The Arrowhead

Do you still plan to re-release the CAS Vipers sheet, as announced late last year?

Good luck with that kit. I personnally ended up keeping the nose only (which remains too bulbous anyhow), rear stabs and ventral strakes (wrong shape) and kitbashing the rest based on a mix-match of Monogram and Hasegawa. https://www.master194.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=126221

I’m definitely a customer for this one in 1:48. Any F-89D/H/J scheme from the color profiles in the Squadron/Signal In Action, treated the Caracal way, will do!

Great, many thanks ! Do you happen to have pictures of the Martin Marietta Pathfinder FLIR pod?

Thanks! So 75-0752 (second FSD F-16B) with ACES II and F-16D cockpit mod, GD tail code. Was it before the Falcon tail art was applied? Perhaps still carrying the Pave Penny, not sure.

Great news! I came across these photos of the so-called Falcon Eye FLIR reportedly tested on a CAS F-16B. Not difficult to build from scratch, but no clue on which airframe S/N it was tested on. Any intel on that?

Thanks Kursad ! So this is finally my take at YF-16 #2 in her magnificent « Cloud » livery, with guess-who’s decals to round it up. Cross-kitted between ARII, Monogram and Hasegawa with bits and pieces from Tamiya and Kinetic. And a good amount of scratchbuliding too. Fifty years of Viper ! Hope you like it. BTW Kursad, you got to have produced the most profitable of decal sheets with this F-16 Early Years reference. I already used it to good effect on my AFTI/F-16, and I’m intending to do the F-16/79 and F-16/101 as well !

You… you mean… there are OTHER scales too ??? OMG where have I been all these decades 😱 profound apologies for this unforgiveable bias. BTW I’m not « stuck » anywhere, thank you very much.

Second that, again. I’d also add an F-16/79 conversion. The F-15 STOL/MTD is already nicely covered by BAM Models, though.

KASL Hobby proposes a much better TDU-10B than Hasegawa in 1:48.

The TISEO is already available from Quinta, Hypersonic and BAM, just to quote a few.

Arnaud is pretty much alive and kicking. He just doesn’t have enough availability to run his business full time. He reopens the site every once in a while for orders, and generally announces it on his Facebook page.

Second that! Chances Arnaud from BAM would have enough availability to issue that kind of kit are scarce. A 2-seater conversion for AFV’s U-2A/C would also be great.

I would add the new Bahreïni Block 70s with their 2-tone camo.

Those are already available from BAM Models.

Contrary to resin casting, the great advantage with 3D printing is that you can completely separate the design work from the actual production. Kursad could certainly contemplate relying on several external experts to design printable CAD files and then « merely » ensure on-demand printing and shipment.

I get your point; however I believe this 3D printed accessories or conversions range should also logically focus on making feasible some of the special versions/prototypes covered by several existing Caracal decals. BAM Models in France or Hypersonic Models in Japan, just to name a few, have already ventured with great success in this area and I’m confident Kursad would profitably consider teaming with them.

- Correct spine for the F-105D Thunderstick II to go with your recent Thud sheet. The old C&H and Airwaves resin attempts are long OOP and Revellogram’’s mould mod is a joke (also OOP). - Inlet and nozzle mods for the F-16/79. - Full package for the NASA F-18 HARV. - Early Hornet prototype mods (LERX groves, dogtooth wings and stabs, short ailerons etc) - X-33 TPS pod for NASA F-15B. - If dreaming is allowed, YA-10A prototype conversion …

How about an USAF/ANG F-84F collection with plenty of colorful liveries? Time to seriously retire those Super/Microscale old timers.

Beware, Kinetic has just issued a special boxing of their Gold Series F-16C with these markings… https://www.luckymodel.com/scale.aspx?item_no=KI-K48107

I have ordered Cat4 products several times in the latest months, either from eBay or through Plastic Models Store in Kiev, and they always arrived safe and sound in due course. When there is no other game in town I believe it is worth the bucks and wait. Remember, the « F-16 Early Years » sheet that Kursad graced us with some years ago was among the fastest-selling ever, while there is absolutely no F-16/79 or AFTI conversion on the market and hardly any good YF-16 kit around. Same applies to the « A-10 Early Years ». No prototype kit available, no conversion, very diff

With Cat4 from Ukraine now relasing a complete series of backdate sets for the Hase F-8E, how about an « Early Years / Test Crusaders » sheet? Could include - XF8U-1 prototype - DF-8A - Early test aircraft - Early ops birds - VMF-321 F-8K (most beautiful Crusader livery ever 😉 - NASA DFBW NF-8 … just to name a few.

Seems much more likely indeed!

Did you check it against Insignia Blue FS 15044 ? Looks pretty close.

Mine did.