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Hello, few years ago, I decided to build a F-8E(FN) from the French Navy using the Academy basis. In the first time, I was planning to build an F-8P (the upgraded version of the F-8E(FN)), but I found a picture of an old F-8E(FN) in the beginning of its carrer in the French Navy, with a grey/white scheme and a lot of oil streak on the rear bottom. I choose to switch to this version ! I had several resin kit to improve the model, but I was very desappointed by the quality of theses kits and the imprecision they reveal ... It has to be noticed that I began th
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Back on armor this week, and taking a look at another Girls und Panzer kit with Platz's Crusader Mk.III kit, a reboxing of Border's kit, in 1/35th scale.
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Dear ARC Colleagues A few photos of my Academy F-8E from VF-162 based on USS Oriskany in 1967. Lets see if my photos work here?? Regards Andrew
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This was a pretty tough build for a Hasegawa kit. I opted to build it with the wing down and droops & ailerons up since the whopping majority of photos of parked F-8s show it in that configuration, but it wasn't easy getting rid of all the gaps that presented. Then there was the infamous problem of posing the canopy open. It's clear Hasegawa intended for the wing to be up and the canopy to be down, but I just had to be contrary. To make matter worse, the kit decals shattered when they hit the water. I managed to salvage them by spraying the sheet with Future, but that made them tend to cur
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I was planning to use the kit-supplied decals with my Hasegawa F-8J, but they shattered like glass when they hit the water. I ordered a replacement sheet from Hobbico nearly 3 months ago, but I've received nothing and I really don't expect to given their financial situation. I'm looking for one of the following sheets so I can finish my model (listed in order of preference): Aeromaster Colourful Crusaders III 48-445 Hasegawa decals from kit HSGS0226 Aeromaster Colourful Crusaders I 48-403 Aeromaster Colourful Crusaders IV 48-450
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This week we are taking a look at a more recent reboxing of Hasegawa's 1/48th scale F-8E kit with markings for the character Shin Kazama from the series Area 88.