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Sleepy

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  1. Sorry PDS. I have never seen even a single photo of an interceptor (in-service) with a belly tank. The PVO mission didn’t require it.
  2. The nose is physically the same size. The difference is in the length of the radome vs. the length of the fixed forward nose structure. The IR fairing is unique to the PD/PDM. The panel lines on the forward fuselage behind the radome are completely different on the PD/PDM as well. And most, if not all P’s had the early pointed style drag chute housing. I don’t think the PD/PDM carried the centerline tank. If you have a photo of an interceptor carrying it, I would like to see it.
  3. So the onus is on the buyer and not the manufacturer? So what if someone printed US insignias in purple and pink instead of red and blue? Or produced a MiG-21 kit in the shape of a 737? Is the onus on the modeler to make it right? How about if you bought a Lexus and you got a Yugo instead? Is the onus on you to turn it into a Lexus?
  4. Very nice kit. Like all of the newer Airfix kits, the prop blades are very thick and chunky looking, and the plastic is *very* soft. You have to be very careful sanding, as it’s easy to sand too much, especially on mating surfaces. But overall it is a very nice kit, and easier to build than the Hasegawa kit from about 25 years ago.
  5. Eduard has never made another P-51.
  6. When you start your own model company, I’m sure all of your products will be 100% perfect, and will be all things to all people. Until then...
  7. Imagine if Eduard simply did a little research instead of assuming.
  8. I’m sure Academy does, but honestly, their kits have been eclipsed by ZM (even with ZM’s known issues). ZM is more accurate and easier to build.
  9. I’d like to believe a lot of things, but they’re still not likely to happen.
  10. You have not seen test shots of a GWH 1/48 F-14 kit. They are not to that point yet.
  11. Please do not apply the roundels to the wings of the Cuban bird. None of their MiG-21bis have ever carried wing roundels. Not that impressed with Eduard’s decal research or artwork.
  12. ZM said last year in Phoenix that they were working on theirs, and that they were aware of the problems with their C/D/J/S kits and were correcting that. Patience.
  13. Swiss or Finnish? The Finns kicked Russian a## with them (and with the Buffalos). The Swiss ones are certainly colorful.
  14. If I told you, they’d make me kill you...
  15. Why do you need metal gear struts on a model that weighs so little? I built a Revell 1/48 MiG-21 decades ago that stood on its plastic gear just fine for many, many years.
  16. That’s what the whole bunny thing was originally about. Very insulting to the very people who they rely on for their income.
  17. It was bad enough that they consciously chose not to do the right thing, but then the whole bunny thing was invented to essentially make fun of modelers who held them to account for the decision. I found the whole thing very condescending and insulting. It still galls me when I see the bunny in their advertising.
  18. Actually what we're in need of is a decent 1/48 F-111 family. Another airplane that seems cursed among model kit manufacturers. Nobody seems to care enough to get them right.
  19. 2015 from the last I heard...
  20. You can't just add plugs to a -100 to get a -200. There are other significant differences with the wing/body fairing, and the #2 intake is completely different. Longer and cylindrical. Far from an easy conversion. You're going to end up with more putty than you do plastic.
  21. Of course he does. This is ARC. It's what we do.
  22. Great Wall has a kit coming. My bet is that it will definitely one-up the AMK kit - assuming the AMK kit ever even comes to market. If for no other reason that GWH’s surface detail is an order of magnitude finer than the rather coarse surface detail that AMK kits have.
  23. Gekko Graphics made them in 1/48, but I'm not sure about 1/72. AFAIK that's your only choice.
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