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Ray believe it or not but the Hobbycraft decals in the black boxes were great. Maybe use some MS decal coat and they should be good to go? Every so often they also threw in some random marking that had nothing to do with the schemes in the box. Now you got me interested in this scheme. I had no real interest in the Bearcat but those SVNAF schemes look nice. Probably the photos shared here is peaking my interest. Now to go find the kit.

Yet more great news Kursad. I have 3 of the 1/48th kits in my stash and built one already in 1/48th in that beautiful Israeli camo scheme. I have plans for a USAF one so your sheet should be great. Too bad you are not considering a 1/48th foreign operators sheet as my all-time favourite is the Iranian Navy. It has that wonderful tri-colour blue scheme like their Orions. You did the F-27 in something similar. Their CH-53 also has a large crest on the fuselage and that makes it even more special I think. I may have to break down and build it in 1/72nd if you do include that scheme.

When it was announced at Telford last year I believe their plan was for release in 2021. I was hoping for the cockpit set as the whole thing is just too much for me.

Darren I sure hope you get back into production on your wonderful sets. I have few but my list is long of wants from your line. Good thing you are taking a break so I can save up some dough

That scheme has already been covered by another manufacturer, well without the tiger logo. However there is an anniversary scheme for the CH-135

I filled up here in Edmonton at Costco on Friday last week. It was 67.9 per litre.

So the latest Canadian/US exchange rate is 1.453. So it will cost me 45% more to buy stuff from the US. Wowza, and I thought 1.37 was bad. Looks like this will be curtailing any US buying for me. How long I have no idea. I have more than enough stuff to build/finish until the cows, dog, cats and rabbits come home. Those nice new decals will have to wait and I hope they will still be available when the exchange gets back to some sort of normalcy. I can still remember when our Canadian dollar was on par. Good old days for sure.

Great news again Kursad. Always loved the Skyhawk (can you tell from my screen name?) and the two seaters have been sorely neglected. Only a few sheets have ever been made. This one should be a good seller.

Crap I may have to get the Trumpeter kit just to use these decals.

What okthree said. At one time the Italeri decals were awful but I have been told that the new decals are great and in most cases are printed by Cartograf.

Well this is good news. One good thing about all of this is that the plastic would be new and the decals too.

Wow such an inspirational display. I always wanted to do this but I think I have more modest goals and planning something in 1/144. I really like your basket and I think it is even better considering it is in 1/32nd. I will now have to go to your blog and see how you did this amazing work.

Hi there which A-4M are you speaking about? I see there are many available on ebay at not bad prices. Even the Last Skyhawk boxing is there too but a bit more.

Yup I think you are so right. I think I am good for sanding paper but beers, hmm not so much. As you said I too think it is the unknown that is driving this. I can't believe the stores are out of TP. What's up with that. We went to get some from our local Costco and that was down to a few packages. We only bought 1 as that is what we needed. Saw other carts with 4 or 5 packs. Sanitizer was also out but we were not looking for any.

Wow such great news Kursad. You can tell I am excited for this as in my forum name, it is my favourite aircraft. I have many Skyhawk sheets but for some reason not many for the A-4M versions. I think it was probably because not many kits at the time. Lots of E/F versions though. Looking forward to this and I better get off my butt and pick up the sheets you have now so it is not a big hit down the road when this comes out.

To be honest I am not worried a huge amount but there is that twinkle of caution. I think the virus only survives for a certain time on inanimate objects. Will have to go look that up. The other thing is the supply to the hobby shops. When I was at my LHS last week my friend who works there mentioned that their supply of Trumpeter kits which they were expecting was delayed. Their supplier said they were not shipping due to CoVid-19. Seems the factory was shut down? As others have said my stash is stupidly huge. My friends like it, the wife not so much. So the bottom lin

Thanks for the info Fred. I don't build 1/72nd but my 1/72nd friend will be interested. From what I understand and also seeing the Fujimi kits, they are super nice. In fact that whole 1/72nd jet series at the time was amazing. Their Hawk and Harriers are jems.

I have not used Valejo as yet for a simple reason. My friends had a bunch of trouble with it. They are great modellers. They told me that it did not stick very well and lifted when masked over. He finally was able to finish what he was building but it fought him. The end results do look great though so Maybe the schemes with no masking might be okay? I use Alclad 2 now and it is wonderful. Tough and no issues masking over it. Also don't dispel the Tamiya metallics in their spray cans. It is wonderful stuff and my go to for the first layer. I don't decant and simply spray from the can.

Thanks Ken. I am looking at one on ebay. Price seems ok. Too bad they did not come in military colors.

All the hobby stores here in edmonton carry it except for I think Comex. Seems to be mostly full racks too.

Wow looks really nice Ken. How were the decals? I have it on a watch list after seeing you start yours. I love this sort of different kits modelling.

I can probably count the amount of sets of SAC gear that I have. I think 3 sets. I never bit the buy it bug as they seemed not great based on the review pictures I saw. One set that is an improvement is the nose gear for the 1/32nd Trumpeter A-4E Skyhawk. When Trumpeter released their kit they were basically "inspired" by Hasegawa's 1/48th release. Hasegawa in their infinite wisdom moulded the nose wheel to the nose gear strut. SAC separated the wheel from the gear. Details did not blow me away and I may even change that wheel if I can find something or use what came in the 1/32nd Hasegawa kti

The last time I was there was in 2002 and I thought it was great. I had no problem gettting access and I am Canadian. Will like to get back one day as I am sure there is more stuff there now.

Don't foget that every thing you see on the sprues was created on a milling machine of some sort producing the moulds. That takes time and literally time is money. The longer the machine takes to make a mould the more it will cost. Personally I am happy to have the letters on one side and I see no practical reason to have it on both sides. Many manufacturers have the sprue layout so that is helpful.

Great conversion Phantom. I had built mine years ago but used a piece pf ABS plumbing pipe. Stripped it down to rebuild it and it still sits that way. Thanks for the inspiration to get going on it again and get it off of the shelf of doom.