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  1. hopkp
    I suspect it was an error? The kit is not even available yet on Special Hobby's own website and their latest newsletter says it won't be released until next month.
  2. hopkp
    To be honest, I never got the fascination with the F-86A, to me the later versions were always more interesting. However, I also never realised that the A carried so many colour schemes (I've only ever seen it depicted in those terminally boring Korean war schemes) and I've now gone from having no interest at all in the Clearprop kit to thinking I might even buy one.....
  3. hopkp
    Couldn't agree more, I just don't get the current 'cover everything in rivets' fad at all. I keep hoping it'll eventually pass, but unfortunately it doesn't look like doing so anytime soon. I'm sure it's heresy to many on here, but to my eye the older, rivet-free Hasegawa kit looks far better. However, as you say, other people's mileage will no doubt vary.....
  4. hopkp
    Thanks for documenting this in so much detail, very helpful. Looking at your build in its primer finish, I'm thinking I could live with that result. It definitely looks like a whole lot less hard work than the Classic Airframes one that I gave up on mid-build years ago.....it had a nice resin cockpit, but to say that the plastic parts fitted where they touched would be a considerable understatement!
  5. hopkp
    This post - and your previous one - very useful and much appreciated. I was leaning more towards a 'no', but have more or less decided to buy one at this stage!
  6. hopkp
    I could maybe go for a Spitfire PR. XI, but not another Hellcat.....WWII's most boring fighter colours and markings-wise.
  7. hopkp
    We'll have to agree to disagree about that. To me, your above quote could just as easily be applied to the Cold War period!
  8. hopkp
    As I'm in my mid-60s, this also very much applies to me! I I'd also be far more interested in buying an even reasonably decent-looking kit of a 1950s jet than yet another of the never-ending WWII subjects offered by most manufacturers.
  9. hopkp
    I completely agree, I'm really very tired of the whole WWII thing at this stage. I struggle to understand the seemingly never-ending fascination with the 1939-45 period.
  10. hopkp
    Would those not be P-51Cs?
  11. hopkp
    I think Eduard usually sells its box art as posters (under the brand 'Eduart' on their website) once the kit is issued.....
  12. hopkp
    That's a beautiful F4U build, your shot of the finished model in black and white above the picture of the full-size aircraft shows how accurate the model is. Nice save on the white decals too, I'd never have thought of doing that.....now added to my list of possible decalling techniques!
  13. hopkp
    If the Academy kit has a 'very pronounced' shortcoming that's also a 'huge shape and position error', I find it odd - to say the least - that no-one at all has either noticed it or mentioned it thus far!
  14. hopkp
    The Brent Air decals seem to be still available, see: https://www.brent-air-decals.at/shop?store-page=Saab-35OE-Draken-Standard-Version-p554261025 An alternative might be to find someone who has the Eduard limited edition issue of the Hasegawa kit from a few years ago who didn't use/doesn't intend to use the Austrian decal option that was included in that kit?
  15. hopkp
    Well, I think it's generally accepted that the Vikings got as far as North America, so I guess anything's possible! 🙂
  16. hopkp
    Oops.....OK, where's the 'naughty corner', I suppose that's where I should be headed now?
  17. hopkp
    Believe me, I know.....that was my point; the whole world has gone crazy, to the point that Martian's build threads actually start to look sane! (I was going to say that they start to look like models of sanity, but I thought that might be taking things too far.....) 🙂
  18. hopkp
    I think it's easy to overthink this sort of thing. As I see it, it’s pretty simple; kit manufacturers are in business to make money, so they manufacture what they think will sell well enough to make them a decent profit. Sometimes they'll make something I'm interested in, more frequently they'll make something I'll never buy (as my favourite subjects are 1950s and 1960s Cold War jets and WW2 subjects mostly bore me rigid). I spend my money on kits I like and maybe by doing so might just occasionally influence what's issued.....though I'm not holding my breath!
  19. hopkp
    I completely understand. The way this increasingly daft modern world is headed, I fully expect the nanny state to soon start broadcasting messages on the hour to the effect that leaving your house can be dangerous - and that staying in can also be dangerous! I think the end is probably near when TV stations have to tell you that war movies may contain scenes depicting violence..... Here endeth today's rant. 🙂
  20. hopkp
    Where's the fun in that? Sanity is way overrated.....
  21. hopkp
    Only one word for that - beautiful! Great job, proves (to me anyway) that no mad weathering is needed for a really good model.
  22. hopkp
    I'm afraid I have a very different view. The kit manufacturers seem to have collectively decided that the real esoteric subjects are 1950s and 1960s - and even 1970s - jets. For example, the 'Century series' has hardly been touched and there are still no 'state of the art', really accurate kits of any of them with the notable exception of the F-104. Even something as important as the F-16A and F-16 MLU had to wait for the Kinetic 2022 kit for a half-decent representation. On the other hand, many 'WWII' subjects that only existed in blueprint form (if even that) have been kitted. I'd qualify that by saying that I'm talking about 1/48, which is my main interest. The position may be different in other scales, about which I don’t really know a lot.
  23. hopkp
    I wish I could claim that it was deliberate - just a happy coincidence!
  24. hopkp
    I can't speak for anyone else, but I certainly do. I'm afraid there's zero chance of me finishing it all before the Grim Reaper inevitably comes looking for me!
  25. hopkp
    Me too.....the world already has more than enough kits of WWII subjects!
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