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Or if you doubt a little bit of prior knowledge and commons sense and you need a "real" official source, then if you can read japanese or run it through goggle translate, the page of that release states that the plastic parts are from ICM. http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/product/07462/

I think it'd be really helpful if you indicated which brand is your phantom. And also assuming the left one is quickboost and the right one is the kit one, but not everyone would be able to guess which brand is the middle one, so yes, please indicate which brand of aftermarket it is.

I'm late to the party. But that looks like the Ace Combat's Yellow 13. You didn't need to had custom masks made. Hasegawa provides a PDF for download on their site. http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/product/sp312/ near the bottom look for "PDF" Print, apply spray glue, the ones that say repositionable on the can, they're low tack. Cut, apply. And just take the tip if you need to do something similar for future projects.

Sorry, but it's 1/48.

GWH booth at the all Japan Model Hobby Show @ 18:52 if the link doesn't start at the exact time. There's a peek of the sprues, too bad it's very short. So it's not a hoax.

1219.2 mm = 4 feet = 48 inches and in 1/48 scale = 1 inch/25.4mm It might just be a coincidence. ;) fixed that for you.

A few things have been pointed out on facebook and modelcollect has commented they'll fix it. Hope they fix all of them, because the pics from the previous page and on facebook their test shots it has got stuff that looks off. First the windscree looks very narrow/shallow, it should widen a lot towards the front, also the upper edge slopes up a bit, while the lower one has a slight kink where the side pillars are, it's visible on side views but hardly visible on others. A few images showing different angles of the windscreen. http://imgur.com/a/NvJE0 The ejector se

The artistic adjustment to look right to the human eye vs accurately scale model looking off isn't new. For example, someone in this forum, can't remember who, mentioned he knows someone who works with race car wind tunnel models. They're 1/4 iirc and even though they're perfect scale representations for engineering purposes, to the naked eye the model looks off compared to the real deal. Another instance of this kind of discussion came up in another scale model car forum when the Tamiya, Fujimi and Aoshima Nissan GT-Rs came out at the same time years ago, with people measuring every

I bought the kit, I didn't preorder it but was lucky enough to get one from backorder in HLJ soon after release. As for the resin parts, they aren't exactly stellar. They aren't even CAD designed and masters 3D printed, they are old school scratch built. The CFT aren't even perfectly symmetrical but fit ok, the ECS heat exchanger intakes or whatever those hexagonal panels aren't the same size and position. The advanced weapon pod isn't 100% symmetrical either and even has a few marks left from the pattern maker. Anyways made some resin copies of it for future projects. Seems the re

I have some of their 1/72 scale sets, most of them were a waste of time. Either they're too big, too small or part size don't match each other. Typhoon nozzle set. They were released back then for the revell kit, before the hasegawa kit was out. They are over 1 mm too big in diameter to the Revell kit parts, Hasegawa too. Then either the inner nozzle was too big or the external petals diameter too small, because you couldn't fit them over the inner nozzle without shaving down resin. And like you said they end up looking like the petals were splayed open. MiG-31 noz

What you were looking at was Wolfpack Design (Gustav Jung) company based in South Korea. Mark S -> Wolfpak Decals based in the USA (hint: there's no "C" between the A and K) and here's the link to his website, although he hasn't added them to the site yet. http://millcreekconsultants.com/

Not to be critical of your choice of putting the main question in the tags field, but even back when the forum had the sub-title field instead, plenty of people missed or overlooked stuff put in there because of its font size and placement. Much too similar to this years Oscar to best movie gaffe. The font size and where you place your info matters, that's why everyone missed your main question, me included. In the tags field I'd have expected info like 'Hasegawa", "Academy" "1/48" "F-22", instead.

Dean's writing has been put into question a few times, because more often than not it's pretty hard to understand some of his post. But IIRC he has mentioned before he's had a stroke, and as such he has impaired speech or linguistics.

In all fairness I'm trying to quote prices from chinese/HK stores, which I'd consider closest to origin and preferably from the same store. In this case you have the Trump MiG-31 for $44.52 and AMK MiG-31 at $55 at Hobbyeasy.

Just a couple days ago was reading a discussion among local modellers how companies are starting to price the kits out of the reach of young modellers. Yes I know there are the old kits at more affordable prices. Those are cheap because those companies have maintained that price and haven't overtly increased them while pumping their old molds, but molds aren't forever, neither old cheap kits on ebay or yard sales. Once they're gone or discontinued they're gone. Just looking at Trumpeter price strategy, I don't know what's their plan. Do they think all people will buy th

Like the title says, WTF? First was their 1/72 Su-24 Fencer kits at $33-34 USD. Now their new 1/72 MiG-31 kit cost $44 at hobby easy, that's as much as their Hobbyboss 1/48 flanker kits! The Su-34 isn't available at the usual HK or Chinese stores yet. But HLJ had pre-orders for 7840 yen. But if you simply calculate the same price increase ratio from other trumpyboss kits due to japanese import taxes, like the 1/48 one, it comes out at the $40's ballpark. We're talking about 1/72 kits, geez.

Boxart and CAD posted on their facebook page. Looks like it's gonna be released in april 2017. Need to start saving.

According to scalemates it's a rebox of the ICM kit with new decals. Which BTW Hasegawa is the importer/distributor for ICM and Revell in Japan. https://www.scalemates.com/kits/1004481-hasegawa-02213-mig-25pd

After reading the thread, it feels like any time someone points at a valid accuracy error in the kit, it is met with this:

Adding to what Ken already said. To answer no. 3. Definitely the Zvezda ones. Trumpeter's weapons and pylons are a joke. The Alamo missiles they have an excessive taper fore of the canards. As for the pylons half of them are rescaled from the 1/32 ones. And as we know it Zactoman has a full replacement set for the pylons in that scale, that speaks a lot about the Trumpeter items lack of accuracy. For the 1/72 they fixed the shapes for the wingtip and underwing pylons but still not as good as the Zvezda ones. The worst are the AKU-470s under the intakes and fuselage centerline, specially the la

Maybe clear your browser cache and cookie? Looks like it's still loading a cached version with the redirect malware. NVM, saw your other reply, you were loading the forum from old server link.

Let's see the Do215, Do17 and Ju88 from ICM can be found for $27 in Ukranian online stores + S&H. The same ICM kits imported into Japan and selling on their online stores, like HLJ go for $47~49 + S&H. Their Russian weapons set go for $4 in Ukrania and Russia. HLJ. 1120 yen which is around $10.8 It's almost double or double the price. Similar price hikes can be seen for any non-Japanese manufacturers. Yet I don't understand why people keep using those prices as reference. />

The same way GM, Chevrolet, Buick, Oldsmobile & Cadillac are not the same company. Or Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep aren't the same company. :rolleyes:/>

You can easily do some math. The HB J-11 / Su-27 goes for $50 in China / HK stores, whereas in Hobbysearch sells for 9350 yen, which is roughly $93. While the Su-34 they have it listed at 16500. Putting aside the fluctuating exchange rates and just roughly guesstimating the same increase in price, the Su-34 might be in the $88-90 ballpark?

And with KH's track record, I wouldn't hold my breath... :rolleyes:/>