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Because its better than building an F-35?
Hey, the prototype/production F-35A is almost literally sex on wings. Look at those voluptuous, flowing lines, smoothed edges, and aggressive stance!
Actually, that describes the Strike Eagle too!
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Yeah...
Terrible movie...
Aircraft designed by retarded monkeys...
Only small scale
$110, and you don't even get an openable weps bay.
Methinks, in the words of Jeff Dunham's friend Walter, "No."
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Wonder if the UAFS is ever going to do this to an actual Raptor for a promo event or something. (the tat job that is)
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Awhile back someone was trying to make the CFT weapons bays. Dunno how it turned out.
More importantly though,'
Why would you want to?
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I think with the move to the angular shapes of 5th gen fighters the Thunder Birds paint needs to change. Not really significantly, just dispense with all the curves and go with angles instead. Like the red on the nose becomes faceted and the wings on the bottom more resemble the AF logo than bird wings.
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So we have one common point between the F-4 and the F-35...
Both are hideous in Tbird colors.
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I'm afraid you're not correct there, Mike. The new-tool RoG Tornadoes do come with both retracted and extended probes. See THESE INSTRUCTIONS (Steps #17 and #18), for instance.
According to the REVELL WEBSITE, they're going to release a Tornado GR Mkk.1 in September.
My bad!
And that reminds me, like usual RoG reboxed alot of Dragon 1:144 kits so watch out.
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hi all i'm bulding a vc10 air to air refuler in 1/144 and i'm looking to put sum "coustomers" bhhind it so can any one recomend a good 1/144 Tornado it it must be a RAF model and it must have a refuling arm the can be deployed
thanks simon
There are only two 1:144 tornados; Dragon and Revell of Germany. The Dragon is older and the detail a bit cruder but they make the GR.1/4 and F-3 models in a wide array of colorful prototype schemes, most 2 to a box. For the same cost as a Dragon two-pack you get 1 Revell kit, which is newer and has much finer detailing.
Neither come with extendable IFR probes. I'm not certain they even come with retracted probes. It'll have to be something you scratchbuild (not hard in that scale) or not have anything following it at all. (Nothing in 1:144 comes with an extended IFR probe save permanently extended probes like the Gumman A-6)
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Just noticed that my Revell 1/48 F-15E has no ordnance, other than some Sidewinders. What are my options for loading it up in a typical Desert Storm payload? Or is it cheaper just to buy the kit with the bombs in it if it's available?
This is a sore point for the Revell Mud Hen. There was a ProModeler boxing that is hard to find and comes with 2 each GBU-15 and AIM-120, and 4 GBU-10s. But those weapons all have issues. You could by a Hasegawa Weapons Set D for bombs, or buy the new Academy F-15E OIF boxing, comes with enough weps for two Strikes.
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So, aim for the 1/48 Kinetic AM kit then for the least amount of hassle?
Liam
Are you aware of the issues?
-Nose fore of canopy is shaped like Mitsubishi F-2, ie, is asubstantially lower/deeper
-Fit between fore/aft upper fuselage parts not very good
-Panel line/rivet detail slightly softer than Hasegawa/Tamiya
-Ejector pins/tabs in awkward locations, often on details thus necessitating rescribing*
-Fir of tail pieces not very good, requires alot of careful work to preserve detail
*Such as on the inside of the intake tube halves and inside of the afterburner can. Buy a pair of cantilevered nail clippers, they made short work of the tabs on the intake parts of my AM.
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I thought the world over had agreed that McNamera was totally off his rocker and that landing an Aardfart on a carrier was an exercise in prayer and absolute faith.
All jokes aside, twin tails would look nice and be more appropriate for something that was 'supposed to be' a fighter/interceptor and maybe wider-chord wings (as opposed to longer-span wings, maybe a dogtooth like the MiG-23/27?)
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As a simple build exercise the only area I had problems with were the wing to fuselage joint. I think I screwed up and ended up fairing them into the top of the fuselage with putty a bit too much. It is one area where I like one piece wing and upper fuselage kits.
Happy Modelling
Matt
What I do is actually use Squadron green to glue the wings to the fuselage and while it still soft use a chisel blade to carve off the extra. when it's dry, I sand it smooth and the break the wings back off and re-glue with CA. Leave a pretty nice joint.
