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  1. Have the sheets shipped? I know the site says they were meant to ship on the 29th August, I pre-ordered nine on the 22nd, just wanted to check. If they were shipped in a stiff envelope, it’s possible they were dropped off at my apartment complex mailroom but the mailman didn’t leave a note indicating that I needed to go get it.
  2. Most people seem to favor the J-7B kit - assuming that's because it has two cannon and is the most similar of the kitted versions Trumpeter has done to the J-7G. It can also be had pretty cheaply if you look around - I've seen the base kit price as low as $25 plus shipping on eBay and through vendors in Hong Kong. Certainly when I looked into the cost of just using a donor kit vs getting somebody to make resin parts (or buying a cheap Micro-Mark resin casting set), there was no real difference, although I will admit I've suggested to Quickboost that doing a second cannon would be a good idea
  3. This is great - I can build my J-7G pretty much OOTB *and* if I can find some suitable digits in the decal stash for the serial, I can build the J-7B that I’d bought for the extra cannon as one of the earlier, non-cranked J-7s operated by Bangladesh or Pakistan. Very nice - will get pre-order in today, I hope.
  4. Sorta replying to myself, since nobody else did 😞 This isn't really directed at the actual subjects of Kursad's forthcoming sheet, but looking at the possibility of making use of them to avoid wasting a full Trumpeter J-7B just to get a 2-cannon J-7G. While I may end up going that route (I've looked into friends who've got the tech to make replacement resin parts, and the price isn't too different, largely because that cannon barrel is quite thin and fragile while the Trumpeter kit can be had pretty cheaply), I may end up actually getting two J-7Bs, one as a sacrificial victim for
  5. Does anybody know if the "need a second cannon" thing applies to the Sri Lankan aircraft too? While I've not been able to find clear info on this, I did find a pic of a Sri Lankan F-7SG with the usual "big V of possible payloads" arrayed in front of it, and there did appear to be two cannon there, suggesting it does. I'm not really in a position to be able to spend even the $25 that the J-7B kit can be picked up for (clearance at HobbyEasy) just to use a single part. This is the sort of thing I'd suggest to Quickboost normally, but since to date I've suggested a whole heap of parts to Quick
  6. Interesting - the day after I post this, I get a warning message from another modeling web site, stating that somebody has been trying to brute-force my password from an IP that resolved to a Tor portal. I don't see the two as unrelated. As for this site, I'm going to assume my password here is compromised - when http://arcforums.com resolves to a hosting-service supplied, dynamically-generated web page, there's almost no limit to what can be done. The root page for the site may well be where the redirection is occurring - it'd be relatively trivial to have a page that has a Google referee
  7. Same things happened to me for at least a year or two - for the longest time it was forwarding me to a page about Cisco router qualification whenever I clicked on an Arcforums link, then suddenly it seemed to switch to redirecting me to an adult site instead. It's extremely annoying. It is absolutely *not* my system, or malware. Since it's gone on for so long with no attempt to fix it, I'm assuming ARC doesn't care. It only happens for the forums - the regular ARC site is fine. It's gotten to the point that when I'm looking for information, unless the summary in Google suggest that the ar
  8. Sorry about the delay in responding. So does the high grade boxing have both radomes? I'd be glad to send you the flat bottom one and the decals (to replace those missing stencils) in exchange for an FG.1/FGR.2 radome, and to pay your postage costs for sending it. Al
  9. Parts obtained - if I could figure out how to delete this now redundant thread, I would :-)
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