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On 1/18/2020 at 10:47 AM, Tapchan said:
Maybe a little modification to existing project?
Mig 1.44 is more beautiful:
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4 hours ago, madcop said:Don't let be fooled again..., these guys are not there to review the kit, they are there to make money ... They buy the kits with their own money ? ... if that was really the case, they would be much more honest! Unfortunately, this has become the norm, even at the level of the "specialized" press. It’s masked advertising and nothing else
Not everyone sells themselves for a $50 worth of plastic.
Edit: Also, "Kit purchased by reviewer."
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1 hour ago, B.Sin said:
Yes, but I was hoping Mr. Pin would have shown us more.
I wonder what this new company is planning to release after the
Su-33? Hopefully more Russian/Soviet hardware.
Mig 1.44? 😄
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On 1/12/2020 at 12:27 PM, Tapchan said:
Well, I was always told the proverb "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth".
If they send me free review sample I am also going to say it's excellent and even better than Grumman's snot.
Yeah, you will.. lol. and expected. Give me your address I am going to send you one. 😉
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I was going to ask.. is there any possibility that GWH may change how they approach the exhausts? Is splitting them into four pieces really necessary? Can you talk about this with them? Kinetic Su-33 exhaust is comparable and they are single piece.
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20 hours ago, Darren Roberts said:
I know Zacto to be a hardworking, great guy who's passion it is to make the most accurate model. He's extremely knowledgeable about spotting shapes that are off. I think the AMK kit is a great kit, but there are issues with it, and Zacto has pointed them out. Every single thing he mentions is visible on the kit. That doesn't make the kit unbuildable, and it doesn't make him having a vendetta against AMK or the kit. As others have said, you've stepped over the line. There are those that have become frustrated with people who simply bash the AMK Tomcat. I hate to say it, but you've done the same thing only the other way.
oh no! :) line is not even visible from here. ! 😄
When someone highlights the missile and canopy frame "errors" which are the result of packaging or some rare defect during manufacturing process I have right to question the sincerity of that "review". The sample I have has perfect missiles and nothing wrong with the frame or the canopy which are highlighted in his posts like under a magnifying glass. I am sorry but that is looking for anything bad on the kit, it is not trying to review a kit or comparison or whatever.
Anyhow... so a "general" bite dust in iraq...
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On 12/28/2019 at 7:49 PM, Zactoman said:
No, I don't have a vendetta against AMK. In fact I've tried to keep my comments as much about the model as possible and not about AMK.
If I had a vendetta there have been many instances where they were being trashed upon that I could have easily piled on. 💩
Thank you to those that stepped up in my defense during my absence.
If anything, I have a vendetta against those in denial when problems are pointed out with kits (be they CADs, test shots, pre-production or released kits) and those that try to shut down the conversation when problems are being discussed.
I try not to attack the people but rather to prove that the problems exist. If I can clearly see a problem and I'm told it's just an illusion, I consider that a challenge.
I'm more interested in illustrating to those that are interested but have trouble clearly seeing or understanding the problems, and when possible suggesting or showing how to fix the problems.
"Problems" you mentioned require a microscope to see. Some of them does not exists at all. You can try to keep the moral high ground by saying "hey look I only draw, it is data", I expected that, lol. However, no one without serious motivation (obsession/vendetta) would have done what you are doing. Some people are smart enough to see between the lines, dude...
keep going, maybe you can prevent 5 people buying the kit. that will show them!
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BEAUTIFUL!!! Cannot wait.
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18 hours ago, Zactoman said:
Photobucket (
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For those who may have missed my previous post, I included links to various posts highlighting many of the problems discovered with the kit: http://www.arcforums.com/forums/air/index.php?/topic/285277-amk-148-f-14/&do=findComment&comment=2984863
Despite the problems with the kit, it can be built up to be a very nice looking model as Paulo has shown.
It seems that everything is 1mm for you. I'd recommend asking Santa for a new pair of calipers
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It doesn't take much for certain shapes to look wrong and 1mm can make a huge difference in certain circumstances.
