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Looking for the taildragger version in particular. I have the float version. If anyone has one that is surplus to their needs please contact me. Thanks.
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So is this a Cessna 182 v a 180?
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On 9/4/2020 at 7:56 PM, ReccePhreak said:
Like all the other replies, the following is just my personal opinion:
There is NO WAY I would put Kinetic, Trumpeter & Hobby Booboo near the top of the list, as long as you are talking about aircraft models.
I have heard that Kinetic's new "Gold" standard kits are FINALLY top quality, but their earlier releases leave a LOT to be desired in the parts fit and correct detail departments.
Trumpeter & Hobby Booboo make too many blatant errors in their kits for me to EVER take them seriously again. I have wasted enough money on them, and have put most of their started kits on my "Shelf Of Doom". What's strange is that their armor kits are very nice, and I will get more of them, if they fit into my build themes.
Next to Zhengdefu you can also put Mach 2 kits from France. I have never found one that is accurate and easy to build. They all have horrible fit.
For the rest of your list, it all depends on the subject matter. I think they all have some good kits and some bad ones. Like it has been mentioned by others, you need to ask for opinions on the various forums and also look into build reviews. Modelling Madness and Cybermodeler are both good sites as they tell it like it is, unlike a certain "Barney" forum where they don't like to upset the companies that send them free kits to review.
Again, all the above is just my personal opinion.
Larry
I agree with your comments Larry. I am surprised no one mentioned Kitty Hawk in all of this. Aside from their Banshee issues most of their kits are fairly accurate if a bit too fiddly. I think their interest in making their kits with so many individual parts the engineering of their kits fall a little short. Things like doors not fitting completely into opening if you desire them to be closed.
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On 8/30/2020 at 4:30 PM, 11bee said:
Do you clean and reuse the cups or are they one-time use?
I got a 10-12 pack of stainless steel restaurant condiment cups in the food service area of Sam's Club. I use them as mixing cups then clean with thinner. I also have a stack of smaller plastic cups with lids, again the kind you get with take out food. I also use those too but mainly the steel cups.
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Why did the USAF opt for the flying boom v the drogue? It seems the drogue is much simpler and more widely compatible with our allies.
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GWH has the best. Followed by the other two.
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On 8/24/2020 at 8:25 PM, Chriss7607 said:
I looked at the photos and I can say that that the masters started as a Lindberg Tiger. The center section is mostly what gives it away. The slots for the wing attachments are the same along with the too small and too shallow main wheel wells. Granted, the smaller aft sections have been added but it's still easy to tell which kit it started as. Even the stabilator attachment points are the same. Don't get me wrong, it's still an impressive effort especially with what he had to start with.
I don't know what the Scratchaeronautics kit sells for but the FM kit can be had for ~$100.00 give or take. Still a far more accurate model.
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It looks better in those photos than the ones I saw a year or so ago. Still, it's based off the Lindberg kit and Juan dressed it up as best he could.
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15 hours ago, Rob Mignard said:
Amazon has them. $55.80 with free shipping.
Mig
Yes but by looking at the shipping times they may be coming from China. Those shipping times cannot be be from locations in the US. The good thing is if you don't get it, Amazon will definitely refund your money.
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1 hour ago, MarcB said:
That is another bad resin copy of the Lindberg kit however it is a more extensive modification. Really if you want an accurate Tiger right now the FM kit is truly the only option until KH or Trumpy/HB do one. Bew prepared for a lot of work.
The Tiger is one of my favorite USN aircraft. I saw the BA's fly them at airshows when I was kid. My dad was in the Navy at the time. Hopefully KH will actually do one. If they do as good a job on it as they did on their Fury it should be an excellent model kit.
Chriss7607: If you don't mind I would like a copy of your BA reference material as well if possible. Thanks.
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Yes, the FM kit is an incredibly hard build. But it is accurate and it comes with BA decals. Now they are getting pricey because they are getting rare and harder to find. Ebay is probably your best bet for finding one if you want to buy. I sold my copies thinking KH was close to doing one.
Kitty Hawk teased the possibility of doing a 1/32 Tiger. They have since decided if they do it, it will be 1/48 to go along with the Cougars, Banshee and Fury's they have already produced. A year or so ago they released a CAD drawing of the Tiger and it was well done with lots of detail. That's a lot of work to just show an image on the net. I think they will eventually do it, it's just a matter of when. They still have the late Banshee and the Cutlass, both have been announced as works in progress so it just makes sense they will do the Tiger as well.
I think Kitty Hawk ought to try and do a F3H Demon as well. Aside from the F-8 and F-4 they will then have covered almost all of the USN's 50's fighters.
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What about the Hasegawa F-110 kit? Just leave off the large F-110 decal for the nose. If I recall the rest are pretty much standard. I think the kit will be essentially the Navy B but the decals should work on a C/D kit.
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T-28A 1/48
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Use the USAF nose wheel instead of the USN wheel. The airforce wheel had the inflatable tire. The navy's was solid rubber. Both are in the kit. Where are you getting the A's cowling and prop? I don't know why some aftermarket resin company hasn't done it yet.
