falcon91352 Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 Hello On the Kinetic facebook page, Raymond Chung just announced a new early Fighting Falcon kit in 1:48! What a nice choice! https://www.facebook.com/Kineticmodel/ Hopefully, the long awaited Mirage F.1 will follow soon. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Solo Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 Great news! I hope the quality compared to their F-104, and of course they will issue F-16C and D soon. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Craig Baldwin Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 From their announcement "I didn’t have a clue how to make a model kit at that time." I see this evidence with a number of newer manufacturers. Their AMX really disappointed me but hopes raised with their F-104 (my only 2 Kinetic purchases). This release will provide a basis for an ADF build if the reviews look promising. Good luck to them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Niels Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 Now all we need are sprue pictures 😄 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheGloriousTachikoma Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 I was hoping the buzz on britmodeler (Mirage F1) would be true, but this isn't bad either. I'm tanked-up on legacy F-16 kits right now so I'm not sure if I'll be buying any, but I doubt they will be hard to sell, lol. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
flanker27 Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 Available for pre-order, and price isnt bad considering the inflation that is going on Quote Link to post Share on other sites
habu2 Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 1 hour ago, flanker27 said: Available for pre-order, and price isnt bad considering the inflation that is going on Wow $30 to ship a $40 kit…..😱 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ElectroSoldier Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 49 minutes ago, habu2 said: Wow $30 to ship a $40 kit…..😱 Thats not bad. If it was going the other way around it would be more like $50 to ship a $40 kit if youre lucky. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
habu2 Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 20 minutes ago, ElectroSoldier said: Thats not bad. If it was going the other way around it would be more like $50 to ship a $40 kit if youre lucky. I see what you did there... 😂 and what do you mean by "going the other way"? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gwen Phoenix Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 Look! My order has arrived, finally! Yes, I wish... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
habu2 Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 3 hours ago, habu2 said: Wow $30 to ship a $40 kit…..😱 I looked on the us.kineticmodels website to see if the price was different, and it was - $70 - plus shipping... 😞 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheGloriousTachikoma Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 51 minutes ago, habu2 said: I looked on the us.kineticmodels website to see if the price was different, and it was - $70 - plus shipping... 😞 That's MSRP for dealers ordering cartons of kits. Hobby shops get wholesale pricing there. LuckyModel is supposed to be the retail outlet, its why the two sites are pretty much identical. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheGloriousTachikoma Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 4 hours ago, habu2 said: Wow $30 to ship a $40 kit…..😱 That's why you buy more than one kit at a time. 🙂 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Alternative 4 Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 Spend $120 and you will get $20 flat shipping. Also you would get 19% off that $40 kit at the moment. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ElectroSoldier Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 11 hours ago, habu2 said: I see what you did there... 😂 and what do you mean by "going the other way"? Exporting manufactured goods from America. I know its a foreign concept these days but I had hoped the memory was still there in some of us of how it used to be. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Raymond Chung Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 12 hours ago, habu2 said: I looked on the us.kineticmodels website to see if the price was different, and it was - $70 - plus shipping... 😞 the MSRP 70 in USA is for the retail shop pricing. You may get discount from your friendly store. As we handle the North America market, we want to establish a level playing field for most everyone. For those who want the bargain price they have to wait a slow boat from our own container shipment. (The post office surface mail is expensive) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ESzczesniak Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 After battling their F-16I Sufa, and not being totally happy with the build still, I’d love to see this variant down the road. The Hasegawa shows it’s age in lack of surface detail, intake, etc. and Tamiya has no great road to converting. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
phantomdriver Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 Assuming they have resolved the nose and shape issues... Happy to wait for it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Niels Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 10 hours ago, phantomdriver said: Assuming they have resolved the nose and shape issues... Happy to wait for it Complete new tool bottoms up so it should be good, just waiting for sprue pics now Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Thadeus Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 Lets just wait for the first sprue shots 😉 Oh I feel the need for a Norwegian Viper. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Niels Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 12 hours ago, Thadeus said: Lets just wait for the first sprue shots 😉 Oh I feel the need for a Norwegian Viper. x2 🤩 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pollie Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 I sincerely hope the colour profiles shown on their FB-page are not anything like the kit, cause else we have a hybrid AM/C airframe on our hands.... Some of the panel lines shown are C/D-specific. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Raymond Chung Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 30 minutes ago, pollie said: I sincerely hope the colour profiles shown on their FB-page are not anything like the kit, cause else we have a hybrid AM/C airframe on our hands.... Some of the panel lines shown are C/D-specific. the A afterward upper panel are A some of the A/C panel will take C as basis. For 100% accuracy, some panel would take some rescribe Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Niels Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 If you read what they have stated, they have used plans received from Lockheed Martin, so given that they in the old F-16 releases managed to capture this I pressume it safe to expect that they capture this on the new aswell. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
305swag Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 Was the old tooling bad? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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