VADM Fangschleister

Yeah, that's just stupid money for it. I can wait.

Thanks, Dave. I scoped out their website---$216 + shipping. I guess their rarity is causing them to go up in price. I suppose if I had the cash to waste, I'd go and do that...but it seems a bit ridiculous. Deep in my heart of hearts, I am imagining that they are re-tooling the fuselage parts to correct the shape issues and are waiting until the original moldings are sold out so as to protect the investments of the retailers who bought them when they first came out. So, attached to that thought process it may be prudent to just wait and see if they re-release them with "new IMPROVED

Seems I'm (very) late to the party and after realizing that Academy did a 1/32 F-16I SUFA, then learning that AFV Club sold the two-seaters as B's and D's....I'm hard-pressed to find them anywhere for sale. I read about shape issues, etc....but it didn't cause me all that much distress to force being disinterested. So...did they just pop one squirt of hot plastic through the molds and then realize the errors and didn't do any more cycles on the molds? Seems a shame that the ONLY 1/32 F-16 two-seater isn't being produced in greater quantities, shape issues or not. Anyone have the answ

Reasonable price, please.

True but it's the only game in town for what he's asking.

Afterburner effect Fairly common amongst the EDF RC crowd.

No. Back in 2010 I was going through health issues, work issues and other things. I also had (and still have) a stable of full-scale sailboats that keep me occupied. I put it away and there it remains. I have moved to my own home (one of the issues I mentioned---a witch of a landlady who didn't understand the law nor home-repair requirements) and it has, among other things, a room that will be dedicated to the hobby of building little gems of plastic for display. However, I'm 55 and it may have to wait until I fully retire though I may become deceased before that occurs. I have ther

Years ago I made a wish and also great sport of my desire to attain one each, 1/32 F-106 in an injection-molded kit. That dream has not been realized and I blame the modeling gods for it. :-\ Given that there have been some very significant kits produced in 1/32 of late and the last few years, I'm still wondering what the problem is. Is it something I said? The way I look when I'm just thinking? Who'd I so deeply aggravate that I cannot hope to see a gorgeous hunk of plastic in a big box that says "F-106" on it? Over the years, I was thrilled to see the 1/48 C-130 (long ago now bu

Got the Skunk Models F-16XL kit today. Plastic looks very nice. I am impressed. The engine nozzle is the P&W F-100. Aftermarket can take care of that, though. The aftermarket two cockpit conversion will probably work nicely...though I'm still considering the Kinetic idea.

Well, it is what it is. I had gotten a crazy notion some time ago to use the Hasegawa turkey feathers photo-etch set and build a prototype closed nozzle and then cast it. Still might but I have lots going on in my life right now and modeling is confined to reading about it on the web for now. But the Italeri casting isn't too bad. I even considered casting it for my own use to make multiple in-flight F-16's for former F-16 driver friends of mine. But again...life got busy.

The Italeri kit has one. F-16C kit

I did not knoes dat. Well, I have the resin conversion set....may just hold onto that for the Tamiya kit after all. We'll see.

I know, right?

Cuz I want it NOW!

Hi gang, I recently purchased the Skunk Models 1/48 F-16XL from Hong Kong and it's reached the United States and will be in my mailbox in a couple of days. After reading about the kit some time ago, this one project has kept nagging at me and so I decided to buy it and also get a two-seat conversion. The conversion set I opted for is the Wingman Models resin set which has an exquisite injection-molded canopy. I was unfamiliar with this resin-maker but the set looks very nice. In the consideration was how to get a two-seater without a lot of expense. I co

Well, I've posted pictures in the past and gotten little satisfaction from it, as well as the armchair critiquers who flame the kit. For those of you who are criticizing me personally, get stuffed. I don't owe you anything. I simply wanted to see how much interest there was and it turns out, not much. It's just not worth my time to do it. That's all. Nothing personal about it, not making any great "statement" about this or that. 2% of the looky-loos want photos. Doesn't seem like that much interest to me. The photo from Welsh is just fine. Yup, that's the kit. Surprised no one though

Since only 2% responded, I'm not going to post photos. 11 responses to 482 views.

I have recently received the Welsh 1/72 A-320 kit. It's very nice. Vac fuselage, resin wings and most everything else. Metal LG, British Airways decals. But I figured I'd ask before posting the in-box photos since I don't see a lot of viewership on such postings. So...I'm just polling the masses here and let me know if you want piccies or not. Cheers Fang

This photo shows an F-4F But this, on the other hand, is an F-4F Please make a note of it. Edit: This is intended to be "snarky humor" and is not in any way intended to perpetuate anal-modeling syndrome. Poor placement of the dash is absolutely intentional as well. was just 'avin' a bit o' fun.

T-37 only. There is no need for any other kit of any other airplane. I figure this is why nobody has done a kit of the Tweet. Once you build it, anything else is second-rate. So I guess it's understood that no one should make a kit of it. Oh, Aurora tried a kit of it some years ago. But few were allowed to be sold and word has it that it was quickly and efficiently removed from the shelves by the Scale Modeler Mafia. This is due to reports that when modelers bought one of the kits, they never returned to buy any other kits, having been awestruck to the degree of having "complete and utt

Once joy has been stolen, it cannot be un-stolen.

Yes! I have it hot-linked in my browser. Spent a week one night reading much of it. Oddly, it hasn't been updated to include Anigrand's offering of models yet, though I'm sure it will be added once someone has the opportunity to critique it sufficiently. I'll build mine, "someday". Lord willin' and the crick don't rise.

Tony, It may seem sacrilegious but I am way fond of the BOAC paint scheme and...if you have any ideas to make the airframe accurate to that extent, it might save me a lot of research, or it may be impossible or too effort-intense. However, my first thought was to fill the windows and use a decal to replace them. I can pick/choose colors to match and airbrush away. I'm not trying to insult your service; I myself would've loved the opportunity to be connected with this jet in any way. I once flew in the Super from London to Tripoli in 1968. I loved the plane from the first moment I saw

No smoking 8 hours before flying and no alcohol within 50 feet of an airplane.

Airfix put out their much coveted 1/72 Concorde some years ago and when I got mine, I couldn't believe the glaring errors in the nose, the hinge-line, the visor and other things. It was an expensive injected-molded model and I had easily 70+ hours to just correct the nose. Their goal, perhaps was to have the whole thing articulated but, experience in the last 40 years has shown that movable clear plastic parts break very easily. I suppose it was a nifty idea but they sacrificed accuracy for the "fun-factor" in having a moving part. So even if Airfix provides a 1/72 VC-10, there's no guaran