In the case of the fwd fuselage I only took a few dimensions and it was as much as .085"/2.16mm wide. It is .061"/1.55mm over in height at the radome and even thicker further back.
So yes, for those familiar with the Tomcat it may well look fat. Side-by-side with other kits it will look fat even to those not familiar with the Tomcat.________________________________________
Sorry for my absence of late. Building a new computer has proven to be more challenging than I expected
. I should stick to models...
Cheers and Merry Christmas to all of you!
You have a personal vendetta against AMK. I used give value to your opinion but when it comes to this. zero.
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14 minutes ago, Mstor said:
That's because it is fat. Check out Zactoman's recent posts. The fuselage IS too large.
yeah it is soooooooooo fat. whole 1mm! if tamiya is accurate 😄
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16 minutes ago, shion said:
Not a opinion, facts.
Tamiya used slide-mold tech to inject parts of their 1/12 motorcycle kits since decades: fact.
Hasegawa used slide-mold tech to inject parts of their 1/72 and 1/48 kits since decades: fact.
An example? Every time you see a parting line in the middle of a aviation kit canopy, it means use of slide-mold.
Now go and find a 1/72 Hasegawa F-14 kit or it 1/48 sister and look at their release/injection date.
So what? Electric car was from 19th century. We have Teslas now. AMK is the pioneer when it comes to slide mold, FACT. When hesagawa is selling weapons on the side and including almost no weapons in their kits, AMK started to sell Mig-31 with single piece full load R-33s in their kit.
You guys keep bashing. time to time, I will stop by and keep defending 😄 lol.
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19 hours ago, Sio said:
Hi, Mark,
Thank you for your support!
I never said, our kits are without mistakes. We could be making mistakes as everyone does. Sure, we are not designing only with pictures, but also drawings. Drawings, I know big T has license from Grumman, but any one can confirm they had drawings from Grumman? and even the drawings from Grumman are exactly the same the real F-14? I had been saying a thousand times in public, big T is a company I respect very much and I had been learning a lot from them. I don't want to compare with them. We were just trying to show some ideas in our design.
Zactoman, I don't know him! I just know the one developing OV-10 and the one sold our design to some other manufacturer without our authorization. Also, LAU-3 and LAU-68 rocket pods in our ordnance set.
Cheers!
Sio
Haha.. Now, things in this topic make more sense. 😄
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On 12/5/2019 at 12:34 PM, habu2 said:
I remember seeing a DeLorean with personalized plates “SOS PAD”and another DeLorean with plates “COKE” 😎
😄😄😄
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6 hours ago, shion said:
Please show us.
Why? You show yours first.
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4 hours ago, shion said:
If you don't have assembling problems yet, why didn't you follow the instruction manual build sequence?
And if you look the build photos I posted 2 pages ago, the aera you are showing is one with fewer issues, the builder only used surfacer 1000 to fill the lateral gaps and some polyputty for the beaver tail.
Show us how you deal with the whole intakes-bottom fuselage assembly or the joint front fuselage-main body.
YEahhhhh. how dare you use your brain! 😄
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1 hour ago, Mstor said:
Well... wow, this is really getting weird here. Terry, just pull all the stops out and maybe we can get to 300 in a week or two. It'll get really hard to read, but I'm really interested to see if AMK will really give the first to make 300 pages a kit.
Of course they will. Any press is good Press 😄 go AMK!!! Please release a Mig 1.44 or Su-47 in 1/48. PLEASE!!!@!@@!!!! I will buy 10 of them. each.
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I pre-ordered the truck 😄 If the specs holds I am buying the 4WD /300m+ range version 😄
Stainless steel body was too attractive to pass. Now I need to save money in the coming 2 years 😐
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What are you guys even talking about. AMK (or any other company | or anyone on this world other than your very close relatives) does not own you anything.
1) They said *if* they receive 5000 pre-orders they were going to produce the kit within 2017. They did *not*.
2) They said it will the best F-14. So what?? every single company out there claims they are the best. From some perspectives they have the best F-14 kit. Price, details, single piece missiles put it over Tamiya for some, for me.