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good to see they got away
more images here...
http://www.aviacol.net/noticias-del-aire/a...-cartagena.html
Woah-yaaa...that definitely ain't going back up in the air again! :lol:
Nah, We stipped something like that before it was a KingAir, it was on final, hit a downdraft, as they were pulling out they hit the rocks on the beach. It skidded down the runway on its right main wheels, nosewheel, and Ahem, left strut.It actually looked fine, to look at except for the left leg. look closer, skins creased , airframe twisted. we parted it out.
But to walk away from landing a jet where they did... whoa. It definately wasnt their time that day! good on em.
Benny
So I take it the Australian version of the FAA allows AC parts involved in crashes to fly again? (IIRC the FAA in the US won't allow any component of a crashed AC in the air ever again)
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... And when on earth will someone do more decals for the F-2 in 1:48?
when it's wings stop breaking off and it's T/W goes above .80?
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The mirrored lettering is popular on alot of Japanese drift racing cars and in Japanese tuning culture, probably the person who designed it was into that kind of thing and it got approved by minds of similar persuasions.
Wow, that is bizarre. I am guessing something was lost in translation or understanding of a Latin based alphabet, and not being aware that writing it backwards was not the same as having a mirror image samurai image. That does really ruin the scheme.Give them just a little bit of credit.
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Getting this thread back on track from esoteric discussions about Japanese amines in general, who or what is Harmony Gold?
An anime importer/distributor that, for all intents and purposes, ra*ed Macross and Mospeada into Robotech. Adn yes, I think that in this case that particular verb is appropriate.
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Welcome to ARC Romeoferrari! Excellent job on the F-16 the Academy kit can be a real pig sometimes. I love the extra cockpit detail and especially the clear seeker tips on the Sidewinders. If that's what you did with the Academy bird I cannot wait to see how you build the Hasegawa! Keep it up!
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The 1:48 Revellogram Delta Kitty I bought a couple months back was actually petty good.
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Moritz, that first link you posted; that F-15J at the top has an IRST and some new ECM bumps...
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the picture i see looks like the "new" F-14B that revell released. By no means does it deserve a $50 price tag. I can find this one on my LHS shelf for about $25
I'm not sure $25 is low enough. If I see it in Michaels and can get it for $17 w/ cupon, then sure, I'll bite, but as is it is not worth more than $20.
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Yah ,it was modified using a 3" lower section w/ a transition(added some nose weight)......what a waste of time......but the flight was SPECTACULAR !!
Ha...my buddy just lost his his Comanche first stage also two weeks ago.That`s the nice thing with the Estes ,not a big deal if you lose one or two.It`s when you lose the big boys along with the reload engine and the cost of the rocket ,fastest $300 bucks(or more) a guy can loose in under 4 secconds.
PT
IIRC, Estes made a radio tracker that you could stick in a nose-cone or payload section, right? I thought some kind of tracker was common in high-power rocketry.
BTW, what transition? Estes never made a BT-60 to BT-80 transition, did you hack and glue a NC-80?
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A few years ago (just for a goof) I turned an Estes Big Bertha into a 3 D cluster.
Never did find it !!
"J" impulse reloads are great ,but there`s that thing with low flying aircraft (3-5000 feet) you NEED to watch for.
BB
I know BT-60 is big, but three D-12s?
The biggest[overall] I ever launched? My dad's Estes Maniac on a E motor. I built the Estes Comanche-III one time and shot it off. Unfortunately, the wind chose that time to pick-up and it literally went ballistic. Found the missile about a mile away, and we never found the first stage, it vanished into thin air.
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The characters say "Shindenkai" which means modified or upgraded "Shinden" (the experimental canard WWII fighter).
Yeah, I know the Shinden (imagine a jet-powered Sanka Mk-II!
)It fits the SV-51.
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Like them all 'cept the last one, which out of principle I vehemently despise. Otherwise;
i particularly love that Japanese scheme. What do the characters stand for?
Creating an F-15 Silent Eagle?
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Well it's perfectly reasonable; The Strikes would be new-build airframes with the latest in avionics/ect. (methinks AESAs like the Koreans get?), it's relatively maneuverable, and can carry EVERYTHING. Costs are very reasonable and maintenance is already sorted out.
My only beef would be the inevitability of an aerial engagement in the WVR environment. Let's put aside the hypothesized scenario that both parties carrying HOBS missiles is 'an exercise in mutually assured destruction) and take agility into account. Would TV be worth pursuing for the Strike eagle, even if it is single-dimensional like the F-22? It's already been proven in the s/MTD and ACTIVE platform (though not at Strike Eagle weights).