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  1. Beginning to steal the show are those kits from Special Hobby, Dora, Modelsvit  and other that stir the juices!!  Hope Special Hobby does a 48th AH-1G Cobra, following their excellent 72 tooth one!!

    Also hope to hear more about Eduard's, once mentioned, P-36 and P-40B/C in 48th????

    And just MAYBE, someone will replace that ancient Monogram/Revell UH-1C/M Huey!!  That would be the topping on the ice cream!!

    Bo

  2. Help!!  I have several subjects that I want to build and will need decals for these subjects.  Nose art and tail numbers, etc.

    All will be 48th scale aircraft/helicopters so they won't be huge sheets,

     

    Anyone have a North American decal mfg that I can contact???

     

    TIA.

    Bo

  3. 15 hours ago, Stefan buysse said:

    Hi,

     

    Bo, I can't see your images.

    But if you have six on the centerline, I'm pretty sure it's not the 3,000 lbs M118.

    Six on the centerline would usually be the 750 lbs M117.

     

    I'm pretty sure I've seen Mk- 84's on the outboard pylons of F-105's, but never M118's. 

     

    Cheers, Stefan.

    Yeah, likely were 750 pounders.  A bomb is a bomb!!!  LOL!!  What shocked me was the 2.75 FFAR they carried.  Just like our gunships; but, with aerodynamic nose cone.

    Bo

  4. 8 minutes ago, Jonathan_Lotton said:

    So far the only thing they've absolutely confirmed is they're going to be doing a P-51B/C in 1/48 after they finish the P-51D series 

     

    Hummm. This Website doesn't even list that P-51B/C???  Normally they're pretty good with coming kits.

     

    Bo

  5. Recent reports said that Eduard was going to release, in 48th scale in 2020, a P-36 and P-40B/C.  This was published on a Website that does a creditable job of keeping us informed.  Recently, the Site removed these two items from Future Releases.  When I asked them why, was told the Eduard hasn't confirmed anything in this regard.

    So, ...... Until Eduard DOES confirm something, we'll still be wishing and hoping!!

    Bo

  6. https://hobbyterra.com/product/plastic- ... 16-12-2019

     

    Far beit from me to not welcome a new 48th scale kit; BUT, ...... a Huskie???  Why hasn't ANYONE released a new 48th scale Bell AH-1G Cobra???? What am I missing, here??  The Cobra will outsell this Huskie 100 : 1, as a minimum!!!  I mean a flying FireTruck vs the first real attack helicopter??  No contest!!

     

    Keep thinking Special Hobby will stretch their 72nd to 48th??????  Someone will SURELY release a new Snake!!

     

    Bo

  7. 11 hours ago, dnl42 said:

    I'd bet that's a fabrication of the screen writers, but it does in represent a key factor. In Normandy '44, Holland describes the near immediate replacement of equipment. Cleaver in Pacific Thunder as well as Hornfischer in Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors describe the plentiful supply of well-trained aviators and aircraft. Parshall describes the enormous GDP differences and fleet expansions in his lecture on The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway.

    I'm sure it was screen writer injecting his words (didn't have notes taken of all conversations during this battle). Fact remains the Germans DIDN'T have fuel for war machines and Allies DID ship Christmas things from home!!

    Bo

  8. Don't recall which movie had this; but, when Germans over-ran an American forward outpost and found a Cake mailed from home in the US, the German Commander later said, "Then I knew we had lost the War.  If the Americans have the fuel to ship that Cake from the US to Europe Battlefield, we've lost!!  We don't have the fuel to run our Tanks"!!  Rather revealing!!

     

    Bo

  9. I think you built and assembled that tail wheel per instructions.  All Eduard builds, IMHO, have the same issue.  Tail wheel gear sits too high in fuselage, and that give model, what others have noticed as well, a nose high stance.  Some were thinking that the main struts are too long.  But period photos show more of that tail wheel than does this kit.  Tamiya's 48th is pretty much dead on in that area.

    Your work is just excellent!!  BRAVO!!

    Bo

  10.  

    Does the Monogram kit have the correct intake shape?

    Yes!!  But seams  on fuselage sides and open access panels !!  Sand it smooth and start over with surface detail!!  Typical Monogram fit as well.

    TAMIYA!!  Hasegawa!!  Somebody!! Help!!  LOL!!

    Bo

  11.  

    X Mold  makes some for both the single seaters and the F.
     

    Personally, I think you could have stopped typing after “Trumpeter screwed the pooch with the F-100.” 😈.  (Couldn’t resist!😉)
     

    Ben

    Thanks!!  First I seen them.  

    They're modelers, not photographers!!  Can't see that lower nose!!

    EDIT:  They're in RUSSIA???  Russia??  Any importers in the US??

    Bo

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