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  1. Trenton guy
    While L 188 Electra was a Minicraft kit, I don’t think it was mastered by Academy. It appeared just after the last Academy molded Minicraft kits, the PBY and the DC-3/C-47. Does anyone else remember the absolutely beautiful and accurate test shots of the L188, Super Constellation, and DC-6B test shots that Minicraft displayed at IPMS Modelworld the last year it was at at Donnington? Two years later when the kits were finally released, they were the garbage kits we still know and love. Seemed to be the work of some third class Chinese workshop. They had nothing in common with the beautiful test shots. Seems that there must have been some sort of falling out between between Minicraft and Academy at that time. Some succeeding Mincraft 1/144 kits were better but they never again approached the quality of those long lost test shots. I had a chance to talk with the man who purchased Minicraft, a few years later, about those tools. He had no knowledge of them.
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    And waterline, as well. To each their own.
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    AMEN! Monogram licked the problem in the sixties but only ever produced three kits, all US, 1930’s. Matchbox copied the idea in somewhat simplified form in the seventies and there it died. Each, in their own way gave us foolproof cabane structures that locked in stagger and spacing. Might be that either technique was only suitable for high pressure long run molds but there are plenty of long run companies who have dropped the ball here. Bet there would be a healthy market for many biplanes if they went together, as you say, with just two hands.
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    The E. V was used by Polish AF immediately post WWI.
  5. Trenton guy
    Do you mean injected styrene or vacform styrene? I bought their Ju-388 conversion. The parts were bueatiful but the vacform canopy wasn’t very good. Not good enough to discourage me from stating while awaiting the Micro Mir effort.
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    Even a Lince, but what I really need is a Do-217 — so discouraged by the really undernourished rear of the ancient Italeri one.
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    Can’t we just transfer the entire “IBG in two weeks thread” and be done with it. But I do love Arma kits and am in for at least one, no matter what it is.
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    This all started on November 29, that means tomorrow is the day. Do you suppose that Lockheed Martin has copyrighted “Fork Tailed Devil” the name actually not used by the Luftwaffe. Can you copyright someone else’s mistake. We would all know what we were getting if the box said Forked Tail Devil model F. Really hoping for an early and then later P-38 done to IBG’s standard.
  9. Trenton guy
    Three years and 609 posts. Mine has finally arrived direct from SH. Looks really good. Start tomorrow!
  10. Trenton guy
    Their home page says “next week.
  11. Trenton guy
    Doesn’t look much like glider. What am I missing?
  12. Trenton guy
    I have heard, somewhere on this thread I think, that they use more than one contract toolmaker. Maybe they are not all equally skilled. Just built there 1/72 P-39 D. It was superb, beautifully detailed and Tamiya buidability. Can’t wait to get the Hyabusa. Always thought they were poor cousins to the Zero and a very inferior fighter. Based on the researches of Michael Claringbold ( Pacific Profile and South Pacific Air Wars series) it remained very effective against P-38s and P-47s right up until the IJAAF pulled out of New Guinea in early 1944. Michael is a very thorough researcher who correlates allied and Japanese records, engagement by engagement, and busts a lot of myths in the process. He is worth a read.
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    For me, Tamiya kits are forever new. I wouldn’t go up against them if I wanted to make a living selling kits. Now P-38’s, that’s something. Especially the early versions that played such a critical role during the early days of the S &SW Pacific theaters.
  14. Trenton guy
    Mine is almost finished. I agree fully with everything you said. I could agg uneven mating surfaces. A bit like a injected vacform in the effort required at mating surfaces. NMF also kind of difficult due to faintly pebbily surface. Still I’m happy with it and do not regret the purchase.
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    Pretty sure Fairey brought the real Battle to market more quickly.
  16. Trenton guy
    As I live and dream!!! Couldn’t ask for more. Still hoping that the 1/72 schemes will be the same as the 1/48 ones.
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    Thanks
  18. Trenton guy
    See the grey camo schemes. Is that azure blue underside correct, or is it just AZ at it again? I always thought the u/s were PRU blue.
  19. Trenton guy
    Got my Tori sets from HLJ yesterday. They are terrific and include very nice decals for Korean machines. Kind of pricey but worth it, to me, a trainer freak, anyway.
  20. Trenton guy
    Agree. I bought one and it seems like a perfectly good kit to me. Like the schemes very much and plan to start fight away, which is a high compliment from someone like me who tends to buy faster than he can build.
  21. Trenton guy
    Hmmm. If it was a shadow, I think it would appear on the horizontal stabilizer as well.
  22. Trenton guy
    I’m confused. Does the kit have one type of gun panel or two (with doors and without). I’ve lost the thread, literally.l I had planned to wait for the 72nd scale scale but that decision is getting harder and harder to sustain. I would like to make 81st FIW that’s on the Cutting Edge sheet so the question is important.
  23. Trenton guy
    Nice box. Wonder what the kit looks like.
  24. Trenton guy
    Looks terrific, now all we need is the promised 1/72d one with the same decal selection. Hope it is not too long coming.
  25. Trenton guy
    Is the Muberry resin conversion kit any better shapewise? If you don’t have one, there are good renders on their site. I do have one and it seems excellent. I’ll be getting the Micro Mir one if only for the canopies. The Mulberry conversion comes with third rate vacform canopy. By that I mean thin, not especially clear, over large frames and in two pieces with an era impossible butt join at that front arch. A long way from Falcon. You really can’t tell anything about the canopy from the renders. There seemed a chance they were clear resin but, alas, that was not the case. Still happy I got it because the other parts are superb. Won’t get built till I have the Micro Mir.
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