VADM Fangschleister
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Sorta got taken by surprise. Noticed it's available for pre-order at many online shops. Gordon has a photo of the bag-o-parts but it is hidden with the decal sheet covering it all.
I would imagine that the kit is the "D" with the appropriate addenda for the F-model.
But still, a review would be nice to read.
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Nothing.
It is worth absolutely nothing. In fact, it is an environmental hazard due to the inferior quality plastic used and the noxious fumes it gives off.
Recommend you mail it to me ASAP (shipping paid by you, plus a 50 dollar disposal fee) so that I may dispose of it properly. I am located near the ONLY facility capable of safely eliminating any Nova plastic.
No need to thank me. I'll let you know when it gets here. Be sure to pack it carefully and seal it so no fumes escape.
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African or European?
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This is tough.
Perhaps my Airfix 1/72 Concorde. The reasons for this are many but, the biggest reason is that when I was a kid, I was extremely lucky to get to walk through the assembly plant at Filton. Absolutely amazing for a 12-year-old who's first and all-time love is aviation. At the time, there weren't many kits of the Concorde. This one kit, though flawed, will someday be a cherished display piece.
Next, I'd have to say my Ginormous Jupiter II. Again, for sentimental reasons. When Lost In Space first came on it was perfect for my four-year-old mind to comprehend. Star Trek was a tough sell for me and they talked too much. The dialogue and action in LIS was much more believable for jello-head like me, however. Later though, my more solidified mind could not make rhyme nor reason out of the LIS plotlines and/or dialogue. Star Trek was indeed, much, MUCH better, of course.
BUT, there were no Juipter II models during the years the show aired, nor for many thereafter, until Polar Lights produced a 13" model in the 90's. I had to laugh when one person told me, "Yeah, should'a got one when they first came out in the 60's. Man, it would be worth a fortune today". As indeed it would because it would be tantamount to figuring out how to make gold out of thin air. But then, thanks to Moebius, they got ahold of the best information they could and came out with an 18" version. Not to mention a Chariot, and Space Pod from the LIS series.
To keep the inside child still wanting more, Moebius also produced a large Seaview and enormous 1/32 Flying Sub from "VTTBOTS" another Irwin Allen "masterpiece".
But the Concorde is highly cherished as is the 18" Jupiter II which will enjoy the fully lighted treatment and perhaps a perfect 1/35 scale diorama set that copies the original from the series. Complete with styrofoam rocks and such. Plenty of scale sand, scrub and brush and an accurate "horizon" painted on the edge of it.
All to make it "genuinely fake", just like in the show.
But, that's about it.
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Purchased.
Will enjoy every page!
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One of the first computer games I ever played was Prince Of Persia. I really enjoyed it...and it came out before the first person shooter games. It was a "scrolling screen" type of game but a real hoot.
The next one that came out was virtually unplayable, however. Better graphics....first person-ish but not a very good gamin engine like DOOM or Castle Wolfenstein, etc.
Maybe they'll do another game if the movie is popular enough. Will no doubt see it on DVD.
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Fang,
I always ask myself why we modelers look for difficult kits to build, but the answer is in the name: we are modelers.
You are doing something great.
You don't know how many times I have pulled out my old Airmodel Jetstar, forgetting every time how bad it is and than stored again.
Keep it up.
Euge
Thanks Euge!
I too have the Airmodel kit and though it vaguely resembles the Jetstar, I found it to be a very bad starting point as well as not wanting to put forth any effort to fix/change any of it.
Then, before Anigrand did theirs, I was going to scratchbuild one. Had photos and measurements....and had even gotten started.
Then the Anigrand kit came out and the fixes and changes are within my capabilities, so I am pursuing that avenue. Hopefully, it won't take a century and a half. But like others, I notice this little thing then that not-so-little thing, etc. Eventually, the kit will be only a few of the original parts from the original and I'll have gone totally bonkers on it. Hard to avoid at this point but the reason I'm doing it is because ever since I was a kid and my dad flew these for a living, I've always wanted a kit of it. This is as good as it'll get, I'm sure. Hasegawa nor Tamiya nor Trumpeter or Revellogram has any plans to mold anything like this and Minicraft's 1/48 G-III is stillborn.
