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35 minutes ago, scotthldr said:
Newer radome, never heard that before? Finished in different colours certainly but anything else is news to me.
on BM forums a user said that radome was more bulbous than standard F-4E while retaining the same fuselage diameter base and overall length.
By checking pictures it seems that maybe he's right but I don't have access to Decimomannu F-4F Phantom which was an ICE upgraded bird nor to any other Phantom in the immediate vicinity such as Greek ones as they were there a year ago or so and I doubt they will ever come back 😞
Going to check Airdoc books to see if something is mentioned there or not
Luigi
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Couple of question as I'm sure somewhere I have seen a picture of both dome dismantled and put side by side but I can't find it anymore, also does Revell 1/72 F-4F come with the modified dome or is still the standard one?
Were Hellenic AUP Phantoms upgraded with the newer radome or retained the standard one?
Thanks for looking ^_^
Luigi
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So I will not have to fetch or bid for a duplicated kit 😄
Luigi
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Was sure that when I was searching for those side by side rocket pods and bomb adapters I ended up with some RAF Jaguar with one of those installed...
Anyway Jabba is right, Airfix comes with them, probably they can also be found in one of those white metal and resin detail sets, which are OOP and if found they tend to be overpriced as ef
https://www.super-hobby.com/products/Sepecat-Jaguar-GR3A.html
Adapters are in the vanilla Jaguar sprue so no need to hunt down the GR3
Luigi
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Hasegawa GRMK1 boxing has it, two seat variants do not.
Hobbyboss comes with a triple launcher which can be adapted into a double one
Problems is:
Do RAF Jaguar made any use of the french dual carrier aka AUF-1 adapter or they used the one that was once tested and used on both Tornado IDS and F-104G CF-104 and whoever dared to add bombs on it?
Cause if they used the AUF-1 still none made it in 1/72 scale but Heller NATO weapon set and Olimp Resin and Special Hobby Mirage F-1s do freaking need it yet they lose the opportunity to include it inside their boxings
Luigi
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16 hours ago, JackMan said:
To quote:
On Dec. 2, 2018, Hyakuri Airbase will celebrate the end of the 302 Hikotai’s operations with the F-4 with an airshow.
Beginning next year, the JASDF will operate only two Phantom squadrons at Hyakuri: 301 Hikotai with F-4EJs and 501 Hikotai with a variety of RF-4E and RF4EJ used in the reconnaissance role. The last flight of a “Samurai” Phantom should be in March 2021.
Taken from here:
From the above link, it seems only 302 Hikotai ( Tactical Fighter Squadron ) will stand down their Phantoms by this year. If the above quote is true, then Hyakuri will still have 301 & 501 Hikotais when you get there next year. But I guess we'll have to wait & see if that's true.
And Luigi, no worries. We all understand your frustration with Hasegawa's policy of "grab-it-now-or-wait-20-years-for-it-again". I feel the same way about Fujimi and their 1/72 Skyhawks, Intruders, Corsair IIs, and (until Airfix's release), their British Phantoms too. They're sitting on a gold mine when it comes to these kits but they seem to focus on ships, cars, etc these days. Sigh.
By the way, could you elaborate on these 2:
I have both the kits and would like to know more on what's wrong with them. Can I use spare Italeri/Academy/Hasegawa Hornet tailplanes to correct the F-15?
ps. Sorry for thread hijack.
F-15 IFCS:
Not sure about decal color accuracy for what I know they misspelled GE, the tailplanes chord is off, I'm not sure which manufacturer nailed it, I don't have any Hasegawa Hornet in my stash but I do have Italeri, Fujimi and Academy, leading edge is more thinner than Italeri and Fujimi but also more longer than Academy, they were indeed modified to be installed on the F-15 but I highly doubt they messed up with LE and what not due costs of rebuilding a canard from scratch, more issues can be found on BM forums -> topic/235022591
Advanced Super Hornet:
CFT and Enclosed Weapons Pod symmetry is out the window, I was planning to purchase more than one cause the idea of wiffing a Silent Eagle with two of those pods but upon checking the EWP contained in Hasegawa boxing I gave up on the idea
Luigi
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20 hours ago, RCAFFAN said:
I know the kit is a re-pop but I thought some people might be interested in the markings......who said anything about a C/D and what does it have to do with this post?
