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my understanding is they are not separate.
Thanks. I'll just keep my Dragon and Tamiya ones.
Bo Roberts
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Does it or does it NOT have leading edge slats?
IPMS Philippines pixs are too small.
Bo Roberts
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Now all we need is a decent Tomahawk kit to paint preferably in 48th Scale
Cheers
Terry McGrady
Now your talkin'!! Maybe this will get the attention of Tamiya/Hasegawa/Revell/ SOMEBODY!!
Bo Roberts
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Why would Curtis try and match the upper surfaces to RAF colours and not the undersurfaces ? Sky grey was a term used by Bell for the same Dupont colour paint stock number as used by Curtis
You make a very good point. As I said earlier, the few color photos I have show the upper in the standard Green/Dark Earth and the underside a grey color without a hint of the greenish tint of sky. But that only a few aircraft. Another photo shows the dark earth much lighter sand color. Who knows for sure. I really doubt ALL AVG aircraft looked alike or were painted with the same paints.
Again, our UH-1 Hueys, 40 yrs later, looked very different one aircraft to another. Once crews started maintaining them, anything is possible.
Bo Roberts
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That's nice, except that when the AVG airplanes were being built, we weren't at war, and we hadn't tooled up for massive ("get it out the door") war production. J
Hey!! Direct your retort to Alan.
AND the US was the Arsenal of Democracy and defense plants WERE producing at a wartime pace for their then facility!! Are you saying there were NO shortages at this time?????
Edit: The Tullis book, 'Tigers Over China', states that the prop was black/yellow tip with WHITE stenciling. And I'm NOT questioning that the Markings Drawing for the prop probably calls for white stenciling; but a color photo of a P-40B/C prop in Ethell's 'P-40 Warhawk in WW II Color' shows clearly that that particular stenciling was YELLOW!! As does several other P-40 props in this book.
I was NOT there. But I'd bet a dollar to a donut that some Model 81s with the AVG did if fact have the DuPont version of the usual British Sky undersurface. And if a modeler used it, I wouldn't question it.
Bo Roberts
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DING!!! Round 2 on the AVG color!!
Research is great; it can point to what the colors 'should' be, but what they 'actually' were, .......??? Wartime expediency took presidence. Get it out the door!! Paint 'em with what's in stock!!
Again, those aircraft operating with AVG; sun, weather elements, cleaning or lack there of, changed the tint of the paint regardless of what it was at the beginning!!
Ain't this fun???
Bo Roberts
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A couple things too, is that the 100 P-40s were British ordered were not built to a british specification to the T so to speak, reading the accounts of the pilots,armorers, etc these were not P-40B's or C's, in fact all refrennces I've seen claim them as a seperate version apart from them. My guess then with the discrepancy is that Curtiss may not have had enough of the green sky color, so substituted the seen light or aircraft grey you see in the photos, to save that color for the British orders that would have needed it more. It comes down too how much you as well want to believe someones recollections, because some pilots claim that a few of the AVG birds were in desert colors, at least on the upper surfaces yet no picture I've seen show it.
So without a time machine I doubt we ever will have a 100% correct answer, my advice use what you like best.
Didn't know they were NOT made to Brit specs. So what type of seat belts did these Model 81s have, British or US?? The sircraft I've seen do have Brit style pitot tubes.
But I do agree that the color of these aircraft will never been known, for sure. I WILL follow ur advice.
Bo Roberts
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The few color photos of AVG birds I've seen show the tops to be a close match to the British Green/Earth colors. The underside apprears to be a light grey with no hint of greenish Sky color.
One color photo of Robert Smith's mount, Hell's Angels #40, shows the Earth sunbleached to a 'sand' or 'light earth' color.
Color film issues and the effect of the sun on the paint, to me, it's anyone's guess what those aircraft looked like after they went into service. I've witnessed the same to Vietnam era aircraft some forty years later.
Bo Roberts
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Oh yeah, I've been waiting for that kit for about 2 years. I'm going to get one of those whenever it gets released, build it as an NB-52B and put Special Hobby's X-15A-2 under the wing!!
Forever Forty-Eighth!!
Chappie
I've built the 48th Special Hobby X-15 and it's pretty big!! A 48th B-52 would be something else!! Would just HAVE to find somewhere to put it!! I'm with you, I'd like an early version with the tall tail!!
Bo Roberts
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Has there been an accurate 'Lady in the Dark" set made. To my knowledge, no.
Terry Dean!! You there??
Bo Roberts
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My jumbo sized kit I'm hoping for is a Boeing 314 "China Clipper", the 1/144 I have just doeesn't do it justice. I'm hoping if AModel doesn't go down the drain with the Spruce Goose, maybe they will do a 314 in their AMonster series. Funny I'd be all over a 1/72 314 but I don't have any interest in a 1/72 Spruce Goose.
And I agree with ya this subject but in 48th scale!! Once again, 21st Century shoulda made it and sold completed models to the Banana Rebublic Story chain!! Woulda made excellent decor for the story and they could sell them to customers!! I think this would been a hot seller for 21st Century. Modelers, too would be after 'em in kit form.
Hobby shops aren't the only outlet for our hobby items!!
Bo Roberts
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Personally I'm stunned with the proliferation of monster size kits, not just 1/32 aircraft, but 1/72 scale ships / subs, 1/35 PT Boats, 1/144 scale battleships? Just where do people put 3-5 footlong models.
