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Well Kinetic has done modern F-86's in 1/32 and Italieri boxes them as well. Kitty Hawk is doing a line of Dog Sabres in 1/32. As to a Korean War Corsair, little tooling is actually in place, that would require extensively retooling the fuselage, cockpit, lower wing and engine/cowl for Tamiya to get a F4U-4. Only the LG, outer/upper wings, inner flaps, ailerons & tailfeathers would remain from the current -1 kit, and the outer wings would also need replacement to get a -4B. A -5 or AU-1 would be a near-complete retool. Likewise, a Spit V would require extensive new tooling for Tamiya, a

Airfix's new P-51D certainly does have dihedral on the wing, however it appears to be slightly thicker in chord at the fuselage than the Tamiya (I suspect this is to shoehorn in the gear bay ceiling) and that makes the dihedral look off, it's the same as the Tamiya in terms of the lower wing profile (and tips are at the same height) BTW, the Tamiya P-51D's gear bays are also too shallow, the depth is about identical to the Airfix and neither are close to reality (which is that the upper wing skin is the ceiling) Personally I prefer the look & price of the Airfix, but the Tamiya's a bette

It's a nice B/C, might just be the best version of that variant but the sprue shots indicate that they got the wheel wells wrong, despite doing the wells as a seperate part and thus not needing to follow the gear door outline. Only Airfix's latest P-51D gets the wells right in 1/72.

Ah, I misread that bit about the spares. Makes far more sense.

It's worth noting that a CF-104 is in fact identical to an early production F-104G airframe except for the avionics fit (CF-104's had a different variant of the installation with no A2A capability) and the fuel cell replacing the M61 (the fitting of the M61 on CF-104's occured after the Danish acquired their airframes). They were built on the same line with the same tooling as the first 140 F-104G's (which were Canadair-built). The Danish CF-104's were updated to current F-104G spec including all the mid-production changes like the wider tires & bulged gear doors & the updated seats.

I'd disagree, the Airfix is more accurate, having correct wheel wells (Tamiya's are incorrect in 1/48 & 1/72) and droppable flaps but the Tamiya is an easier build & has finer panel lines.

I think you misunderstood the comment, which was those 3 schemes plus overall ADC grey on the flightline. I'd expect the ADC Grey Phantom's were indeed assigned to ADTAC and just happened to share the ramp with the G's.

I suspect the shift has more to do with the games that Bachmann's parent company has been playing with other model railroad manufacturers who had relied on outsourced manufacturing in China than costs. Bachmann's parent company was the primary outsourced manufacturer of model trains in China until recently, and 2-3 years ago basically screwed over all the outsourced manufacturers, including Hornby, in an attempt to turn Bachmann into the dominant player in the market by way of being the only reliable source. It didn't work well. They've all been scrambling to find reliable alternate producers

Pretty simple actually, the 78th Fighter Group, whose Shield that originated as, stood back up in mid-1955, not 1956. It became the 78th ABW in 1956. What is odd is that the aircraft was written off in early July, when the 78th FG stood back up in August. I suspect someone jumped the gun on the paintjob. Even odder is this: http://www.accident-report.com/Yearly/1955/5507.html Which has the location as Kirkland AFB, both reports seem to show the 776th ABW as the unit, which makes little sense as the 776th was a Tactial Airlift Squadron, not an Air Base Wing.

1 left now. Thanks! Worth noting the same seller has some nice deals on the other Academy Phantoms as well.

Neither the Typhoon nor the Tempest are nearly as iconic as the Mosquito, nor did either see as wide or important service (The Typhoon really was a a single-theater/single-war aircraft and the Tempest was as well for WW2 service and had far more limited post-war service than the Mosquito). Iconic is a clear requirement for Tamiya's new-tool 1/32 kits and the Mosquito is a perfect fit for Tamiya. Personally, I'd much rather see a Typhoon or Tempest since I'd be likely to build them and I'm very unlikely to ever build a Mosquito in a scale larger than 1/48, but I don't expect Tamiya to kit eith

Actually the Mosquito served in Burma during the war (CBI theater), and postwar with the RAF and the Burmese Air Force after independence. Did just fine.

The Viginia Aircraft is the same aircraft that Tamiya measured in New Zealand at AV Specs prior to it travelling to Virginia. As to the third measurement, not sure if that occurred during its recent tour (which included a stop at the CWHM, a regular Tamiya partner) or if they'd measured it in the past prior to it being shipped to AV Specs (I do think they at least took a look at it in the early 2000's when it was still in Canada).

You seem to have the Mosquito and the Hornet mixed up, it was the latter which was the total failure in Asia. The Aussies and RAF both operated Mosquito's in the Pacific both during the war and Postwar, the Kiwi's did so briefly post-war. The RAF and SAAF both operated the Mosquito in the Med as well. The RAF also operated Mosquito's in the CBI theater. It was hardly a one theater airframe. Mosquito's saw action in the IAF during the Suez crisis and also served with the Turkish Air Force, Belgian Air Force, Swedish Air Force, and the Republic of China Air Force. There were quite a few smaller

Well detailed, well engineered and great decals. Accurate, not so much. Major shape issues at the engines and minor ones elsewhere and they share the same problem as the Hasegawa, being fundamentally a D fuselage. Their C has the same problems aside from the incorrect fuselage for the type issue common to all Strike Eagles in 1/48 that aren't the Revell. These kits are best used as parts donor's for Revell's far superior F-15E, as they provide the weapons and other bits to do an F-15E/I/K/S/SM that is newer than the Gulf War 1 era and the weapons and update sprues are superb.

Really? Eduard Weekend editions typically run about $2-5 more than the comparable Airfix kit around here (Canada & the US). Add $10-15 for the Profipack version, but that includes usually about $5-8 in PE as well as a decal sheet good for 6-8 subjects (instead of the usual 2-3). Well worth the extra if you want those bits, but the Weekend editions are great for aftermarket decals since you aren't paying for a large sheet of decals in the box. Eduard, Airfix and Tamiya are generally pretty good in pricing, with Eduard coming in between Tamiya and Airfix for a given type (best comparison is

in fact the -1 Flight Handbook or Operating Instructions are almost universally known by pilots as the 'Dash One'. The suffix is common to all aircraft types in US use/

Eduard does does this to some extent. Their Big Ed and Big Sin sets are exactly this, for PE and Resin. They sadly don't include their excellent decals (which they don't normally sell separately, which is a pity)

It's a nice decal sheet, an already wildly overpriced kit and you still need the Daco set to do a decent G.

That said, we are likely to see at least one new sprue for the -1D's, and if there's an FAA boxing new wingtips are needed (and ideally the small scoops unique to the FAA birds). But I'd suspect the new -1D sprue will be weapons/pylons and prop blades, possibly also with the FAA wingtips.

Given the breakdown of the sprue's, I wouldn't expect it, unless they decide to put it as the core of the D sprues.

The -4 certainly has a WW2 combat record, given it saw combat in the last 6 months of the Pacific campaigns. That said, I do agree overall it's unlikely that we would see the necessary tooling for a -4, which would require all-new fuselage, engine & exhaust, cowling, and lower wings. Especially since Tamiya couldn't even be bothered to retool a single outer lower wing to remove the Birdcage-only landing light (the one consistent error on all their -1A and -1D kits)

Canuck Model Products does them in 1/48 on their sheet for the CF-101 special markings (the other three aircraft are the three CF-101 special schemes).

Only problem with releasing a B/J sheet is the lack of B's in 1/32.

Oh so ordered. Dunno what it is about the Bones and Phantom's, but it's a gotta-have.