Cause 10 years since they last did a repop of their stinking F-4C/D
Less for theirs F-4G
Freaking ages for their F-111A -D/F - FB and EF
Less than two years to resell you that Hind shaped thing with resin bits for an MKIII
No freaking F-15 S/MTD instead they released just an IFCS with incorrect markings and underscale Hornet tailplanes
That Advanced Superbug once again with messed up resin bits
All of their F-16 with aggressor schemes were always released in the wrong scale, ditto for a couple of others such as the upgraded Vipers
They didn't finish their Ace Combat line by releasing overpriced reboxes with Grun, Schnee, Rot, Sorcerer, Wizard, Indigo, Schwarze and Gault markings, ditto for Area88 as they completely jumped/ignored 2004 anime, OAV, Ace Combat Infinity and some manga markings
Limited Edition Tornado GR4 kits having something that belongs to NATO/UK weapon set aka launcher/rail adapter for Brimstone missiles
Let's make new moldings for the recce pods of our RF-4EJ and slap them in a 2in1 box that we'll be releasing once and never re-release it
Sometimes it does, sorry for the rant...
Luigi
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it's not a 1/72 F-4C/D
it's just another EJ rebox
Luigi
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I do have the ones contained inside the old Hasegawa kit and I don't need them, film is showing up some yellowing though
Luigi
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waiting for the BM announcement
Luigi
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4 hours ago, Laurent said:
The Mirage III/5 is like the MiG-21 or the A-4. It doesn't take a lot of shelf space once built and the number of marking options is huge so it's likely that a modeller would want to buy and build several of them. It won't happen if the retail price is too high. I expect the Modelsvit kit to be expensive as it seems to be a sophisticated kit. The HPM/PJ kit also isn't exactly cheap. Also of all 1/72 Mirage III/5s with a "Cyrano nose", I think the SH may end up to be the more accurate.
I'm aware about that minefield called Mig-21, and as for now I kinda picked 8 different versions to build, going after the J-7 variant it will be a pain otherwise I could easily add two more of them, same does for the Mig-21-93 as none seems to be interested on making the definitive conversion or kit.I do own Modelsvit Mirage 4000 and the only letdown is the lack of drop tanks and fuselage pylons for extra ordinance, I don't know how many weaponry they are planning to include in their Mirage III so as for now I'll just sit, wait for SH family, snatch MPM Pantera and Cheetah, maybe the resin conversion too (just to be sure) and watch from afar till everything is done 😛
Luigi
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this kinda kills my intentions of going after PJ/HPM Mirage IIIs 😕
Luigi
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15 hours ago, Johnopfor said:
High Planes re-worked their Mirage III molds for finer recessed panel lines and just released a new Cheetah E kit with the new molds.....
https://www.hpmhobbies.com/high-planes-atlas-cheetah-e-saaf-kit-1-72/
Thought that was a kit conversion made from AM company (can't remember their name), I will take a good look at it, thanks 😄
Luigi
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A two-seater maybe will help
A Mirage IIIS out from Modelsvit IIIE with PJ conversion
A Mirage IIING once again out from Modelsvit with the help of PJ and HPM resin bits while scratching the rest
A Mirage IIIC so I'll have four Mirage III but sadly Namco doesn't seems to have a liking for anything below Rafale and Mirage 2000 levels
Plus two AMK Kfirs, one from Area88 and one from Ace Combat
And I only wanted to build a single Kfir and a Mirage III 😕
Any good Cheetah out there?
Luigi
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Once again, many thanks to all 😄
Still failing to find it on my drive so I guess it got lost on the bookmarks territory
Luigi
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I meant made using a Sparrow-like body maybe a tad more fatter, it was fitted on frontal Sparrow well and had antennas or some kind of tracking device which communicated with the antenna installed above the fuselage of the other Phantom so they could keep some sort of safe formation flight without crashing against each other, I don't even remember if I read about this in a pdf document, a book or a site, for sure I was searching something related to F-4C/D stuff and ended up finding them
Luigi
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Hoping that this is not fruit of my deviated fantasy cause in the past week I tried to scavenge its name through my documents and picture mess but I couldn't find it...so does this thing during Vietnam war really existed or not?
thanks for looking 😄Luigi
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3 hours ago, A-10 LOADER said:
160922 served with VF-11 from 24 March 1989 until July of 1990 and she wore the tailcode of AE-103. She was stricken on 24 February 1990.
Steve
"TOMCATS FOREVER, BABY...!"
