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Very cool. I did not know it was used in The Doomsday Machine but it makes sense for all the forced perspective things they had to do. Your rendition of the replica is aces! Might even do a 'shop of yourself in a similar pose as The Great Bird Of The Galaxy with your model properly positioned. No, I'm not being snarky. Just something fun to bring smiles. In other news, and possibly due to intrusive algorithms in my web searches, a metal replica of the Cat's Paw Enterprise appeared in my eBay feed and I bought it. Made by a feller in the UK. Not as precise as the original

Very excellent reporting. Now tell us where this one went:

Wellllll goll-durnnit! I BEEN patient a'waitin' fer these dang critters ta come back, sheriff! My patience is a'wearin' mighty thin these days. Ain't much I can do 'bout it though. Jest don't like waitin' is all. Shucks.

I've been following the F9F-8 single seat on eBay for some years now. Prices on the Bay varied widely but nothing I could afford/was willing to pay for. The listing for this new mfr shows it at ¥ 999 which is about $140 US but I think since lots of their kits have this amount, it may just be a 'place-holder' or approximation. In any case, $140 is a lot but considerably less than what's being asked on eBay. Would love to see it under $100 but that is likely a pipe-dream. Should have bought the Cougar and the F-101B when first offered.

Looks pretty nice. Nice effort on the fan blades, something nobody else seemed willing to tackle to that level. Nose also looks really good. As "slow" as kit production is these days, the ones coming out seem to be setting a better standard. The old argument of them being in the money business and making kits that have a wide appeal still holds as they need to make money to stay in business. So the off-chances of seeing this quality in a 1AB1F2 Wifferdill is unlikely. Still Jonesing for the Trumpeter 1/32 F-106 they promised in 2003. :-/

I had a long ago brief email exchange with Trumpeter back in the early 2000's about a 1/32 F-106. The respondent told me that Trumpeter would definitely be producing that kit. I do not intend to make this a wish list entry...the emails really happened. Then, I believe Kitty Hawk intended to do a 1/32 T-38 but went OOB. Their 1/32 F-5F has the complicated canopy bits...and I would guess that although the two aircraft are completely different, the canopy bits are almost identical.

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Indeed! The old fedora. You could tell a lot about a man by his hat. How he wore it, what kind of condition it was in, his manners with women and his chapeau. I got my kit this week and immediately started trying to figure out how to add a passenger window on each side, in-between the two that are there. The plastic is a bit thick but I think making a stencil on tape from the holes and then slowly dremeling out a new one might work. Not absolutely necessary but for the purposes of accuracy with what I want to build....I'm thinking it's necessary. I'll figure it

This kit is a welcome addition to my collection. This airplane started its life long ago as a product of Mitsubishi Aircraft in the 1980'sand then was bought by the Beechcraft Aircraft Company and marketed as the Beechjet. A nice purchase by the USAF for an aircrew-type trainer, designated the T-1 Jayhawk put some life into it and Beechcraft did fairly well in the newly evolving light jet world with it. It's final rendition as of about 10 to 15 years ago is the Nextant with a light engine upgrade, winglets and Garmin avionics has given it quite a new lease on life.

Thanks Gene. Moral support in misery is still moral support. I just today re-discovered my shelf-of-doom Anigrand Jetstar. I'm afraid to track back to my old posts and see when I gave up on it. But in that time, I've moved four times, lost a job because of Covid, retired and settled down in a small bungalow in my beloved state of South Carolina and hopefully will get back to work. The Anigrand kit was put away and all the nice work is still there, so it may be worth picking up again. Plus with all the 1/72 Biz jets coming out, I think it may want company. I've ordered the b

Thanks much for the photos! I may find myself purchasing the kit! Looks every bit the part. Might need the Hobbycraft 1/2 F-86 kit as a slat donor. Much appreciated. My dad flew this one out of Poughkeepsie for IBM. I have a goal of 3D printing the model in 1/48. In 1962/3 this was one EXPENSIVE paintjob. But hey, in a ramp dio, door open, a few businessmen with thin ties and white shirts.... Yeah.

