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  1. Academy requires that the customer contact their "world wide partners" that distribute their products. The Academy website lists the distributors and relevant contact information for them, based on your location/country. A few years back, I successfully contacted the Canadian distributor for a replacement part that was short shot in a kit. Providing a pic of the defective part and my contact info. Received the new part within 12 weeks. I would try contacting the listed distributor for your region. HTH
  2. Try Leading Edge maybe? Although it's a specific jet, they did this one. http://lemdecal.com/72.029%20page.html
  3. Thanks for posting this link. The posted images are very informative.
  4. Sorry to say, a few have closed their doors. Warehouse Hobbies and Cellar Dweller remain open according to Google. However a new store has opened, called Hobby Sense, (34-845 Dakota St, Winnipeg MB), which according to friends & family who reside in the 'peg has a decent selection. They have a web-store as well: https://hobbysense.ca/
  5. A little late for this, but my impression none the less. One of their poorest kits. You'll require 4 correction resin aftermarket sets from CMK to make it passable as a replica of operational aircraft. I started an out of box build a few years ago for my local club forums, unfortunately it's no longer online due to the loss of the website we had then. The farther I progressed in the build, the more errors I found with shapes of some of the moulded parts. Which aggravated an already poorly fitting kit. -landing gear doors are all incorre
  6. Thank you for such a quick answer! It is indeed back to the rate %.
  7. I took advantage of the half price air mail a few weeks back, ordered some kits, which I had not done in almost a year. The reason it had been so long was air postage rates to Canada. Prior to the half price air mail, changing from the USA designation to Canada resulted in an increase of 34% in USD. No issue with the percentage increase, as it appeared to be the current dollar exchange rate, however I did have issue with the 34% still in USD funds. That essentially meant that I would pay more than the 34%, once the currency converted to CDN funds - migh
  8. I've built both older Academy & Tamiya Tigers, at the time both kits were the 'standard' turret, where they did not correctly portray the asymmetric turret. I couldn't be bothered to obtain an aftermarket 'correct' turret, as they were priced more than the kit, at that time. Recent Tiger kits from other manufacturers, like Dragon, have depicted the correct shape. The Tamiya Late Tiger has individual tracks & a commander figure, along with the option of different barrels, loaders hatch, roof & gun sight. You only need to add zimmerit & their etc
  9. Welcome. You've already pre-ordered from Amazon, but for future reference, The Book Depository is also/now an Amazon company. Don'y know when that happened, but I noticed it awhile ago while looking for hard to find historical reference books. They were/are my 'go to' source when trying to find reference material, especially on European subjects or publications. So far, they still offer free shipping to most countries.
  10. Pen & Sword are publishing a book in May 2018 on these tanks. Author is M.P. Robinson. ISBN10 1526701677 ISBN13 9781526701671 The Book Depository (U.K.) is taking pre-orders for it. According to info, it will be the 1st English language publication on this tank. HTH
  11. Hopefully your search was fruitful, I usually try more than one search engine, as I find each search function to have a slight bias to certain sites/results. Using more than one search function occasionally results in alternative photos or sites. Interesting regarding the book on the 503rd. Decided to do a search for 503rd books and discovered there are a few. I've been using Tigers in Combat Vol I & II (W.Schneider) for most of my Tiger builds. Have built 2 Tamiya Porsche King Tigers using Vol I, a Normandy tank & 'Anneliese' Hungary winter '44
  12. Nice build!
  13. Box art depicted is 503rd Heavy Panzer battalion, 3rd company Normandy 1944. There are quite a few famous images of this unit in various publications. Try searching for images of: 503rd Heavy Panzer Battalion - King Tiger Normandy 1944 Note: 503rd also had Tiger tanks in their other companies, so you'll most likely see some of those too. HTH
  14. Like the emanual PDF idea. New website looks promising. Sprue shots & PDF emanuals will help in marketing of your products. Although I realize that most sprue shots are available on your Lucky Model web-store. Would like to see an emanual PDF of your FRS.1 Sea Harrier #K48035 kit .
