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ChippyWho

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  1. Actually...those ARE the Droids we're looking for!
  2. Very excellent work! I love the seat detailing, particularly. But I have a question... -if you can fill in the blanks I'll buy you a rubber Taco!
  3. Well, I was admiring Aigore's natty WIP of his 9.13 and wondering where he got the little placards and whatnot for the ejection seat, etc. I love these neat little touches, and they looked thinner and nicer than the usual printed etched bits... Sure enough, if you turn up the GWH instruction sheets on HobbySearch, they are mentioned on the cockpit page. Also, if you have a 9.12 (Early) as I do, be assured the same decals are there along with the instrument panel ones, despite them not being featured in the instructions. The thing is, there are more similar looking placa
  4. Great choice of subject, and (again!) demonstrating the charm of the wee scale... You're probably best doing just the AFT, ACMI pod and maybe a (captive?) AAM-3 like this fella. No idea where you get one in 1/144 though, but maybe a modified early round-nose AIM-9 will look the part. Watching with interest!
  5. You don't see one of those every day! Superb work.
  6. A Happy Hun! Very superior work there, good catch on the IFR probe light as well -often gets missed! (Still grinding away at mine...it will get here one day!)
  7. Extraordinarily beautiful. Also inspirational -having seen the new(ish) Linden Hill 'Pavlov's MiGs' sheet, I may have to spring for a 9.13 meself...quite fancy doing Aleksandr Nevskii. (And that's not a sentence ending I'd even have imagined writing a few years ago! )
  8. I really like this kit, and you made it come alive!
  9. That would be helpful -TBH, I wasn't aware of a problem with the forward fuselage...this gets better & better!
  10. LASERS??! Ye Gods...I can imagine the pilot in combat muttering "The Force is strong with this one..."
  11. If you're not that bothered about the KH kit, take a look at what one of those cheeky dudes at Britmodeller hacked out with the Kopro + Ciro bits...
  12. Ooff! Just dug out the Kopro kit and the screen on that looks like the (actual) KH one -no way out there then! Apart from some 'creative' masking...
  13. Just had a read of the relevant decal (#21) from the Revell 1/48 kit... " DANGER AIRBRAKE KEEP CLEAR AIRBRAKE WHEN HYDR SYST.2 IS PRESSURIS FAST EMERGENC RETRATION (sic)" So it looks like Trojan Thunder is right on the money, with the possible amendment 'HYDR SYST.2'...? HTH.
  14. Only halfway through January, and we have the Thread Of The Year! :P
  15. Re. #18 (Nose Gear Bay): BOTH sides (and the rear bulkhead) have a ridiculous gap between the bay walls and fuselage, except at the front! I had to deploy a shedload of styrene sheet and filler to lose it... Ben Brown, the GP kit looks wonderful in the box, and there is enough AIRES resin there to sink a carrier. But it does need some, uh...commitment?! And it doesn't have a wing-fold, spurious or otherwise. That was a 'thing' for me, because I really wanted to display the distinctive fold configuration. The HB kit is awash with silly little build niggles and missing or inaccurate
  16. Just getting my head around the idea of a Mustang Zapper -as the late Mr Marley would say, "Jammin'!" But maybe a Whif Too Far. That canopy looks very similar to the Prowler's pimp-chic window tint; I'll have to experiment to find that elusive soap-bubble look on Hornets and A-10s. Maybe I can persuade Mrs Who that she has a promising career as a nail wizard... Many thanks for the pointer!
  17. Looks like there are a couple of windscreen tints there too... Most importantly, when will the Steel Beach B mods hit the ground? They look superb.
  18. Very nice work. The Predator leaning on the workbench looks cool too.
  19. That's a DAMN fine Tomcat! What's the story with the exhaust decals -do they have some feature other than saving a masking chore?
  20. Hi Steve; there's usually a load of 'interesting' things doing the rounds this time of year -those with kids of school age are the prime target since our Seats of Learning are wonderful channels for the spread of viruses. The viral arthritis that knocked me out of the StarFish GB a couple of years ago was a hideous thing that struck over Christmas and because I was working super-hard to get the wherewithal to move back near London, I stupidly ignored it until it slapped me down like a gutted fish. Normally this household manages to dodge the winter nasties, but you can only ride your luck for
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