!!!Weclome to the Eyes in the Sky GB '06!!!
Any era, any nationality, any scale, any additions welcome, as long as it is a recon plane of any type, AWACS/AEW&C or ASW.
Entrants:
Me: 1/48 Italeri/Testors U-2R
PanzerWulff: 1/48 Testors O-2 Skymaster and OV-10 Bronco
Madroc: 1/48 RF-4B
Toother1321(mabye): RC-135
yardbird78:Academy 1/144 EC-121D College Eye
Will7813: Academy 1/72 OV-10
Any badge designs welcome!!!
Let me look in my stash I think I may have a O-1 Birddog or an OV-10 Bronco in there
alrighty, I’ll have you down
I took a look at the stash and I have both the OV-10 Bronco in 1/48 and the O-2 Skymaster (not the O-1 birddog) from Testors There both easy builds so I think I will enter the pair as my build
[censored], wish I had an RC-135 to do up in my dads unit markings for this. I do have a 707 i was going to convert. All it needs is the thimble nosecone, but my skill arent quite there yet.
Steve
Would you accept an entry that’s already started if it’s something I just started this month? It was July '06 so it’s in your time frame.
That would be my 1/48 Hase RF-4B. It came with decals for a late-70’s bird and the all-black retirement scheme and I’m still trying to figure out which one to do. I can’t find good pics of the black version, and I like the sharper “chisel nose” on the older one, plus I think the retirement bird may have had the longer 'burner cans of the F-4J retrofitted. The kit comes with those but I would like to maintain the -B look, even with thick wings.
OTOH, black jets are just way cool.
Failing that, I also have a minicraft 1/144 kit of the C-54 derivative flown by the USCG on iceberg patrols and SAR missions before they got their Hercs. I forget the designation but it has a pretty cool color scheme.
I may run out of time to get it done as I am starting school in less than a month, but I do get a whole month off in the winter…
if it’s started or from another build, that’s okay. I have the only guidlines on the first post. Those that said what they want to build, i’ll have you down
Well, my U-2R is finished with the exception of a whole bunch of antenas, bummer the my mom gave our digital camera to our uncle in Poland as a gift, now I can’t get pics until my dad picks one up in the States…
Pics, s my friend came yesterday for a photo session:
here is my O-2/A Skymaster I still need to add some antennae and finish the paint job before decaling but it’s an easy build 
More to come later
WELL IT’S ABOUT TIME SOMEONE REMEBERED THIS GB!!![:P]
I would like to join this GB with an Academy, 1/144, EC-121D, College Eye. It is the Connie with the gawd awful radomes on her back and belly that was used as AWACS in Viet Nam.
Darwin, O.F. [alien]
Alrighty, I’ll have you down on the list.
I have finally made some progress on my Academy 1/144 version of the Lockheed EC-121D Warning Star as used in the “College Eye” program. This was the Viet Nam era precursor of today’s E-3 AWACS. I started one kit and very shortly it morphed into twins. The second one will probably wind up being a J model basic MATS trash hauler. Comments welcome.
Darwin, O.F. [alien]
Out of the Box
Wing Enhancement
Engine Cowl enhancement
Twins
Ventral Radome
Dorsal Radome
Lookin good, yardbird.
It looks releay alwesome.
I have some pictures of markings for the project if you want them.
I’ll be in with an Academy 1/72 OV-10 Bronco.
Will
Now THIS is good. Will, I’ll have you listed.
Well, it has been about 4 months since anyone posted to this thread, so I guess I’d better update my project. It is the Academy 1/144 EC-121D College Eye, aka AWACS from the Viet Nam era. I let this set for several months and then got into too much of a hurry to finish it so that I could move on to something else. The seam filling leaves a lot to be desired, the gloss finish is a little too shiney and the whole thing is very rough in some areas. Both Connies were built simultaneously. Comments welcome.
EC-121D on right and C-121J trash hauler on left
Overall view of model
left front quarter
#1 & #2 engines
Triple Tails
#3 & #4 engines
does an SR-71 count as recon?