Paul Boyer
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I think I'll start a new model company: Limbo Models. All those kits you thought would be available by now, but actually nowhere in sight.👹
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However, the degree of resurrection is still unclear. 😐
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Yes in the picture of the real aircraft with the "invasion stripes." Since the insignia is non standard for this special commemorative scheme, it is forgivable when you figure that the old standard proportions of the star and bar are long forgotten. Buckmeister is correct that the bar should be slightly above center of the circle, something not many of us modelers have even noticed. Now, it will be interesting to see if some decal manufacturer doing this exact aircraft will make it "wrong" accurately!😁
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I talked with a rep at a recent (June '23) model show, and despite the news release with "box art" in summer of '22, the kit is still not ready. It's been close to ten years of "not ready" excuses. Shaddup and take my money!🙄
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5 hours ago, AD-4N said:
I'm convinced a decal company could do nothing but Sea King sheets.
That may be so, but could they sell 'em?🤔
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2134 was a subject on the old 1/72 scale Modeldecal sheet No. 9 from about 1970.
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/modeldecal-9-united-states-navy--128290
If you have one of the first printings of this sheet, you'll find that whatever they used for the clear carrier did not respond to decal solvents. I even tried dipping an item in lacquer thinner and it just floated there. Later Modeldecal reprinted the sheet with a more user-friendly carrier film. Those old sheets were excellent, but now pretty rare! That would be a nice addition to a new sheet!
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When I still had the leftover parts, I used to kit that I would put it together. It was about 8" long as I recall!
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Or you could build the one you have as is and get this one for the extra windows:
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/sword-sw-72145-t-39n-sabreliner--1452527
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Yeah, here is the finished one. I started this conversion back in 1978. It sat on the shelf of doom through five moves, two marriages, three "career" changes, and retirement before I got back to it. Note that I used two kits and cut one fuselage with a long center and the other with long ends, rather than spliced in extensions. Fewer seams to fill that way.
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There is just a little crease in the Aurora fuselage, most notable behind the wing. If you want to win modeling trophies, you could correct that on your models. But then somebody else might beat your model with some three-year project. Meanwhile, I've had a decent-looking, nearly creaseless C-9As in my collection since 2008.😁
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The shape of the vertical stabs is different between the prototype and production types.
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Both times you typed "791" and the tail number is 971. I hope you are not an accountant!🙂
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I do have Facebook although don't use it much, and I get the same message: . . . content not available . . . .
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Damn, that's pretty! And I was just about to start my Zvezda kit as a Vietnam hauler. Hmm.
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Beauty!
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Xtradecal has (or had) a nice sheet with many options for USAF birds, and Iliad did a good sheet for Navy/Marines T-Birds. Here's one of each on two Platz T-33s:
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That is so cool, Rick! I don't know which serial I flew in, but I did catch a flight in a T-39 out of Tan Son Nhut in late '72 or early '73. I think I was going to NKP to take aerial pictures of the base from an HH-53. Can't remember what type I flew back in - it was a long time ago.
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Spacecraftcreator: You up?🙂
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Platz hands down. Italeri reboxed the Platz kit recently so that may be easier to find.
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Quixote74: I'm not sure on the Deuce/Six kit set, but Hase's Cougar/Tiger duo kit had excellent Cartograf decals in it!
Spacecraftcreator: I used the old ModelDecal sheet and matched the orangey yellow of the crest to paint the wingtips and commander's stripes on an old Hase kit. I made the serials and buzz numbers from spare number sheets. I even added the wing tips from a scrapped F-106 kit to produce the Case XX wing of 907. Please get in touch with me by email for more info: airflower2 AT icloud DOT com (remove the usual).
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It seems to me there were two "generations" of 1/72 scale Esci kits; the first that included the F-100, F-104, Harrier, and the F-5 were pretty good. Then the later generation that was not so good included the F-111, A-7, F-8, and possibly the F-14 and F-15. I'm not sure about the latter two as I have not built or examined them. But there was a definite drop-off in quality there.
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I tried building one a few years ago and gave up - and that's says a lot for me. There was something terribly wrong with the cockpit on mine and it was unfixable. Found a Hasegawa A model on eBay and finished that right quick. The Esci kit is in a landfill. Hase is reissuing the A model kit, so you may want to go that route.
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4 hours ago, Rodewaryer said:
Paul Boyer what a gorgeous build, and honestly....I like the dark pic of it better.
Not me, that beauty belongs to Aigore!!!
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Hope you don't mind, Aigore, but I wanted to see your F-16 in a better light. Beautiful model!
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My god. Fatal flaw. Those who don't correct this are doomed to lose any and all model contests. Then we die and the world ends. Why did they do this to me?🙄