  15. The Modeling Madness list has parts break down of the Hasegawa F-16 kits. Along with other Hasegawa aircraft kits, as that company rarely has everything for more than 1 variant in a box. You'll need to scroll down , as they're listed below the Phantom II's & Eagles... http://modelingmadness.com/splfeat/kr/has48d.htm According to the list, your linked kit #06103 is PW exhaust. The GE exhaust kits require parts trees 'H' & 'L' to be in the box, according to the list, which is the next kit numerically at #06104 It's listed as a block 30
  16. No idea. Looking at the listings & considering how they market their Phantom II's, I'm doubtful .
  17. Monogram F-15 kit 1:48 from 1979 initial release, nose cone had a very pronounced 'step' under it, where it joined fuselage-tossed the kit. Monogram A-10A kit 1:48 1991 boxing, fuselage halves & pylons all suffered from sink marks & ripples. Monogram sent me replacement parts, but they too had the same defects, tossed all, except the ordnance. So technically never finished building those two! Definitely a fan of their Century Series kits & Phantom II's. Current kit, that is extremely poor, but hope to finish (haven't tossed it yet! ), is Kitty
  18. According to the list on modeling madness, it's a Block 25: F-16C Block 25: 06103 is similar to the early F-16A kits but includes the tail with larger base and a revised instrument panel to do an F-16C Block 25. The later style gun vent, different ECS vent, and ammo door are molded into the fuselage parts. Note: This fuselage tree is only used on 06101 (second) and 06103 F-16C.
  19. I realise this was asked in April, but what the heck, I'll give my 2 cents just in case your still thinking about it. Tamiya #35174 Panther G Steel Wheel Version unfortunately has the incorrect size for the steel wheels! The actual steel wheels were a smaller diameter, compared to the regular road wheels, something Tamiya missed. I'm currently building this kit, with Tamiya etch for the engine deck, Tamiya individual track links too. Utilising the regular road wheels, (in part due to the 'steel' size error) which once I discovered, influenced my decision to bu
  20. Nice build. The special paint scheme really looks good.
  21. I have Furball USMC Rhino sheet #48-012. Covers 18 USMC Phantom II's -both F-4B & F-4J variants from 1966 to 1974. The set has the following aircraft /number/unit: F-4B 151498 VMFA-115 F-4B 150484 VMFA-115 F-4B 151446 VMFA-115 F-4B 149457 VMFA-122 F-4B 151465 VMFA-122 F-4B 153037 VMFA-314 F-4B 152238 VMFA-542 F-4B 152232 VMFA-542 F-4B 152283 VMFA-542 F-4B 150486 VMFA-513 F-4J 155580 VMFA-334 F-4B 148373 VMFA-531 F-4J 155822 VMFA-232 F-4J 153796 VMFA
  22. Well here is the latest progress. So far I've only been able to average 30 min. intervals here & there for working on the kit. The Mr. Hobby/Gunze acrylic paints arrived awhile ago, so that issue solved. :) This kit utilises parts from other Hasegawa Phantoms, so really only been working on removing features not required in the RF-4 build. (Marked on instruction sheet & checked with The Modern Phantom guide) The starboard fuselage has a Naval refueling door, that must be filled. Also removed the antenna base 3/4 of the way down the starboard fuselage. The under-fuselage has F
  23. Well I've managed to start this build finally. Took the initial kit photo at the beginning of March, but it wouldn't upload to photo bucket. At least until I switched browsers... <_< I also couldn't decide on the nose art that the kit provides. After some searching of the listed names, I decided on Genbu, mainly because I liked the idea of a Tortoise nose art on a high-performance aircraft. A bit of irony I guess... About a week later, I discovered that none of my existing paint stock has any of the required colours! Wasted a Saturday aft. checking the LHS's,which had none as we
  24. I'm in with a JASDF RF-4E in 1/48, most likely OOB. Kit #PT30 by Hasegawa
  25. ...well I guess i'll follow phantom's multitude with my sole finished build of Hasegawa's F-4C kit OOB from the 2007 Reserve Group Build here on ARC. Which I finished well past the cut off date back then.
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