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All I meant is that it is part of a couple of future projects. Ben, relax! This is still the F-161, I havent started the F-14E/F yet-oops.... :wacko: I don't even have the donor kits yet. Take a couple deep breaths...thats it, thats it. Anyway, the nacells are glued, but because the nacells are now at a bit of an inward angle the wings don't look right simply butted up against the nacells. Once I get them CA'd to the nacells I'll post photos. About paint, for right now, either light ghost gray underseide and light tan top with the kit decals (see habu's site; habu2.net) or I may do the three

We will be seeing this style cockpit in the future...[Rubs hands together and smiles mischeviously]

Yeah... but Im one of those people who likes to box art good enough to frame though...[embarrasedly turns and hides in the corner] And besides, I'm not the kind of person who'll pau $23 for just two GBU-15's (IsraDecal), even if they were made out of [personal political/histroical idol]'s ashes. And anyway, to my knowledge, no-one makes a GBU-28, or is it just a really long GBU-24? And accurate AIM-120s are hard to come by (w/o buying a $50 kit)

Hang on, that's a USMC AV8B, right? Why does it have a radome instead of the visual/infrared sensor pack in the nose? The only radar equipped Harriers I know of are AMRAAM trucks the Royal Naval Fleet uses. Aside from that point, great paint job and asembly!

Great paint job, great subject! Love the detail in the afterburner rings and the exhaust nozzles. Can't wait to see the finished product. Keep it up!

Awesome job, great work there! Like that green JASDF Viper in there too!

Wow! That is simply an awesome job building and painting that kit! Love the paint scheme!

We need to start a mailing campaign to Tamiya to make that in 1:48 scale! What I wouldn't pay for that kit in 48th...

Great Viper, love the paint job! Nice armamne too.

The hatches open so that you can pay $40 for the resin detail set and get a resin Gau-8 assembly and three-piece resin turbofans (Detail set also includes phtoetch for the cockpit) You can get the set on Luckymodel.com for $40 inc s/h. And it wouldn't be horrible if you just used the noseart over the camo scheme, would it?

Thanks for allt he advice! I don't have the scratchbuilding skills or the wallet for all the materials I'd need right now, but The 1:72 C-130+1:48 V-22 idea is probably the best way to go. I was just wondering if I could build this behmoth in 1:48 or not. Thanks again all! -Mike

From what I've heard from other modelers, you'd be better scratchbuilding those bumps/antenna than wrestling with Model Rectifier Corp's customer service. (And long live Jerome Clarkston, may Richard Hammond remain forever there for him to harass)

I'm not sure on the perspective of the ground director but at the very beginning of the clip as the aircraft begins its bank right, one can see a human in the cockpit. It looks as if a shortened C-130 frame would work, or am I wrong?

You stole Taiidan's title line... Looks cool so far, 1:18...thats really big.

Nice work so far on the ejection seat and weapons. Always wondered how the Italeri Warthog builds. Keep it up! And don't worry too much about weapons imperfections, in the photo they look fine! Go ahead and put them on, A-10s look better when loaded up anyway.

Hello. After I'm done with my current project (molesting a F-16 into an unrecognizable bhemoth), I may pursue modifying an Italeri 1:48 AC-130 Specre gunship. To explain the greatest modification, one must first see the intro of the remake of one of Shiro Masamune's best animes, Appleseed. In this anime, there appears to be a heavily modified C-130-ish plane, but like most of Shiro Masamune's prop/rotor aircraft, this has VTOL capability via wings that actually rotate at the roots, instead of the nacells moving. In this design, the wing appears to be in the same location, but it is shped so th

Thanks for the help, got my Q's answered. Yeah, that nose's shape is really bad! (BTW, what does IMHO stand for?)

Good job so far, looking really good, like the detail you're cramming into a small model!

Sorry for the lengthy delay, I finished the engine nacells and tried mounting them under the wings like drop tanks but it turned out so...well, see for yourself: Another view(sorry about crappy photo quality): Trust me, if it wasn't visible from those photos, I created the butt-ugliest aircraft I've ever seen. ;) Is just had such a clunky, tacked-on look to it...aarrgghh! So now I broke the wings back off, attatched winglets, and I'm going to milliput the winglets smooth to the fuselage, to which the wings/canards/tails? will be attatched. A mock-up of the new config w/o wings (No

The F-35B is my favorite jet in Over-G Fighters. (xBOX 360) In most of the 'boss' missions one can take off vertically with this jet, and bly/atack targets whilst hovering! It really is cool to mauver around, more so than a normal jet. BTW, I think the X-32 has character and should have been in production. (I know that the f-35 was more manuverable and cheaper and simpler...)

Wow, shaping up into a cool model! Great job so far, can't wait to see the digi-camo on the tail!

How much was the retail on Hasegawas last 'special' F-16, the IDF Brakeet? Because I'm thinking that those who keep this kit mint could have forty, maybe fifty dollars of profit a couple years down the road, or at least one hell of a 'rainy day' kit to build!

Hi, just wondering if anyone had built a 1:144 DML F-16 kit, because art some point I wish to aquire the "Night Falcon" and "Combat Air Command" releases. Habu's website says it has many inaccuracies, the most glaring of which is the intake. Can anyone elaborate these inaccuracies, and tell me how the panel lines are? Thanks.

Good job so far on assembly and priming, can't wait to see cockpit and engine details. Keep it up! My nearest hobby shop (an RC-oriented Riders...sigh) got two of these in.

Yeah, the Tomcat to me seems to be a Tornado on steroids; its not to manuverable, its extremely fast at all altitudes, and can carry 8000lbs of mud moving high-explosive (but a triple launcher of AGM-65's on the glove pylon would be cool) Fleetstar is admittedly more appropriate a name for real-life, but it seems a bit flashy, unless you built a 1:32 Admiral Kuznetzov to have the Fleetstar launch off of (silence as the size of such a large model is appreciated) Anyway, really cool bits and pieces you've added there, and the Taiidan Scout is a pretty cool...aircraft? Oh, and for exhausts, ju