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Unless he lives in a place where the entire economy is based on the the price of gas.

Political polemics aside, here's how it's ACTUALLY affecting the hobby: https://twitter.com/SayemAhmd/status/1239878928635920384?s=20

You are wrong. There is 0% chance those are Spitfire wheels. Spitfire hubs have completely different dimensions compared to P-51 hubs - about half the thickness and 2/3 the diameter - it would be like trying to fit pickup truck tires on your family sedan. It simply wouldn't work. It's not uncommon to see two different tread patterns on a single aircraft, but they would always(!) be using the proper size of tyre. And I'd say those are block/square tread tyres.

I'm still working on a thing! 😆 Based on a request, I've been playing around with a few modifications to the fuselage. One is to print it in solid clear, so the windows can be polished/Future-ed out for a proper glazed look, rather than just painting them black. The second is to actually open the windows up, so they can be made from clear acetate or styrene so they're actually see-through. And the last is a cargo version of the rocket with just a simple, ogival, err, rocket... rather than the proper space-plane of the ferry: I kinda prefer the space plane, but

Ditto the stores in Calgary. Where are you located? That would help people guide you towards a source.

That's not really a fair comparison, though. Eduard's regional pricing means that their kits are 50% cheaper in Czech Republic/Slovakia/Poland than they are in the rest of the world. (literally. their MSRP for the MiG-15 is the equivalent of $12 for the 'local' price, $24 for the 'global' price). At Hannants, the Airfix kit falls squarely between the Profipack and Weekend prices for the -15. At Lucky Model, the Airfix kit is cheaper than any of the Eduard -15s. So yeah, the Eduard MiG-15 is cheaper for Czech modellers, because Eduard subsidizes their Czech prices by over-char

The (new) Airfix kit is vastly superior to the Revell kit, which is a re-box of the (old) Matchbox tooling.

He means these. Inserted after the images for 48713/14/15 and 4817. There are some in your first post, too.

Do you mean FDM (spools of plastic filament)? SLA is a resin process (the photon is a form of SLA printer), so I'm a little confused. Anyway, for the Photon, I'd suggest running a test print with .2mm wide/deep panel lines as a starting point (just make a quick, vaguely wing-shaped piece and deboss some random panel-line shapes on it). That should give you some nice, very sharp panel lines about the thickness of a sheet of paper, once you factor in the slight overcure you tend to get with the Photon. If you think they're too fine, you can jump up to .3mm and try that. Since pan

Depends how you're printing them. FDM will need to be bigger than SLS, which should be bigger than MJM or mSLA, which will probably be bigger than a high-end SLA. Part orientation can have an impact, too - horizontal lines on an FDM print can be a lot thinner than vertical ones, due to the way the plastic is extruded. What is it that you're modelling, and how will you be printing it?

134mm, not including the front lip or exhaust. If you flip the Esci engines 180` and cut them at the panel line right next to the raised squares, you'll be pretty close to the right length and more accurate in shape..

Yep. Not a Mark, and not looking to buy.

(no idea whether this should be posted here, in GD, the Zactomodels forum or B/S/T...) Looking to unload a 1/32 Zacto Su-27 canopy and nose set, but I have no idea what the going rate is for them (particularly the canopy). Any suggestions?

KA has been around a long time, and it's not their first time working with other manufacturers (they did a bunch of PE and machined parts for Fujimi), so they should have some idea what scaling production entails. Granted, the direct 3D production stuff is relatively new, but still, they're more experienced than most aftermarket manufacturers.

FWIW, they weren't deleted, specifically. There was an error with the board's software and it had to be reset to a version that was saved a couple of days earlier. Everything that was posted from the 28th to the 30th was lost. It sucks, but there really wasn't any other option. So no, your (very valid) complaints weren't targeted by the mods for not being about the plastic.

This is true for every category. IPMS judging is entirely based on craftsmanship, not accuracy, so you don't have to worry about whether you've got the right bomb load for a specific mission, or whether your kit's pitot tube is 1 mm too long, you *only* need to worry about whether your seams are filled and your parts are aligned. The rules are pretty explicit about this. They allow some wiggle room for using accuracy in an extreme, tie-breaking situation, but in practice this would be gross accuracy issues (like entering a pink F-15 with Hornet markings vs. one in normal USAF mar

It's not corrected.

No, you did not. The post: Is just some guy throwing out a prediction. It is NOT an MSRP.

Second this. And it's basically what any of the commercially available, cottage industry solutions will be - same chip, just on a PCB they designed themselves. We've come a long way from Radio Shack. An Arduino Nano is under $2 from China: https://www.banggood.com/ATmega328P-Nano-V3-Controller-Board-Compatible-Arduino-p-940937.html It's about 2 x 1", though the Arduino Pro Micro is even smaller (and, like, $3) An MP3 module is just over a buck: https://www.banggood.com/3Pcs-Geekcreit-DFPlayer-Mini-MP3-Player-Module-MP3-Voice-Audio-Decoder-Board-For-Arduino-Supporting-TF-

FYI: HLJ is blowing out the Modelcollect B-52G for $50. https://hlj.com/1-72-scale-b-52g-u-s-a-f-stratofortress-strategic-bomber-molmodua72202 What's the current status of the kit for accuracy/re-tooling?

Ouch! So it sounds like 9 weeks is about average. That's not as bad as I'd feared.

Does anyone happen to know the average surface shipping time for Lucky Models at the moment? They're currently listing 30 - 120 business days, which is a pretty wide spread. I want to order a few large kits to take advantage of their cheap flat rate right now, but I'd kind of like to get them this year...

Heads-up: Amazon US has the Anycubic Photon marked down to $250 right now. It's an incredible bargain for a really capable printer (not perfect by any means, but impressive nonetheless) https://www.amazon.com/ANYCUBIC-Assembled-Innovation-Off-line-Printing/dp/B078N2TSYS

Finally figured out how to make the mast. My initial attempt was to pin together SLA printed sections, but I found that this warped over the length, which looked terrible: I tried an FDM print, which would have allowed me to do it in fewer sections, but the layers looked even worse, and the experiment turned out to be unusable garbage. It was also pretty brittle, and snapped during sanding. It occurred to me that I could (theoretically) beef it up with some sire or tubing inside to make it more rigid. THEN it occurred to me that I could do the same with the SLA