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Your dedication to your subject is as impressive as your scratchbuilding skills. What an amazing project! Thanks for continuing to upload pics! Mark

Wow, that looks great. I'm guessing this is for the Hasegawa kit - would you happen to know if it would be compatible with the Club-M? edit: just checked your ebay link - saw that it's for Hasegawa!

Nice Petar. Hey any chance you feel like a 1/72 GunStar scratchbuild? And of course you'd be obliged to show me how you did it or cast a copy!

I think you're right about reforming another squadron. I gotta ask though, what can you do with 36 jets that you can't do with 24? That's assuming they're all used for strike though. Is anyone here going to the airshow in October? Mark

Hey Andrew, Yeah, it's all speculation at the moment. Boeing approached Defence earlier in the year to offer an additional 12 F-models. What comes of the offer, again, is speculation. If they were to acquire six Growlers, it is most likely they'd be operated by a single squadron, just like the RF-111Cs were looked after by 1SQN. They also had all the AUP & PaveTack jets whilst 6SQN picked up the G models. 6SQN is technically the training/conversion squadron. That said, a few weeks ago F-111 maintenance combined under 6SQN. PS. Love the soapbox. :o

Six Growlers for the RAAF... http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story...6-31477,00.html

You said it. I wonder how/if the Geneva convention applies (re: combatants being in uniform) to aircraft? An intelligence aircraft masquerading as an airliner is pretty cheeky.

Wow Gambler, brilliant work there. Is it 1/48? I usually work 1/144 and 1/100 so bigger scales are tough to identify. ;) And word on the street from last week is three years of Super Hornet tyres turned up at Amberley. Now they're trying to find what to do with them for 18 months... First aircrew and groundcrew head over in Nov, right?

Whoops! Got my B & C mixed up there :) Wasn't the pipe dream to have air force pilots on board a navy ship designed to ferry the army around? That's all kinds of purple - with shades of Op Eagle Claw in 1980

And just a few random thoughts after an enjoyable read through this thread: Re: Manufacturing an Australian fighter/strike acft If we cannot introduce our own EWSP gear successfully, producing an entire aircraft is bit of an ask Compare SeaSprite to C-17 - we bought one off the shelf (and is in-service, working flat out) and recently dumped the other because it was expensive, late, and incomplete. Re: Buying the Rhino I'm pretty sure we're just leasing them, with an option to buy. Re: LHD Ships Apparently big bosses are musing over F-35C but if they are also starting to argue against bu

Funnily enough, your observation regarding serviceability is pretty darn accurate.

C'mon Austin, that post was a no-brainer Mark /OT

Cheers for the interesting info Ken! And do you guys use "duck's nuts"? (In the same vein as "dog's bollocks")

Whilst we're here, does anyone know where to find a 1/72 Gunstar? I've seen the 1/48 floating around, but hoping to find its smaller brother. Cheers!

Looks like we were actually trumped by the currency difference. The Brits spent 500 million pounds.

Same as plenty of other guys here: Gunstar, Sulaco, Viper MkII. If we're including anime then Supersylph, VF-1 and Yamato. This one's a bit weird but I always liked the Event Horizon. It's probably more the production and storyline than it actually being a cool design, but I like it nonetheless. I guess we could also have a thread for "Stupidest Looking Spacecraft" I'd probably start with those human fighters from Enemy Mine.

If this were macrossworld we'd be making jokes about toys vs. models :)

JSF, MiG 1.44 and S-37 are easy builds with great shape and detail. The cockpit detail is very nice for the scale. Comparable to Dragon. But yeah, the decals are a little light on in quantity however excellent in quality.

It's pretty much only Heller that makes bikes in 1/24. Tamiya generally does 1/12, and a few other guys do 1/9 or 1/6. That's a great Ninja there. If you're happy with a tip from a 1/24 car modeller, for the high shine surfaces you want to polish the heck out of it. If you have it, use micro mesh. If not, try and go to 2000 grit paper, then paint, fine sand again, paint, etc. until you get a nice thick coat. Then once you've applied your gloss coat you can give it a very fine sand and throw on some fine Tamiya polish. This guy really knows how to create a great shine! :blink: Me? I'm still

Gents, HLJ has both the Platz 1/72 kits (at Y12,800) and the Bandai 1/100 kits in stock. The Platz looks very nice however does not have any cockpit detail - it's just a solid chunk of resin to polish up for a 'tinted' cockpit look.

Found it. http://www.anft.net/f-14/f14-detail-colours-02.gif

Thanks for the replies gents.

In Su-27s, the Airfix kit is one to look out for too, right? Or was the Revell one the pick o' the bunch?

Guys does anyone have a scan or link to a decent lo-vis paint guide please? I'm working on a 1/100 Academy kit but it's hi-vis VF-41. VF-103guys first post shares brilliant pointers but only after you've already painted. Any pointers would be great, thanks!

I forgot to include the kits are available from www.hlj.com