Shame, that.
But, after this 1/72 Jetstar is done, I will plot and see if I can do a 1/48 version. Might be a task and then some.
Cheers
Fang
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Well after two years since this original posting it would seem that it's just a pipe dream. With the emphasis on more dream, less pipe.
I doubt this will ever appear.
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There are three kinds of people in the world:
Those who can do math....
.....and those who can't.
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It's what I live for. :D
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Working the "ridge".
This is the base upon which the bottom of the clear vac part will be glued to. So it's important to have it correct.
The only thing about the fine putty is the long curing time. but it sands and files better for the "faceting" I have to do to get the basis for the flat panels.
I used the drawing as a template to see where the actual bottom of the vac part would fit then honed the ridge down to that size. Each window panel will have its own facet, so it's necessary to make sure they line up correctly.
Here's the same photo with a rough approximation of where the flat window panels go so you can see why I want to get the area that mates up with the radome just right.
After comparing with photos more, I noticed that the top of the radome where it meets the windscreens is essentially flat. So I had to add more Bondo and have a small sanding fest. This is really something for an area that's not much bigger than an inch square
Thanks for looking....it's quite the project.
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That's alot of Alclad
Or in this case, Mother's
Nothing like spinning that goop around with a buffing pad and getting all black and grimy. Having done a number of alloy wheels in the past, it's nasty but well worth it.
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Thanks, HOLMES.
Although I had hoped it would be a more accurate rendition, AMS has certainly taken over and there are just some things I want to have right. I could've built it OOB but then regretted having spent the money and finished a kit that was so...well.....wrong.
However, as I said before, it's a much better starting point than the old vac kit. I am grateful for Bondo, as well as other fillers/putties, etc. Plus, this kit is a labor of some intense personal feelings and that's the motivation for trying to keep it right.
I'm sure it'll be some time before I'll even get a coat of paint on it, let alone finish the shape errors. The wing fillets are wrong, as in, there are none in the kit and the real bird has some pretty well-pronounced ones. The fairing on the vert stab that's supposed to be round and is flat on the kit....and other things.
But, it's all good and it's a lot of fun. Hope it stays that way. I am still planning on a 1/48 rendition some day. That's about 14.5 inches long! :-)
Fang
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In one respect, I will think positively and consider the possibilities that the private sector will slowly overtake the national tax dollars needed to venture into space. Although my tax dollars going into the space program was one area I had absolutely no problem with, I am familiar with government waste. With that "inexhaustible" money supply from the US taxpayer, there isn't the frugality that a private company would take to have safety with cost effectiveness simultaneously.
There is that argument that sustained space capability is too big an animal for just the private sector, I will mention the airline industry (such as it is) was founded on private enterprise as well as with federal subsidies to all airlines except Eastern.
However, there first has to exist a need. Americans, by and large are not jazzed by exploration. Historically, it has been exploitation and the desire for raw materials and land that drove the last great expansions of any nation. There is simply no desire to explore by joe bag-o-donuts. The Apollo program was successful because in the 1960's, the desire to beat the Russians to the Moon was there. But, if one believes exploration was the motivation, recall what happened after Apollo 11. With the exception of the real-life drama of Apollo 13, nobody watched moon-shots after that. And after the crew returned safely, the world went back to sleep as regards space exploration. Apollo 17 was buried after the weather on most news reports in 1972. And to be 4even more blunt, said Joe Bag-o-donuts couldn't give a tinker's cuss about the shuttle. Especially "unemployed joe".
So, the onus will fall on what Americans do best. Discover a need, exploit it and make it into a going concern. Sam Walton, Home Depot, Sears, etc. The trick is exactly zero Americans have a need to travel in space. The Moon has no readily-available minerals we can't get here at home...and I couldn't call it a vacation spot except for the likes of people like Madonna and/or Tom Cruise and other whack-a-doodles.
On the other hand, quietly, almost invisibly, there are exploration craft out there looking at Saturn and its moon Titan and another craft, New Horizon is on its way to Pluto, the non-planet, planet. So exploration is ongoing, albeit remotely.
