War Eagle F-16 Ohio ANG decals

 Below are the Two decal sheet for the Ohio ANG F-16 units out of Toledo and Springfield, Ohio. Also show is the aircraft the decal was based off of.

Photo and model by John Mitchell

Blast from the past. War Eagle Sea Fury decals.

A few days  one of Hyperscales members posted about the War Eagle decals.  It is great to see some many people remembering buying and using War Eagle products.   That why I created the War Eagle items.   In a why is a way to Remember Ron.   His love of the hobby and aircraft.  Plus he was one hell of a nice guy.   I wish he was still around to read this comment.

Bit of a blast from the past seeing the old War Eagle Sea Fury sheet.
On of the options was VW.623 of 805 Squadron RAN. It was the very first aircraft I worked on in the RAN after joining VC-724 Squadron
in 1980 (I soon managed to skulk away from the Sea Fury and get my mitts on the Sea Venom on the other side of the shed, but that's a
whole different story)
Long story short, 623 had spent many years as a gate guard at HMAS Albatross and had suffered a very bodgy restoration at some stage
which included painting very nice but completely wrong side numbers (USN style instead of proper RN style) and losing 90% of the internal
components.
War Eagle did a brilliant job of reproducing this scheme, might not be accurate but capture a unique moment in that aircrafts history.

Steve Long

Former RANFAA A-4G/TA-4G Maintenance
Supervisor, Camden Museum of Aviation.

Passing interest in Sea Venom's

War Eagle 1/48 F-100F conversion for Monogram kit

This was one of War eagles  popular kits.  The master for the conversion was made by the late Dave "Boh"  Boksanski. I remember Dave working on in his man cave.   Boh like F-100's a lot. This as a simple quick conversion he created in about a day.  I still can see him flying the model making jet sounds...   There is a great article by Gil Hodges on building the conversion on  Hyperscale.  The article  can be found here: F-100f by Gil Hodges 2004

Model and photo by Gil Hodges

WW2 B-29 assembly line photos.

Early KC-135 Day-Glo

I have always liked the looks of the early KC-135 in the Day-glo scheme

War Eagle 1/48 B-57

Another kit that Ron made for the modelers.  It seemed that everyone wanted a B-57 in 1.48 scale.  Well Ron made it happen, that what was interesting about Ron.  If he thought people wanted the kit he would push to get one out.   What amazed Ron had a full time job as a plastic injection mold maker.  It was at that time a highly skill machinist trade.  Working long hours at his regular job he pushed himself to make War Eagle a first class company.  I'm looking for any completed picture of the model to post here.

Photo provided by Gil Hodges.

War Eagle A-4 conversions.

The A-4 has one of Ron's first vacuum form conversion created by him.  He had the master made here and shipped to New Zealand to be made.  Ron was a big fan of the tiny A-4.  Plus at that time the monogram kit was state of the art kit  During this time simple resin conversion where coming on the model seen.  Ron and I had a discussion on making the nose and intake out of resin. But Ron as fully committed to vacuum form.  Later missing link used this idea for their conversions.   

All A-4s built by Gil Hodges