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The Northrop McDonnell-Douglas YF-23 was the losing contender to the Lockheed Martin YF-22 in the 1990s Advanced Tactical Fighter competition. These are two very different kits, one nearly 20yrs old and one a recent offering, both requiring a lot of work. The 2002 Collect-Aire is the more accurate and much of the dual build was to get the HB model to look more like the C-A. Some photos of the build can be seen here F-15, F-18 parts where used for the landing gear just like the real aircraft, lots of modifications to both aircraft's cockpit although the C-A was the more accura
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I bought the Collect-Aire resin YF-23 when it came out, I think in 2002. Big price, big box and some big hunks of resin, it was awesome. Although well designed and molded it did require extra skills and I was fairly new to resin, I think at that point I had made a handful of resin kits including Collect-Aire's MiG-19, which was fairly straightforward. For those who never built any kits by this company the detail and quality differed substantially. Their YF-23 was good however, good cockpit, decent shape, metal gear, rubbish missiles and wheels and a good attempt on the decal sheet (it had dec
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A large-ish, for me, set of 11 ebay auctions. Mostly 1/48, some of the kits have aftermarket decals. Collect-aire 1/48 FJ-3(M) Fury + decals Trumpeter 1/48 A3D-2 Skywarrior + Caracal decals Fightertown 1/48 Navair Centennial Tri-Tone Trifecta + Superscale Decals Revell (Germany) 1/48 Republic P-47N Thunderbolt + Three Guys Replicas decals Ocidental Replicas 1/48 North American T-6G Tamiya 1/48 Fairey Swordfish Mk.II Tamiya 1/48 Douglas F4D-1 Skyray + Aeromaster decals Academy 1/72 F-15C MSIP II