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  1. I would consider Southwest to be a "major" in the US now. Spirit is barely a blip on the radar by comparison to WN. Southwest is now the 5th largest airline in the world (scheduled passenger-miles), and the 4th largest in the world in terms of fleet size. And I'm not sure "we" had much of a say in whether an airline offers service over price. We got crappy service *and* high prices in my experience.
  2. Try www.postimg.org I've used it for several years and have NEVER run into the kind of dumb stuff that PB seems to have daily.
  3. Try CO2 and you'll wonder why you ever wasted all that money and frustration on compressors (of any kind).
  4. It will be really hard to see them on the model in any event.
  5. Actually the reason the fuselage skin wrinkles is because it's *not* flexible. Swept wings have to be flexible in order not to break. Fuselages are never made to be flexible.
  6. You need stub pylons on the inboard wings, you need to delete the landing light under the left wing and add one in the leading edge (for most -1As as well, for that matter - disappointing that Tamiya even put it there), possibly different canopy. Or wait for Tamiya to do it as a -1D (fingers crossed).
  7. Nor the Airfix 1/72 F-105G. The only kit I ever purchased and then returned to the hobby shop for my money back after opening it. That was around 1982/83 and it's never been reissued since.
  8. Jennings

    HK B-17F

    I doubt May. I'm doing the decals for it, and I haven't even started yet. And it's almost May. More like probably July/August.
  9. Thanks Grant! I suspect it may have been more widely used than I suspected.
  10. Microscale (LONG before Superscale) did it in the 1970s in 1/144. The RAF 1011's are all -500s, a very different animal from any existing kit.
  11. You're absolutely right. The titles are too big, and the lettering is too closely spaced. I wish I could be of more help. I created that artwork over 20 years ago, long before there was such a thing as airliners.net or instant access to a zillion photographs of every subject at the click of your mouse. IIRC I probably used one or two photos from one of the Airline Fleets News magazines, and a couple of slides of the real ones I'd taken (I flew several flights on them back in the day). The all-white fuselage *is* correct. The bolder style Arabic lettering is also correct for early 1980s
  12. Big Mac Junior is the first time I've ever seen that steel mesh material being used in the UK! I've seen it in Burma. Anyone know what that stuff was called?
  13. LOL! I can relate. If anyone disturbs my piling system, I'm sunk.
  14. It was actually Greenland. And the B-17 that was used was "Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby" which is now on display at the NMUSAF.
  15. What types of Mustangs are you talking about? P-51B/C/D/K had a VHF comm radio that used either an antenna contained inside the mast, or in the case of some B/C with Malcom hoods, a whip antenna. The wire on those types that went from the tail to the canopy was the homing beacon antenna, and was often not fitted on overseas serving aircraft, depending on the theatre you're talking about. I've never seen a single photograph of a B/C with a six gun wing. Not one. If you have, I'd love to see it. Nope. The wheels are exactly the same. Same part numbers, same tires, same everything.
  16. Other than the opening credits, everything else in the film was shot with models. Do whatever you like.
  17. The Hasegawa kit is far and away the best A-7 on the market. That said, it's typical mid to late 1980s Hasegawa - the parts fit often leaves much to be desired. But the A-7 can be built into a really nice model. The intake is an entirely personal choice. If you want to put an intake cover on your model, it's not an issue. If you want to have a perfectly smooth intake throat, then aftermarket may be for you unless you're a masochist.
  18. If you're talking about US colors, there has never been an official color name "zinc chromate" anything. Zinc chromate is not a color, it's a chemical formula. Depending on how its produced, zinc chromate paint can be any of a whole range of colors. After WWII when the FS color standard came long, all names for all colors were abolished. That's why the five-digit color code was implemented - to eliminate the massive confusion that color names, and variations of names was causing. You can easily confuse "olive drab" with "dark olive drab" with "olive green", but you can't confuse 34087 and
  19. That monstrosity is a very long way from being a model of a 747...
  20. They haven't done a model of the VC-25A that's been in service for going on 30 years. But to be fair, the VC-25A isn't just a 747-200B, it has the engine nacelles & pylons of a 747-400. Here's what the VC-25B will probably look like...
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