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Pretty rough bill to pay here, chaps: Randomly reading Business Insider, I never thought I would come up with this story. Here's light Sunday reading: http://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-737-fuselages-fell-into-a-montana-river-2014-7

Yep Eric! We are talking in the same trend. Communicating trough a screen is always a tweak to insure we pass the correct message. To sum up, I completely agree with MoFo in and this sums up well the whole situation: "And yet nobody along the line batted an eye, or thought that maybe they should give it a second look. The parts were printed, examined, okayed, cast in resin, test prints examined and okayed, put into full production, several hundred sets poured, bagged, boxed up and shipped out and at no point along that chain did anyone think "hmmm, I wonder if our customers will be mad that

Sorry to all, but I could only return now to this topic. You see Eric, please allow me to disagree. Let's say "1/48" does not mean seeing something seen 48 meters away. An object 96mm high and 48 mm wide in your left hand can be represented in your right hand in 1/48 scale by having 2mm high and 1mm wide. And they are both at close contact. I am very tolerant, specially to newcomers that have a will to do something new and gladly this is the case. In the case of the Alphajet everything really seems to be the best possibly available. Kinetic kit is frankly fantastic, Kabuki markings too, deca

I don't usually do this, but today I was with some great old chaps that are pure Aircraft modelers, and showed them this miniature. They were so amazed, I really felt I had to share it with the great guys I know here. Friends are for life, so is this kit! Appreciate it well folks. Sculture by Seung-Yeop Lee and painting by Sang-Eon Lee. Coming soon to a model shop near you :) And here's a page of references to bookmark :) http://www.themodellingnews.com/2014/01/go-on-you-think-of-better-title-than.html#more Cheers! And happy Sunday to all!

Well, I don't know where to start. First, I red reviews highly praising the resin parts of Wingman Kfirs. Then, reading this topic, the parts are everything but great. I would like to add something, now about the Alpha Jet. First, Andreas, allow me to congratulate you for the initiative of releasing the kit of the Portuguese Alpha's. Also, allow me to add that the decals are greatly produced and the Kinetic model is, frankly awesome. I don't know why the Kinetic Alpha Jet is not subject of many topics a bit all around, perhaps because the subject itself is not so "popular", but it is a

Janne outstanding reply! :)/> thanks a lot! Just forgive me the delay, my week was a complete mess! But here's the weekend! :)/> All the best to the next steps! You have two winners coming up! Keep the excellent work!

Janne you're really helping so many of us! I don't know how many modellers will follow this topic in the years to come, but sincerely it will become an one stop reference regarding what Kfir to buy! Marvellous work! Please, if I can ask: In the images it is visible some indents and some thin putty lines around the bottom nose of the AMK Kfir. The Kinetic kit seems much cleaner. If I can ask, and speaking about your own experience, how would you compare the fit of both models? Thanks! And is it me or are the trailing edge movable surfaces dimensionally slightly different? At least the AMK

Hey Janne! This is public service at it's very best! Many thanks for this sharing and for all your altruism. I was really divided reflecting about which one to buy, this topic really helps immensely! Keep this energy until the end! Tack så mycket :D

I rarely do this, however, for future memory take a look at these two. I really lack adjectives to properly qualify this: http://cgi.ebay.com/Jagdwaffe-Colours-Battle-Britain-Phase-Four-/250849854336?pt=Non_Fiction&hash=item3a67d10380#ht_913wt_654 http://cgi.ebay.com/130549496168?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fshop.ebay.com%3A80%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dp5197.m570.l1313%26_nkw%3D130549496168%26_sacat%3DSee-All-Categories%26_fvi%3D1&_rdc=1#ht_500wt_901

How about this great way to start 2011: http://www.tamiyausa.com/product/item.php?product-id=60321 Let it roll! (and better start save some pennies right now! :-) )

I don't know if these shots can be helpful to you. I made these images some time ago, in a step by step f-16AM and especially to show that even with the kit plastic parts you can achieve fine results. If someone would ask me if there is some kind of "secret", I would reply: Only one – pin a large size photo of the real turbine near your airbrush. The rest is easy Colors are Alclad Jet Exhaust, Burnt Metal and Dark Aluminium applied until I can match the photo in front of me. In these shots the ceramic white interior of the turbine and the blue ring don't appear yet. If you need mo

One more help please guys, regarding the F-14D NE-100 from VF-2 during operation Iraqui Freedom: This well known veteran as displayed here, in this supperb painting by Mike Postlelthwaite: What seats this aircraft had? On page 57 of the previous book there is an image of it with the canopy opened and they look SJU-17's with the spike canopy breakers installed, but due to similarities with the SJU-5 would like more opinions. Second, any of you already attempted to use the Bomb rails of Tamiya 1/32 Tomcat (only in the Black knights edition) in the belly of the Trumpeter F-14D? Would love to

What a great reading too FalkeEins! Thanks for sharing it! :wacko:

