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  1. Trenton guy
    Rebel Hobby of Sweden has whole sets of 1/72 resin Swedish ground support vehicles, mostly from the Draken era but some earlier. just search on Rebel Hobby.
  2. Trenton guy
    Any way you look at it, the Airfix kit was pretty bad. Sadly the Revel one is very hard to come by. Just finished a 105 B using the Revell kit and a couple of Hasegawa parts. Boy does it shimmy on it’s landing gear. Next time the Aerocraft brass U/c is a must. Trumpeter kit is very nice but also has serious nose issues.
  3. Trenton guy
    So they don’t know the scale of their own kits or they are re-using box art. Hope springs eternal.
  4. Trenton guy
    Not necessarily, Academy has it’s own modern and.very nice tool of the B-52H. Hoping it is a development of that. Additionally, I don’t recall Academy ever using the Crown tools. Minicraft used them plenty and there is a long ago link between Academy and Minicraft. The Minicraft (Crown) B-52H leaves a lot to be desired compared to the Academy one. Here’s hoping.
  5. Trenton guy
    Lot of really great announcements but no kits as yet (unclear to me if these are the folks that issued the 1/72 Venom). Let’s hope they have the financial depth to follow through with this very ambitious program, larger by far than Airfix this year.
  6. Trenton guy
    The Tamiya Italeri kit is Warbird Series 87 and the real Tamiya kit is Warbird 92. They appear right next to one another on eBay. Watch that click!!!
  7. Trenton guy
    Beware. I ordered one on line and it turned out to be the Italeri kit. Apparently already reboxed by Tamiya. With two versions available, be careful which you order.
  8. Trenton guy
    Official name of the color was Haze Grey. Tamiya sells it in a rattle can. Colorcoats has it in more reliable enamels.
  9. Trenton guy
    1) Instructions are minimal. Some references are needed. 2)I have Mysore and North Dakota with printed hulls, no warping. Surprisingly, Pensacola came yesterday. Looks like a cast resin hull, everything else 3D printed. The resin one looks warp free as well. The 3D parts are the finest I have seen. Pensacola’s floatplanes have to be seen to be believed.
  10. Trenton guy
    Not on the website yet.
  11. Trenton guy
    Outstanding, count me in.
  12. Trenton guy
    Where?
  13. Trenton guy
    Having struggled mightily and not very successfully with Special Hobby E, I think it is a positive. Pulled out a Tamiya 109E to restore my sanity.
  14. Trenton guy
    Whatever the provenance, and I don’t think it is something that one should guess at and then criticize and then criticize based on that guess., SS Models 1/700 ship models are simply the best detailed out of the box that there ever has been. Was not aware that the early 1920’s USS North Dakota was a war games star but the model is a star. The one piece printed cage masts are almost beyond belief. Long may SS Models prosper.
  15. Trenton guy
    Even better
  16. Trenton guy
    Time to change the title of the post? It is not a Platz model.
  17. Trenton guy
    Good kit, bad timing. I have a couple and like them very much, but I fear they shall be orphans.
  18. Trenton guy
    Fuad, you are the absolute best. Amazing 196.
  19. Trenton guy
    Modelsvit has a two seater. Complexity aside, the only issue with it is nose cone shape (smooth curve, lacking the rate of curvature change of the real thing). SH got that feature right. Interestingly, the now pretty ancient Revell IIIE has it right. I have several of those nose cones to update the M’zvit kits. Great subject for an aftermarket item, THE PJ kits share the defect.
  20. Trenton guy
    Put off by the lack of operational unit markings in either issue. Read somewhere that there will be two more boxings with in service examples.
  21. Trenton guy
    Platz reboxes many “pre-assembled kit” pieces as assembly models with nice decals. I have a few, mostly but not only F-Toys.
  22. Trenton guy
    Had this kit years ago. Looked like a tough build, early SH quality. No reAl help with some complex alignment issues. I knew about the tanks but the real issue for me was the engine nacelles. All that grillwork on the real machine is see through to the engines. Just couldn’t get over the solid cross hatched representation. Eventually sold it on. Admittedly, a proper representation of those nacelles is beyond the limits plastic injection molding. Really not possible with etch either due to the compound curves of the real thing. Now, however, it would be possible to do it with 3D printing. Anyone who has seen the lattic masts of INS Mysore or the cage masts of the USS North Dakota as modeled in 1/700 by SS Models of China knows it COULD be done. Here’s hoping. My purchase decision hangs on it.
  23. Trenton guy
    Let’s hope so. They were beautiful kits, not at all like the dogs Minicraft eventually released. I have always felt (without actually knowing anything factual) that they got caught up in the falling out between Academy and Minicraft which occurred about the same time, there then being issues over mold ownership. Counter to that, I did have an opportunity to discuss the matter with the subsequent (and most recent) owner of Minicraft. He had never heard of the missing molds. The test shots shown at Donnington were very high quality, much like the later Revell Constellation. I have often wondered about that also. I have often wondered about also. I believe Revell was also using Academy for tooling at that time. If so, then why did the DC-B and the Electra never see the light of day? Will the story ever come out?
  24. Trenton guy
    And still, those spectacular Constellation, DC-6, and Electra molds, test shots seen at Donnington (the last time IPMS/UK was there) remain among the missing.
  25. Trenton guy
    Manuel, thanks so much. I’m getting one for sure
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