An Addendum: There is a Quinta Studios 3D decal set for the cockpit. $35 on eBay. Purchased straight away for "personal modeling needs". There is no Mrs, so I have no misses.

The Storm factory 1/32 F-5F, of the Kitty Hawk molds, arrived yesterday. It survived the many thousand mile journey from the Chinese supplier and upon opening the box, I was pickled tink over the fineness of the plastic and the entire well-doneness of the kit. The panel detail was not canyon-deep and the sprues were all quite crisp and flash-free. I can supply photos, if I wish to spend the hours of downloading pics from my phone, a sometimes tedious process, though I fully grok how sprue-pron is approved of here. In short, I originally bought this kit because 1) I

As a former A-10 muzzle f**er, old school, Cold War, Green Meanie jets, I have a particular fondness for the machine and I endeavored to get to fly them when I earned my commission. Alack and alas, such was not to be but the old girl has outlasted so many critics and detractors. I had no idea. I was certain that a new gun platform would have been developed and the Warthogs retired or relegated to another role. But how to improve on perfection? It was designed to counter the Soviet tank threat if the balloon went up and found itself employed very effectively in wars of the middl

As an aside skill to making model airplanes, some years ago I got into watch modding and making. Then I started getting requests. I've done over 30 now and most are one-of-a-kind. Many airline commemoratives as well. Piedmont and FedEx, military, etc.

Not sure if this will help but after looking at the sprue shots and then photos of the real aircraft, I think their fidelity to accuracy is laudable but the reality of wanting to display the model with gear down is atrocious. https://dddimaxxx.artstation.com/projects/aRnGx0 Here's maybe another idea: SAC Landing Gear for 1/48 Zvezda Su-25

That's good stuff! I had a brief email exchange with the eBay seller and he assures me that the model will be sent out. He explained some of the logistics he deals with so the lower price is attributable to how he gets the kits. Family op? I don't know. In any case, I feel more confident that it will show up at my door. He was a very nice fellow and completely acknowledged my concerns and admitted many others have the same. So I look forward to it. The thought of going to HobbyLink occurred to me shortly after I first posted and that will likely be the way I'll

Hey everybody. I have lamented here once or twice about the fate of Kitty Hawk's molds and apparently my pleas did not go unheard. Or, I'd like to imagine as much. It seems, as has been discussed here, a company called "Storm Factory" is or will be producing kit #32002, F-5F which was one of Kitty Hawk's "crowning" achievements, though some may debate that point. In any case, it was a really nice rendition of the family model F-5 and I liked it because it had two crew ladders and would possibly be a good graft for the 1/32 resin Collecr-Aire T-38 for the cockpit coa

Would it at all be possible to purchase acrylic sheet, of your desired thickness, a used or inexpensive bandsaw, make a template or copy an existing shape and cut the pieces out, glue them together and have what you need? Sometimes, the need to be "more than just a modeler" is key. I'm not criticizing but I found that to properly display various models I've built, I've had to make a case or a stand. Sometimes the stand is a nice piece of hardwood, routered with a fine, decorative edge, a stout brass rod epoxied to the side, gracefully curved to insert into a custom-made brass

Wow, signs that I'm getting old. On a side note, I remember when ARC was brand spanking new and I joined at a time when I was living in a third floor apartment, had an adopted Labrador mix and was scraping by working for a horrible, awful airline. All my things are still in storage, John. In my previous life with the airline, I ended up selling my home, moving three times and finally settling back to a place I can call home. But decades have passed and there's much to do before I can get to cutting plastic. As for the Comet kits, I am torn between building the p

Camera fairings. I used to work D's E's and G's. The D's had these but not all of them. One (the starboard one) has it's flat-pane looking forward and the port one looks aft. That may be a Navy B model?

iphone pics. There are two of each.