Guys, let me just say that I also thought alone about the under wing twin Mg-151 20mm gun pods. They are available at least in this Dragon kit: The parts are included in sprue "E" They looked like this in the real aircraft: To my knowledge the 20mm gun pods are not available in the Tamiya, Eduard and Hasegawa proposals but frankly I don’t know all boxes released, specially Hasegawa, because as we know, releases permanently re-boxes of existing tooling with different markings and contents. So I would like to hear if you know alternative Wurger boxes with the Wb-151 gondolas. The ot

Thanks guys! I liked the article a lot too! Hope many more in the near future! Matt, the underwing 20mm gun pods, to my knowledge, are not present neither in Eduard, Hasegawa or Tamiya kits. But I don't know all boxes, so I hope I am not beeing incorrect. You can find very nice images of these gondolas in the first of four Kagero Monographs about the FW-190. Go to page 29, and then just read along! :) Regarding your excellent description about your experiences in flight sim's. Those experiences brought to my mind the excellent Osprey Aviation Elite book "Sturmgruppen": The book has in

Mungo, speaking only about the F/A-18F, the SJU-17 seats are, OOB, quite nice for plastic parts. But an Aires seat will always look better. It's always like this in all kits around :) Speaking about the cockpit, the inner fuselage walls have few detail, specially the airframe rib structure, so visible in modern aircraft, and this needs to be added and the side consoles will also need some additions to dress them properly. My major concern is that this kit, like the Hasegawa 1/48 model, only has the parts to do the early Lot 25 aircraft. If you pick a Lot 26 aircraft or later you have to do t

David, thank you for your reply! Yesterday, at late hours, I was looking images in the US Navy site and at least I located VFA-2 photos showing aircraft carrying (in different images) one AIM-9X; an empty MER; AGM-84 and AIM-120 (looks to be a CATM-120, it has blue bands); GBU-38 and rec pod; AGM-64, AIM-9 and a GBU-38; AN/ASQ-228. Well, the first Aftermarket purchase I am about to have, is Wolfpack excellent GBU-38 set. Black box naval JDAM's are already here Thanks for your lines! :)

Hutley go ahed, I think you will be pleased with the model. Here's why: This is the "quite small" box and its most appealing box art not marred by logotypes on it. On opening it, what you notice immediately is the sheer size of almost all the main parts: The Breakdown of this kit is simplicity itself. You don’t have to face problems such as forward/back fuselage parts to align. Repeat this at your local store and see with how few parts are required to assemble the whole airframe. Frankly, this may be 1/32 but the part number is no greatly different from what you would expect in a 1/4

Guys, to my knowledge, so far the SJU-17 is/was made by Teknics, Legend, Wolfpack and Wind Mark. IIRC Black Box and Aires also have SJU-17's in their late F/A-18C;D/AW Hornet sets (but you have to buy the whole set just to pick the seats). However there are also differences to look out. For example Wind Mark has seats aimed for the F-14D Tomcat and for the Hornets. But frankly I think that it is only a brief moment until we have specific sets to detail the new Trumpeter kits. And we better ask AM manufacturers to start thinking not only in cockpits and bays but also about the early ECS's gat

I would be interested too if you don't mind, Bob. I sent you an email to the one provided. Hope I won't fall in the Spam folder! Many thanks for your post!

Please come in! My entrance door is always open You can pick the Trumpeter F/A-18F! Frankly it is incredibly good looking and quite simple to put together. However, and this has to be said, if your goal is life like realism, then you will have to spent some time adding details in the usual places: Gears and Cockpit, and to my surprise, if you want to do a late block 26 you’re on your own to do the rear pit. Speaking about the parts breakdown, the kit has many similarities with the Hasegawa 1/48 model, but after all we are talking about the same subject (but the funniest part is that the b

Gregg and Spook thank you again for your lines! As I placed a similar topic in Hyperscale forum as well, I would also like to share with all that well known author and (excellent modeler too) Jim Rotramel passed me the information that modifications to place the Organ pipes in these two were completed in May & June 09 respectively. Thank you Jim! In the meantime, I would also like to tell that last night, upon inspecting my just received Trumpeter F/A-18F, the cockpit, exactly like the Hasegawa 1/48 kit, doesn’t come with the late ACS back cockpit station configuration. So be prepa

Gregg! Thank you for the shot! That's perfect! You see, the Bounty Hunters have so lovelly markings, why the heck do I have to start a brand new kit by changing the tail of it! (well, previously I had to modify the first release of the Hasegawa F/A-18F to include the ACS in the Jolly Rogers Rhino ... things are never ok ... )

One of the finest pieces of reading I can remember about the Sturmbock. Here goes the link: http://www.eduard.cz/info/download/files/i...d_july_2010.pdf Scroll to page eleven, and save forever! Sincerely, and these are only my thoughts: In my honest opinion it is quite rare in the kit industry to see a brand cementing its value the way Eduard is doing it. Keep them coming! EDIT - had a typo in the tittle, sorry for that

Guys! You are great! Thank you for your time! Does any of you know if these two F/A-18F's, at present time, already have the Bard stacks placed and if so, since when? Dang! The airframe has the organ pipes molded in :-( They should be separate pieces to allow us to make the early Super Bugs as well. Thanks! EDIT - Had a typo in my post