F-111

[inkworm]

An E just needing the stores. Most of the photos I've seen don't seem to show much weathering, just a bit of fading in places.

And thanks to Grubby for his walk around photos which were invaluable.

[Supah]

Nice work inky One of my favorite aircraft, I remember their farewell tour visit to the local airbase.

[Jesters-Ink]

Yup, you've done the old gal justice once again, solid work Chris.
(and I bet you did it in a 10th of the time it would have taken me)
And the file size is 10k?

[inkworm]

Not saying it is a small file but it fits on a floppy

Actually the PSD is 73 meg and the illustrator file is only 297kb so you really aren't too far off with part of the guess.

[GiantFlyingRobots]

How can you not love the pig ?

A little more leading edge highlight and and under-wing shadow perhaps?

[wildr]

I have never seen anywhere, an F-111's national markings on the fuselage side in stencil yellow, back then upper heyford 111's were, I thought in color red, white blue or black.... do you have a ref. photo to show that color. I was with the 366th that flew 111F's in 1971, 389th, 390th, 391st squadrons. It was officially named "Aardvark". I think the only area that would show weathering would be the leading edge of the wing, at least from my personal experience.

[inkworm]

I have never seen anywhere, an F-111's national markings on the fuselage side in stencil yellow

Here we go, Imperial Wizard AF68002 from the 79th TFS in the summer of 1988 (or so I have been told). It's not the yellow but the tan I assume, sadly this is the best photo I have been provided with which shows the markings.

Thanks for the tip on the weathering and it makes sense. I don't suppose you've got any good photos of the Ravens? As I've done one of those as well but not happy with the limited reference material I have encountered and am concerned over the accuracy of the upper tail in particular.

Also can you help out with what would be a typical weapon load for one of these please?

[BLOWHARD]

NICE! Looks really good and I dig the colors!

[wildr]

When I was in the Raven did not exist, they used an insert in the weapons bay for infrared targeting, carried the first smart bombs.
It could carry up to two bombs or additional fuel in the internal weapons bay. External ordnance included combinations of bombs, missiles and fuel tanks. The loads nearest the fuselage on each side pivoted as the wings swept back, keeping ordnance parallel to the fuselage. Outer pylons did not move but could be jettisoned for high-speed flight.
Up to four nuclear bombs on four pivoting wing pylons, and two in internal weapons bay. Wing pylons carry total external load of 25,000 pounds (11,250 kilograms) of bombs, rockets, missiles, or fuel tanks.
20 CBU-52, 20 CBU-59, 20 CBU-71, 8 CBU-87, 8 CBU-89, 20 MK-20 , 4 BL-755
Tail stripes were red, blue and green on the MO Mountain Home A/C, for 389th 390th, 391st sq's

[wildr]

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