Brigadier General Robin Olds, then Colonel took to the air war over North Vietnam in an F-4C Phantom he nicknamed "Scat XXVII", keeping with his previous combat aircraft that all carried the "Scat" name. In March 2007 Olds was hospitalized in Colorado for Stage 4 prostate cancer complications. On June 14, 2007, he died from congestive heart failure. His ashes are housed in the United States Air Force Academy,
Beautiful build but it has the wrong variant of Sidewinders mounted. Those are AIM-9Js, which didn’t make it to Vietnam until late in 1972, long after Col Olds and Scat XXVII had left the war.
No worries Ski. I appreciate the work into the dio. But to my eye, the wrong missiles are like the wrong tartan on your Scotsman dio. To those who don’t know, no big deal. To those who do, it’s rather obvious.
Impressive models and weathering. Nicely modified figures. Gen. Olds was a great fighter pilot and still an idol to many in USAF. I attended one of his presentations in 1989 and it was the best 2 hours of that year.
This is a very impressive piece of work. I would love to create something like this myself–the work on the aircraft, the base and the revetment really caught my eye. While I am probably one of those that, without a reference in front of me, wouldn’t tell one sidewinder version from another, conceptually I can sympathize with @Stikpusher 's point about the importance of accuracy in something as significant as a loadout–unless one, up front, says they are simply building for fun or their own imagination. But this seems to aim to reflect fact, so… The other thing I noticed right off (long before the sidewinders) is that this would seem to be a celebration at the return of a mission-- yet the Phantom has a full load of missiles on board. Since this version had no gun, what are we celebrating? Nitpicking? Perhaps…but having at least one missile missing would have gone a long way toward making the scene more plausible—and, in my opinion anyway-- more interesting. But nitpicks aside, I love the piece overall and wish I could do as well.
