Hey folks, wondering if you guys can help. I am trying to put together a model of each aircraft used by the 182nd airlift wing down in Peoria Illinois (my home town). I have decided to do them all in 1/48th scale. I am going to need a F-51 mustang, F-84f, O-2skymaster, A-37, F-16 adf, and C-130 H. I have already picked up the O-2, and C-130 (big kit). I have found decals for the F-84 and the F-16 and these are the kits i have questions about.
for the f-84 i’m useing aeromaster decals and they say that they are intended for the monogram F-84f kit. Do you guys know anything about this kit? Who is making it these days, pros/cons?
for the f-16 superscale decals have the proper markings for this squadron. They are for the Hasegawa kit but it is my understanding that only Revell makes a ADF kit out of the box. So my question here is pros/cons for each kit and how hard is it to convert the hasegawa into an ADF version of the F-16. My understanding the only external diffrences between the f-16a block 15 and the ADF is a couple of antanna and the spot light.
thanks for any help
Cheers
Joe
The 1/48 Monogram F-84F kit is an excellent model. The cockpit is very detailed as is the outside. It has raised panel lines that have a few small errors in location. The overall shape is very slightly in error in a couple of places, but you have to be a real nit-picker to notice the difference.
These markings are on Aeromaster sheet # 48 728
This is Aeromaster sheet # 48-727 with markings for an IL and MO ANG birds.
Darwin, O.F. [aln]
I believe the Academy KC-97L were included IANG markings.
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yeah the KC-97 was flown by the guys up in Rockford IL, they fly KC-135 these days. They have always been an air refueling wing up there and I think those are the only two aircraft they have ever had. Though they may have started with the KC-97 without the two jets, then upgraded later.
Cool news on the monogram F-84. I’ll hunt that one down and pick i up. How about the f-16?
The 126th Bomb Wing was initially located at Midway Airport in 1950 flying B-26 Invaders and flew these aircraft during the Korean War. They returned to Midway in 1953 and flew B-26, then F-51, then F-84 and then F-86 aircraft. In 1954 they moved to O’Hare as the 126 BW.
The refueling era began in 1961 with receipt of the KC-97L tankers, converted to the KC-135A in 1976 and to the KC-135E in 1983 through the end of the wing’s service at O’Hare in 1999.
July 1999 the last KC-135E was transferred to Scott AFB, IL, and the wing converted to the KC-135R in 2008 & 2009.
The 126th ARW has participated in every major conflict since Korea.
Darwin, O.F. [aln]
Cool info, I’m not as up to date on my information on that squad. I’m modeling the 182nd airlift wing out of Peoria Illinois. They currently fly the C-130H. The kit i’m most looking foward to making is the A-37 dragonfly. They flew it from the late 70s to the early 90s and most of that time they were painted in Euro1 camo. A paint scheme that i haven’t seen many models of the dragonfly painted in.
I was born in Peoria’s St Francis hospital and lived in Morton from then until a year and a half after high school graduation. My uncle and aunt used to take me over to the Peoria airport to watch the airplanes, which at the time were the F-51 and then F-84F. I can remember watching the Thunderbirds perform at Peoria in the straight wing F-84G and then the swept wing F-84F.
Darwin, O.F. [aln]
My dad used to take my brother and I to the end of the runway on guard weekends and we’d sit on the hood of the car watching the F-16s do touch and goes, one of my favorite childhood memories.
Good way to get to see the inside of a police car nowadays…
Hi all,
Found this post and I am also trying to do the same thing as smith248. I just got back into building models again now that I have room for it. I served in the 182nd ANG when they had the A37, F-16, C-26, and C130s and I started my project with the goal of building these. I’m also going to build the p-51, O-2skymaster, and F-84 since I love those planes. Does anyone know where I can get decals for the P-51, O-2, and C-130?
Also, what’s the best kit for a C-130E/H 1/48 kit?
Thanks
I think that the Testor’s/Italeri kit of the C-130 is the only thing available in 1/48.
Darwin, O.F. [aln]