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Vince Maddux

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  1. Monogram.

    to make a T-37 you will have to:

    add a bulge in front of the intakes

    find make flat main gear doors

    remove the gun and the camera in the nose

    fill in areas where the intake screens go.

    fill in the pylon slots

    build wing tips.

    also the T-37 doesn't have the large trust deflectors

    That's the basics. For extra credit you can:

    fix the belly the engines on the T-37 and not as deep as the A-37

    and the main wheels are thinner .

     That's all I can think of off the top of my head when I did my conversion. Alot of this, if not all would apply to the Trumpeter kit.

  2. 1 hour ago, Dutch said:

    @Kursad,

    Any plans on making a T-37 Tweet sheet as well?  There are a plethora of options among the few basic training schemes of all natural metal, white & red, all white, and white & strata blue. I'm itching to build a 1/48 Tweet to go with my 1/48 366th Wg Collection. I just found a photo of a T-37 in Strata Blue & White with MO tails codes circa 1996.

     

    @Vince Maddux, 

    I take it then that the Monogram/Revell/Encore kit is better than the Trumpeter kit? 

     

    K/r, Dutch

    I have both kits. I think the main draw back is the raised panel lines on the Monogram kit,but on the other hand I like the raised rivets on it, to me it just fits the model.

    Although I haven't built my Trumpeter kit ,I can tell a lot of the parts break down was inspired (copied?) from the Monogram kit. With the engraved panel lines , to me, it just looks too smooth, but that's just me. One major issue with the Trumpeter kit is the decals are wrong. its has an intake warning chevron that was never applied to the A-37. I've only seen it on a civil warbird.

     

     

  3. I have a Photon resin printer and a Creality CR-10 the uses the spools of filament. I have been using CAD for 25 years and I really good at 3D. but its as taken over a year of drawing to do the airplanes i want to print. Btw, I found a water washable resin made by Elegoo that makes it a part a lot easier to clean in post-processing . You can find tons of things to print on https://www.thingiverse.com/

  4. 3 hours ago, Drifterdon said:

    As much as I love the Scooter, I always thought the main gear on the A-4 looked kind of spindly as well.

    I was thinking the same, but it looks better with drop tanks on both wings

    The early Mig-29 and SU-27 prototypes with the nose gear way out in front look awful

  5. I was hoping to see something new to the paint scheme too. but as it's been said its tradition. But its not like they haven't changed their paint schemes before (Panther to Cougar). Fat Albert is going to have a new look, why not the rest of the team?.... I have a crazy idea, get a T-6 and bring back Beetle Bomb!

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