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6 hours ago, TaiidanTomcat said:
both parties have completely embraced trickle down.
In the same manner that the post Vietnam democrat aversion to military spending vs social programs has largely gone away. some of the biggest pro military warhawks don't have R after their names now. Most of the big name generals are not R's either. Theyre not averse to little things like the constitution getting in the way of decades of learned authoritarian rule either so that's nice. Even Saint Bernie loves him some MIC. in some blue states (including mine), MIC is the only job maker they have. VT is actually offering taxbreaks to people (not just corporations) who move there (but remember, tax breaks don't have incentive or anything) silly Vermont!
if they shut down even one base in my blue state we are screwed hard. well we are screwed already, but far faster.
Because like anything there is more to it than high corporate taxes= happy healthy middle class lots of changes happened in the 1960s as I'm sure many here are keenly aware of. Bringing back the days of Ike on paper won't magically transport you to 1958. I'm all for raising corporate taxes up to 90 percent if it does though, knock yourself out.
Maybe. then again maybe not. We tried to leave Syria and the SecDef Resigned (strategic kurdish purposes). Big talk of trying to remove troops from A-stan before November... but then "suddenly and out of nowhere" Russia "bounties" pop up in Afghanistan. So a bipartisan agreement to stay was worked out before we could discover the story was bogus. We know now that the intel was given us to by the Afghan intel services so we would react exactly how we did (we will show those dumb Russkies by remaining in Afghanistan being slowly bled out! Theyll see-- They have no idea how diabolical a strategy that is!) Mention Russia now and we suddenly go full retard.
I never thought I'd out cynic 11Bee but boy oh boy is hard not to observe that we are committed to forever war no matter the cost. A decline in the civilian sector (think Airlines) might also add to the desire to prop up the companies that double as weapons manufacturers with more defense money. Its hard to make predictions, but things may be surprising. I wouldn't count them out. Even something as simple as leaving just one of our 6 or 7 continuous wars is considered a longshot--secdefs will leave over it. Red and Blue s will reach across the isle to ensure cooperation using false reports...
if one thinks that defense is the only acceptable place to rob when things get lean, then the only thing worse is thinking procurement is the only place to rob when things get lean in defense... more than quarter of the military budget is personnel for example. the recent (symbolic) bill to cull the pentagon by 10 percent (a kingly sum of 74 billion, or less than 2 percent of the entire federal budget) made sure to keep all personnel but get rid of other things in keeping with the "forever war, jobs welfare, with ever changing uniforms who want to get good at others things too program. "
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I'm not so naive as to think that if we roll back the clock to 1958 that all will be well. All I'm saying is do what worked well before. The people that had and have the wealth in the country lobbied hard for 50+ years to do what has been done to taxes in this country and they have won. With wages stagnant for 40 years and the wealthy getting richer because the tax code has been tilted egregiously in their favor, The government is squeezing blood from a turnip. Like the old saying goes, go where the money is and it certainly isn't what's left of the middle class.
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The tax base has been shifting for the last forty years. Corporations are paying less and less while regular workers are paying more. There's a reason why wages have not gone up for worker bees and that is because they are hefting more and more of the tax burden while corporations pay less and less. The real fact is our military is not strong to protect us domestically, it is to protect corporate interests and investments overseas. Take the two gulf wars for example.
I find it interesting that the most robust economy we had and the mass movement of the population into a middle class happened after WWII up until 1970 or so. Until Kennedy started us on the path of lowering the corporate and income taxes slightly on the wealthy we had the greatest economic prosperity ever in the history of the world. We could afford all sorts of civil projects. And yet, corporate taxes were hovering in the neighborhood of 90%. Now they are below 30%, not to mention all the tax loop holes. So now they pay hardly anything. Explain to me how how it was, with corporate taxes so high yet we had the wealthiest middle class and the most productive industry back then? Now it's all fiat money on the stock market.
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On 8/8/2020 at 6:21 PM, habu2 said:
Raising taxes does not win elections. Get your priorities straight. 😉
No bucks, no Buck Rogers.
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I swapped the A-7E for your F-14A Atl Fleet with you. I didn't know you had a D. Would you be willing to trade back the A for the D?
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Well, we need to either raise taxes or cut stuff. We have a 700 billion dollar defense budget and we're complaining we can't afford anything.
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The latest iterations of the Soviet Su "wonder jet" is based on essentially a design that is almost as old as the F-15. Why can't we do the same with the F-15? It's not like it is a lousy airframe to begin with.
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She's a bad girl, I'm taking my tanks and going home.
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We can only hope.
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I think sometimes those missing items go to the top of your first page if you have opened the item's description.
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I do have one thing I am looking for. A 1/48 Hasegawa F-4 Phantom front windscreen. If you might have one from a junk kit let me know. Thanks JK
LF Monogram Cessna 180
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Jacksonville FL. Bagged is ok.