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Heyo, I'm hoping some kind soul has this version of Eduard's 1/72 Spad XIII; it's the combo kit, which has decals for, among others, Guynemer's and an RFC machine. It doesn't appear that any store on the planet still has this, perhaps unsurprisingly, so I was hoping someone out there has it and wants to sell it. Let me know!

The big question...will there be a shark-mouthed decal option in the box?

Mighty nice! Still hoping you produce a canopy mask set for it.

I think it would be best if we eliminated the largest source of casualties in airline crashes -- passengers. A telepresence camera replacing the physical ticketholder would go a long way towards lowering the body count of any future crash.

Yeah, I spent some time trying to find those. I believe they're long out of circulation.

Yes, but surely that's because we and they both came to similar conclusions about the best shapes for aircraft, seeing as the MiG-29 and Su-27 first flew two years before the Iranian Revolution, and were in development for years prior to that.

I dunno about that. Weren't the Russians more closely aligned with Iraq at that time?

I use acrylics all the time, particularly Model Master; I primed with Vallejo acrylic primer in the past (but found it rather frustrating) and now use the Tamiya spray primer; I haven't had any problems with peeling using the Tamiya stuff as a base.

My understanding is that the only real contenders are the FineMolds and Italeri kits, but that the FM kit has swollen, hypertrophic nacelles. Do its virtues in other areas compensate for this?

In terms of head of state assassinations, Canada is 0 for 22; the USA is 4 for 44.

I'll pause for a moment to reflect upon the crushing irony of someone writing an open letter to the world letting everyone in it know his opinions re: the universe's interest level in their opinions, etc.

Thanks, but since then I somehow came into no less than four "Yellow Bird" boxings, so my cup runneth over. Offer much appreciated, though!

EDIT: Looks like this bad boy is now spoken for. Thanks for looking! Hi there! I'm getting rid of a Hasegawa 1/72 "Spitfires against Japan" combo kit, which contains parts and markings to make two RAAF or RAF Spitfire VIIIs in 1945. (The specific marking options are Flt Lt Norm Smithell's UP-F A58-517 "Hava-go-Joe!!" of 79 Squadron RAAF; UM-L JG649 of 152 "Panther" Squadron; and Battle of Britain veteran Sqn Ldr E D "Dave" Glaser's TS-V JO655 of 548 Squadron. Unusually for British/Commonwealth aircraft, all have nose or fuselage art.) BUT WAIT! There's more! Along with the kit are two Eduard

Got engaged on the dunes, in fact, three years ago on July 5! One of my favorite spots.

My wife and I are spending a week in Glen Arbor, MI, up in the Leelanau peninsula nearish to Traverse City. Any halfway decent model shops about? I have already had to see an exhibit on birds of paradise, and god knows what else is in the queue. Help me. Save me.

I do dearly wish this could be done in 1/72 (the obligatory "splendid, but what if only it were in Y:X scale" comment, I know), but sadly I gather the economics for such a thing aren't there.

Or worst-case, he's at least getting two uses out of the glue.

The German spy network in the UK was almost completely rolled up quite early on. Merely knowing an airbase exists isn't the same as knowing what's there or if it's a worthwhile target; during the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe invested an immense amount of effort in flattening Coastal Command bases, in the mistaken impression they were fighter stations. Yes, a civilian plane, visually identified as such, penetrated Russian air space, in peacetime, while the air-defense system was in the midst of a comprehensive overhaul, and within living memory of the PVO shooting down a commercial airl

I believe Hitler forbade intruder missions like those practiced by the RAF, believing it was better to shoot Allied aircraft down over Germany.

As Phantom says, Hasegawa, Revell, and Fujimi all make an RF-4E. I used AirDoc stencils on both my RAF and my Luftwaffe Phantom for this build. Their Luftwaffe stencils for the F-4F cover multiple stencils on a single decal (IE all the leading edge "no step" stencils were one long decal), and I think but am not certain that their RF-4E decals are the same. This simplifies things, but makes it a little dicier to place the decals. Their RAF stencils are all individual decals.

Excellent. I'm very much looking forward to being able to build RAF F-35s.

Still thinking about this?

Looks mighty nice!

Are you specifically looking for a hard wing F-4E? Thunderbirds F-4Es did not have the leading-edge slats common to most later F-4Es. I believe you can get the same parts in the F-4EJ Kai boxing.

Those're the airbrakes, and they were rarely, if ever fully opened on the ground.