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The Golden Age 1920s-1930s era of aviation is woefully neglected. I'd love to try an F4B-3 in the Silver/Blue command plane scheme that was actually applied to one airframe. Very sleek and stylish scheme for a biplane! The Vought O2U/O3U Corsair would be another nice choice from this era. Not a fighter, but it was used extensively by the USN and USMC as a spotter plane for the fleet in the 1930s. It even saw a lot of action as an export plane in China, Peru and Thailand. The USMC pioneered CAS with O2U's in Nicaragua in the 20's. Ever since looking at the well-preserved example at

Kursad, Fine Molds has announced a new F-4B and F-4N in 1/72 as a continuation of their Phantom series. 1/72 thin-wing Phantoms! Any chance of downscaling this sheet to 1/72? I'd love to build a VF-21 F-4N.

Rick, What a pleasant surprise! Thank you for the news!

Thank YOU Kursad! These decals were a pleasure to use! I just wish Zini, Zimi, Nefertiti whatever they're called Models would get off the damn pot and re-release the FJ-3 and FJ-2 kits again so I can try building a gloss sea blue Fury with your decals!

I have a 1/48 Zoukei Mura F-4D that I have built, but I've waffled around with trying to decide what markings to do it in. I've decided that I want to try painting it in ROKAF markings since I'm a big fan of the SEA-painted ones from the 70's with the big bold white Hangul phrases painted on the nose section. I heard of a company called Monokio that made dry transfers for these planes, and I know Academy did decals for their F-4D kit. I am open to using either option to paint my kit up in ROKAF markings. Please message me if you have an offer and we can work things out.

These CAT4 accessories for early Crusader conversions are much appreciated. I have a pair of the Muroc (RIP) conversions along with Hasegawa F-8E's that I've been converting into an F-8K and F8U-1 respectively. I'm definitely thinking of getting the windshields and the arrestor hooks, along with the landing gear. I never knew about the nose being off on the Muroc kit. I might just try to reshape it myself in the meantime.

¡Me gusta! Nice subtle weathering on this Argentine Corsair! I love the post-war Corsairs and seeing it in Armada markings is a treat!

Great model of a more obscure Japanese type. The Chinese Civil war is an interesting period to cover if you are modelling aircraft. You have American and Japanese-made aircraft fighting again, often for the same side.

Your model looks fantastic Sabrejet! I'm definitely on board now with buying this kit. First, I'll wait and see what decal options CP! or other decal producers will make for this kit.

I just grabbed this kit from the Volks Shop at the Radio Kaikan building in Akihabara yesterday. Overall it has most of the sprues you'd see in the early F-4E kit, but with the late F-4G sprue that includes the slatted wing with the belly strap. If you're doing a pre-1971 F-4E airframe you'll be ok since those had belly straps. However, if you are doing one after the "71-" serial cutoff point, those Phantoms don't have the strap. The option in the kit is the MO ANG commemorative with MiG kills 68-338 so you have what you need in the kit for that particular Phantom. If

I dig how the top wings are molded as one part with a connecting inner-brace. It'll help with keeping proper dihedral when putting the wings together. Surface detail looks nice and fine, yet crisp. One thing that sort of spoiled me on the the Airfix Sabre are those trench-like panel lines, especially when you compare them to the Hasegawa Sabre, or the Monogram/Academy Sabre Dog. I actually didn't know about the issue with the Hasegawa kit's cross-section. Its a really subtle one but I'm still pushing through with my ROCAF Sabre and my Avon conversion. I'm pretty forgiving of very s

It's amazing how nobody has really stepped up to do an A Model Sabre in plastic. These were the first F-86's to reach Korea and wrangle air superiority away from the MiG-15's. Very historical aircraft in an air combat perspective, but the F model has been the only one available anywhere. I understand why the F model kits are much more prevalent, they were exported to practically every US-aligned country during the Cold War. However, the F-86A was a true pioneer in jet combat. Anyways, I'm really happy Clear Prop is tackling this. I've been building their really nice Curtiss Hawk 75

Yeah, it's quite something, isn't it? The Hasegawa kit is still a nice rendition of the SLUF. I wish they also did the same for the Fujimi kit in 1/72. That's still a really nice kit, but it needs some help with the gear bays and intake especially.

https://www.zoukeimura.co.jp/en/products/sws48_15_f4e-late.html Looks like ZM has started accepting pre-orders for the late F-4E. They have photos of the built kit as well. They will release it with MO ANG commemorative markings in the Hill Grey scheme. Even though that particular airframe lacks these items, ZM says the kit will include TISEO and AN/ARN-101 antennas. If that's the case, I'd love to try that Seymour Johnson-based F-4E in CO markings with the Euro 1 scheme. Very cool scheme, but the Afterburner decal scheme is long gone and those tend to go f

FYI, Euro Decals has a sheet for the 57 FIS ADC F-4E's based in Iceland. Euro Decals 57th FIS F-4's I have these in 1/72 and they look really nice.