is no.

Officer Crabtree lives again!

That's not Topol. This is Topol!

LOL. Is it me or does he look a bit like TK?

Many happy returns guys!

Now that I like! Nice one Spinners

I was at work when someone came into the office to tell us about the first plane. We thought it was a tourist Cessna. Then one of the IT guys working from home called about the second plane and we knew it wasn't an accident. The internet froze on all the news sites - BBC, Sky, CNN etc so we couldn't get any info from there. Actually IIRC the only site that seemed to be working was Janes, and I remember mentioning OBL and AQ to my work buddies, who hadn't heard of them! So the day passed with not much work getting done and a running commentary from the IT guy phoning in from home every half hour. Then sometime in the afternoon 'they' decided it might be a good idea to evacuate the tall buildings in Manchester city centre, so we were let out and I went home to watch the news well into the night. I was expecting a response like the cruise missile strike in 1998 or a Special Forces op to take out OBL as I couldn't see the US nuking Afghanistan, or even selected targets. I can't believe we're still there 9 years later. Having said that though, Tony Blair was on the radio this evening discussing his new book, and suggested it may take a generation at least until the ideology that started this conflict is diluted enough to reason and negotiate with.

Many happy returns guys. Sorry I missed it yesterday!

The Jewish New Year starts tonight, so wishing all our Jewish and Israeli members a happy Rosh Hashanah and a sweet and peaceful new year.

Short Sunderland flying boat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Sunderland Looks great Veltro.

Many happy returns!

Thanks Dave, I appreciate it. Got an idea for a project but I need his help.

Found this in my modelling box: Hope it's useful. Check your pm - the stencils are in Hebrew.

Some OV-10D skins coming soon: VMO-1 VMO-4 BATF assigned to covert anti-drug ops in Colombia btw anyone know how I can get hold of mustang60348 who created the OV-10D? Tried pm here and at Thirdwire but no reply yet.

If you include an Israeli skin I'm sold (although I'll get it anyway for a WOV install). As far as I can tell the Israeli AH-Gs (and they only had a few because they really wanted, and got, the AH-1Q TOW-armed version) were painted in standard US olive drab with markings in black. The later versions got the desert tan we are more familiar with.

The title says it all. I'm looking to do a 1980's USMC campaign but we don't have an A-4M. The Argentinian A-4AR with the tailtip fairing could be used, but we don't have any grey USMC skins for it. Or am I missing something?

Well at least you got strudels & schnitzels to compensate for the lack of Skyhawks!