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The latest models off the bench are the Bandai B-1 'Gyro-plane' completed without the 'gyro' installed and custom markings, also a very modified Hasegawa F-4 transformed into the YRF-4 CCV with the gun removed and camera mod as well as the installation of canards, not to mention the custom markings. Some day I'll build one of these out of the box just to see how easy they can be...

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F-4 CCV with the STOL F-15

Tony

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And just where did you get that B-1?!? I have (and have built) the C-5 from that series, pulled from the bottom of a back shelf in a hobby shop where it had been sitting for well over a decade, but I have never seen any of the others in the series anywhere. I took the C-5 to Shizuoka this year, and even the guys from Bandai couldn't remember ever seeing one before!

There were four in that series that I know of: C-5, B-1, B-52 and A-10. I keep hoping to find the A-10 somewhere. Perhaps someday...

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I just create all the art (including the logos and shields) using Adobe Illustrator and I have a good friend with an Alps printer that prints them up for me. The egg shapes take a lot of test fitting to get correct, but it's well worth it once they're done.

Tony

It looks so easy... But I know it's not. The decals are awesome - any details on how you do that would be appreciated!

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Bandai did quite a few of the 'Gyro-planes'. I had previously built their F-4 and F-20 (found those on the bottom shelf at a hobby shop as well), and just recently found someone in Japan selling the B-1, C-5 and B-52 (at way more than what I paid for the first two). I too missed out on the A-10 but hope to find one some day. I have the C-5 on the table now and have the B-52 on the side waiting to be done. And keeping with my series of jets with canards added, I may just have to take a Hasegawa F-16 and do the AFTI F-16.

Tony

And just where did you get that B-1?!? I have (and have built) the C-5 from that series, pulled from the bottom of a back shelf in a hobby shop where it had been sitting for well over a decade, but I have never seen any of the others in the series anywhere. I took the C-5 to Shizuoka this year, and even the guys from Bandai couldn't remember ever seeing one before!

There were four in that series that I know of: C-5, B-1, B-52 and A-10. I keep hoping to find the A-10 somewhere. Perhaps someday...

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