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  1. Just to ad a little bit to those things, they aren't canopy breakers, the F-16 canopy can't be punched through and F-16 ACES seats don't have breakers at all. Those are pitots and as far as I understand their input is used to select different modes of operation depending on height and speed during ejection. Looking good, I have a soft spot for the Hasegawa F-16, there is something about this kit that transports me right back to my childhood.
  2. Bit late but maybe still of help. I think I know what you mean, here are two images that show that, right? I have never found better images than these. http://nabe3saviation.web.fc2.com/images6/aF14un-01.jpg http://nabe3saviation.web.fc2.com/images6/aF14un-08.jpg As far as I can tell these are absolute standard except that the cover plates right before the moving parts are missing. In other words, the bright shiny ring seems to be what the plates are normally attached to. In the second picture, pay attention to that area where the hor
  3. I can second that, I bought some sets from Hugh and he is a really nice guy and reacts super fast to Emails. Money very well spent!
  4. The one habit I can't break is that I use a fairly unsuted type of knife. When I started to build again years ago I bought some simple supplys. Amongst them was one of those cheap snap off cutters with the wibbly wobbly blades. I use that to this day. I tried to switch to something professional like an Xacto or a scalpell, but I just don't get along with them. I recently realized that the reason for this is that good knifes are to stable. The blades don't move in relation to the grip and I realized I that I use my thumb and index finger to manipulate the wobbly blade. I wasn't even aware of th
  5. The rear fuselage of the BF109 was constructed in two halves, so the gap ist basically a sheet metal joint. This construction was used for all BF109 versions.
  6. The parts that are usually a darker brown in the eduard sets? As far as I can tell those represent some sort of padded part that lies underneath the area where the harness parts are buckled together, probably to prevent the various metal parts from getting caught on clothing and stuff. Just the way some seatbelts are constructed I'd say.
  7. That would probably be the hand crank for the inertia starter. Edit: Had a quick look in the instructions, it is indeed the crank for the starter.
  8. If I remember correctly and am not mixing up my Vs, Is, the nose of the XVII is short in comparison to the spitfire XIV because the seafire XVII has the short griffon nose (similar to the spitfire XII) and the spitfire XIV has the long griffon nose. Here is a link to the amazing drawings of the amazing Jumpei Temma: http://soyuyo.main.jp/spit5b/spit5be-1.html#drawing
  9. So I am not going to be a lot of help here, but one thing that I noticed is that the F-16E/F (Block 60) has different nozzle feathers compared to other F-110 versions. The feathers have some sort of rounded extension to the rear making them longer. If I'm not completely mistaken that should be the F-110-GE-132. Hope that helps a bit :)
  10. I have had a look at them on the Eduard site, I don't know if maybe they just show the wrong images for them, but what they show are not D-wheels, those are A and B. That is not to say that there might not have been a few Ds that had those wheels at some point, but the average D did not use those.
  11. Oh, yes, the seat aswell. I think we are in the golden age for scale model Tomcat afficionados 🙂
  12. So my kits just arrived and of course I had to check them out immediately. So I'd like to share a couple of observations. I can't post any photographies since pretty much everything I own is stored away in anticipation of moving next year. I can't speak to accuracy, but I have a feeling that the shape of this kit will compare very farourably to the Tamiya kit. I think Academy took a very long and hard look at the Tamiya Tomcat when making this kit. Panel lines: In photographies they seemed to be very deep. They are not, they look just fine, I think they will look great
  13. It is already out, I have two on the way 🙂
  14. Another interesting thing, though not restricted to VF-1 Tomcats: http://nabe3saviation.web.fc2.com/aF14un.html Look at the first two images, there are panels missing on the exhaust nozzles. At first I thought that might just be maintenance related on the ground, but they flew like that as well.
  15. I think they just glued the HUD part to the fuselage part. I can't see any differences between this and the academy kit.
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