JeffreyK

You're all very kind, thank you! J

Coming soon from my workshop in JP: A revamped, re-designed and 100% 3D printed set of McD 370gal wing tanks in 1:72, with pylon mounting pins designed to be a drop fit for the FM F-4 kits. Mainly aiming for the F-4B of course, but also applicable for F-4C, F-4D, F-4N and F-4J (the latter rarely though as the tanks had mostly been replaced by Fletchers by then). I have no idea when shipping to the US may be available again. This is of course doing great harm to my business (the US has always been my main customer base, from day one, when I was still in the UK). My pr

I already have the shape in CAD, developed as part of my FJ-2 Fury set. I was debating if anyone besides myself would be interested in correcting this and actually buy a set… Judging by the “success” of most of my recent products I thought maybe 2-3 people thus have so far decided against it… But never say never… J

Thinking about it already....It would be a re-designed and all-printed item. I actually can't seem to get hold of a FineMolds kit though, they're sold out everywhere I look in Japan. J

Hmmmm...

Nice one! I see another Sabre kit coming my way sometime soon. J

I did not say one piece. Of course the wings have upper and lower parts and an inner straucture with cavities etc. The upper and lower pieces were fastened to the inner structure. But the parts were machined material, not skinned with thin sheet metal as in the traditional way. J

The wings were machined/milled from solid material, not sheet aluminium. It therefore had a rough texture and was factory puttied/painted to smooth everything out.

I hear ya. J

Photographed this one many a time at Duxford. J

Must-have 🙂 J

I can't answer the blast panel decision right away, need to look at it more closely, but I'm sure there is a technical reason behind this... I agree it's not ideal, I had to deal with very similar problems on their D-21 kit recently (i.e. part joins running through other surface detail). But if it hadn't been for a generally poor fit of the wing-fuselage joint, clean up wasn't actually that bad and as I said, sanding smooth a joint and then partially restoring panel and rivet detail ADJECENT or PERPENDICULAR to the join I find much easier than trying to re-create a neat and clean panel line ri

First of all, the kit is not designed for you alone. Moulding the upper slat wells integral to the upper wing parts would mean you cannot build it with retracted slats, like in-flight. Yes, it may be the minority, but it's good they catered for this option. The alternative would be a step, like on the Hasegawa Skyhawks. Now, that would have caused a storm of complaints 🙂 Also, there are many modellers you explicitly PREFER to have part seams AWAY from panel lines as it can result in a cleaner end result. If all part joints or any kit would fit as well as Tamiya then OK, point taken, but often

“3D Chute Expert” has both types in his range. I have both and I think they are different from each other (not home right now to check…). https://3d-chute-expert.myshopify.com/collections/1-48

Thank you, much appreciated!!