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The main issue is the front windscreen. They are the same on the E and A/C

Great resin work but personally a few aircraft need fixing far more so than the GWH F-15. F-105 for instance.. Other than the lip missing from the windscreen im happy with its shape. I actually think the correction got the height correct but now its to narrow. Splitting hairs really i just dont think its worth all that work to eliminate a slightly flat canopy to get one thats now a little narrow. Great skill in the design etc i just dont think its needed.. Pay your money and make your choice but id rather se a new F-105 canopy in 32nd and 48th which would sell ins

Im happy with the canopy as is. After some very long looks at that modified canopy that has been released from air to air refuelling images i think GWH is still closer than that mod set which is to narrow at the front. No retool needed from this seat. As for the AMK multi part canopy...we told them dont do it...

Yep there was no adaptor just a dedicated pylon.

Nice looking schemes. However colour instructions and profiles would do you a lot of favours in trying to sell them. No amount of black and white does great colour schemes any favours.

What an awesome sheet.. multiple multiples!

These will be awesome..maybe some 72nd love to?

Monogram and Academy kits are very different. Monogram looks like an F-14..Academy looks like well im not sure but its front end is a mess and a half making Trumpeters worst effort look like a silk purse.

Why would you want a G with hundreds of amazing nose art options when you can have another flat grey low vis marked monotonal gunship?

To do an Argie A-4B a few small mods are needed. If you can track down either of the Hobbycraft kit or expensive Hasegawa they come with the parts needed. You need some radio antennas the main one being the ADF antenna on the top of the fuselage. Its teardrop shapped and quite large Hasegawa supply it in resin HC in styrene. There are several good builds online of the Argie Scooters. Good luck!

Sorry didnt mean to come across like that maybe its the frustration in seeing a company who established a solid reputation for good engineering and research pouring it all down the drain. Its rare in the hobby you get a company who looked solid with good research and a nice base to launch from. The hyperbole was from many AmK fans who ignored plain issues and pretended they didnt exist. Amk was put on a pillar top as the best manufacturer today. Say one thing negative even negative in a constructive manner and you where labelled a heretic. A realistic assesment which severa

The issue for them is they wont sell many at all. The serious F-14aphile wont touch it...the casual guy wont ever becable to buy it with Amk’s poor distribution network. They have succesfully isolated two key markets to only sell F-14’s to the Amk devotees who realistically would not even care if it looked like the Concorde. Even then most failed to put there money where there mouth is. Seriously how many will you buy with its massive panel lines, distorted aft end and various other issues when we have the beautiful Tamiya kit? I mean seriously how many will you buy?

Its pretty decent. realistically no kit in any scale by any manufacturer has ever gotten the canopy/fuselage spine correct with a true omega shape so distinctive on the Thud.. Sad but true but the Trumpetboss 72 and 48th kits are closer than any others...except 144 Platz which are almost there.

I think its more that they are nicely detailed and not split that makes the brass legs a solid option..along with the metal burner cans..

Panel lines look terrible. Im exceptionally disapointed with this. I mean its not just average its worse than the Mig-31. We all said to be even close to Tamiya it would need to be better with much finer panel lines than the 32..it looks far worse. Ill grab one...if it had been close i would grab 5-6...sorry AMK ill be getting 5-6 Great Wall kits to go with my 6 Tamiya F-14’s. Disapointed to say the least as from an engineering view it looks solid but those panel lines are huge...wtf...

What an awesome little B-1. Got a pair in Osaka wil def grab another. As mentioned resin or etch burners is going to add a lot but the rest is fantastic. Very nice indeed..

Agree i have multiple of both and ill be building the KH kit..the new KH boxing with brass gear legs and burners is brilliant. KH nailed the nose shape and blend into the cockpit etc. A very good effort grab the release with the metal legs they are great...

I have a pile of beautiful Tomcats...from Tamiya... They have beautifully fine panel lines...the engineering is easily the best i have ever seen in any plastic kit ever in my hands in 40 odd years of modelling and its shape is spot on. The questions remain if AMK can do all of those things as based off the Mig-31 the answer is no(panel lines). But hopefully they can get the shape sorted or it will literally be a Turkey of the Turkey... I have a pile of Mig-31’s and had high hopes for AMK being the next big thing but realistically Great Wall are the big thing and AMK sadly c

The only Kinetic Hornet with the tail issue was the very first boxing of the C ie the launch kit. They where corrected after that first release. PS the Hasegawa Super Hornets are better ie quality than the original classic F-18.

There is an online build on Yiutube by Andy and it looks nice..

At almost $90 bucks with shipping ie i can buy another Tamiya kit for $10 less than the KA wings i can live with trimming the 1mm needed to get the slats correctly sized. For those with HB kits in stashes a free set of slatted wings is a far better option even if they need to spend 10 minutes on the trailing edge to resize them rather than parting with more money for wings which will most likely bend over time if you live in a warm environment. Not to mention you can buy a Tamiya F-14 for less well at least where i shop Tokyo and Osaka. ”Massively excessive”? You must have

Based on having the MC H...based on spending hour upon hour upon hour pouring over hundreds of photos, plans and every B-52 kit available, based on spending hours walking around real B-52’s photographing them and helping where possible with correction sets. Just looking at the MC parts is a joy compared to the junk in the AmT kit box where shall i start? The soft plastic, huge panel lines, a mismatch of timeframes with reinforcing panels missed, added in incorrect places, engines out of size requiring replacement, incorrectly located ejection panels, vents missing, a wing with its we

Order sent!

As for the debacle that the AMT is i’ll take the MC kit every day of the week and three times on Sunday. I sense a MC rip apart review coming on...

Quite simply the MC B-52H is the very best available B-52H ever done in any scale and far better than any of the resin bashing options by some margin. Very glad to finally have a decent H to start from. Its only taken 50 years..lol.. Well done MC...