bashace Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Have a good research link or source for that just gotta have AM part? What about a story from first hand experience? We would like to hear about it! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bashace Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share Posted September 2, 2014 Here's a good link for German Starfighters. My link Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bashace Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share Posted September 2, 2014 (edited) And here's a link for Japanese Starfighters. My link Edited September 2, 2014 by bashace Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bashace Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share Posted September 2, 2014 This is a good link for just about everything else Starfighter. My link Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bashace Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share Posted September 2, 2014 A link with some good Mig-21 variant info. My link Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bashace Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share Posted September 2, 2014 Mike Benolkin has all kinds of paint references and walk arounds that my be really handy. My link Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dnl42 Posted September 14, 2014 Share Posted September 14, 2014 In addition to the interweb, the primary references for my build is Kagero's TOPSHOTS MiG-21MF by Krzysztof Barcz and Dariusz Warszawki. Has outstanding pix! Hm, looks like I need that Wolfpack Exhaust Nozzle... <_</> Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pep Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Heres Diego Quijano Basic modelling guide, by Ricardo RodrÃguez: F-104 Hasegawa 1/72. Loads of great tips! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ChippyWho Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 OK, this is a reference link and also a bit of a 'noob' question. I found these photos of a German aircraft while traversing the halls of Britmodeller (on tip-toe -didn't want to wake up any of the members!). The second one appears to indicate that the front section of the pitot is ball-mounted in the shaft (I'm beginning to wish I hadn't started this now) and thus has some latitude of movement. Indeed, it is slightly 'off' from the axis of the nose. I doubt I can replicate that mounting in 1/48, but would be interested to know if that is the actual configuration, and if pitot or pitot-static tubes on other types also have it? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dnl42 Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Thanks for pointing that out...I finally have an explanation of my occasionally bent pitots... Seriously though, never saw anything like that before. Perhaps it is, actually, a mangled part. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bashace Posted October 9, 2014 Author Share Posted October 9, 2014 Very interesting, I would speculate that somehow that Pitot got knocked a bit out of alignment. V/r Ron Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ChippyWho Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Probably just a 'parking ding', then...I couldn't see why it would need to move around, surely that would impair its function? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ALF18 Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Probably just a 'parking ding', then...I couldn't see why it would need to move around, surely that would impair its function? Definitely makes no sense. The angle and position of pitot booms is critical to their function. That looks like a damaged part to me; all pitot booms I've seen on 104s in person were dead straight (and I've seen quite a few starting back in the 70s in West Germany). ALF Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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