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Okay, taking a step back: a quick 3D printing 101. 3D printing isn't just a single technology or method. Think of it like traditional (2D) printing. You can "print" from your computer with a laser printer, or an inkjet printer, or a dot matrix printer and they'll all give you a physical copy of what you see on your screen, but all work in completely different ways and they all have their pluses and minuses. (let alone a printing press, or offset press, or...) For 3D printing, while there are a ton of different methods, in the consumer realm there are there are two ma

ABS and HIPS are commonly used in filament printers, which are used for larger/less detailed parts. You likely won't see it for detail parts in the way you see resin though, as the manufacturing process is entirely different and the extrusion process required by styrene just isn't well suited to smooth or minute details.

Boo! That's not the wing I'm waiting for. And after analyzing the sprue sequence, I'm starting to lose hope. 😞 TL;DR, there doesn't seem to be enough room in the alphabet for them to include the slatted wings. Taken from Britmodeller:

Japanology Plus is a series from Japan's public broadcaster that covers subjects related to Japanese life and culture. This recent episode was on plastic models. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJltHrMWoas

It's a very precise fitting kit with tight tolerances. If you get everything right, the fit is good. If you get something wrong (and some of the connections are a bit vague), the issues can snowball. Hence the different experiences. Test fitting and careful assembly will pay off; rushed or sloppier assembly will create problems.

AS-16/KH-15 Kickback a standoff nuke (similar to the SRAM flown by US bombers). Which aren't applicable to the Tu-22M2, AFAIK - it was only flown by the M3. Dumb bombs or the AS-4/Kh-22 Kitchen (the AS-6 looking missile you're thinking of) would be more appropriate.

The local (mid-size) international airport here would scale out to about 170 x 180 feet (or 30600 sqft). Something larger, like O'Hare, would be 260 x 220 feet (or 57200 sqft) Your local international airport may vary.

You mean the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine, a free and sovereign nation.

Haven't seen it, but it's pretty sus. No overall pics of any of the listings that I can see, mostly just CAD models, some slicer previews or the occasional close-up of a print. That's a big red flag to me. From what I can see of the various files, I'd expect something along the lines of a desktop model: simple shapes, not a ton of detail, probably no usable clear parts. Bigger problem: all his files are (ahem) 'taken' from other sources, and his selling prints is explicitly against the license agreements on the various source sites. This is rampant in the world of 3D printing

Holy cow, that's cool! Lots of the 'usual suspects', but I'm really impressed by the particularly far-flung places. Madagascar? Mauritius? Niue? Mongolia? Kazakhstan? Ethiopia? And apparently the Pope came, too, since you've got a pin in Vatican City's flag. 😀

That's what I get for going off the half-remembered instructions from a single build ~25(!!!) years ago. 🙂

Translations are up on Hobby Search Japan https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/plamo/ , or you can translate the text in the images via Google Translate.https://translate.google.com/?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&op=images Nothing super interesting, though the text in the images is a little more detailed than on HSJ. The F-15J comes with pilot figures designed by Tamiya, with Japan-specific headgear. The Israeli F-15C is from the 1982 war (I thought those were mostly A/Bs?) The F-14B is... just an F-14B. Appropriate parts for the type, but nothing special. The F-4EJ

You're from Argentina? Have you ever encountered that knob-end who keeps posting under stupid fake personas on scale model discussion boards? Used to post here as "Uncle Uncool", "The Scaremonger", "Hubbie Marsten" and a bunch of others. He'll make up some new schtick, post for a while, then inevitably everyone realizes he's the same moron who has been banned a dozen times before, so he gets the boot. Always comes crawling back with some other dumb 'persona' though. Really, it's pretty pathetic when you think about it. Like, how pathetic does your life have to be to waste THA

https://twitter.com/RupprechtDeino/status/1118174489131532289 https://twitter.com/RupprechtDeino/status/1021607182213767168 https://xueqiu.com/7956505474/195521830 https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/china-defense-close

Anybody have any idea about the relative reputations of the drawings from Aviation & Time vs DM(? the 1/35 drawings by Malkov)? I'm finding serious discrepancies between the two sets of drawings. Of course, there are also minor discrepancies between the different drawings from Aviation & Time, so I'm not really sure which to trust...