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Depending on the company doing the work, these conversions take from 6 to 9 months so it was already done when you saw it landing. Most of the visible work is to the left side of the fuselage: smaller crew entry door, installation of the main deck cargo door; as well as deletion of the aft doors plus reinforcement of some frames and plugging the passenger windows. You wouldn't have seen any of the work on the right side from a distance. From this Airliners.net thread: Airbus Freighter Conversions – Overview (post #292) "A321-231 MSN 2190 VP-CBQ (ex-British Airways,

Almost certainly it'll be the Revell F-16, they have reboxed many ICM kits over the years so it's logical that there'd be an exchange the other way. The 2025 ICM catalogue states 'new parts', probably pylons based on one of the ECIPS or PIDS versions, inferring that the base kit is a rebox. The lead time for a new tool wou;d be too short considering the jets were only 'in country' six months or so ago. In addition, I doubt the UAF would want a model company crawling over their latest acquisition so soon. The catalogue also has 'new' 1/72 Marder 1A3 and M2/M3 Bradley IFVs to follow

Zvezda haven't produced a 727 or a DC-9 of any variant. If you're looking for a 1/144 727-200, there is a new company CRM (Counting Rivets Models) that have just released a 727-200 kit that blows the old Airfix and Minicraft ones out of the water. They're only available direct but shipping is quick and reportedly at a pretty reasonable cost from Germany to the US. There's a 727-100 planned; possibly this summer, but no firm release date. Zvezda are very much still in business though and producing new kits having just released an A330-300 with the A330-200 announced for

Are you looking for a F-4E during the Vietnam war or a SEA camouflaged Phantom operated by the USAF in general? Note that the Meng kit is limited to a Vietnam era F-4E no earlier than mid to late 1972 into 1973 when a few slatted jets were operated from Korat in Thailand as part of project Rivet Haste. However, none appear to have carried tail codes and had minimal white stencils. Also, since Meng omitted to include either you'll need to add the belly reinforcing strap and a TISEO pod on the left wing leading edge. I recommend either the Flying Leatherneck Scale Creations or Quinta versions if

By no means knowledgeable on the Indian Air Force, but I do know a little bit about Israeli weapons (mainly those carried on Kurnasses/ F-4E Terminators 😀) and looking at this photo of the same aircraft which has better exposure of the underside: https://www.airliners.net/photo/India-Air-Force/Dassault-Mirage-2000TI-Vajra/5494775/L?qsp=eJxtjbEOgkAQRP9lawoJguY6aSy18Ac2e6NegnDZ20JC%2BHfPI7Gym7w3mVlIptHwttscQY4SWOVJFUVWfiVyC3FQUb5bzynIVtvv2qb6iTNG6H9Frj623aGiNKn1cz7wbDiJIBo8bfyiHvpVSFKeH3mnzgF6LZmaLnMfUhy4bMA4DLSuH%2BpJPp0%3D Although similar, the pod would be Litening III rathe

Hi Ken, As Marco says go look at Reskit 😀 They have just released an absolutely amazing 3D printed intake and wheel bay set. It's on the pricey side but the detail in the wheel bays has to be seen to be believed. They also have a replacement tail cone and exhaust nozzle, wheels and pylons; you can download the instructions to see what the sets include: https://reskit-models.com/index.php?route=product/search&search=Corsair&ocf=F16S2V3607417149F1S0V8 If you can wait, keep an eye on the site as they do regular sales events with 10%-20% discounts a

Strictly speaking the RF-4 kits were announced at the previous IPMS-USA show in August 2023, but it wasn't hugely publicised. We probably won't see an official 'Old Man's Blog' about them until a 3D print is ready. This is the post from the Caracal RF-4C decal thread with the same Z-M advertisement: Unfortunately I don't think we'll see in plastic form much before late 2026 - as well as the (E)F-4C mentioned above, they still have the F-4F, F-4F (ICE), a basic F-4EJ and possibly a RF-4EJ plus maybe a later 'late F-4E' (with TISEO but without the belly strap) to relea

These were made by modifying a LAU-10 rocket pod. The ends were cut off, an internal track to carry the film cameras installed and fairings made for each end with windows for the cameras. You can see how they were converted in this article from a 1966 Air University Review magazine (jump to page 67 for pictures). https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/Portals/10/ASPJ/journals/1966_Vol17_No1-6/1966_Vol17_No5.pdf There's more pictures and information here: https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235135422-f-100d-with-strike-camera/#comment-4872634 HTH,

That's an A300 fuselage: If it's 1/200, then it could be a Hasegawa A300B4. There is an A300B4-622R boxing in JAL colours but I believe it just the same A300B4 kit with a new decal sheet. Assuming it's 1/144 scale, that would then be the Airfix A300B2 kit. If it is the fuselage should be about 36.5cm long and the raised spine section 6cm long. It's a very nice kit and reasonably accurate despite its age - about 50 years IIRC! It lacks the air conditioning ram air 'canoes' forward of the MLG bay and the Trimmable Horizontal Stabiliser plates on the aft fuselage (they wer

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I'm not a big fan of resurrecting long dead threads but it seemed appropriate in this case given some of the information it contains on which jets were fitted with them since it now looks, at long last, we are going to get cleaar resin versions of the F-4 single piece windshield. In Hannants' Future Releases listings Procal Decals, who have produced some rather nice Hellenic Air Force decal sheets, are going to do one for either the Hasegawa or Meng Phantoms. There's no indication of a Zoukei Mura option but maybe they're waiting for the Z-M 'Late F-4E' kit to be more widely availa

Hi Scott, It probably depends on the version and where it was built. The first photo is from the Lock-On #1 book from Verlinden and is a Belgian F-104G, specifically FX-94 as marked on the compartment cover 😉. The other two are CF-104s (no 'G' suffix; they are a different variant). The DACO book 'Uncovering the (T)F-104G Starfighter' (https://www.dacoproducts.com/KDCB005.php) has photos of at least two empty compartments - in YZC and the same grey as the boxes. One of the photos indicates the central support is grey with the rest of the structure in YZC and one in YZC with grey sills to t

Two+Two seating,? Check. Space underneath for luggage? Check. Optional conformal fuselage panniers for skis, golf bags or fishing tackle? Check. If an EA-6B and a F-16 had a baby - meet the Prowlcon 616: Go anywhere fast - as long as it's no more than an hour away Alternatively, you could look at a similar configuration like the Su-34. From Wikipedia:

The Revell RF-4C/E lower wing is the same as the one in their F-4E/F kit. Revell supply blanking plates to fill in the aft Sparrow wells and the lower nose section sits over the forward wells in a similar arrangement to the Hasegawa 1/72 and 1/48 kits. Hopefully the long promised Zoukei Mura RF-4 family will be the first with a dedicated wing layout. If you do swap the wing parts you can then only build one of the last 16 RF-4Es built for Greece and Turkey. These were 'end of run specials' as by then there were only slatted wing parts available. They also had the later curved pr

Israel's F-4Es were first delivered in September 1969 and were in their standard scheme of FS 33531/30219/34227 upper surfaces with FS 35622 undersurfaces. As mentioned, the only F-4Es delivered to Israel in the SEA scheme were those ex-USAF aircraft that were part of Operation Nickel Grass starting in mid-October 1973. These were all coded 3xx by the IDF/AF and were a mix of slatted and unslatted aircraft. Most were allocated to Squadron 69 but some went to the other units as attrition replacements. They were indeed nicknamed 'Karpada' or Toad because of the darker camouflage. At least one re