3) AMK is far from being the only company which misses "deadlines". Trumpeter/Hobbyboss literally advertised Flanker family for *6* years before coming with it. Every single model company misses their deadlines. Some by months some by years. I am not supporting this behavior but my point is I have never seen this scale of hate for this reason towards any other company. By the way I actually feel some of the disappointment here. It is exactly the same feelings I had when Academy came up with their "Su-30 conversion" monstrosity. Academy didnt even try. At least AMK really gave everything IMHO. Only mistake they made was missing the arbitrary deadline. Big woop.
4) Crowd funding is becoming more and more common. When you enter a deal like that risks are obvious. If you are not aware of the risks, research more. What is so wrong with supporting a company if you really believe in them? I did not pre-order this kit but I pre-order other stuff before fully aware of potential delays. If you don't want to take the risk or don't see the company worth your trust, just wait until the kit is released.
So, don't take everything too seriously guys. One life, live it 😄
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10 hours ago, f5guy said:
You're missing the point...... it's always good to have a few options for those times when things don't go as planned. As you said "Given enough solar power" it might work. But there isn't enough solar power to support it. They'd have to cover the entire state in solar panels, and it still would be a drop in the bucket. It's an imperfect technology at this time. Perhaps at some point the technology will catch up with the demand. My point is that with a hybrid, you at least have two options should the other fail. Better logic than you think.....🙄 Fred K.
dude, please... If you cover whole california with solar panels it will feed 2 worlds' energy demand.
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18 hours ago, Berkut said:
The glass was tested several times before the unveil throwing the same ball with nothing happening to it. There is atleast three different sources that support that. So they were unlucky with it, likely developed micro-fractures during the earlier testing that finally cracked during the unveil.
Excellent logic right there. Last i checked electricity is needed to run gas stations too. And unlike electricity, there is only one source for gasoline - dead dinosaurs. Plenty of sunshine in California so given enough solar power, there will be more electric vehicles running if the grid is out for several days than ICE...
Cameras that feed the view to rear view mirror on the inside.
Yeah, evidently they were unlucky with the demo. Well it happens. It reminded me the network crash in one of the apple demos.
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37 minutes ago, shion said:
I doubt we will.
See the actual situation: the kit is supposed to be released since one or two months.
How many people bought it here or on the other major model boards/ social networks? Few.
How many of these buyers start a online WIP ? Fewer.
It follows the same trend we talked about earlier, the manufacturer himself seems less and less eager to promote his own kit.
Of course, I don't count people receiving free kits to overgloss a review.
And the most important: to make a superb build of a kit, you need to have a keystone, a good kit, but also good references and the freedom to criticize, modify and upgrade the kit. The problem is it's nearly impossible here or elsewhere to point out a defect/problem/inaccuracy of this AMK F-14D Supertomcat (sic) kit without an appareance of same people explaining "it's only a kit" "you certainly work for this manufacturer" and other sophisms. How can someone build a kit in such circumstances?
Are you seriously complaining there is not *enough* criticism here?!?!@?!@?!?@!?@@!@?@ wow. We really cannot agree. We have very different brains/logic operating in our skulls.
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Did anyone like the cybertruck?
Apart from glass fail :] I like the idea of a stainless steel 9mm bullet proof truck. In 2 years I will definitely have a test drive 😄
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Judging from this video, MRP paints look pretty good for Su-35:
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In Tamiya, we trust. Even under microscope, it has that crispy.. buttery.. angel tear lubricated smoothness due to alien-AI infused machining technology.. 😄
AMK 1/48 F-14!!!
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errrrrr. lol. It is because as a model it is almost perfect. The mold line etc is absolutely a tiny thing if you can even notice it. All I can say from your comment is that you did not see the model in your hands. I dont have the tamiya f-14 but I have tamiya F-16 and AMK F-14 has nothing short compared to f-16 and details and single piece missiles actually makes it much better. From what I've seen I think tamiya f-16 and f-14 look comparable.
If you can take time off from the crazy toxic environment of this topic and actually look at the model in your hands, it is pretty awesome model.