Pappy121

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G'day, I am looking for the Hasegawa 'Combo' boxing (00967) of the 1/72 Northrop F-20 Tigershark What I really want is the decals for the dark demonstrator, so a partial built kit or missing decals would not be deal breaker as long as all the decals for the dark demonstrator are present cheers, Pappy

G'dsay Jari and Bob, Thank you, pure gold as always! I was aware of the interesting roll control design but that is the first picture I have seen. Thommy's site has a great explanation and drawings but you just ca't beat a pic. The flasher pods are included in Trumpeter's 172 and 1/48 kits but the back end is very different, as the kit items lack the spinner and blades and the small area above the spoinner is just a truncated flat shape instead of the teardrop section of the pic. Outstanding work once again, cheers, Pappy

Thank you Thommy, cheers, Pappy

Thank you Jari, great info as always cheers, Pappy

G'day Davide, Thank you very much! Thatis exactly what I need and will be extremely helpful, kind regards, Pappy

G'day Davide, Thanks for answering the questions, one of the few that did Yes that is the object I am referring to. It is more rounded and bulbous on later build jets rather than the more tapered shape provided in the kit which is more appropriate for an earlier aircraft. You said that you derived the measurement for the tail fin from several books, which books? Could you send me a partial scan of the fin?, I don't need the whole drawing Your kit turned out very nice, I think it would still look nice up close 😃 What colour did you use on th

G'day Brian, Thanks very much for the fascinating HS-1 info and the awesome detail pics. Mad respect to Fred Stencel and his conviction regarding the cabopy spreadder! The more I read about this beast the more I am in awe of how advanced a design it was, cheers, Pappy

G'day people, I recently picked up a second hand 1/48 Trumpeter kit and since I know embarrasingly little about this brute I did some research which lead to more questions. So I need some help from the ARC brains trust, 1. The Trumpeter tail is incorrect as the tip slopes 'down' the wrong way, that is to say, the trailing edge is higher than the leading edge. The fix is to cut a wedge out of the top such that the TE is now lower than the LE, but how much lower? 2. The kit includes four pylons and three sets of stores: A pair of photoflash pods, a pairs

G'day Thadeus Thanks mate, better late than never! cheers, Pappy

G'day people, Well, the GB has long since finished but I have finally managed to get this one over the line. The landing gear was cut and repositioned to depict it during retraction, which was challenging due to the complicated nature of the F-16 u/c system. I added an AIM-9X to STN #2 and modified an AIM-0P to represent the ACMI pod on STN #9to match my reference pictures of the display configuration. The kit decals behaved flawlessly

G'day, Assistance no longer required, please disregard, cheers, Pappy

G'day people, I bought the KH SU-30MK kit cheap (water damaged, no box) but it is missing the instructions. 1999.jp does not list the kit and Scalemates only has a scan of the KH Su-27B kit, which shares many parts and has a similar parts assembly, howver the SU-30 is atwo seat jet with a differnet fuselage. Can someone please send me a scan of the kit instructions? cheers, Pappy

G'day people, Thank you everyone for the help. I did not realise that my 'grail' kit of all these yeras was a re-pop of the venerable old Mono kit! PH conversions it is then. I bought the Has TA-4J second hand for $10AUD so I can splurge a little cheers, Pappy

G'day people, I am looking for a scan of the Hasegawa kit instructions. I have already tried Scalemates but had no joy, they offer the Monogram kit instructions as a substitute, cheers, Pappy