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The Scaremonger

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  1. :blink: And exactly how did that happen, Janne? Cleaning? Chucking a wider needle? Goofing around...? :P
  2. Very clever, Jessie! Thank you for having taken your time to upload the video. One thing I think it could be improved would be the material to adapt the dremel cutter shank to fit the electric eraser collet. Say, I've kinda noticed how the cutter wobbles a little bit when turning the electric eraser on; perhaps it might be possible to resort to using different diametres of aluminium micro tube, like those sold by Albion Alloys instead of the tape? Clickie! Cheers, Jess
  3. Nice, Stenka! Is the MiG-25 nose cone resin correction set for the KH kit ready to be ordered? Please, advise on how to order it. Thanks, my mate.
  4. And mind you please telling me what an electric eraser is used for? Also, what about the torque on that electric device?
  5. Hi, I didn't use any paste at all; just the solder itself. I did clean the metal landing gear with a cloth soaked in a little bit of alcohol first. John, you've got to try and make the drop of molten solder the smallest possible, so that its circumference fills the whole surface of the ejection hole mark.
  6. I once used a drop of molten solder on an F-105D which scale was smaller than yours; it was 1/48th scale. As soon as solder cooled down, I sanded and polished it with micro mesh.
  7. Well, dunno what to say about that, Mr Minigun - not only the fella I heard that piece of info from spoke English with a sort of a Taiwanese-affected accent, but also he was slurping some noodles while he talked. All in all, this gossip, with perfect timing I'd say, coincided with the fact that once the Kitty Hawk SuE was out on the market, the AMK party, all of the sudden, affirmed to have lost interest in keeping up with the research of theirs...? I've particularly never believed in coincidences. Put into contrast now, what if this was also the reason why AMK, after a whole year has passed
  8. Scuttlebutt in the Far East has it that, strangely enough, that it's not a coincidence at all that, soon after the Kitty Hawk SuE kit was released just out of the blue, the AMK party were considering putting their project aside - some folks even go further and affirm that this was the case only because the Kitty Hawk SuE kit actually IS the proposed AMK one... What say you, Martin?
  9. Okay, the Falcon 20 sure is sweet, but would AMK then also consider a Hawker Siddeley HS.125/British Aerospace BAe 125 as well? Oh, and in 1/48th scale, too...? Please, Martin?
  10. Well, certainly I'd have never realised about that myself had I not been told, but surely is an issue I can live with. Thanks, Anton, for having shared it with us.
  11. Same thought here, but then again, at the same time I thought that I respect what Berkut represents as a model manufacturer consultant on a modelling forum community. Hence, I asked him kindly because I'm truly interested. To be honest with you, I fear that this semi major issue might be three panel fasteners which opening depiction was rendered on the model as to be anti clockwise instead of the other way round... :unsure: Guess I'd be a tad mad if so, tho. I wholly concur. Having an accurate kit to build is a blast, don't get me wrong; however, in spite that there are less than a h
  12. HA! Saved me that boiling water for my spaghetti, have you? :P Did you have to manipulate the resin slats with your fingers in order for them getting straightened or just the dipping in the boiling water made them recover their straightened memory?
  13. And might you tell us what that semi major issue about the Aviation Art/Kinetic Su-33 kit is, please?
  14. 22 feet up...!? Wow, I'd actually never seen a shot of a BUFF which had its wings bent up like that before. Of course I had seen them rolling on the taxiway with wings bent down. Interesting piece of info, Don. Many thanks! Yeah, lots of stressed skin on the sides of the fuselage. Knew of a modeller over on Z5 who replicated those wrinkles on the fuselage of the Monogram BUFF. Waiting for Sanger to release their 1/48 vac-form B-52 kit. May have to buy the flat downstairs where to display it once built in the meantime. :lol: Thanks, DET!
  15. No wonder... :lol: Or did the wings of a BUFF ever bend like that?
  16. Same here; were it not for the ends coming undone, which I fixed by stapling both ends with a mini stapler, I sent three or four emails to complain about the bands losing their grit in a blink of an eye...! No replies ever since a month or so. I resorted to cutting my own bands out of sandpaper and fixing them to the frame by stapling. Think we ought to do something about it; I don't know, make the company's inbox full with complaints. It's really infuriating.
  17. I think it is. Examples don't abound, of course, but another example which comes to mind right now is GWH's MiG-29s. My point is that there will be occasions when a kit is just going to be the only game in town which you've had for decades; could you afford to wait in the hope that an updated, retooled or better option appears if you wanted to build an specific subject? I'm pulling 30, so no dice to wait in the hope that a manufacturer announces an injection-moulded kit of an, say... Avro Vulcan in 1/48th scale (even when Airfix teased us all with a fake proposition back in the day at Tel
  18. I don't quite agree with that statement, Pacheco. There's not always like that if you think of Aviation Art's first kit, the Su-33, even when it was released by Kinetic, instead.
  19. Well, that's the rub, right there Laurent. It's kind of foul play to me whenever a new kit is released on the market than modellers get all biased by yet another manufacturer on a forum which announces a "much more accurate rendering of the very same kit (in the same scale) that has just been released" to be in the making. All the more so when their promised kit is nothing but a promise which is not even captured on a CAD project!
  20. I concur, halfways. But then again, could you name any other manufacturer who is able to claim to have turned out a 99% accurate kit in every aspect, at least in 1/48th scale? Point is moot, Harvy. Yes, I meant that my interest goes only in the interceptor version of the Foxbat. I wish I could! But how many lives would one have to have in order for that being possible...? Say I'm a B-29 freak who only builds in the quarter scale. See the dilemma? Consider it's just a handful of kits in the quarter scale which one can rejoice in the bliss of having many options to choose from. Again; I
  21. :blink: Perhaps it's just me, but doesn't the wing look a tad too high on the fuselage?
  22. Jim, I take your point in this argument. While I do care whether or not the kit is buildable, I also care about accuracy. However, I sure don't agree on taking the blame on the manufacturer just because, as if one were used to doing it. Let's say Kitty Hawk was the first manufacturer to release a greatly updated representation of a MiG-25 in 1/48th scale, compared to the Revell kit, which was for a long spell the only game in town for those who build in the quarter scale. To me the kit came as a blessing; put into context, the Kitty Hawk kit looked a hell of a lot better than the Revell one.
  23. If I may barge in, the dorsal avionics hump on the Singapore scooters looks quite like that on the Argentinean A-4Cs, which is different from that on the A-4Bs (Ps or Qs). Here you are a picture from an A-4C build which shows this hump: Hope it is of use to your needs.
  24. Hi Stenka Nice nose job! Is it currently available to purchase online? I'd be interested in buying a couple of those. Thanks.
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