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Granny Weatherwax headology (from Terry Pratchett's Discworld universe) comes to mind for some reason. The ultimate camouflage scheme: this can't possibly exist therefore it doesn't exist.
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I don't know of any and it would be tricky to do. The problem is the windscreen base. The Bison windscreen is not only frameless but the real problem is that it wraps aound the nose / "goes in the nose" (to improve downwards visibility on the sides) as in the MiG-29 for example. If the conversion was to be accurate you'd need to saw off the windscreen base area of the plastic kit to install the conversion. Not practical.
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600 over what time period ? 2, 6, 12 or 24 months ? Time to break even is an extremely important parameter I believe. If it happens too late cash could be missing to pay for further projects toolings.
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Oh ok. Fuselage photos show some 'oil canning' effects. I'm not interested in the subject so I didn't look at or buy the kit.
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Mmh... wasn't the 1/32 late Wingnut Wing / Border Lancaster the one ? The social media preemptive strikes on surface details (panel lines, riveting, etc) of unpainted kit part photos bore me. I'll wait for painted models.
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1/72 - Grumman E-2C Hawkeye by Heller (new tool) - released
Laurent replied to Homebee's topic in The Rumourmonger
"So Kinetic designed the kit?" Yes and no. Kinetic isn't an autonomous entity like most kit producers. Its function is to manage the development of a kit but it's LuckyModel that decides if a kit is to be produced or not. "I must have mixed up between tooling and designing" Well modellers often don't care after all and kit producers often don't tell if the tooling are produced internally or not. I know that Tamiya and Eduard produce their own toolings. For Tamiya I recommend reading "Master Modeler: Creating the Tamiya Style" book by Shunsaku Tamiya. Tamiya decided to switch from external to internal tooling production during the 80s. -
1/72 - Grumman E-2C Hawkeye by Heller (new tool) - released
Laurent replied to Homebee's topic in The Rumourmonger
Kinetic doesn't have the equipment to produce toolings (CNC machines, EDM machines, etc) like many kit producers (Revell, Italeri, Airfix, etc). A CAD model designer is often not a tooling CAD designer: the CAD model designer doesn't care if all cavities of the tooling fill up simultaneously during the injection as it's the tooling CAD designer's job to ensure that. Tooling producers and kit producers use different equipments and different skills. Tooling producers own injection machines but it's just to test the tooling prior to delivery to the customer (the kit producer). -
Indeed. Use of moulds (rigid but also soft) implies undercuts management when 3D printing doesn't.
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This only shows that the CAD model has slightly raised RAM tap representation. The precision of 3D printer and CNC machines (that are used to produce the actual moulds) aren't correlated so I think no conclusions can be drawn until actual test shots are produced.
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1/72 - Grumman E-2C Hawkeye by Heller (new tool) - released
Laurent replied to Homebee's topic in The Rumourmonger
Yes but Heller is now a different company. Based in Germany, different ownership, different strategy. It's not possible to extrapolate what may happen from what happened before. -
1/72 - Grumman E-2C Hawkeye by Heller (new tool) - released
Laurent replied to Homebee's topic in The Rumourmonger
They did but not an aircraft: their 1/72 Sherman was released in 2014... https://www.scalemates.com/kits/heller-79892-m4-sherman-d-day--258614 -
It seems to be the same 3D prints build posted back in September 2023.
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Yup. I'm an engineer so I try to understand how things work. A new model kit producer seeks to fullfil the following inequation which is just a slightly expanded "incomes - expenses > 0" inequation... n: number of distributors N: number of kits produced printingCost is a function of the number of kits produced and it includes printing the boxes, the instructions and the decals (Cartograf or someone else) I believe Minibase achieved "incomes - expenses > 0" with the Su-33 but not "incomes - expenses >> 0". In my December 17th post I wanted to say that the tooling cost is key to the outcome of a model kit project. Details level of a kit depends on the number of moulds and in turn tooling cost depends of it. Until the "toolingCost" term is sorted out, there's no kit but just the intent to produce a kit. If it's too high the project isn't profitable.
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Grey perhaps ? I'm not sure how authentic the colour used in the restoration is. Look here: https://1-72.forumgratuit.org/t7930-rv-aircraft-nord-nc-701-martinet-fini
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Reminder: it was sold by Revell but it had a non-operational scheme... https://www.scalemates.com/kits/revell-04971-dassault-mirage-f1c-ct--1256140
