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Come on! Every plane is pre-shaded! This picture must be retouched.......😋

Hello, sorry for "killing" your dreams, but this is a regular F-4D with the so called "hard-wing"! The hard wing has trailing edge and leading edge flaps as seen on the pics you posted. You can find the slated wing on the F-4E/F/G and in a slightly different version on the F-4S. There also were a few late RF-4E's with slated wings. Very early F-4E's (and the Japanese F-4E's...) still had the leading edge flaps. This is just the short explanation of the F-4 "wing-story"..... Best regards, Jens

Are this seat and pilot right also for the MiG-29? http://www.aires.cz/en/product/soviet-fighter-pilot-with-ejection-seat-for-su-27-flanker/0-2842/ If I remember correctly I somewhere read that there are slight differences between the K-36DM for the Su-27 and the MiG-29? Best regards, Jens

Yes, legitimate question! I was/am hoping that Barracuda releases a set for the ICM (and Revell) kit! MoFo seems to know more.... I'm looking forward! Best regards, Jens

Yep, that is an awesome build!! Very convincing, slightly faded finish and I especially like the wear on the rotor ant tail rotor!! Best regards, Jens

Thanks gents! The book "World's Fastest Single-Engine Jet Aircraft" is ordered and i have the "Wings of Fame" publication since years And thanks for the advise with the Meng-kit! It looks to be a excellent kit! I'm somewhat afflicted to my one scale . But maybe it's time for a extension to the smaller scale (now, when my eyes getting worse and worse ). I know a friend of mine owes the Meng F-102, maybe he also has the Delta Dart? A telefon call is long overdue (not just because of the F-106.....) Thanks again for the help and best regards, Jens

Hello gentlemen, thanks a lot for your replies! The Detail & Scale publication is unfortunately of no value redarding my questions! Jari, I know that F-106 site and browsed a lot around! But I didn't come up with the idea to look at the manuals There is a lot of information, thanks for the link! Murph, I was thinking that the NACA-inlets were connected to the gun installation, thanks for the confirmation! I was afraid that the early Delta Dart didn't get the tape instruments - pah, building up a new IP is a cakewalk... And tha

Maybe you find some inspiration here (even if you are not doing a Desert Storm A-7): http://www.dstorm.eu/pages/en/usa/a-7.html

Hello, since a few weeks I'm highly attracted by my Trumpeter F-106! Unfortunately I want to build an "early" F-106 without the air refueling receptacle - so there's some extra work.... When the F-106 got their air refueling equipment, the heat exchanger air exit was incorporated directly in front of the air refueling ramp (where the hinges for the ramp are). Before the installation of the air refueling equipment took place the air exit was at the same location, but now I can't find any good pictures or drawings of the heat exchanger air exit on this p

Hello, I also agree with you and Jonathan. And thanks for the comparison! I like my stash of Hasegawa F-4's..... But I think it's just fine that everybody has its own priorities in regards to a model kit - shape, surface-detailing, ease of build, details, price, manufacturer...... There is no reason for a hassle and offences ! Best regards, Jens

You can save doing the intake covers by doing the full length (seamless) intakes O.K. not an easy undertaking, but it's doable! XMM already realized a few more or less complex intakes - Draken, Etendard, Skyray.... Best regards, Jens

Agree!! Best regards, Jens

Hello, got my copy from Yufei today and it looks excellent! Thanks for the very fast delivery (to Germany). I try to test-fit it to my Revell-kit tomorrow and compare it to the redesigned nose in the Revell-kit! Best regards, Jens

Dave, I'm very sorry for hurting your feelings! This was not my intention! And there is no rant! I'm afraid you misinterpreted my comments?! Or I failed with my statements (English is not my native language)! As stated before, your A-4B is well done an looks the part!! Sorry again and best regards, Jens

