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Ho Chi Minh's personal Mi-4: http://www.airliners.net/photo/Vietnam---A...Mi-4/1395928/L/ Mi-4 in Laos, from the Air America veterans website: http://www.air-america.org/ImageLibrary/ImageGallery5.shtml http://www.air-america.org/Images/mi-4athinheup2.jpg

EDIT: Added a trade request! Removed a couple of sold items! But I'll keep selling till they're all gone!

Hey all; I was wondering if anyone knew if there are any vacuform replacement canopies available that would work on the ICM 1/72 Yak-9. I heard there was one from Pavla, but I can't find anyone who sells them in the US. Thanks!

The best reference photos you'll be able to find are probably the ones of the Syrian MiG-23 that defected to Israel in the late 80s. I believe this aircraft is now sitting in the Israeli Air Force Museum at Hatzerim. Anyhow, pictures of it are out there is you look.

iiwy; PM sent. Thanks!

Or you could just build the ol' reliable Monogram kit in something-sorta-close-to-1/48-scale. I think that'd be much less work in doing a respectable 170.

AFAIK, the "double bubble" one is called the Samson, and the Scorpion is the single-seater gunship. Or am I wrong about that?

Deino; Thank you for the replies. How difficult do you think that either a J-7 or a J-7I would be? Can you tell me more about the parachute fairing modifications to the basic J-7? Are there pictures that show the differences? Also, I saw a picture of an Albanian (Chinese-made) F-7A that looked almost identical to a MiG-21F-13. Is it?

Wishing for: 1/72 J-7MG 1/72 J-6 series 1/144 Mi-26 1/144 An-12/Y-8

Often? yes. But while no rule of thumb is perfect, looking at where people's money flows is a very reliable indicator of what they believe. People spend money on what they really want, not what they say they want.

Because the best way to find the real truth is to "follow the money". Always has been, always will be. Don't look at what people say, because people say lots of dishonest stuff. But whether people mean to or not, they inevitably put their money where their mouth is. Look at what people spend money on, where they get money from, who they give money to. That'll tell you what's really going on. And, of course, there's nowhere that that's more true than in the arena of military procurement. It's no coincidence that, for example, some piece of the F-22 is built in, tested in, or shipped from eve

Someone once remarked that if philosophy is the study of the way the world ought to work, economics is the study of the way the world actually does work. Just a thought.

Being that this was Air America and all, were the short-bodied Hueys they were flying really 204s at all? Or were they in fact UH-1Bs that somehow found their way from the military inventory into AA's hands?

It's the kinky one. Thank you guys again for looking - I appreciate it a lot!

Doesn't the UH-1C also have a wider chord vertical fin than the UH-1B?

OK, allow me to be more specific. For the purposes of a modeler, which kit do I buy to model these aircraft - a UH-1B kit, or a UH-1C kit?

This isn't a good enough weapon for you?

I might have those markings in 1/72. Want me to check?

Are there any?

Hey all; I'm pretty sure these are UH-1Bs, but I thought I'd make sure. http://www.air-america.org/Images/n1304x.jpg http://www.air-america.org/Images/AirAmerHuey1969.jpg Thanks for the help!

Speaking of comprehensive... Since this sheet is so comprehensive, I wonder if someone would like to defer the cost of this sheet a little (and be a little non-wasteful) by splitting one with me. I'm interested in the Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Indian markings (and only *really* desperate for the Korean markings). PM me if interested.

"Drones better"

So I was wondering if there are any kits, or (especially) any aftermarket decals out there, for the JGSDF's new AH-64D Apaches. I know there's a kit in 1/48, but is there any love in 1/72 yet?

Added some new items on May 7th!

So basically... I know that the Chengdu J-7 series started out as copies of the early MiG-21s, and then kinda went off on their own evolutionary path, so that eventually Chinese and Russian Fishbeds were quite different from one another. So what I'm wondering is if the Revell 1/72 MiG-21F-13 is close enough to any variant of the J-7 that was produced in any reasonably large numbers that it could be built as a Chinese machine, or whether even the early J-7s were just too different to make that possible. Or is it possible, with a few modifications? Thanks!