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  1. The AMK nose is a bit off, being a bit too thick and heavy overall. The raised portion of the canopy/spine line isn't and the canopies themselves are too rounded. You see it or you don't... http://www.britmodeller.com/reviews/staff/mike/mig-31/mig-31bm-10.jpg To me, the HB captures this area more elegantly, even accounting for the Amigo radome fix. Both jets miss the characteristic, nose high, squat of the real jet but, without modification to its metal insert MLG, the HB Sokol sits just ridiculously
  2. What I would like to see someone work on... 765022de9387d73f143a3813f3da43aa (1284×1169) (spot.im) Whatever it is, it's becoming common enough to believe that it may be standardized as part of the F-35 Blk.4 and the F-22 MLU. The checkerboard pattern is too small and varied in its tesselation patterns to be accomplished by hand masking or even templates alone. It's going to have to be printed. And it's going to be expensive when it is, especially at 1/48th and above. As you can see, it makes the entire airframe look, not metallic but translucent blue or p
  3. Could they do it like the recent wave of three-d cockpit instrumentation? As a kind of decal?
  4. Excellent example. Texture not relief. Increasingly it is obvious that stealth aircraft have a basic OML and a moldline 'under applique' stealth material. And that this material is very carefully blended in with putty or some other technique, to the point where it both becomes 'GTW' very smooth _and_ changes the outline of the aircraft. Kit makers need to be aware of this or they will get enough wrong to ruin the shape. Acknowledging and replicating this is about using very fine, recessed, lines to denote major pane
  5. F-22A Raptor (Plastic model) - HobbySearch Military Model Store (1999.co.jp) Half the Ordnance looks like it is intended for an F/A-18 or even A-7E. I see a Buddy Pod, MER, HARM, GBU-24, GBU-16, GBU-12, GBU-31. None of which belong on an F-22 and the sum of which (three sprues) may well account for 40-50% of the assembled parts. What I don't see are LAU-128 X4, LAU-115 X2, 600 gallon tanks X2, four wing pylons, BRU-61 X2 and GBU-39 X8 or GBU-32 X2. All of which are certified F-22 ordnance. Most of which are in the Academy kit. I think Trumpeter have a fe
  6. Very nice review, thanks for the break down. Hoping you will post in-progress and cover the actual build up. That said, it's way too big. It's too expensive to hang from a ceiling like a kid's model and even if you have a case, it's going to take up a whole shelf. The business model behind this is...strange. Wish people would learn that there is an entire 'missing scale' called 1/100 which is under populated and a much better match to 1/48 than 1/72 because it generally results in display size/detail ranges on larger airframes of about 14-17", similar to t
  7. GWH F-15E Overly thick wing and stabilator TEs. Intake tunnels which are so badly out of scale profile (pinched and skinny rather than square and boxy) they almost look like A-6E intruder intakes. Bits and bobs which don't make a lot of sense in terms of 'do you really want to have to work seams around an optionally open avionics bay piano hinge?' Ejection seats are clumsy. Engine exhausts are stretched out and lack detail definition. Stabs have a spanwise reinforcement strop which is vastly overscale. Rear fus
  8. Absolutely outstanding. That took some real guts, I would not have had the courage to use wire there (CA and metal always corrodes and chips out for me) but it looks like you pulled it off. Really looking forward to seeing it under some primer so I can see how well you've done capturing the under cockpit area. Did you make a template of your 'best side' with some card or sheet stock to guarantee symmetry? I say this because, well, Anigrand. Also, are you going to do anything to capture the sensor windows for the FLIR and so on? It wouldn't take much more than a chis
  9. Rob, I have never seen a single example of program era A-12 concept artwork with the (very fat, very deep) 'Leading Edge Flaps' deployed. Have you? The Closest I've ever come is this- https://www.f-16.net/forum/download/file.php?id=29593&sid=02d54b4b42d563683f9c1f3ff516346c&mode=view Which seems to be one of Flight Global's famous cutaways, post cancellation. I think this is because the concept of using an active 'stealth ribbon' which cancelled/ate radar returns at the airframe edge and which sent LMTAS into a panic of F-22 'One weekend the VP called us in and told us to c
  10. Good to know. How about total chord length? I wish you good luck on getting those inlets correct and hope you will also look carefully at the drawings as it appears that the A-12 had a rotating/translating inlet lip, similar to the- MiG-25 20_2.jpg (500×639) (airforce.ru) To further improve low speed mass flow. Please post pictures when done.
  11. Really nice work there. Keep it up, your successful completion will dictate the immediate release of a followon injected kit...;-\ A-12 Head On https://www.sandboxx.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2.jpg.webp Like a closet door or a piano cover, it's a bi-fold door panel setup to cover a very wide weapons bay. The Anigrand bay is literally half that size. Anigrand A-12 https://fantastic-plastic.com/uploads/3/5/5/3/35539432/a-21-avenger-ii-4-1.jpg The F-22 features the same approach (to reducing ground clearance problems), as does the J-2
  12. Rob, Excellent beginning, I don't envy you the amount of resin you had to Dremel out of the Anigrand. If I was going to do it over, I would almost consider cutting to the leading edge and just splicing in sheet. The problem is the inlets, which are molded in. Wait until you get to the bottom and try to expand out the weapons bays to full size. One of the doors is molded shut when it should be a piano hinge, attached to the main door. The center divider for the weapons bay and MLG bulkhead is also shared and ends up being about .20 across. You'll need to box it all
  13. A-12 Mockup, Cockpit Side Consoles https://youtu.be/FD86Ro25sJw?t=45 A-12 Exhaust (very little to see, serpentine Coanda, like on the F-117...) https://youtu.be/XDrHwe-dhic?t=360 I would be -very- careful about using the supposed '1:1' A-12 mockup as the basis for any scratchbuilding. It looks subscale to me, for a jet which has a 70'3" wingspan. Take a gander at the blue shirted tech trying to close the canopy at 2:50 in the first video. Say he is six feet tall and tell me, perspective and all, that there is more than 9 of him, wingtip to wingti
  14. I have no problem with a range of Flanker alternatives, provided they come with price scaling and show a genuine differentiation of quality/options. When every kit is 80-100 dollars, yet the Kitty Hawks do not build easily and have separate wing/fuselage elements and very shallow detail that doesn't allow for sanding cleanup of clumsy joins, something is wrong. It's also wrong when Hobby Boss provides an excellent build on a monobody set of fuselage/wing pancakes for around 60 bucks but includes such stupid-error (because it is a repetition of other scales and has long been noted)
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