Hello Dave, there is no doubt that this conversion can be done! When you say you did it, you did it! (ten years back - before Hasegawa released the TA-4 - I converted an A-4E to a TA-4J using a Monogram OA-4M for the forward fuselage an canopy parts...) I just wanted to point out that it is not just a "sprue mixing thing"! Hasegawa released (at least?) four different fuselage: one for the A-4B/C, one for the A-4E/F, one for the A-4M and one for the TA-4. (They released a lot of boxings - aggressors, foreign users, etc....- each with one of these fuselage)

Hello, your A-4B looks good! But are you sure you used an A-4M kit with -B sprues?! Since the fuselage halves of the A-4B and the A-4M are very different! The intakes, various outlets on both fuselage halves and the shape of the cockpit - not only the canopy - are considerable differences! There may be more.... Crafting the -B intakes to the -M fuselage needs some scratch building and "backdating" the cockpit shape of the -M to -B size also requires some scratch building. Opening up respectively closing some outlets/exhausts is no big deal, also back

https://www.revell.de/en/products/colors-glue-co/email-color/id/03931.html https://www.revell-shop.de/index.php?cl=details&artnum=03931 http://www.ebay.de/itm/REVELL-03931-1-48-MIG-25-RBT-FOXBAT-B-NEU-/391795627118?hash=item5b38d6d46e:g:5iwAAOSw9OFZJ~Jc http://www.ebay.de/itm/Revell-MiG-25-RBT-FOXBAT-B-1-48-Revell-03931-X-/311886916463?hash=item489de8ab6f:g:QtAAAOSwDiBZMRyz ..... Best regards, Jens

Yep, and for the other part -> Sauna

Well, as Janissary and Crazy Snap Captain already mentioned the Hasegawa F-16D Block 52 is just right for your build. There is everything you need for a Israeli Block 30 or Block 40: big mouth intake, GE nozzle and a well detailed spine. You just have to check the references for the right configuration! I'm going this route! If you are not willing to buy a new kit, try to order the sprue YB from Hasegawa or your importer as replacement/spare part!? http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/image/10112456 Sorry I have no clue regarding the Airwaves part, but I have the CM

Hm, at my daily check at http://www.hypersonicmodels.co.uk everything looks fine?! Jeffrey closed the web-shop for a few days and reopened it yesterday?! And the reason for not posting regularly on Facebook must be that he's working hard on new resin goodies for us..... Best regards, Jens

There is a SUU-23 gun pod set from Wolfpack Design which includes two gun pods and two centerline pylons. There also is/was a similar gun pod set with a centerline pylon from True Details. True Details also released two set with F-4 pylons - one set with "Navy F-4" pylons, the other one with "Air Force F-4" pylons. Booth sets includes the centerline pylon. To my eyes the Hasegawa part looks very "basic" and incorrect?! Best regards, Jens

Thanks for the correction!! Best regards, Jens

Maybe these are the 400 Gallon tanks? They basically look the same but are (of course) more bulky and therefore had to be canted outward because of the main landing gear doors? Best regards, Jens

You are right. Hasegawa released their F-4S, F-4E (with slats) and F-4G with the same wings. It's sprue "M". The wings are a kind of "hybrid" wings. The slats configuration and the small wing fences are right for a F-4E or F-4G, the bulge on the upper side of the wing is right for the F-4S. The chord of the slats is wrong for a F-4S! The inner slats as well as the outer ones are different for the Navy F-4! Sprue "M" also contains the longer wing fence and the catapult hooks for the F-4S. I don't know if the Hasegawa "hard wing" F-4E has the same wing sprue as t

As far as I know the F-4C was never able to fire the AIM-4 Falcon (in Vietnam)!? On the F-4D it looks quite right! If I remember correctly I read that F-4D 66-7463 was armed with AIM-4's and AIM-7's for Steve Ritchies and Chuck DeBellevues first MiG-kill on May 10, 1972. O.K., they used the Sparrow for the kill but the Falcon was present..... At that occasion they carried no air to ground ordnance. But theoretically a mix of BLU's and AIM-4's is possible! I'm sure there is someone with more knowledge who can also help! Best regards, Jens