Mats is wrong then?It says 14 03 1995 and 160921 on 01 05 1990
3 hours ago, Seaknight said:Dear Luigi and Steve,
Thanks alot for your great help.
So, I need to modify the BuNo and Modex or to choose another decal sheet....
Many moons ago when Andy was still updating his website I exchanged some email with him in regards of VX-4 Tomcats and a couple of others cause Superscale had bogus Bu.No, there is a small chance that he also listed your CAM decals sheet on his now defunct website but I don't remember if I gave him some material for Ronin's VF-11 decal set so if anything the currect Bu.No has a chance to be inside the archived version of his website, I no longer have said material but I can always try to search for it on Instagram, Flickr and so on, I don't know how much time it will take but one day maybe I will find it 😄
Luigi
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Furball has the CAG in the perennial wrong scale choice
Ronin decals and whatever come after them I think it both had the CAG in high visibility and low visibility aircraft in the right scale, maybe they also had them in 48th too either-way try to reach them through this https://roningraphicsaustralia.com/
In the doubt since Home of Mats says that 160922 was stricken on 1995 I would take that way and correct the bu/no hoping that picture hogs will not unleash their stuff on the web
Luigi
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2 hours ago, A-10 LOADER said:
According to my source in the "know", Mr. Tamiya only makes/ releases what HE wants to release. If he hears of any info that gets leaked before he's ready to release it, he pulls the plug on it.
You may to tread lightly here before you step on someone's toes.
Steve
that's why Mr Smartmiya has never released a P&W engined F-16C/A and a freaking two seater in 1/72?
Luigi
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can't make a better shot than this one due crappy smartphone camera
It's odd because the chord of the astro-compass equipped fairing is shorter than the other, the above portion is also flattened
Plus the carpet monster scored a point against my EF-111 box, or the seller sent me a defective box without the nlg oleo strut 😕
Some more pictures of real things
EF-111 with GPS antenna, note the dent
and FB-111A with compass fairing
also this
http://www.f-111.net/models/antennas/index.htm
Luigi
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Will an Hasegawa astro-compass and astro-compass-less (lol) panel picture help?
Luigi
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Nope, it was an upgrade program started I think during or before Desert Storm as the only gray painted F-111E had it, then as per usual McDonnell/Boeing bucks come into play and made the armchairs can it
Luigi
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try searching for Swiss F-5, if they didn't repainted the wells after purchasing them back from them, then maybe you will find your answer
Luigi
Dreaming for.....1/72 resin wants!
in Helicopter Modeling
Posted · Edited by Mizar
Aren't AH-1 EMC bumps and chumps contained inside Hasegawa OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP 02130 boxing? Or those are for the whatever version is not an F or P or Q or an S but all of them combined in a correct order that makes the pre Tow Cobra?
As for Italeri UH-1 we probably need someone capable of making a real UH-1N first then a a 212 and then a 412 and not a mix of all, I'm aware that Italeri nose is wrong, a fix with pictures was posted there years ago but links went down, Scalemates reports that Astrokit are Italeri reboxed kits which is wrong cause those were Fujimi UH-1N reboxes with added resin parts which probably fixed the cargo doors issue and the need of a good ASW radar but those are also OOP and kinda hard to find
for my wishes
DAP Blackhawk conversion
A freaking MH-6J/D/whatever since everyone forgot about their existence
A proper CH-47J conversion since Trumpeter reboxes with JASDF decals are kinda meh
If Kamov and Mil engineers are done with their puzzles then an up to date conversion for Ka-50/52 and Mi-28 kits
Later Comanche prototype mods
Of course a decent Mh-53J kit but also a C and E
A final solution to the eff yeah Sea King dilemma
Something something for HB Hips but also Zvezda revising their moulds and fixing theirs first
Kiowa needs some attention as everything is good up to Desert Storm standards but past that there is nothing
A newer and modular AH-1W kit
I don't like it, it's more fugly than the Super Hind...but whatever...An AH-1Z with earlier and later mods
The ones in between aka the AH-1J and AH-1T so I don't have to mate Fujimi and Italeri kits
Are those UH-1F kits good enough outside their main rotor and also tail rotor?
More Hueys anyway
Zvezda doing the Super Hind Mk.IV cause I'm not sure if the resin conversion for the Hobby Boss kit will fit on it
Puma Pirate conversion
Modern toolings for those lovely Alouette and Gazelle helicopters
etc etc and etc 😄
Luigi