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  1. On 3/8/2024 at 8:02 AM, ALF18 said:

    Super work! I especially love the authentic-looking paint job. 😍🏆

    Here's what CF-104s looked like back in 1974, when my father flew them. This aircraft took part in the Tactical Weapons Meet. I was 15 years old, and used to climb under the barbed wire by the control tower in Baden to watch the jets taxi by. The Military Police never caught us, and the pilots all waved at us as they went by. The second picture is at a Tiger Meet, with my father at far right in the photo. Fantastic job, Janissary!

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    Your father is your spitting image. Nice images.

  2. On 12/28/2023 at 1:06 AM, gb_madcat_sl said:

    Best kit to use will be the Aggressor boxing of the Tamiya Viper. It has parts to do all the C variants (blocks 25 to 52).

     

    As you have the CJ, you will need to source for the original "lightweight" landing gear, associated non-bulged main gear doors, and wheels. 

     

    Hope this helps!

     

    Mark


    I have three of those 1/48 kits. But I’m currently planning on building in 1/32, I’d use those instructions to build a Block 25 if I had a 1/32 Thunderbirds kit to cross with the Block 50.

  3. Kursad,

     

    Can we get some Canadian options, both CAF and RCAF? Canuck Models is no longer and Leading Edge Models does not have 1/72 CP-140 decals, he doesn’t produce much anymore at all. He only releases past decals occasionally.

     

    The out of production options are rare and when they do appear on eBay they go for an arm and a leg.

     

    I’m a 1/48 builder although this is one 1/72 kit I will build.

  4. 12 hours ago, Night Owl Models said:

    Give it a try 3D modeling is just a different part of modeling without the fumes 😆 Try your local hobby shop they are probably into it and can help you along.


    The local shop (Great Hobbies), has brought in a ton of printing products, they even have a lot of it on clearance sales. I’ll likely give it a try, I’m usually not intimidated by change.

  5. 19 hours ago, Night Owl Models said:

    I am hoping the moderators will look at starting a 3D modeling forum to pass the craft onto those with an interests. I hate to say it but I think the after market upgrade kits will soon be dyeing a slow death now that modelers can create their own parts. There is a endless supply of research material to make your own parts accurately.

     

    It was a few projects ago that I got frustrated with cost and quality of upgrade kits, yes there is a up front cost to 3D printing but i have found over the course of the last year it has paid for itself. Having the ability to make parts the same way you would when kit bashing any model with the flexibility to add as much detail as I want. If a part breaks or needs more work its a simple fix and I can make as parts as I want. 


    l’d love to learn to 3D print, but I feel I’d fail miserably at it. The funny thing is I’m good with technology, computers, and mechanics. Served 25 years in the CAF/RCAF, now work in the medical field as a biomedical engineer, designed and built prototype medical devices from the component level up (nanotechnology PCR devices), but struggle with simple programs as easy as IKEA’s kitchen design software. :)

     

    I’m good with software, but feel intimidated by what I see others producing in 3D online.

     

    I’ve been building a Hasegawa Sea King (Canadian of course) since it was released. I don’t feel I could replicate the internal structure in 3D you displayed here. I was planning on scratch building those details. You emailed me files for 3D interior details for my Sea King, I haven’t even figured that out yet. I’m going to ask a friend of mine, an armor builder, to print those parts out for me.

     

    I’ll definitely follow this thread.

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