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You realize, of course, that probably about 0.00000000000144298% of modelers worldwide have ever heard of ARC, much less read this entire 208 (and counting) page thread, right?

2011? Wow, I didn’t know plastic kits had been invented way back then.

Spitfires were specified to have “smooth” camouflage colors, which were (at least when new) most assuredly not flat. Very few aircraft have a dead flat finish.

If you can't see the pitot tube sticking out below the windscreen, it's an early version (with the "L" pitot under the nose).

That nose was unique to that one airplane, so I'd just break out the epoxy putty and do it the old fashioned way. Not difficult at all.

Where do they "get off"? It's called being in business. Can you just go to your local Ford dealer and ask for a new door handle and expect to get it? Really?

Don't forget to look at car colors. There is a veritable rainbow available, and while not FS595 matched, you can usually find something really close to help you mix you own.

Actually the Sabre Mk.4 *was* an F-86E. Canadair built a number for the USAF on the same assembly line that they were building Mk.4s for the RAF. Also, an updated E is essentially externally identical to an F.

Apparently they're also telling people in Chattanooga that they're working on a new 1/48 P-36 family, and eventually an early P-40 family. Yaaahooooo!!!

Did nobody else hear this stuff from Eduard’s seminar at the convention in Chattanooga??

Don't be so specific in your search. Just use "Bf 109" and you'll get more hits. You'll get E's and such, but you'll get more Gs as well.

Given the price of developing and tooling a kit these days, it amazes me that companies are satisfied with doing half-a**ed work like that. It would cost little or nothing more to have done it right.

If you've ever been in the military, or around real airplanes, you'd know that if the Chief said to touch up November Hotel one-eleven, you touched up November Hotel one-eleven, and you didn't worry too awfully much about exactly what color the touchups were. If the Navy doesn't stress about exactly what color the touchups are (and they demonstrably didn't then, and still don't today), then why should we?

The better question here is, what the hell is that thing hanging under the left wing?

Or better...

The VC-12 maintenance officer (who was also an IPMS member) at Oceana once told me they had one of their airplanes out for the Oceana open house. He noticed a little group of guys clustered around it, holding their 595 fan deck up to the touchup paint. He said he stood there and watched them argue for several minutes before he went over and told them the touchups were Craftsman automotive primer purchased at Sears. Don't sweat the exact color.

The kit will be released when the page count hits 500. And not a minute sooner.

Unless they have someone in the west with access to updating their FB page, it will never be updated again. The Chinese government blocks all access in China to Facebook, and its citizens risk arrest if they are found accessing it.

As I said, if you're having someone build one that you're putting in your company newsletter, wouldn't you want to make sure it was absolutely built correctly? And if it's that easy to screw up the main gear position, perhaps you need to rethink your engineering design.

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There is one under development, but not by Academy.

"Should be" and "is" are two totally different things. And honestly, in 2019, should it be necessary? I have memories of Eduard's Bf109G disaster. How it's possible, using CAD design, for a basic mistake like this to happen (assuming it's not just the builder's error) is inexplicable to me. It's as obvious an error as putting a three bladed prop on a P-51D to me.

There is no one place you can go to find that (if only). To put together such a web site would not only be virtually impossible, but it would be a lifetime's work.

Compare the photos. The model looks like it’s standing on its tiptoes. The struts appear in the photo to be mounted at 90 degrees to the wing chord plane, not angled forward like the real thing is.

I hate to break the news to Eduard, but the P-51D’s main struts are not mounted perpendicular to the wing. I sure hope this is just a boo-boo by the builder, but you’d think if you were putting this in your company newsletter you’d want it to be built properly.