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Lockheed's Code One magazine did a special issue of cockpit photos, it is now available online: http://www.codeonemagazine.com/gallery_slideshow.html?gallery_id=26&gallery_style=2 No F-8E pics though...

DACO designed the decals for the previous F-15E releases by RoG (kit #4550) and Monogram (kit #5965) so I wouldn't be surprised if Danny is doing the decals for this new release as well. http://www.dacoproducts.com/KRevell05.html I don't know who did the decals for the Revell #5511 release.

What post and who are you referring to?

That's an early Block 30.

Can you provide a direct link? Even with google translate I can't seem to find anything on their site. My search there for S-35 returned links for a Somua S35 tank... :(

One of my first real jobs was at LTV back in the 70s. I worked on the A-7 program and remember walking the factory floor watching them being built. Suddenly I feel a lot older... :(

I'm sitting here trying to imagine what the original LLRV engineers would think seeing CAD renderings in this detail 50 years ago....

I just noticed the new RoG release includes decals for an A-7P, the same markings as the Hobbyboss 1/72 A-7P kit.

Not specific to Phantoms, but I have this book in my library: "Spirit in the Skies" was published by World Air Power Journal :)/> .

Ze Grain! Ze Grain! (apologies to Hervé Villechaize and George Eastman...)

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Without the Aurora parts in front of me to compare it's hard to say how much, but you can see from the instructions there is quite a bit of difference. The Aurora kit is closer to an A-7A, lacking the production A-7D's gun, dorsal refueling door and the various antenna fairings on the tail and belly. I've always been fond of the SLUF as it was the first aircraft program I worked on. If there is interest I can post the 1979 Monogram instructions to compare assemblies. pdf link to instructions for Revell-Germany (Monogram) kit Except for markings, these match my 1979 Monogram instructio

My Aurora instructions show a 1969 copyright date.

I looked in my Aurora box and the instruction sheet was still in there !!! Don't see any bulkheads but you can see how it differs from the Monogram version. Note the moveable horizontal stabs, landing gear and the "intake divider" in step 1.

As a teen I built the Aurora kit in the link above, and I also have the Monogram kit (#5418, released in 1979). I can tell you the Aurora kit is certainly not the same kit that Monogram released. The Aurora kit had retractable landing gear for one, something Monogram didn't copy when they based their molds off the original Aurora kit. It is definitely not a direct repop of the Aurora kit molds. I still have the original Aurora box but the kit is long gone...

Did anyone ever produce an injection-molded kit for the BAe EAP prototype, forerunner to the Typhoon, in any scale? I understand there was a resin 1/72 kit but, in addition to being hard to find, it didn't get very kind reviews. I was at Farnborough in 1986 and got to see the EAP and Rafale A fly daily. I have the Heller Rafale A kit, was looking for an EAP to complement it.

Yes, the lighting on the aircraft doesn't even come close to matching the lighting on the clouds....

Really? Texas Requires Full Fingerprints for Drivers License Renewal Texas Governor Orders STD Vaccine for All Schoolgirls I don't know that these are constitutional requirements but they are state laws.

Nice. Did you modify the kit horizontal tails or replace them?

So, they couldn't afford the full production run of Mitsubishi F-2s, they could't afford to replace the F-2s lost in the tsunami, but they can afford a new stealth fighter program?

Don't know about Hasegawa but Microscale released lo-vis VS-21 markings on sheet 72-635 http://modelingmadness.com/scott/decals/super/ss72635.htm

Watching the entire EVA on NASA TV !!!

Changing your company's name three times does not instill confidence in their products....

Exactly. I was at Farnborough back in '86, and show officials made BAe change their routine the day before the show started. At the end of their 4-ship flying routine BAe pilots attempted to land all four aircraft in quick succession (minimal separation). The second airplane got caught in the wing vortex of the first jet and rolled 90 degrees at the threshhold. Lucky he didn't buy it right there. Show officials immediately mandated a larger separation distance to avoid a potentially dangerous incident.