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Hi all, I'm looking for any conversion sets for the 1/48 Revell CH-53 kit. In the past there were sets from Cutting Edge and Cobra Company available but I think they are long time gone. Is there anything else available on the market I can use? Any hints and links are highly appreciated.

As you can read on his website BAM stopped operations as of Feb 15th 2025 10AM Central European Time. BAM is still open for the time being though: Items still showing are the last remaining ones and will ship as usual. There will be no backorders, once they're gone they're gone!

We need it before they scrap the real aircraft. Do you have a schedule for this sheet?

A good item would be FOD intake and exhaust covers for the F-106 in 1/48. Nothing available on the market. This would solve a lot of problems.

Just a question from a guy without much knowledge of the Aardvark: What kit would be ideal to use for the F-111F in 48 scale? I'd love to use a Hobbyboss but there is no "F" available. Any help is highly appreciated.

Hi Kursad, The CAS decals are long long out of print and as Kinetic has a full family of very nice Vipers available this set would be a perfect example for a highly appreciated and needed reprint? What do you think? BR, Jost

@Red Dog Beautiful and thanks for the information. What weapon is stationed on the center pylon?

I still miss the main weapon of the Kfir and Cheetah - the Derby missile. They were proposed to be in the kit, but nothing to see on the preorder pictures. PYTHON-3 missiles are there but rarely used on these advanced aircraft. Are there any AM out on this planet to produce these rockets please?

What about a generic sheet for all the decals on ejection seats used in the western world? Would be great as a lot of kits and decal sheets don't supply these important and always visible details.

Please do Mirage III/5 and Kfir intakes and/or FOD covers in 1:48 first!!! 😏

Would these decals also fit the Academy kits without problems or are the differencies between ZM and Academy to heavy to use? As the prices on ZM kits of the Phantom family in Europe are double as the Academy kits it would be good to know.

Hi Raymond, thanks for your reply. I try to take some picture when I'm back from work. I asked end of last year for 4 sets replacement and received the same quality I had before. It looks like you have still the old production parts in stock.

Has anyone figured out the best way to fix the fit issue for the windscreen to the fuselage? I've built 3 Mirage kits now and on all models I was faced with the same problem. The windscreen won't pop into the right position at the front, so I had to shim the hole windscreen at both sides. But if you plan to build a model with a closed canopy this solution results in a windscreen sitting too high. @Raymond Chung: Do you have plans to update the tooling for the windscreen and canopy? The canopies on all my single seater models have imperfections at the framing behind the

Hi Kursad, any chance to see the decals in 48 scale?

Thanks for the detailed information. It looks very rough and for me it's not worth spending money for these parts.