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  1. It will be interesting to see the result of the investigation! If it will be public in any form. Usually one only will see the news of the crash when it happens, but after that . . . Tried to follow any fresh news but the only comment few days latter was about a reported engine problem. There were some TV news reports, in one there weere images of the crashed tail section with the front of the engine. The first stage blades had minimal damage! How is the crew? What did they say? Best regards Gabor
  2. It was an L-39 which lost its front canopy at the show. So this part of the statement is right! ? Did the MiG-23UB also have an issue with the canopy? Based on the above photos, yes it did! So it seems that a lot of veteran ex East European birds are losing canopies. : ) : ) : ) It is my bad, did not know about this, but seen the Albatros "shedding" the front canopy. They were very lucky in both cases! As for the accident at Thunder over Michingan. The canopy issue, if they had such before was certainly not part/cause of Sundays crash. The fact that the
  3. It was an L-39 Albatros which "lost" its front canopy, it’s not part of Dan Filers fleet of aircraft. Best regards Gabor
  4. It is interesting that in October a new version of the 49 1366 photoetch set will be released. It is a revision of the initial 49 1366 set which was released in the summer. This is the photoetch set for the AMMO new MiG-17F kit. What are the differences? Few pages ago I was writing about the problems with the original etching. Here are some of the solutions that the company came up with: 1. Well for start, that really stupid Part 42 was taken off from the fret. Obviously the designer had no idea what he was doing and added a MiG-15 canopy after part into
  5. There is no point in speculating about the cause of the accident. Only the pilot Dan „Files” Filer will be able to tell the true story and of course the accident investigation. He is a good pilot and this ex Czech MiG-23UB was the apple of his eye. Actually there are two others in his hangar and one is near to get all papers. One hopes that this sort of thing will never happen but aviation is a dangerous business. It is luck that no one on the ground was injured or killed, but it is true professionalism that the two on board escaped from the plane! I look at the story
  6. It is called news on the subject, in this case the new planned P-40 kits in 48th scale. Developments, continuation, up date of a news, what can be expected, which versions will be made and aprox when. Nothing more. Best regards Gabor
  7. Little further on the new / planned / worked on P-40 kit. In the past week there was a comment that it will be next in line and also suggestions that earliest in a year or little more. Here as it is directly, just English automatic translation about which version will be first and aprx when & some later versions. Best regards Gabor
  8. When building a kit it is also essential to use some reference materials. In today’s world the internet has a lot of things to offer, but still in some cases people like to hold in hand a book or a publication to read it. Had a look in my archive for books / articles about the MiG-17 which could be of use during building the kit. In the past 40+ years a lot of things ended up on my book shelves. Apart from books there are a lot of monthly publications, aviation magazines. Looking around I dug up some from Jean-Michel Guhl who was the editor of Air Action, later Air Zone and also
  9. The thread is about the chances of a would be P-40 Kittyhawk kit. Best regards Gabor
  10. The Su-25 will be the soviet kit in 48th of course. It has been draging for some time, just as a similar re-pack of a Mi-17 kit. As for the moment the kit plastics for the Hip are not decided but there is a strong chance that the boss will go for the soviet kit and ignore the possible use of sprues from the local Czech Annetra. So much for . . . But getting back to the subject of the P-40, surely it will be a nice kit (if one like this sort of thing) with the usual treatment of making it almost good, but leaving a lot of space for the aftermarkets already planed / designed into the
  11. Here is what was said on that Czech forum. No editing, just a screen shoot of the forum with machine translation. Three posts about the subject in chronological order. Concerning the dreams and previous forgotten loves, it has been a decade since the line of 48th scale MiG-21’s was to include the first MiG-21F-13 version and the twoseater trainers. Always put off, postponed, due to this or that deleted, delayed. . . Years 6 or 7 since the quarter scale MiG-15 was promised with similar results. The 72nd Revolutions MiG-21 family d
  12. A new dream, a new love. On a Czech modelling forum the boss of the aftermarket company is speaking about a future project to produce a whole line of P-40 fighters in quarter scale. There are grandiose plans for so many different versions. Many blue moons ago in the monthly internet INFO article the boss was explaining how he so easily falls in love with some subjects, concentrates everything on them, but at the same time new projects come along and the focus of love suddenly shifts to the new project only to be overruled soon by a yet another love. . . There have be
  13. Although this is very early in the story but already there are some aftermarkets which can be used for the AMMO MiG-17 kit. The Master pitots and guns spring to mind in the first place. They have been around for years, and you can say they are not for this particular kit. No they are not, they are for the MiG-17’s! They are a true scale copy of the original parts on the 17’s, so if the kit part is wrong in size or design it is because the kit designer did something wrong. The set for the MiG-17F is AM-48-090 One of the things wrong in the AMMO MiG-17F kit is that
