Cal Fire Grumman S-2T Turbo Tracker COMPLETE

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Great subject! I heard these guys a lot over the radio frequency in Sacramento when I flight instructing over the summer. Great build!

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Thanks ultra. Another Sacramento dude

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Whoo Hoo !

Now that’s a beautiful Job on an unusual subject ! Planes like this and others are seemingly forgotten by most modelers . Great Build and impressive finish on this project .

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Thanks TB. Ive been doing more non millitary birds…though still love the fighters

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Nice job with that KeavDog! I’ve got to get me at least one of those conversions.

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Thanks lewbud. Its a really well cast conversion. And the draw decals are great.

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Nice work!

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Thanks cbaltrin - a labor of love. She’s not a contest model, but represents the overall livery. Cal Fire must have spent some time on making this bird look good!

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Wow, great finish. Nice representation.

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Hi! I hope you are still around. I found your post by accident and originally wanted to build a 1:48 version of a fire plane - inspired by the current wild fires up north in California. I am as you are in SoCal (Orange), but I know people there. So after reading your posts I contacted the seller of the conversion kit and I am getting ready to try to repeat your awesome model with a different tanker number. I was hoping you are still around in case I run into any tricky questions with the conversion. Your model looks perfect! I know you used decals for the red, but I am practice spraying on a discarded model this weekend to see if I can get the big stripes right.

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Cool - be sure to post your build thread. Are you doing the 1/48 Kinetic S-2F? Where do you get the engines from? Draw decals has a 1/48 set as well as the 1/72 set.

So I was looking at my local bi-weekly publication and with all the fires around town, the cover is an in flight action shot of the exact plane I did. Kinda cool.

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Wow, that is satisfying that you even found a magazine showing your exact plane.

I wanted to get a tripled of all the planes of one airport. I started planning out 1/48 with the Bronco and tried to find all the pieces for the two S2s. I reached out to the person you got the conversion kit from and he has it only in 1/72 but not available. I may scale down to 1/72 but my goal is to get the lead plane and both tankers done.

Once I have something to show (and not embarassed about) I will open a thread and show my progress :slight_smile:

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Keavdog,

Sorry I didn’t see this the first time around. You did a magnificent job on this. I’m glad I could help out in some small way. Very cool with the magazine cover of your plane, maybe frame and display it?

JayJay, what decal set did you get, by chance?

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Hi John, I went to Wolf to order the conversion kit but I can’t find the way to order. Don’t understand their site. Any tips please. Thanks AARDVARK

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Hi John, Somehow my question for you ended up on page 3. Don’t understand Wolf’s site. Any tips? Thanks AARDVARK

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Thanks for the kind words. I’m doing the bronco next. I have the academy kit and draw decals. Unfortunately its from an older style of cal fire markings but it’s still cool.

Aardvark Send him an email at oder@wolfmodel.de.

Found here in the right column: http://www.modellwolf.de/conversion/conversion.html

Let him know what you want. He was very responsive and I cant say enough about the quality of the casting.

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Okay Now !

Listen here Toshi ! The car that served me best for much of it’s life was a 2003 Kia Sedona L.X. Fully loaded . Boy do I miss her ! Note - They can take a T-Bone hit without hurting you much !

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Hi K/D :

Question . How does this A/C refill ? Does it have to land and fill up ? The reason I ask is it looks like that’s the only way she gets filled up ! By the way , beautiful job on that model !

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Thanks TB it was a fun project. They have to land to refill. There’s a couple pics in the thread that show the refill nozzle on the tail of the plane on page 1. The attack bases store the Phos-Chek retardant. Good operations video here (for a different fire attack base) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8LT_v22arU

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Another first class WIP totally missed by me. [:(((]

What a nice job you did on this CalFire aircraft. It’s neat that you have two living at your home airport.

[Y][Y][Y], and thank you for sharing this WIP of an interesting model, John.