Boy do I ever agree!! These 32tooth kits are so big ya can't build and display but so many and then ya need a bigger house!!
I can always find room for two or three big subject models, so Airfix, go ahead with that 48th scale Vulcan!!!
Bo Roberts
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This is NOT the 1st time that 32tooth scale got hot!! The 1st was back in the 60's. Then again in the 70/80's. Both times were like a flash in the pan.
If I were to build one or two single engine fighter models that I liked, 32tooth would be my choice. Twin engine aircraft starts getting problematic due to where you can display finished model. Four engine bombers are out!!
I wonder if Trumpeter, the BIG contributor of 32tooth, isn't practicing for the time they'll scale these down to 48th and 72nd??
72nd is really the better size for a wide range of models all in the same scale. A lot of 72nd models just don't have the look of the real thing. A small error here and there makes the finished product just not look right. The bigger the scale the less off it looks.
Don't think I'll ever see a 48th scale, my favorite, B-36 or B-52. I did have high hopes back when 21st Century was turning out models, but they seemed bent on making 32tooth. Maybe one reason they're NOT making new kits as before????
I'll find room to put a 48th Vulcan or Buff if someone will make one!! But first, a GOOD P-40B/C!!
Homoscale, 48th ONLY,
Bo Roberts
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Just how BIG would a 32tooth 106 be???
Bigger than a bread box???
Bo Roberts
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Their next scheduled release is a Bf-109E with BOB markings. Followed by, in no particular order; P-51D, P-47D Razorback and Bubble Top, and F4U-1 Corsair. Later in 2010 will come the P-40B/C in AVG markings!!
If their coming kits are anything like their recent ones, they'll be very good!! I'm expecting the P-40B/C to be the best on the market!!
Buy some of these kits and give them to kids to start their interest in modeling. At $10 retail, we all can afford some of these for an investment in future generation of modelers. You may want to keep a few and build them for yourself and practice new techniques that you wouldn't want to test on a $40+ kit!!
BTW, these snap kits fit like a dream and the water slide decals are EXCELLENT. Cockpit detail is amazing.
Bo Roberts
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Looks good!! Is it a Snapz kit?
Their 48th scale like is very good, too.
Bo Roberts
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As I remember, the Thunder Bird emblem is way oversized!! Yellow Wing is susposed to be making decals for the 34th PS.
Other than that, go for it!!
Bo Roberts
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Received their new releases, Fw-190A-3 and A6M2 Model 21. What can I say?? They are verrrry nice for snap kits!! Plenty of detail for beginners and a great, inexpensive starting point for experienced modelers to practice techniques, and still have a keeper!!
They are a refreshing break for the detail crazies, like me!! Each kit has only 23 parts and with the minimum effort, can be built up into a very nice subject. The overall outlines look spot on, in the box. Marking are both stick-on and water slide types. Water slide P-51 decals were as good as any after market ones, but w/o all stencils.
Also, these kits don't have all the detailed parts found in the Tamigawa kits. You'll need to raid ur spares box for pitots, some cockpit details, and etc.
A retail of only $10 is a bargain for what you get!! The Spitfire was not their 'shining star', but the Hurricane, P-51B, Bf109G-6, Me-262, Fw190A-3 and Zero Model 21 (have I missed any?) are very accurate in outline of the subject.
Come on P-40B/C!!
Bo Roberts
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Looks like Mike West hit another home run with this set. BUT, what's lacking are some decals for these early Marauders!!
Help from another Mike would be nice!! Mike Grant, ya there??
Bo Roberts
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I think a set of 1/32 P-26 and P-12 markings would sell better than 1/48 decals for the 1/48 Classic Airframe kits. But who knows what the market will bring nowdays. I was told the 1/72 decal market was dead by lots of so called "wizzards of smart". I (and so many others) are so glad these folks are very wrong....
As stongly as I can I disagree. Both 32nd and 48th P-26 kits are nice. Only one sheet of 48th scale decals were made for the P-26. (Don't know how many were made for 32nd.) 48th kits are by far bigger sellers than 32nd. If ya think times are good selling 72tooth, ya may be eating 'high on the hog' were those in 48th!!
Very unofficial survey on HyperScale asking what scale was most desired for a SOC Seagull. Check it out.
The defense for 48th scale rest!!
Bo Roberts
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You might want to dust off any Matchbox P-12Cs you might have as well......
What about the Classic Airframe P-12??
Bo Roberts
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Yep. Did BOAC Mosquitos in 1/48, and before I closed up shop, had produced Thunderbirds F-84Gs in 1/48 as well. I was starting to branch out into military stuff before I shut down. I've been doing decal art freelance for other people since the late 1980s. I did about 85% of the first hundred or so Aeromaster sheets (the "AeroMaster" script is my hand writing!).
J
Well, there ya go. Wish ya made more 48th!!
Bo Roberts
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Liveries Unlimited
Kev
Never heard of 'em!! Ever make anything 48th??
Bo Roberts
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That's why I got out of the decal biz.
J
Learn summin new ever day. Didn't know you were in the decal biz.
What was your line??Bo Roberts
B-29 wheel wells?
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I agree with ya, but I wonder why they didn't paint the Enola Gay nose gear/wheel hub ZCY??? As was the real aircraft.
Maybe because it was temporary????
Bo Roberts