  14. Here in Part 2 of my video review showing everything else in the box apart from the plastic parts. The instructions, the fantastic Cartograf decal sheet, all the extras of this Limited Edition kit: canopy masks, cockpit 3D decals from Red Fox and 3D printed additional parts, like the ejection seat, wheels, pylons, MARS 2 pods or the pilots helmet. Best regards Gabor
  15. Hi Gwen, The thing is I dont have the Chinese kit. Sorry! In fact the last I had before this AMMO kit was that vac-form /plastic Hobby Craft many, many, many decades ago. What I can compare it to is the real metal, the real MiG-17. What I can do is to look at details of this kit. The wing is closest to the real aircraft with all those unique features pointed out earlier. Fuselage shape is good, canopy shape is good. The AMMO kit is a MiG-17F late production version or if you want Polish built Lim-5. One has to know that Lim-5’s were exported to so many places so most of
  16. Hi Boom175, Thanks! I know there are some things that I should work on next time but it is a learning curve. There is more on the way. : ) : ) Part 2 will have a look at all the other paper, brass, resin . . . based extras in the box. And there could be one more part with everything else already available or soon to be available from the aftermarket makers. Best regards Gabor
  17. I had an idea last week. Why not make a video of the AMMO kit and share it with you. So on the weekend set up some lights on the workbench to record it. This video is something new for me, hence the name Take One. I never done this before so the technical background is not perfect but what it all should be about is the actual subject and not what surrounds it. This is brand new territory for me. I don’t have the technical background for this video, set up a couple of lights and that was it. I know it is a bit rough at the edges, but next time, if there will be a next time, try to do
  18. Hi Arkut, I see what you mean. But no, this is a continuous radius leading edge on that Polish UTI MiG-15 (Lim- something, cannot really see the pair of factory numbers at frame 13 where the tail comes off. based on that it would be clear which version it is). Have to say it is a nicely preserved example there!!! : ) : ) : ) The two seater had the same wing as the fighter, in fact the Polish manufactured trainers were conversions from earlier fighter aircraft. It would have been a different story if it is one of those Chinese built examples (J-
  19. No! The MiG-15 had a "straight" leading edge, that is it had a constant angle in comparison to fuselage centre line. It was more rounded all the way and the fuselage attachment at the root was also more rounded. The wing had the same profile so there was no need for this breake in leading edge and change in profile. The detailed "examination" of the two MiG-17F's at Groome Lake showed clearly that both the wing and the flight caracteristics of the 17 were superior to the 15. It was always considered by Soviets as an upgrade of the 15 with new and better wings and afterb
  20. I had an idea last week. Why not make a video of the AMMO kit and share it with you. So on the weekend set up some lights on the workbench to record it. Did this with a mobile, with picture format of course in horizontal. Added it to the comp, had a look it was as it was (could have been better but. . .) perfectly in horizontal position in MP4 format as required. Created a YouTube account, uploaded the video, did everything as required by YT. Pressed Enter to share the video on the channel. There it was . . . But I believe the very “Intelligent” program noticed that I made t
  21. Sorry I have no idea about this. Some versions (the Arab simple boxing) "could be" on sale at AMMO already as noted earlier here. Have no idea if there is an importer in US or everyone has to try to orger it for himself from somewhere. Something completely different: If everything works as I plan then should have something interesting about the kit here for everyone interested. Best regards Gabor
  22. Thats a nice handbook there!!!! : ) : ) : ) Thanks for posting the images! Very useful! Best regards Gabor
  23. Returning to the question of the wing profile. Made few photos today. Well it is difficult to illustrate it, just as on the real aircraft, but hope that I did succeed in a way. Added pencil line which are parallel to the flight direction and can hopefully illustrate the wing profile at the leading edge. If one looks at the centre line of the wing between the top and the bottom surface then one can see that the more rounded outboard cross section “extends” more to the bottom surface, just like on the real aircraft. While the sharper, more pointed cross section at the wing root ends
  24. Try to share all the information and some questions from the different forums around the world where I post about kits. On a Czech forum question was asked about the general layout /size authenticity of the AMMO kit and that wing leading edge question. My answer was: Back in Moson I did ask the AMMO representatives about the wing and its speciality with the double leading edge angle and also the change in profile. He said that they were following the arguments about this question when the toy Airthick kit was analysed on Brickmodeller. They knew about the special feature of th
  25. Wasnt this that Soviet based company announcing hundreds of figures many many many pages ago??? If it is then they would have a lot of problems in getting anything out from there where ever you are in the world. Also the sending of money would not be easy either. But it is possible that this business works just one way. Sorry for your experience! Best regards Gabor
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