KursadA Posted April 4, 2024 Share Posted April 4, 2024 Now on the front burner - I hope to be able to release this in the summer. Mostly the colorful, early service high-visibility jets, but a couple with the subdued national insignia during the transition phase to low-vis markings. I will try to cover interesting examples as usual, and a separate stencilling sheet will be available in the Basics lines. A 1/72 version will not be far behind. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Collin Posted April 4, 2024 Share Posted April 4, 2024 Take my $$$$ Thanks for this subject line. Cheers Collin Quote Link to post Share on other sites
82Whitey51 Posted April 4, 2024 Share Posted April 4, 2024 Oh wow... Toss in a VRC-50 US-3A "Miss Piggy" and boom! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
louie Posted April 4, 2024 Share Posted April 4, 2024 Vs-28, uss independence Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Specter1075 Posted April 5, 2024 Share Posted April 5, 2024 Great news! Modern-make S-3 decals are sorely lacking! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dutch Posted April 5, 2024 Share Posted April 5, 2024 (edited) Available kits are: 1:48 - ESCI and AMT/ERTL & Italeri re-pops. 1:72 - Hasegawa, Airfix, Revell (re-pop Hasegawa) plus a soon to be released Trumpeter kit. Edited April 8, 2024 by Dutch refined. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
louie Posted April 5, 2024 Share Posted April 5, 2024 13 hours ago, louie said: Vs-28, uss independence The ae markings, please Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AD-4N Posted April 8, 2024 Share Posted April 8, 2024 On 4/4/2024 at 10:35 AM, KursadA said: Mostly the colorful, early service high-visibility jets, . . . . A 1/72 version will not be far behind. This is the way. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RCarlson Posted April 9, 2024 Share Posted April 9, 2024 I know you said early Vikings, but any hope of getting this one done that was at the Andrew AFB show that we spoke about a few years ago? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rod D Posted April 10, 2024 Share Posted April 10, 2024 Hoping to see wing walk dash lines in this add-on set. Rod. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
achterkirch Posted April 10, 2024 Share Posted April 10, 2024 Wouldn’t mind seeing this on there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
habu2 Posted April 10, 2024 Share Posted April 10, 2024 I'd like to see the two prototypes, YS-3A & WSIP S-3B (Early Vikings?) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Crash Test Dummy Posted April 10, 2024 Share Posted April 10, 2024 On 4/4/2024 at 1:40 PM, 82Whitey51 said: Toss in a VRC-50 US-3A "Miss Piggy" and boom! VRC-50 US-3A "Miss Piggy" would be very welcome. I've got the US-3A kit in the stash and lack of decals has been a big roadblock. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AD-4N Posted April 10, 2024 Share Posted April 10, 2024 Yes, yes, yes, Early Vikings! Yes, prototypes. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bulldog 09 Posted April 14, 2024 Share Posted April 14, 2024 Are there any plans to have an ES-3A or two thrown in the mix, along with maybe a later version sheet? I would love to see these in 48th but especially in 72nd scale. Dave Fassett Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stephen Posted April 15, 2024 Share Posted April 15, 2024 On 4/10/2024 at 3:53 PM, habu2 said: I'd like to see the two prototypes, YS-3A & WSIP S-3B (Early Vikings?) Seconded! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stephen Posted April 15, 2024 Share Posted April 15, 2024 Lots of great pics here, I like the VS-21 aircraft. NAS North Island Vikings - Aviation Photography - Britmodeller.com Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KursadA Posted April 15, 2024 Author Share Posted April 15, 2024 2 hours ago, Stephen said: Lots of great pics here, I like the VS-21 aircraft. NAS North Island Vikings - Aviation Photography - Britmodeller.com Thanks for posting the link here : he has many great photos on Flickr but almost never mentions the actual aircraft type or use tags, so it is impossible to find them over there with my regular search methods. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chris D Posted April 22, 2024 Share Posted April 22, 2024 On 4/10/2024 at 7:59 AM, Crash Test Dummy said: VRC-50 US-3A "Miss Piggy" would be very welcome. I've got the US-3A kit in the stash and lack of decals has been a big roadblock. Agreed on this one. There is nothing other than the ancient kit decals for the US-3, and they were from their earliest days when the US-3's were assigned to regular VS squadrons, so there are no VRC-50 decals anywhere. I have this one in the stash unstarted for this reason too. The US-3 is buildable from the standard S-3 boxing without much work at all, so a lack of kit isn't an issue. Just need to smooth over the sonobuoy holes and plug the MAD port. The kit wings are the standard wings with the the wingtip pods as extra parts, so no work needs to be done to have the correct US-3 wings. Only thing a builder would need to do is source the cargo pods if they don't want to just use the drop tanks, and there are good resin Viking cargo pods from Black Dog. The all white paint scheme would be a pretty neat addition to the display case. Chris Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dmk0210 Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Is there an ETA on this sheet? I'd love to see a teaser for an idea of what will be on this sheet. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KursadA Posted March 20 Author Share Posted March 20 I am still working on it - my goal was to send it to be printed this month but it will have to wait for a while because of the massive reseller orders I will have to fulfil/ship in the next couple of weeks. I will post profiles sometime in the next couple of weeks. The stencilling sheet is being printed and will be available as a Basics item similar to what I did for the F-111F. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dmk0210 Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 42 minutes ago, KursadA said: I am still working on it - my goal was to send it to be printed this month but it will have to wait for a while because of the massive reseller orders I will have to fulfil/ship in the next couple of weeks. I will post profiles sometime in the next couple of weeks. The stencilling sheet is being printed and will be available as a Basics item similar to what I did for the F-111F. Thanks! Looking forward to it. 😎 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KursadA Posted March 25 Author Share Posted March 25 On this first sheet I will have the following: Naval Air Test Center (big "ASW" on tail, red radome etc.) VRC-50 "Miss Piggy" VS-21 USS Kitty Hawk VS-28 USS Independence VS-29 USS Ranger VS-31 USS Dwight D. Eisenhower VS-38 USS Enterprise Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Niels Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 Nice! Any perticular timeframe or nicely spread over the operational lifespan of the S-3? And only A's or mix with B's? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Collin Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 Naval Air Test Center (big "ASW" on tail, red radome etc.) SHACK!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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