Sending people to Mars, much as I'd like to see it, is monumentally risky and beyond costly and though I'd like to think it would be something that ALL nations could have a hand in..an "all-Earth" type of thing, it doesn't look like it's gonna happen in my lifetime or perhaps ever. For once again, Earthbound nutjobs who want to take over the world and monetary problems on a grand scale have taken hold and we are on a hold for now.
Space is the furthest thing from most nation's minds. I disagree with that position and am merely making the observation. China may very well be the first to set foot on Mars. If for nationalistic reasons alone. But by all "expert" accounts, they can't afford it either right now.
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The shuttle program was terminated with project Orion and Ares a firm "go" by the Bush administration.
Obama canceled Orion and Ares a few weeks ago by executive order.
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The English and The Americans.
Two people separated by a common language
Lorry
p-issed
fags
mad
Once when I was a kid in Bristol, I went to the candy shop and asked for "malt balls" (malted milk balls) and the shopkeeper said he didn't have any mothballs.
My aunt Elsie finally figured out I wanted "maltesers"
Also:
"Would you like someone to knock you up in the morning?"
Ans: "I dunno, it depends on who's asking."
And it goes on and on. Then, throw an Aussie or especially a Scot into the mix and you'll have a fight.
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More photos from my collection to show you how it should look.
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This is step one in how I decided to rectify the problem. I took a strip of Evergreen, superglued it to the top of the original cockpit edge, then used Bondo auto putty to create a new profile. It cures quickly and I was worried that it would flake off of the resin, so I used rough grit paper on the resin area to help give it some bite.
After it cured, I worked the profile down to match the drawing, even if the drawing isn't 100% accurate, it's the best I have to work with, given many other considerations such as how complex will I want to make the mold for the windows, should I extend it out, etc.
And this is a photo of step one.
The Red line is the current path the Evergreen strip is taking and the blue line is the ideal path.
From the other side:
I will shave the top of this new buildup to meet with the bottom of the clear cockpit windows. The way the kit was molded, the line along the bottom of the windows actually would sink as it went toward the center of the fuselage. Here, I can fix that and make it a constant line all the way around. The windows ahead of the far left and right are much smaller and were designed to be opened. But, all are flat panels except the very center window. I will carve a mold for the whole thing and stress mold or vac-form a clear replacement.
The other frustration is the location of the door. The kit has the outline in the wrong location, with the wrong dimensions and unfortunately, the cockpit bulkhead interferes with where the door actually needs to be. Now, I've already opened this door up and, as you can see, made corrections...and corrections to the corrections...but...what I may do is carve out the rear cockpit wall and relocate it with styrene and then re-do the door. It's only a foot away from the top of the aft cockpit window...not the 2.5 feet it looks like on the kit. I just hate the idea of re-doing it but...should've re-checked the photos before I drilled it out. My mistake.
Thanks for looking.
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I'll be checking my bank statement to make sure they didn't charge me for the T-33 I pre-ordered. I went to check on it and found no website anymore---bupkiss, nada. Oddly, just a week before I asked when the T-birds would be shipping and was responded with "3-4 weeks". Then silence.
So I ordered from Gordon Kwan.
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Here you can see my next challenge. The Jetstar's nose is difficult to capture. Obviously, Anigrand didn't' quite get it as you can see with the comparison of the resin with the diagram.
But even worse than that, when comparing to Jennings' photo from the side, at least at first glance (I have other photos to compare) it's just not right. From where the windscreens meet the radome to other issues.
The orange dots are the resin, the yellow dots are the the actual bird photo, except the resin matches the drawing for where the nose ends, whereas the photo is longer which may be the result of wide-angle lensing. I will have to look further.
But, I want to correct the nose as best I can.
Here's another look
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First appearance EVER in 1966 here at 1:15
Any reviews?
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OK, I am now officially "deflated".
LOL
But, see, what I need to know is if they'll scale UP those glaring errors into producing a horrendous 1/32 scale version. I mean, what's the point, right?
(that's sarcasm)